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metsguyinmichigan wrote: The one-game playoff for the Wild Card? How about his offensive display against the Astros, or his Senor Octobre performance in Game 1 against the DBacks? OE: Seawolf says its the display against the Stros

1999 NLDS Game 4 The Dave Magadan Game

seawolf17 wrote: The Castro home run came against the Phillies, right? Late 2005? Yup. Against soon-to-be teamate Billy Wagner to effectivily end the Phillies 2005 season. Someone please come up with the Daily News cover the next day featuring the headline "Blast-Ro!" I saw it once on Google (Ramon Castro Mets) but now I'm coming up empty

metsguyinmichigan wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]metsguyinmichigan wrote: So, does he give his stolen MVP back? Or does he shave tens of millions off his contract, since it was obtained based on roided numbers? THAT would be a sign of being sorry. Saying Oops and blaming MLB six years later is crap. I get what you are saying, but do you want to give back the 2000 NL Championship banner back? Do you want Todd Hundley (and Pizza Boy) to give back their Catching HR SS record back to the late Roy Campanella? Hold on there. Giambi has confessed. Hundley hasn't been accused anywhere other than this list, and there's a HUGE difference. If Hundley came out and said, "Yes, I used them and MLB owes everyone an apology and they didn't help me hit home runs anyway," then yes, he should give it back. And be slapped silly. Plus, there is a world of difference between an MVP and a single-season home run record for a catcher. I'm also saying this because you know Yankee fans are saying just the opposite, essentially good for Jason, ect. So if you were a Met fan, and Mike Piazza when he retires says "Yeah I took stuff, I'm sorry about it and I stopped because I wanted to have a family" are you going to say "Well, he stepped up and admitted it, I have more respect for the guy than an creep like "I'm not here to talk about the past" McGwire or Bonds, ect" or are you going to rip your Piazza31 jerseys to shreads and ask for the Mets to give the Giants the 2000 NL Championship (a case can be made that Bonds didn't start juicing untill after he made that last out in the 2000 NLDS, and McGwire is on the 2000 Cardinals, not the PS roster but he was there)

Seaver's ImPerfect Game, of course The Ramon Castro Game

Yancy Street Gang wrote: And Hundley had nothing to do with the 2000 Mets NL Championship. I was fingering Piazza, Ventura, Hampton, Alfonzo, or anyonelse who may have suspicions and whispers considering their usage of performance enhancing substances.

iramets wrote: Yes, I do. Anything that wll humble these arrogant fux is fne with me. Next question? I know you do, I was asking MetGuyInMichigan just to see if he is being honest or looking at things from a Yankee Hater or Met Fan perspective.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: So, does he give his stolen MVP back? Or does he shave tens of millions off his contract, since it was obtained based on roided numbers? THAT would be a sign of being sorry. Saying Oops and blaming MLB six years later is crap. I get what you are saying, but do you want to give back the 2000 NL Championship banner back? Do you want Todd Hundley (and Pizza Boy) to give back their Catching HR SS record back to the late Roy Campanella?

SteveJRogers wrote: I'll be at Game 2, nice 4:pm start Change in plans, not going, tickets are spoken for though.

Bumped for Alou, and to save it from Squiddy's archiving tomorrow Also figure Valentin and Duque are due back soon.

Gotta love MFY fan logic sometimes. An over the top Yankee fan radio host was out with his Met fan producer, and after the game ended last night the producer exclaimed that there was NO WAY any newspaper would take the Yankees over the Mets for the back page this morning. The host shot back "Of course they are leading with the Yankees, they want to sell papers don't they?" And sure enough Too be fair, The Post got it right. Don't ask me why Yankees looking at 9 miles of bad road (or whatever that saying is) would sell more than the Mets with a wild finish, but journalistically the story is the Met win.

Gwreck wrote: ="soupcan"]Looks like my next game is the Friday night tilt versus the MFYs. Can someone do the math and tell me the pitching matchup? Anyone else gonna be there? I'm buying. Step up Dickshot. I will be there. Who suggested that meeting spot we used for NLCS Game 2? That seemed to work ok. Pitching matchups v. MFYs: Fri: Oliver Perez v. Matt DeSalvo Sat: Tom Glavine v. Andy Pettitte Sun: John Maine v. Mike Mussina I'll be at Game 2, nice 4:pm start

="Yancy Street Gang"]The last time I heard her voice was a few years ago when she and Howie Rose were on WFAN together (for the station's anniversary) and Waldman was going on about how absurd it is that people think she roots for the Yankees. I wonder, does she still pretend that she's impartial? I've never heard her do a Yankees game, but from what I've heard about her, it doesn't sound like she's at all objective. She generally goes the Michael Kay route, where they don't say they root for a specific team, but rather for specific players, and "Roger" is one of those players for both. Before she joined the broadcast booth she always did sound like she still had the Sox in her heart over the Yankees, but definatly takes a "motherly" approach to the Yankees and/or her favorite players or type of ball player Perfect example, Jason Tyner comes up and she anoints him on her talk show about how he looked like he was going to be a real special ball player. That didn't turn out so well!

iramets wrote: It surprises you that the Mets have done a balls-up job of so simple task as running their HOF competently? I have an idea: why not propose a statue of yourself for the Mets HOF, labelled "Steve J.Rogers--typical Mets Fan"? No Bret, it doesn't surprise me the least. But just as you complain about shoddy fact checking in books, why can't I complain about shoddy HOF running. Especially since I see more competent HOF museums and galleries all over baseball. Philadelphia, Atlanta, Cincy, KC, Baltimore, hell even Monument Park is leaps and bounds better than how the Mets treat their shrine.

Hopefully before 2009 but I guess not. Last year I think was the best shot at doing so (Dave Johnson/Frank Cashen/Darryl Strawberry) but I'm guessing that there will be no more Met HOFers untill a brand spanking new HOF and museum is showcased at Citi Field. Its a shame in a way that the Mets never fully utilzed what they had with the HOF, but rather kept it hidden in what can best be described as a closet like space! Oh sure it really is a nice area, but honestly, is THAT the best the Mets can do to honor its HOFers? First of all, there is no easy access or signs pointing towards it at all, you basically have to know the way by heart (take the intersections of the loge ramps) or find the elevator that is only labeled "Diamond Club" There are busts of the Met HOFers but nothing describing WHY they are HOFers. For example, why is this man in the Mets HOF? The NY attorney who was influential in bringing NL baseball back to NY, a lifelong part of the Met family and the guy the ballpark was named for, but is any of that info listed alongside William Shea's bust? No. And finally, and most egreously, there are also pictures of the HOFers along the wall of the lobby, but there are no labels on any of them, so that means if someone asks who they are the person who was asked had better know the right answer For example: "Hey Dad, who is that?" "Well son...I'm not quite sure? Ed Charles maybe?" The correct answer of course is Cleon Jones, but the Mets are clearly banking on the fact that everyone who strolls through the lobby of the Diamond Club would know who Cleon Jones is and why he is considered an all-time great Met. I really hope there is much change in this area in Citi Field come 2009! Hell, I even have a problem with how the retired numbers are displayed! Again, they are (and always have since the early 80's when 37 and 14 were first slapped on the walls) banking on fans knowing exactly who wore 37, 14 and 41, as well as why there is a red 42 with a blue border and no pinstripes. But its the blind leading the blind if the person you ask has no clue about Met history, or has no knowledge of what number Casey, Gil and Tom wore About the ONLY thing the Mets ever did right in this regard is this: Thats the Agee homerun marker for the longest homer to reach the Shea seats out in the Upper Deck, Left Field. And sadly that will be no more after next year! Has the date, the player, his uni, it really is what you'd expect for something like that. Guess I needed to vent a little on the way the Mets have treated their past. Hopefully this is changed dramatically in 2009, but its a shame that it never happened at Shea.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=41291&type=0 Producers Beefed Up Spidey 3 Sam Raimi, writer/director of Spider-Man 3, told SCI FI Wire that he had a smaller sequel in mind with fewer characters, until producers Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin suggested adding a key villain and a key love interest. "I had worked on the story with my brother, Ivan, and primarily it was a story that featured the Sandman [Thomas Haden Church]," Raimi said in a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., last week. "It was really about Peter, Mary Jane, Harry and that new character." That's Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire), Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and Harry Osborn (James Franco). Then Ziskin suggested adding Gwen Stacy, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, a popular character in the Marvel comics, who was Peter Parker's first love interest before she perished and before Mary Jane Watson appeared. "Well, my brother and I had written in the story about another woman that recognized Peter and knew who he was at this dinner and that Mary Jane got jealous of her," Raimi said. "But Laura Ziskin, my producer, said, 'Let's make it Gwen.' And I said, 'I don't think I should, because, ... really, Gwen was introduced before Mary Jane in the comic books, and now I'm introducing her later, and ... she's not even in high school anymore. She's in college. And I'm afraid if I introduce Gwen, the fans will have all these expectations, which we're not going to deliver in this picture.' And she said, 'Well, the fans would much rather have Gwen make an introduction now, and you can do what you need to do or someone can do what they need to do in the fourth picture with her, but at least you've introduced her, and they would appreciate that.'" Raimi said he considered the suggestion. "After much soul-searching, I thought, 'Maybe it's true. I've already screwed up the order, and I've already started the Mary Jane [storyline] first,'" Raimi said. "'Whenever [Gwen's] introduced, she'll be introduced in the wrong order. I might as well give the fans the introduction to Gwen.' So I took her advice and named her Gwen Stacy and therefore connected her to a policeman who had been on the periphery of the scenes [and became her father, Capt. Stacy, played by James Cromwell]. Made a little stronger relationship between them but, not much, just enough to be true to the fact that she was his daughter. That's about all." As he has discussed previously, Raimi added that it was Arad's idea to add the villain Venom to the mix. "Avi Arad, my partner and the former president of Marvel at the time, said to me, 'Sam, ... you're not paying attention to the fans enough,'" Raimi said. "'You need to think about them. You've made two movies now with your favorite villains, and now you're about to make another one with your favorite villains. The fans love Venom. He is the fan favorite. All Spider-Man readers love Venom, and even though you came from '70s Spider-Man, this is what the kids are thinking about. Please incorporate Venom. Listen to the fans now.' And so that's really where I realized, 'OK, maybe I don't have the whole Spider-Man universe in my head. I need to learn a little bit more about Spider-Man and maybe incorporate this villain to make some of the real die-hard fans of Spider-Man finally happy.'" Spider-Man 3 opens May 4. —Patrick Lee, News Editor

Edgy DC wrote: You think he'll get in the Hall of Fame? He has only one World Series win, while Dick Williams (also a harsh personality) has two and remains on the outside. But he's got an .063 edge in winning percentage and that's a spicey crabcake. Looks pretty bad for him that Orioles ended up winning their second championship during the Altobelli Interregnum. Earl has been in the HOF since 1996 Probably on the defense that he led one team to a sustained run of excellence despite the lone championship while Williams probably gets lumped in with the Billy Martins (Buck Showalter might be lumped into that conversation as well) of the worlds as good to motivate a team to get to a certain level, but can't quite get over a hump, and his run in Oakland is probably seen more of a "push button" job (hell Alvin Dark won the year after)

You are Ken Henderson Well at least Kenny got into 7 more games that season, I started Opening Day, but that was the ONLY game I'd play for the Mets that entire season!

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Not anymore. It pretty much stopped a few years ago when I put a comment on the roster page telling people, essentially, that the burden of proof was on them. I especially liked the guy who told me that I was missing Todd Hundley and Edgardo Alfonzo, and that Willie Mays didn't belong. Was that the Top 20 All Time Lookup list? In any event, I would have to add another form of BS, which may not fit the same BS of fact checking for a book, and a form that I know I'm guilty of, is making a comment without realizing how stupid the comment really sounds. Take Alex Ochoa who is often cited as an example of how the Mets "overhype" their prospects who turn into nothing (also see Gregg Jefferies, David West, Generation K for other popular examples) and therefore is the reason that the Mets should trade hot prospect A (or multiple) for veteran help B The problem is, that Ochoa was not a Met "home grown" prospect, he was accquired from Baltimore in a trade, therefore Ochoa's name should be lumped in with the list of bad trades that the Mets have made. The other problem is, that Ochoa wasn't exactly a product of organizational overhype either (This was a topic in a thread over the winter about the definition of a bust and the distinction between organizational PR and around the game (scouts, reporters, ect) attention of a player) which is what the comments imply. Ochoa did crack the BA Top 100 in 1993 and kept rising (42 in 1994 and 35 in 1995) did slip in 1996 though, but this wasn't the Mets calling Ochoa a "5 Tool Player" this was the industry saying that Ochoa was a jewel of the Baltimore farm system. Ochoa wasn't a case of the the Orioles saying "Hey we got this can't miss kid, 5 tools...Yeah I know you haven't heard a thing about him, but we've been hiding him in Rochester...He's yours and we'll just take Bonilla off your hands!" Better examples of organizational overhype probably are Victor "Mini-Manny" Diaz and Mike Jacobs (neither rank anywhere in BA's Top 100s), I mean its one thing to be self-made and coming on like gang busters (and Jacobs has put up good numbers, I'm just giving two opposite examples) but those are the examples of "Ya know, team A is always overhyping these kids like ya know, they're ahh gonna be the like ya know the next uh, uh Mickey Mantle. So like, uh yeah, we send them this kid to Minnesota for Johan Santana."

Just started watching Game 5 1969, few thoughts -Whatever imperfections on the master tape were kept in so there are some video glitches and audio glitches as well, I had to stop myself from hitting my iPod in order to "fix" said glitches! I'm sure it is distracting if you wanted to stay glued to it, but if you want to watch it as background noise or something it isn't bad. -Mickey Mantle and Sandy Koufax on an NBC World Series Special pre-game thing. Mantle was given some grief by the host about picking Baltimore prior to the series. Koufax thought the Mets would win Game 5 while Mantle was non commital. -Lindsey Nelson with Curt Gowdy on the mike (and Tony Kubek as a roving reporter) Nelson went with a soild color sports jacket on this day, it looked orange though. But Lindsey gets points taken away by reminding viewers of the 1968 World Series where the Tigers came back from a 3-1 hole! Come on Lindsey, don't feed into Met fan paranoia = -If the MFY can use a canned Robert Merrill (even BEFORE Merrill died) for National Anthems, why can't the Mets do the same for Pearl Bailey? Was she ever brought in for the 1986 Post Season as well? -I thought it was odd in the 1952 World Series game where the Dodger PA guy would announce "Larry" Berra but not "Ed" Snider or "Harold" Reese. I guess that was still a standard practice in 69 as Boog Powell was announced as "John" (while the caption said "Boog") but Derrell Harrelson was announced as "Bud"

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"You know, they are off to a nice start, 24-10, but this isn't the National League Central. This is Shea Stadium"-Ron Darling during the Mets 4th inning barrage

Going Saturday, on the Brew Crew's dugout! Should be fun, taking a MFY fan cousin of mine with me, last time he was in these seats was against the Cubs late in the 04 season and saw Craig Brazell and Victor Diaz effectivley end the Cubs season.

HA! I like that they link to us though.

From the Kevin Smith movie Chasing Amy, one of the stars (Jason Lee as "Banky" in the film) is part of a comic book writer/drawer team, the drawer part but apparantly the writer is also the inker so he gets heckled, frequently, by a fan (played by co-producer Scott Moiser) who calls him a tracer. It basically implies that the person who draws the art for a comic book has a really small role in the gestation of the comic book. Not really true of course, but the character is an insecure twat that he lashes out at the ahole who calls him a tracer.