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ScarletKnight41 wrote: ="Zvon"]ScarletKnight41 wrote: I was just yelling at him, "Bad Aaron, Bad!" like I was disciplining a puppy or something. It was unbelievable watching that play! HaHaHa---I think my words to him might involve a little more language. Like "What the f**k were you thinkin man!" He even slowed down as he ran like he was already past the finish line. I was sitting next to MK at the time - it took everything in me to limit it to the puppy training scolding. Where were you guys sitting? BTW, in addition to the Dodger-esque late arrivals/early departures, the empty seats next to me were taken up twice by people! Well there were also two kids trying to sneak a closer look for a minute I guess. I guess Loge is closest you can get sans a field ticket but it does get interesting. One couple (man and woman) sat down during Pelfrey's meltdown and I was on the verge of saying that I was putting the inning squarely on their heads! But I remembered the last time I did that to a complete stranger (socialite told someone in my party to shut me up) so I decided to keep my mouth shut (maybe I'll put that in the things I didn't say thread in NBF) Next time in Aug for the 1986 reunion and then some October Baseball

]This team is enjoying its best season in two decades, as the Mets continually, and perhaps unwittingly, remind everyone with their silly "celebration" of the 1986 Mets, the last Mets team to win a world championship. Up in the Bronx, of course, such a thing would not be a cause for celebration, but of mass firings. Who ever heard of going 20 years without a World Series share? Gee I remember a nice celebration of 10 year anniversary of the great '78 comeback. Ditto 20th and I do believe the 25th anniversary was duly noted and celebrated. Difference is the Yankees have an organized OTG to channel the celebratory pomp and circumstance. Sure the 61 and 62 teams were highlighted at such dates prior to 76 as well What the Mets should give a big F'U to those players and fans who would grumble (and there have been quite vocal about a lack of connection with that era as prior to last few years the connect was more the 1960's) about a lack of celebration? Matthews would be first in line if the Mets decided to do nothing this year in celebration, especially considering how the Mets have treated the 1969 team over the years

OlerudOwned wrote: Nice day for a ball game for the first few innings. Pelfrey looked great, Delgado hits a bomb, hip hip hooray. Then Pelfrey lost the strike zone. My seat got less comfortable. The food started to taste bad. The humidity rose. Blech. The only thing that kept the crowd awake was Heilman, who sent half of them home and gave the rest an excuse to exercise their vocal chords. What you said. BTW, I was in Loge section 10 reserves, was it me or did it seem Shea had more foot traffic than normal, like people still looking for their seats in the 4th, ect Didn't seem like a "normal fan" kind of crowd

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Ah yes, I remember Sandy Swan. The Met wife with the name that sounds most like a cartoon character. Heh, a classic Stan Lee way of remembering his creation's names. Gee, his first name starts with an P...p...Paul? Oh right, Pete...Peter? Ah right, Peter, so whats that last name again? P....p....Parker!

="G-Fafif"]There is a pix of Mettle in the '80 yearbook, the player-family page. I think the Swan family has a young'n atop the condemned ass. Wouldn't be in '79 because Mettle wasn't on the scene in '78. (My god, will this All-Star Break ever END?)

="MFS62"]Steve, add Julio Franco to that list. Later Thats who him was in reference to Later

Now here is the 200 million dollar question. A fellow hit his 450th HR (youngest ever) and 2,000th hit last night (right up there in the youngest ever cateogry) and very much is still the best damn player in the game. Would Met fans treat him the same as MFY fans if things had worked out in the offseason of 2000-2001? Technically Piazza had the same history that ARod is having, never really got the ring he came here to do. Granted Piazza wasn't brought here amidst players from the 1986 team or anything (not that it really SHOULD matter to MYFs I mean it only was 4 remainders) but he still put up great numbers and was treated like royalty, a few fans aside that probably thought the Mets would reel off championship after championship Or how about if a miracle happened and Cashman offered ARod straight up for anyone (take your pick, not sure if Mets would move him back to SS or keep at 3rd) Would Met fans treat him like Beltran last year? Steve

Pretty sure him, Clemens and Maddux are the only active Major Leaguers from 1986 still going as of now

Iubitul wrote: Oh man - I can still see Knight's cross to Davis clearly, and then Carter taking Davis down halfway between 2nd and 3rd.... As for Strawberry, I'm not sure if he did, but I wouldn't be surprised.... Read somewhere where every Met except George Foster was out there and Strawberry/Davis did not pull a Jeter/ARod where they stood around and laughed while their respective teamates were battling (an old Yankee-Mariner incident before the infamous GQ "rift" happened, IIRC Chad Curtis ripped Jeter for the incident and was promptly ripped by everyonelse for it)

See you at Shea vs Astros Friday night!

Edgy DC wrote: Dooubleday has no plaque. Spalding, I sold short. He was a fine pitcher, excellent really. It's just that his career was cut short: A.G. Spalding was the premier pitcher of the 1870s and an organizational genius during baseball's formative years. He led the league in pitching victories in each of his six full seasons in Organized baseball (1871 to 1876). His 47 victories led the '76 Chicago White Stockings to the first-ever National League championship. With the success of the sporting goods business he founded in 1876, Spalding left the playing field for an executive role with the White Stockings; as team president from 1882 to 1891, he directed the club to three pennants. Few top pitchers lasted past 30 in that era. I was about to say. Spalding though is in there as a Contributor though, not as a player There is a Contributor in there though that has no business being there. Morgan Bulkeley. Essentially William Hulbert's figurehead of a superior in the first year of the NL's existance (sort of like Joe McDonald having the GM title on the early 80's Cardinals despite everyone knowing Whitey Herzog really was making all the moves) Baiscally the owner of the Hartford team and only spent one year as the first ever President of the NL. Hulbert took assumed the title the next year. Bulkeley went into the Hall with Ban Johnson in the early 1940's thanks to the Centennial Committee's wrongheaded logic that the first President had to have been some sort of trailblazer, they were correct about Johnson, but due to shoddy research of 60 years previous Bulkeley goes into the Hall and it took untill the 1990's for Hulbert to finally be recongized as the true first leader of the National League.

MFS62 wrote: ="Edgy DC"]So there's no reports of anybody spilling soup on anybody, but it's still fun to demonize a minority based on a hypothetical? I wouldn't go that far as to call it demonizing. But isn't exaggeration a major component of comedy? Or finding humor in an every day situation (such as letting someone get past you to their seat)? I don't think there was any malice in what he said. I've been listening to the show for several years, and I don't think Golic has a malicious bone in his body. I've never heard him say anything bad about anybody. And he often goes off on funny rants about little things like this - just to set his partner off. It was stated more as amazement about those other foods. I guess unless you have heard his exchanges with Mike Greenberg before, you wouldn't get this type of typical interplay between the macho ex-jock and the self-admitted Metrosexual Greenberg (who freely admitted that he not only knew how to pronounce the vegetarian dishes, but eats them frequently. Later You know the truely funny thing about the roles they play on the show is that it is the opposite of what they enjoy doing in their spare time. Golic is not that big of a sports fan (most players generally aren't) and loves spending time watching TV with the family, usually "chick flicky" type shows like American Idol and sappy dramas like Ed, to Greenie's consternation as Greenberg truely has no use for pop-culture and cares little about gossipy issues Golic brings up on the show. Greenie is quite an obessive football/Jet fan and acts like the typical sports fan on the show and often will act quite manly when discussion fandom and sports issues. The only pop-culture thing Greenie seems to "enjoy" is popular kid related stuff like The Wiggles but thats because his daughter is really into them Just an oddity I guess

I'm starting to hear a faint rumble from the South. With a sound not unlike the sound of FSU football!

12:30 start tomorrow afternoon

Braves are on the losing end, Phils won and the Fish lost

Hearing that part of the song so many times made me think of the Mets when it was played in Goodfellas!

Layla, you've got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.

Cue the ending instrumental solo of Layla!

From Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back Smoking weed, smoking wizz, doing coke, drinking beers, drinking beers, beers, beers, rolling fattys, smoking blunts, Who smokes the blunts? We smoke the blunts! Rolling fattys, smoking blunts......

D-Day (Bruce McGill): War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one. Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Otter (Tim Matheson): [whispering] Germans? Boon (Peter Riegert): Forget it, he's rolling. Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... [thinks hard] the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! [runs out, alone; then returns] What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer - Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part. Bluto: We're just the guys to do it. D-Day: Let's do it. Bluto: LET'S DO IT!!

Okay, now a see ya...

Eh might as well stay as long to get Kurt F'n Abbott off of my name. Maybe I should switch to Mlbaseballtalk (BTW did MLBTalk ever post yet here) to get Julio Valera off of that name!

Okay, long day ahead, sleep needed, I am off