G-Fafif

For the record, Mrs. Fafif, upon her introduction to it Friday night, has quite enchanted by the concept of Triple Happiness.

Delgado 3 Maine 3 Chavez 3 Wright 1

Standings being what they are, it's not hard to pull for the Phillies versus the Braves this afternoon. But on principle, it takes lots of Pepto-Bismol to get through each inning.

OHernandez 3 Lo Duca 2 Beltran 1.5 Smith 1 Gomez 0.5 Reyes 0.5 Easley 0.5 Chavez 0.5

Willie needs to grow a pair of dependable pinch-hitters. Can those be grown? Is there an umpires union that can be broken up again? I haven't seen such horrendous officiating again and again since the heyday of Eric Gregg. Randazzo blowing calls left and right (against both teams) in Washington...Mike Winters ejecting El Duque on absurd grounds...Carlson at second the other night...Carlson having no discernible strike zone last night...Larry Young contentedly picking wax out of his ear after demonstrating his lack of familiarity with the checked swing. The whole profession of umpiring has been set back eight years.

seawolf17 wrote: Some names you know on the Road Warriors also, including former Met Jeff Tam, who has thrown one inning; and Ian Bladergroen, who went to Boston in the Doug Mientkiewicz deal. I remember significant caterwauling from the segment of Mets fans that (pre-2006 anyway) lived only to tout minor leaguers that we couldn't, absolutely couldn't trade Ian Bladergroen, that he was our fourth-best prospect or something like that. I wish young Mr. Bladergroen the best of luck in getting off the Road, but I find it instructive that we managed to derive a year of competent first base play (if a little too much whininess there toward the end) from Mientkiewicz in exchange for a guy who is hanging on in an independent league just two years later. Mientkiewicz was clearly Plan B going into 2005 after Delgado kept flying south, but it was a pretty decent nothing for nothing much swap in its time. Have fun tonight Seawolf!

Beltran 1 Glavine 1 Heilman 0.5

Read it and weep... http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=270524115

When they want a listener Filled with terror They call on him Rick Aguilera I never fail to be amazed by how absolutely awful this is, how it gets worse with every listen and every line. It's so bad it's horrible. I have no musical taste of which to speak but even I consider this quite possibly the worst four minutes and forty-one seconds in recorded recording history. But I do own the 12-inch single of "Get Metsmerized". I'm pretty certain it went linoleum.

Perez 4 Wright 1 Lo Duca 1 Smith 1 Wagner 1 Gomez 0.5 Delgado 0.5 Reyes 0.5 Green 0.5

Fox News...they report, just ignore.

Lo Duca 1 Beltran 0.5

Wright 1 Easley 1

Wright 3 Chavez 2 Glavine 1.5 Heilman 1.5 Delgado 1 Franco 1

For tonight I'll go with tonight. But I don't have a lot of perspective at the moment. Ditto the Endy Chavez Game.

Perez 4 Chavez 3.5 Smith 0.5 Wagner 0.5 Delgado 0.5 Reyes 0.5 Lo Duca 0.5

The first of six with the MFY... http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=270518121

Opening Day '94. The Oliver Perez Game...

If only those Yankees were more like the Philies of old... http://www.ballparktour.com/StadiumsBakerBowl_photo5.jpg Yet they still stunk.

SteveJRogers wrote: 1999 NLDS Game 4 The Dave Magadan Game Could be the '86 clincher, but I'll go with the breakout doubleheader against the Cubs in '90. Two games, I guess. The Lenny Dykstra Game.

="Edgy DC"]Further Overanalysis: Should we look at Green as commendibly honest or cowardly for coming forward with his inability to hit Eyre? Was this information solicited? Did Willie see the data and ask, "Shawn, what gives?" I vote for honesty and wisdom. Shawn's a vet, one of several experienced players on this team who's here to win, not pump himself up unnecessarily (here to win in the "let's get it done" vein, not "I signed here to get a ring"). He's been around long enough to know if Scott Eyre is his Kryptonite and if so, why should he screw over the team to attempt to glorify himself when he's aware that the world's greatest bench is backing him up on this particular day? I noticed upon watching the replay last night that he was as charged up as any Met bolting from the dugout to congratulate Delgado. Maybe there's something to these silly haircuts after all. Didn't realize it was Wright's first PH appearance until later. One more nugget that makes this an instant legend.

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Johnny Dickshot wrote: I'll always remember the Marlon Anderson game. I should add though, I remember it almost as much as The Cliff Floyd Game. A game's ID is helped enormously if a bit or relatively obscure player or opponent is the protagonist. I'm thinking there were a number of Cliff Floyd games in 2005, certainly amid his entire Met tenure (aside: hearing him with Eddie C. in Thursday's pregame reminded me why I loved him; few ballplayers are as self-aware). Just as there are many Carlos Delgado games to date. To use the three examples of four-run, ninth-inning comebacks and the process one gives to naming them: Steve Henderson: No question who owns this memory. In 1980 I would have said "but there are a lot of Steve Henderson games," but hindsight makes it pretty clear that there's to be no confusion that June 14, 1980 is the one we're talking about. Carl Everett: Bernard Gilkey made it a win on September 13, 1997, but I will always remember it as Everett's doing that it got that far (sort of like Floyd winning it but Anderson tying it). A tip of the hat to Roberto Petagine for keeping it going, but a grand slam with two out after it was 6-0 and 6-2? No, it's Carl's. Olerud/Schilling: A tougher call from May 23, 1999. Johnny was the hero, no doubt, but what set this apart was the Philadelphia ace staying in for the duration. There seemed to be no question that he wasn't coming out. No closer on call. Or as I yelled to my cats while on the couch and absorbing the sudden turn of fortune: "I HATE THAT GUY!" I didn't even know I did until that moment. The other image is Cedeno having himself an air fight after crossing home plate ("take that, AIR!"). Oly of course had a few big hits in his time. Now THAT'S a game that gets lost in the shuffle of bigger things that came later. But to that moment it felt like the greatest comeback ever that wasn't the other two or from October '86. Yesterday will probably go down in my mind as the Cubs game, which doesn't sound right but seems accurate enough. Not to be confused with the Victor Diaz game (which has always been more Diaz than Brazell to me; sorry Craig) or anything from the distant past of Don Young and Jimmy Qualls. I've still got chills from yesterday, I tell you what. Not to repeat myself from FAFIF, but you fantasize about endings like that. Not that I haven't had the good fortune of bearing witness to a few onsite (Mora, Pratt, Piazza and the nine runs that preceded him), but there is something time-bomb explosive about an unexpected ninth-inning comeback. It retrospect, it seems inevitable. It wasn't a true meltdown from Dempster in my eyes, a la what Wagner experienced a year ago this weekend (heaven forefend a repeat). The Mets just kind of said, all right, let's go win this thing. Presumptuous but that's my takeaway. No wonder Ron Santo hates this place so much: http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/cs-cubsbits17may17,1,804647.story

Edgy DC wrote: Yup, yup, dixie cup. Wow. I wonder if kids will be remembering this one as long as I'll remember the Steve Henderson game. (The main difference from the Steve Henderson game is, of course, that the comeback was executed by a rather bad Met team.) Mets Walkoffs noted the Mets have won four games by overcoming a four-run deficit in the ninth: Steve Henderson, Carl Everett (down six, tied in nine, won in extras) and Olerud-Schilling. All four are among my fondest memories but only this one didn't involve a home run. Ventura hit what appeared to be a meaningless dinger off Schilling in '99. And I don't know who to name this one after. Ruben Gotay? Carlos Delgado? Willie Randolph? Ryan Dempster? I can't imagine any Mets fan with a memory of May 17, 2007 who saw it will ever forget it. Then again, I thought Marlon Anderson's inside-the-parker would live forever on a par with Steve Henderson. Two years later, not sure it has given that so much more has happened (yay!). But I haven't polled anybody.

Delgado 1.5 Gotay 1.5 Newhan 1.5 Vargas 1 Wright 1 Chavez 1 Gomez 1 Burgos 1 Beltran 0.5

Went to today's game on a whim. Best whim ever. Sat in mezz behind home plate, listless eight innings and decided to leave after eight. I mean leave those seats. I wanted to reposition in right to bolt for the ramp ahead of the murderous foot traffic to the 7. But I couldn't bring myself to leave altogether. So I decide to linger in the tunnel leading to section 25. Newhan gets on. I grab a seat in the first row. And I sit and lean forward and listen to Howie and Tom and watch and notice Cubs fans in fair territory in LF mezz holding up a W flag, replica of what they fly at Wrigley on exceedingly rare occasions. And as Newhan scampers back to first (I thought that was going to be a DP) and as Gomez singles and as Beltran walks and as Chavez walks and as Gotay (GOTAY? NO WRIGHT? WILLIE!) singles (WILLIE'S A GENIUS!) and as Eyre comes in and Wright PHs for Green and Wright singles (WILLIE'S A NOBEL LAUREATE!) and Delgado, who sucked all day and earned every boo he got (if you're into that sort of thing), those Cubs fans gamely stood their ground, flying their W flag. Then Delgado rips a single and I jump up and am slapping every hand that will have mine and I'm yelling "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! HAVE YOU EVER? HAVE YOU EVER?" My mouth remained agape clear to Woodside. I lost track of the W flag though. You live for something like this, I swear you do.