G-Fafif

He's Isaac, your bat tender.

I was at both Snead's sole start and the extra-inning game he won with his home run. Yes, I lead a rich, full life.

Rose Marie to block.

The immortal Esix Snead.

Maine 2.0 Barajas 1.5 Castillo 1.0 Takahashi 0.5 Cora 0.5 Francoeur 0.5 Mejia 0.5 Davis 0.5

seawolf17 wrote: What is with you and dead people? I'm not hanging out with you any more. Well, that's two in eleven years, including one I hadn't seen since 1991, so I can see your point.

I attended an MFY fan's wake in November 1999 and marveled that the last game he saw was one in which his team (and it had been his team since the 1920s) won a World Series. So yeah.

This is not a little spooky. Saturday, of course, Blanco hits the walkoff home run. I'm there with an old friend with whom I've been going to games for twenty seasons. Our first game was an exhibition against the Blue Jays in 1991. His mother joined us then. Our first official game was against the Dodgers in '92. It was won on a walkoff home run by Dave Magadan. We were at Shea for Ventura's walkoff versus the just traded Turk Wendell in July '01, though he had to leave early and miss it. That was the last time, you may have read, that the Mets had back-to-back walkoff homers before this weekend (Robin's was the front end then; Henry's was the back end now). We've been to lots of games together. Yet Saturday's, which involved a last-minute invite from him to me because the guy he was going to go with had to visit his mother's grave site with his family, had a special feel to it even before Blanco's blast. It was like we connected on a whole new level after two decades. I parted ways with him in a very good mood. About twelve hours later, very early Sunday morning, he calls me. Tells me his mother died Saturday afternoon. Not utterly shocking circumstances (she was 83 and had been on oxygen for five months) but not exactly expected. He wouldn't have been going to a Mets game had it been. Obviously, a sad moment between us. Today he tells me he's since learned that his mother, a big fan, made it through the end of Saturday's game. The last swing she saw was Henry Blanco swinging for the fences. The last Mets game she ever saw was one that ended with Henry Blanco crossing home plate and being mobbed by his teammates. The last game her son went to while she was still alive was one where he and I embraced in jubilation at the end. I don't think we'd ever done that outside of our one postseason game. And now, the day before my friend's mother's funeral, Henry Blanco turns up on the bereavement list. Very spooky.

"Jay Horowitz, the Mets� spokesman, told David Waldstein of The Times that the team did not know it had such a fan in such a high place. Mr. Horowitz said that the Mets were 'very proud' and would arrange for her to throw out a first pitch at some point." Taken from NY Times City Room Blog. That will be outstanding, but I am compelled to rant, in a sidebar, regarding the Times and all those who do what the Times just did: HORWITZ! IT'S HORWITZ! The man's had the same job, in media relations no less, for thirty years. Yet even the Paper of freaking Record can't get his name right. Probably bothers me more than it bothers him, but still. Horwitz. Not Horowitz.

Valdes 2.0 Davis 1.0 Bay 1.0 Reyes 1.0 Pagan 1.0 Francoeur 0.5

Ran across this tidbit from the Pendleton game via the SI Vault -- before the Pendleton game became the Pendleton game. "Mooo-kie, Mooo-kie," the fans crooned after Moookie Wilson hit a home run in the second, and Wilson's wife, Rosa, sitting behind home plate, hugged the guy next to her, who happened to be Richard Nixon.

It probably won't come up as a practical concern unless the Veterans Committee does the right thing someday, but Keith would go in as a Met, apparently. �I loved winning in St. Louis, but winning here was special because the Mets were down for so long. After so many years of bad play, it really captured the town. I couldn�t buy anything for weeks. One night at Canastel�s, dinner for a party of ten, they sent over Cristal for everybody. Everyone remembers me as a Met. Even in St. Louis.�

Non-partisan celebration of the SCOTUS justice who says Let's Go Mets (and such) here. Potter Stewart knew obscenity when he saw it. Yet he rooted for Pete Rose.

bmfc1 wrote: Elena Kagan! The President just said so: "die-hard Mets fan." Disbar Paul Schrieber NOW!

metirish wrote: Rodriguez when asked to comment while in the locker room before tonights game " Good for him , even better that he beat the Rays". A-Rod: Still a perfect dick.

What's the point of Oliver Perez other than to serve as a money sponge? (Which sounds like an infomercial item, actually.)

Double fudge.

Oh fudge. I thought having a guy up there who swings would be the best thing possible considering taking didn't work for the two previous batters. Paul Schrieber is the new Angel Hernandez.

Frank Catalanotto is the item in an infomercial that is the frustrating, useless tool that desperately needs replacing. I can't wait to see what miracle product will take his place and makes our lives immeasurably better.

Wow I hate Aaron Rowand.

Pop flies? Hellzapoppin'! I once saw Matt Franco score from first on a windblown pop fly ... at Shea ... in early May ... against the Giants.