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Rico Brogna, Good Fit - Mets in Retirement, 2009
G-Fafif replied to Valadius's topic in New York Mets Talk
Injuries derailed his progress over the next two seasons, although he hit .289 and had 22 homers in 1995, and the Mets traded him to Philadelphia after the 1996 season. He said he was sad to leave. �It was home,� Brogna said. �I�d grown close to the fan base.� The fan base, or this one-person segment of it, grew close to Rico Brogna. From a distance, you might say. Wish he'd been able to stay through the demi-glory years, John Olerud notwithstanding. -
My first game-specific memory is that clinching. Every day I followed the standings and the magic number in Newsday leading up to that moment. Speaking of Newsday, Reality Chuck's star turn in LI Life appeared online yesterday, with pic, here. Chuck Rothman, 57, then of Southold and now of Schenectady. Instructional technologist at Siena College and author of "Staroamer's Fate." I vividly remember Newsday's humor story before the season. They jokingly predicted the Mets would win the World Series. The whole thing was ridiculous, except they got the result right. I was a senior at the time and playoff games were in the afternoon. I was in school for most of them. I was able to watch the fourth game , but for the fifth game I was just getting word from other kids and checking the TV in the gym between classes. I was in my last period when Game 5 ended. Somebody came up and told us and we went nuts, jumping around. It was unbelievable. I got downstairs to the gym in time to see the celebration. . . . Saw the fans tearing up the Shea Stadium turf.
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How many of us know this guy? How many of us are that guy?
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Baseball's most magical date, in its late 20th century iteration, remembered here.
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In twelve games for our catcher friend from Long Island, a propitious 41 at-bats for the GCL Mets, a .293 average, a .408 OBP and his very first HR in the last game he played, August 29. Born the same day the Giants upset the 49ers to earn a trip to Super Bowl XXV.
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I think we know that Mets' injuries have exposed players beyond their capacities. We don't need a guy blogging from the $2000 seats at Yankee Stadium III to say so. I was going to say lay off Steve, but I realized you were talking about somebody else. Keith's devotion to baseball impresses me, except when I tune in to watch "Countdown" and discover he's abandoned his post to go to a game and the host's chair is filled by some lesser light. He sure manages a lot of nights off in the middle of the season. Which I guess is pretty impressive in itself.
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Chico Harlan gets to cover SIX Mets-Nationals games in the final two weeks of the season. Other sportswriters might feel consigned to purgatory, but Chico so loves baseball, really it's a treat and a challenge.
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Extra day of rest for Johan to pitch that clincher.
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Potential weekend travel destinations, 2010 (all dates Fridays): 4/16: St. Louis 4/30: Philly 5/14: Miami 5/28: Milwaukee 6/11: Baltimore 6/18: MFYS III (like you'd want to spend a weekend there) 7/2: D.C. (includes 4th of July) 7/16: San Fran 7/23: L.A. 8/6: Philly 8/20: Pittsburgh 9/3: Chicago 9/24: Philly For our Acela corridor friends, @ Nats 5/19-20 and 9/6-8 (Mets play on Labor Day!). @ SD on Memorial Day 5/31.
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A couple of weirdo road trips: Milwaukee and San Diego (5/28 - 6/2) Houston and Pittsburgh (8/16-8/22) Weirdo in that I don't recall those combos from recent seasons.
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Not waiting 'til next year, MetsBlog has tentative 2010 sked. Interleague: MFYs into CF in May. Mets to Baltimore, Cleveland and MFYS III in mid-June, with home games against Tigers and Twins to follow. Open at home for first time since '06, vs. Marlins on April 5, 1:10 PM. Close at home for fourth year in a row, vs. Washington, October 3. Go to Philly end of April, they come here toward end of May, right after MFYs. Braves visit late April; we go there May 17. Cubs show up in April but we don't go to Wrigley 'til September again. First half ends with homestand. From ASG in LAA, it's a long slog on the Coast: SF, AZ, LAD. No Cali after 7/25.
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Tony Danza is singing the National Anthem tonight. A local cab driver here in Danza Country once mesmerized me en route to LaGuardia with tales of how Tony and he used to travel in the same circles and he (Tony, that is) wasn't so great. It could have been my driver singing the national anthem tonight, y'know.
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This whole thing has awakened Steinbrenner's old self. He just released a statement demanding Jeter get rid of those sideburns.
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Grabbing that microphone and telling the whole stadium, "Now I'm The Captain and Lou Gehrig has been irrevocably reduced to Tennille"...really, I thought it was uncalled for.
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As a pinch-hitter, Mendoza broke up Dustin Hermanson's no-hitter on a sixth-inning single that could have been ruled an error, 9/14/97. That was going to be that (no more Met hits, that is) until the Mets got to Hermanson in the ninth, then into the Expos pen and then, finally, a two-out grand slam by Carl Everett off Ugueth Urbina to bring the Mets all the way back from 0-6 entering the final frame to a 6-6 tie. Won on Gilkey's three-run blast in the eleventh. Kept me Believing the Wild Card was not out of reach even though it ultimately was. Carlos Mendoza had nothing to do with the remarkable comeback, but he did get that hit, which Fran Healy kept suggesting, while it was still a one-hitter, could be changed later to an error by Red Foley, to which Howie Rose scoffed, sure, it will be a retroactive no-hitter and the Expos will run out of the clubhouse and celebrate on the mound after everyone's gone home.
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If he's not called up, how will we ever find out What Jesus Would Do?
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To expect Pat to be forever flawless may have been Mischin' impossible.
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If You Had The Power to Reorganize Baseball
G-Fafif replied to Valadius's topic in New York Mets Talk
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Ever wonder how Ed Kranepool came to lead an entire franchise in base hits? Besides practice, practice, practice? The path to the Mets record on FAFIF today. From Bell to Thomas to Hickman to Kranepool to Jones to...well, you'll see how we wound up with the Top Five we have today. If you're anything like me, you'll marvel at how many times Eddie had to set the record (and if you're anything like me, I'm sorry). Cap tip to FK for franchise hit record info from Labor Day Kwiz.
