stevejrogers

Fair point. Little too cranky at the moment.

I.e.

The hell is your problem? I don't like taking pictures of myself, I like taking photos of inanimate objects, ballplayers on the field, other people, etc. I don't feel that comfortable seeing my image. Especially if I'm then going to plaster said images on places such as here.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Mets,com lists Cancel as wearing #4. Anyone see otherwise? I will be armed with my Kodak Friday, hopefully I can get something. Though I'll be with someone who hates it when I walk around the ballpark and take photos of things and people who aren't myself. I will purchase a program.

If Cancel makes it to a game, and then is sent back down before the Mets play the Snakes on Tuesday at Shea, I wonder what number he would be among Mets since 1964 never to have played a single game at Shea? Wouldn't be that hard to research now that game logs and such are available though, safe to assume that we are talking about players to only have gotten in less than 10 games or so.

metirish wrote: Fuck this , Bad Ollie , night all. Little too early Irish.

So clearly; things brought up at 3:00AM on a Saturday night, a topic brought up by a host looking for some discussion on a slow news day on an evening talk show, branch discussions of a certain topic du jour (i.e. Robinson's anniversary, someone bringing up 21 being retired) on radio shows, column written on the occasion of said branch of topic du jour message room chatter doing essentially the same things, etc are not considered bringing the discussion up to debate? Just because this is the first time the subject has a face doesn't mean that it has never been out there on the airwaves, in print, or on the internet.

To be fair this has been a bone of contention since #42 was put away in perpetuity. And certainly since #99 was retired by the NHL in perpetuity for Wayne Gretzky. I haven't read the piece so I don't know the context, probably it was some pre-done article before the game started and the website needed content, but there is a very strong case, taking aside who Ruth played for from 1920-1934. It was his popularity that was a key component in the game coming back from the Black Sox scandal in 1920, the game did need a galvanizing force, and Ruth filled the bill to a T. Plus he was very Carter/McGraw esque in making sure his image was all over America, though Christy Walsh helped several years into his New York years. No one before Ruth, or after was a greater ambassador for the game. He tirelessly, and often illegally thanks to Judge Landis' iron rule, promoted the game with his barnstorming tours, and even took part in early forms of globalization with tours of Japan. Kamikaze pilots weren't shouting "To hell with Babe Ruth" just because he was a very well known celeb, he helped bring baseball to the Far East in terms of being a face of the American style of baseball. Those two alone certainly are very valid arguments to put Ruth in the same category as Robinson in terms of cultural and historical impact on the game. To say nothing about Ruth's place among the all-time great all-time greats.

="AG/DC"]My loudmouth future ex-brother-in-law: Youse at da Met game? You see Torre? Me: Yeah, he came out to change pitchers and I dropped my pants and started wanking right then and there. I was a little embarassed for myself, but then I looked around and everybody was doing it. I wish my sister would hurry up and marry him so she could get on with divorcing him. Is he a MFY fan, or just a causal baseball observer, or not even a big baseball observer at all and just knew Torre is now managing in LA and that the Mets were playing LA and/or that Torre was back in town (hard to escape with coverage in papers)? That does sound more like something someone who isn't that big of a baseball fan would say.

seawolf17 wrote: What ever happened to Healy? He just kinda vanished. Does odd jobs for the Dolan empire on MSG.

seawolf17 wrote: It's NOT JOE FUCKING TORRE. It's the Dodgers, it's the first weekend of the summer, it's a million things. You see Joe Fucking Torre shirts in the crowd? Yankee hats? NO. You see Mets hats, and Keith Fucking Hernandez shirts, and Russ Martin shirts for the Dodger fans, and Ricky Fucking Otero shirts. (Yes, I saw one yesterday afternoon.) Those are Mets fans, Jon & Joe. Mets fans. I know... stunning! Mets fans?!? In New York!?! But this is Yankee Country! These must all be Joe Torre fans! It has nothing at all to do with the last year of the ballpark, or Johan Santana pitching, or the fact that the team has won 4 out of 5, or because we all have man-crushes on David Wright. It's all Joe Fucking Torre. DAMMIT, fellas. You made it until the ninth inning, then set me off. HA! ITA. Dodgers are ALWAYS a huge draw at Shea, ALWAYS. And the Dodgers will always be a huge draw at Citi Field. Has nothing to do with the skipper. Dodgers drew big at Shea when Jim Tracy and Glenn Hoffman were the skippers!

bmfc1 wrote: Zvon--for Friday, is a "You Don't Mess With the Johan" sign possible? Oh this ought to be good, I get to see Santana's next start. Sweet!

What context was the Kazmir trade spoken about? Same as what you said about all the changes that happened since? Did at least the Benson trade get mentioned? Since Kris was flipped for Maine?

Kaboom!

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I had the radio on, and Don Imus was doing a live remote from Shea with Pete Franklin. I do remember that curmudgeon Franklin's first regular show on 660 the following Monday. He acted like he was just sold a bill of goods since he thought that the changeover would mean that WFAN would be relocating to the studios in 30 Rock, rather than the same studios in Astoria that WFAN commandeered a year earlier when the frequency at 1050 flipped. It is a shame they didn't though, a lot of history in those studios, now its the home of NBC TV's digital networking systems. Although Arturo Toscanini's old studio is the current home of Saturday Night Live, so at least one of the old radio studios still has entertainment broadcasting from it.

G-Fafif wrote: � Scioscia, Gibson, Hershiser...oy 1988. That was also the night (well, early evening is when it happened) WFAN moved from 1050 to 660 on your AM dial, forever silencing WNBC radio.

="G-Fafif"]Real Life 5/31 (55): "Longtime Met employee Luke Gasparre" Looks like he should have been more appropriate to have done it Monday http://www.sc-democrat.com/archives/2005/sports/07July/08/currey.htm ] In a rare twist, it was the New York Mets players who wanted to meet Currey, and take pictures with him. Cliff Floyd and David Wright were among those who wanted to meet Currey. Innumerable veterans and servicemen who were home from Iraq walked up to Currey to shake his hand, take a picture with him, or, in the case of fellow WWII veterans, share their experiences. Luke Gasparre, who has been an usher for the Mets for 41 years, was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge, where more than 19,000 other Americans lost their lives. He served in the U. S. Army and earned the Bronze Medal and Purple Heart. The two men chatted for about five minutes, as Gasparre pointed to his medal.

More runs the merrier.

Love taking it to LA. Probably going to be in Los Angeles when the Cubs are next weekend, but sadly won't get to any games. Mets-Pads Friday night is enough right now.

Had to run over to Amazon.com to do some shopping, sorry to leave you hanging WP.

Chavez nails Pierre at the plate for the final out of the inning, preserving the 0-0 score.

Going for the Francona or the Gibbons look?

Well, here I am in the IGT, and I WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY! Long story, don't worry, not going to tell it...

themetfairy wrote: It's not like much else was on for a kid that age back in the day. I can't find the clip anywhere (my guess is that MLB JPhilip41'ed it), but I can date the episode to October 19. 1969. CBS, not MLB would had to have JPhilip41'ed it though. But I do see vintage stuff on YouTube from old variety shows, such as The Johnny Cash show pop up, so maybe do different searches.