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Johnny Lunchbucket doesn't have to put up with those field box swells.
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Kind of a longshot, but a writer friend is looking to track down Bo Fields, aka the lady who twirled her arms in the first row behind home plate during the 1986 World Series. Anybody have even the slightest info, contact or otherwise? Or ever read anything, on Ultimate or anywhere else? All leads would be appreciated. Gracias.
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Every single thing, indeed. Rockies have just put six on the board in the fourth, the last four facilitated by a two-out error by Conor Jackson. Matsui drives in the third and then Holliday takes Owings over the wall. It's Colorado 6-1. Taking into account anything can happen in Coors Field, this is amazin', amazin', amazin'.
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Can we say Julio Franco enjoyed a superb 24 hours that covered two games? The prime choice would be April 28 in Washington when the ageful non-wonder singled home Endy Chavez in the ninth with two out to tied the game at two (this was the Saturday night when Tony Randazzo was screwing the Mets left and right). Sunday afternoon, Julio gets a big nod for filling in at first and pulling a Keith Hernandez-type play on a bunt (nabbing Austin Kearns at third) to keep the score 1-0 Mets, the eventual final. The next name is one surprisingly spelled with more than four letters: Tom Glavine.
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Damion Easley will happily share April 24 with with Endy, introducing himself to Mets fans with that two-out, 2-2 homer off Brian Fuentes to knot the Mets and Rockies at one in the bottom of the tenth, paving the way for the Chavez Buntoff win. He would also take the homer off Jose Valverde that tied the Diamondbacks in similarly hopeless circumstances in the top of the ninth on May 3, sparking the comeback from down 3-4 to up 9-4...and also enjoyed his sixth-inning inside-the-parker on August 2; it broke a tie in Milwaukee en route to a 12-4 rout. But let's go with the first one. It was the most unexpected Easley of 'em all. Pedro Feliciano has got to have some of your attention. Give it to him...
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The '95 Mariners' somewhat similar run, at least in spirit, just kind of ran out of gas in the ALCS. I keep waiting for that to happen to these refuse-to-losers, but it doesn't. It, like the Mile High altitude, is breathtaking.
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After which, Johnny Lunchbucket went marching off to war.
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Willie Collazo pitched himself a perfect inning in his Shea debut on September 7, a Mets 11-3 win over the Astros. That his name was spelled incorrectly on his uniform that night... http://www.metsbythenumbers.com/?p=58 ...shouldn't detract from his splendid Friday evening in Flushing. How about the Best Met day for the erstwhile Mr. Marlin, Jeff Conine?
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How about a team that wins 26 consecutive games in September and finishes fourth? Your 1916 Giants... http://baseballguru.com/maxblue/analysismaxblue01.html
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Ramon Castro waited until September 22, a 7-2 victory over the Marlins, to make his optimal on-field impact (though he is said to keep the fellas loose inside the clubhouse), walloping a fourth-inning three-run homer off Byung-Hyun Kim at Dolphin Stadium to give Oliver Perez some much-needed breathing room (5-0) and help ensure the Mets would of their first consecutive wins in ten days. Gosh, that was a long sentence. Endy, Endyone?
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Was not born a Met: Carlos Diaz Reid Cornelius Did not die a Met: Jeremi Gonzalez Brian Rose Tim Burke Tom Herr Alex Trevino Orlando Mercado Mike Torrez Jose Cardenal Wayne Twitchell Luis Alvarado Ken Sanders Don Cardwell Al Jackson Frank Lary Warren Spahn
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Momentary rebollix for Alou: August 12: Two homers, four ribbies against Marlins at home in game Mets desperately needed (and got) after blowing back-to-back nights against the Fish. Announced with authority that Moises was back and in a groove that would carry him (if not us) to the finish line. Honorable mention to September 21 and setting the single-season Met hitting streak record. I probably cared about it more than Moises did, but it was nice to see 25 get reached at last. Who we up to? Ambiorix Burgos? Yeesh. But wait! It also happens to have been the Mets' best day (arguably) of 2007: May 17. Two perfect innings, two strikeouts and a win for pitching the eighth and ninth at Shea versus the Cubs. Ambiorix kept the score 5-1 Cubs and a slew of teammates made the final 6-5 Mets. Luis Castillo is in the on-deck circle...
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Closer-screwing observed, including my own closer-screwing. Except that I never really felt I was gypping Wagner when I'd issue (mostly) half-point after half-point. I think living with it 162 times clued me in to how truly overrated closers are in the scheme of things. Wagner's greatest skill in 2007 was not being Looper, Benitez and Franco. That was a pretty valuable skill in and of itself, but there were relatively few games where I felt Billy Wagner's hand made the big difference. I didn't do POTG voting in past years but even in '06 I sensed Wagner was a larger game-to-game presence. It was probably the nature of the wins the Mets were collecting early on in '07. When they really and desperately needed an All-Star closer later (though, yes, wins in April count the same as wins in September), Billy had back spasms.
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Frayed Knot wrote: GFaFiF: This way it's presented without prejudice or agenda. Yeah but is it accurate? Do you really want to make the case for Easley being more important to this season than Wagner; or Chavez more than Heilman; or Newhan more than, well ... anyone? I'm going by their performances as they happened, so yes, it's accurate enough for my taste.
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Major props to Metstradamus for finding the link. Always great reading there: http://metstradamus.blogspot.com/ The tease "The Magic is Gone" of course alludes to the much-mocked (yet enduringly adored) advertising slogan "The Magic is Back," created by ad wizard Jerry Della Femina in 1980. And the Channel 7 promo for Good Morning New York showed us co-host and longtime Channel 5 feature reporter Judy Licht (she who asks what is to be done with a chubby puppy). In 1983, Della Femina and Licht married. One wonders if Eyewitness News' treatment of the Torre story brought them together. (One wonders it fleetingly, however.)
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Startlingly long piece by modern standards and amazingly long interview considering the circumstances. Torre's fired that day and he's standing there with Johnny Blow Dry and answering all his questions patiently. No backdrop with corporate sponsors, no PR damage control, still in his office. Far cry from what we'll see when he gets his head chopped next. I liked Joe Torre back in the day. "The man came out and told me straight on." Reminded me why. Note the allusion to the '81 Mets coming close. Talk about your forgotten pennant races. The Bowtie wore neckties back then. And yes, sad about Rube. He'd at least get another postseason with Torre in Atlanta. Wonder what the girl who wanted wild man Billy Martin to "coach" the Mets is doing these days. Mazz should have abandoned the mustache before starting it.
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Though not as bad as I felt for Judy Licht. What DO you do with a chubby dog?
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Sorry, Irish. Too tempting a subject line to pass up. Still, well worth the trip back in time for so many reasons. Ooh la la, indeed.
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In 1981... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94UOKd03oZU
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We are owed a visit by the White Sox. They will be the only team to never come to Shea to play us.
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I'm going with my cumulative Schaefer standings. I went back the last couple of days and added them up (didn't keep track during the season because I didn't trust myself to not manipulate their points to maybe nose one Met I liked in front of another Met I didn't like as much) for FAFIF purposes, but since we're doing this, I'll throw 'em in here. I imagine if I were starting from scratch without this database, it would come out differently in spots. This way it's presented without prejudice or agenda. 30 David Wright 29 Carlos Beltran 28 Jose Reyes 27 Carlos Delgado 26 John Maine 25 Oliver Perez 24 Tom Glavine 23 Paul Lo Duca 22 Moises Alou 21 Orlando Hernandez 20 Shawn Green 19 Jorge Sosa 18 Lastings Milledge 17 Damion Easley 16 Billy Wagner 15 Endy Chavez 14 Aaron Heilman 13 Luis Castillo 12 Ramon Castro 11 Marlon Anderson 10 Pedro Feliciano 9 Ruben Gotay 8 Carlos Gomez 7 Pedro Martinez 6 Jose Valentin 5 Scott Schoeneweis 4 Guillermo Mota 3 Joe Smith 2 Dave Newhan 1 Mike Pelfrey
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NLCS Rooting interest poll: Rockies vs. Diamondbacks
G-Fafif replied to stevejrogers's topic in New York Mets Talk
Aw, somebody has to root for the Diamondbacks. This is not an anti-Rockies vote by any means, just an appreciation for the sound way Arizona has played ball all year, persevering without Orlando Hudson and making me forget they're paying Randy Johnson. Also, I picked a Snakes-Tribe World Series, so I may as well root for myself to be right. Colorado = Denver, Denver = beat Jets in AFC championship game in January 1999. I have to admit that's a long way to reach for some reason not to be smitten by the Rockies at the moment, but it occurred to me this morning. Plus seeing those wacky red uniforms and that wacky Chase Field takes me back to that happy winning streak we put together in the desert from '04 to '07. The Rockies, on the other hand, stomped all over us at Coors in July. Who knew it was because they were actually better than us? -
ALCS Rooting Interest Poll: Red Sox vs. Indians
G-Fafif replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
The Tribe has gone without for far too long. A Red Sox win would annoy MFY fans even more, which is tempting, but gotta go with those who have gone without. -
ALCS Rooting Interest Poll: Red Sox vs. Indians
G-Fafif replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
Yancy Street Gang wrote: I'm pretty sure this is the first time that LCS games will have a scheduled start time of 10 p.m. At least both teams play in the Mountain Time Zone, so it will be an 8 o'clock start local time. If there was an Eastern Time Zone team in that matchup the fans would have a legitimate gripe. Hopefully that wouldn't have happened. Game Two, 1988 NLCS started at 10 PM Eastern. Reasoning it was on the West Coast anyway, ABC pushed it back to cover the vice presidential debate between Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle, which gave birth to the famous "you're no Jack Kennedy" line. This was also the game in which the Dodgers avenged David Cone's/Bob Klapisch's dopey column that the Dodgers were a bunch of high schoolers. -
Torre's Last Stand? - IGT (Gm 3 Cleve/NYY)
G-Fafif replied to Frayed Knot's topic in Archived Game Threads
Indians are tomato cans. The entire American League has been a tomato can since 1921. They are all useless.
