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themetfairy wrote: The top one is a crop of one of my shots that got picked up by Wikipedia. Do you remember where you were sitting when you took that photograph?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Did the Cleon picture disappear? I can't see it anymore. Never mind. My browser crashed. After re-loading, I can see the Jones.

Did the Cleon picture disappear? I can't see it anymore.

Zvon wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: From Opening Day, 1967 -- Cleon Jones chases a double off the bat of ex-Met Jesse Gonder. 4/11/67 [fimg=633]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7315/11957544955_5544ae6a9a_b.jpg[/fimg] Some of the letters (words, actually) in the Rheingold Ad appear to be raised. oooh wow. That IS white. I really think it is. No washout to that film. Maybe the raised bit are neon lights under there. Wow, good find. But how white? The wall wasn't whiter than the ball, or whiter than the Mets home unis.

From Opening Day, 1967 -- Cleon Jones chases a double off the bat of ex-Met Jesse Gonder. 4/11/67 Some of the letters (words, actually) in the Rheingold Ad appear to be raised.

The Wolf of Wall Street is a technically stunning, gripping roller coaster ride of a film moviegoers have come to expect from director Marty Scorsese. Clocking in at about three hours, Wolf never stops entertaining. But despite its length, or perhaps because of it, I found it somewhat repetitive and shallow -- making the same points over and over. Like a Chinese Food dinner, I felt unsatisfied and wanting more. Still, on a purely visceral level, Wolf delivers. Watch for a show stealing single scene performance from Matthew McConaughey in the style of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross, which I thought was the movie's most illuminating and thought provoking scene. iszwuX1AK6A P.S. The trailer is edited for language. In the movie, the Jonah Hill character says "money taped to your tits", not "boobs". Slj4-Sv-YNA

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Nice find. More of the same. Big cameos from The Doc and Mookie. (P.S. -- these videos play better in full screen mode. Clicking on the youtube logo at the bottom of these videos will get you to the youtube page, and an operable full screen button). [youtube:3ebl8tyy]ERA7ZAN4B6E#t=74[/youtube:3ebl8tyy]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: No Biggio either (74.8%). Palmeiro, Moises Alou, Luis Gonzalez, Hideo Nomo, and Armando Benitez among those dropped from the ballot. If the stupid Mets had a say, Armando wouldn't of even been on the ballot.

Frayed Knot wrote: Personally I think that the amount of playing time has to be a significant consideration. For better or worse, those who did get the ABs and the IPs are the guys who made up the bulk of the 2013 Mets and devaluing them (by over-valuing part-timers) because we wish someone else was in there instead I believe at least partially mis-applies the goal of this little project. Also, just as a general idea, I find projecting small samples as a sign of what a given player would have done if granted more playing time is a bit too faulty and speculative. With Mejia in particular, there's only so much impact one can have with just 5 mid-season starts including the last one when he was pulled after the 3rd inning never to return for the season. Is there an internet symbol for rolls eyes 10 times with projectile vomit that travels farther than an R.A. Dickey fastball?

metirish wrote: Don't really care about Maddux, the guys rational is silly. Yeah, but he's only one guy. I'm wondering if the HOF induction process is really as broken as many seem to claim. It seems to be that they get it right for the most part. I can't think of an eligible Ted Williams or Tom Seaver caliber player who hasn't gotten in. Sure, there are a few HOF'ers who I would exclude and a few on the outside that I'd include. But that's just my POV. And I'm not gonna trash the induction process just because it doesn't jibe perfectly with my personal sensibilities. The process isn't perfect, but it's no more broken than any other voting process, I suppose.

Oh! The process is broken because Greg Maddux won't get in unanimously. But it wasn't broken when Willie Mays didn't get 100% of the vote? Or when Tom Seaver didn't get 100% of the vote. Oh, the humanity. Think of the children.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This is a test poll. Feel free to vote. Or not. Or vote at the last minute. Poll closes in 48 hours. This is still a test. I re-opened the poll for another day. Tournament tiebreaker testing and all.

Edgy MD wrote: I don't see where it makes much difference which teams are hoping to get him on the cheap, if that's in fact what's going on, which is pretty much a point of speculation at this juncture, so you may have been prematurely galled. It doesn't. But that small market teams like the Pirates and the Brewers might be preying on the Mets financial condition is yet another marker of just how far the Mets have fallen, and also indicates that contrary to what the Mets claim, they ain't anywhere near out of this mess yet.

Vic Sage wrote: It seems to me that cutting Ike for nothing to anoint Duda and save $3m would be an indicator of a larger systemic problem. It really is, if there's any semblance of truth to the other teams' supposed thinking.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Metsblog today says the teams that were talking to the Mets expect the team to release him in spring training to save on the salary, and they'll just pick him up then without having the give up a prospect. It's the rich exploiting the poor.

Farewell Redux? With the wild card Saints and Niners each advancing to the Divisional Round, Candlestick Park could host one more game -- if both the Saints and Niners can advance to the NFC Championshiop Game.

[fimg=944:2rzcef9q]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2876/11787545953_b437c25fa9_o.jpg[/fimg:2rzcef9q] 07 Apr 1973, New York, New York, USA --- Unique catcher...Eleven former P.O.W.s share honor of throwing out the first ball to N.Y. Mets' catcher Duffy Dyer as crowd of 27,326 baseball fans look on during pre-game ceremonies in Mets-Philadelphia Phillies game here Friday. P.O.W.s are (left to right): Captain Allen C. Brady, USN, Virginia Beach, Va.; Cdr. Gerald Coffee, USN, Sanford, Fla.; Cdr. Theodore F. Kopfman, USN, LeMoore, California; Capt. Harry Jenkins, USN, Coronado, California; Cdr. Kay Russell, USN, San Diego, California; Cdr. J.B. McKamey, USN, LeMoore, California; Cdr. Render Crayton, USN, LaJolla, California; and Capt. Joseph Milligan, USAF, Annandale, N.J. Mets won, 3-0. --- Image by � Bettmann/CORBIS

These are all game related stories. I thought I was gonna read about how some drunken asshole was yelling moronic yellings into the back of your head all game long until about the 7th inning when he finally passed out, but not before vomiting all over your head. Or the other asshole who sat in front of you with a tent-sized open umbrella built for four all game long. And as if that wasn't enough, then poked you in the eye with the pointy metal tip of the umbrella.

Game Related - Game Five, 2000 WS. Watching the MFY's celebrate their WS clinching win at Big Shea was the saltiest salt in the wound. Not Really Game Related - Me and my friend had great field level tickets for months in advance to a game that, as it turned out, was a few days after the Blackout of 1977. As I remember things*, the Blackout was on a Wednesday against the Cubs. Thursday and Friday's games were canceled. We had tickets to the Saturday game. As of Saturday morning, no announcement was made yet as to whether Saturday's game would be played. We decided to go anyway because we were young Mets fans, and we had these great tickets for months and we just weren't gonna part with them. The problem was, though, that we weren't old enough to drive and train service still hadn't been restored. So we got a lift to Shea, and arrived still not knowing whether the game would be played. Our lift dropped us off and left --- and within a few minutes of our arrival, the Mets announced that the game wouldn't be played. So we were stuck at Shea with no way of getting home. This was before cell phones and answering machines. I think we spent a few hours outside of Shea until we could finally get someone to pick us up and drive us home. *According to the UMDB, the Mets did not play on the day after the Blackout, but then resumed play on Friday for a weekend series against the Pirates. So we probably had tickets to Thursday's game. So this all happened on Thursday, not Saturday. But it did happen.

So what was your worst experience (any age) ever at Shea Stadium? Your bad experience doesn't have to be related to the action on the playing field.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Extreme left (standing) Don Shaw throws a hard high one and chooses this V-neck, raglan sleeve pullover knitted completely in ribbed stitch. The yarn is knitted worsted. Extreme left (sitting) Sandy Alomar goes deep in the hole to field this Danish pullover with a patterned yoke. Stitch is stockinette; yarn is a mixture of wool and vinyon. Standing next to Alomar - coach Harvey Haddix calls for a hit and run in this classic cardigan with cables and two color ribbed band. Yarn is machine washable Orion acrylic. Standing behind Haddix's left shoulder - Larry Stahl finds a perfect can of corn as he catches this wide turtleneck in an allover zigzagdesign. Stitch is stockinette; yarn is wool, mohair and vinyon. Standing to Stahl's left - Don Bosch has to hustle to catch up with this comfortable coat sweater. Stitch is stockinette; yarn is machine-washable crylor and mohair. Extra fabric for the growing center-fielder to grow into. Standing to Bosch's left - Bart Shirley defends the hot corner for this Scandinavian design on yoke, waist and sleeves. Stitch is stockinette; yarn is sport yarn. Sitting to Shirley's left - Bud Harrelson pulls the perfect steal with an all-wool Aran pullover with six different patterns. Waist and cuffs are rib and cable; turtleneck is twisted ribbing. Sitting to Harrelson's left - Jerry Buchek belts a grand slam homer with this classically simple V-neck raglan-sleeve pullover. Stitch is stockinette; yarn is machine-washable Orlon acrylic. Standing behind Harrelson and Buchek - Tom Reynolds bounces a grounder to this diamond-design boat-neck pullover. Stitch is stockinette; yarns are knitting worsted and a mixture of mohair and crylor. Standing over Buchek's left shoulder - Chuck Estrada no-hits this slip-stitch pattern pullover with wide boat neck and single crochet edging. Yarns are knitting worsted and mohair, wool and nylon.

Ernie Banks at Shea during the Cubs April, '67 visit. Light walls in background. [fimg=466:2xapluac]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LJvUULi51sI/TUg4tr6pYvI/AAAAAAAAXeU/vZYIT911XPg/s1600/Birthday%2BErnie.jpg[/fimg:2xapluac]

Early Returns: Piazza On Pace. On January 8th, the players who will be inducted into to the National Baseball Hall of Fame next July will be revealed. No one was elected last year, and this year�s ballot is crowded � with new additions such as Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Frank Thomas, and Jeff Kent. For Mike Piazza, widely viewed as the best hitting catcher of all time, this will be his second time on the ballot. Piazza was passed over last year, receiving less than 60 percent of the vote. Even though there is zero evidence linking Piazza to performance enhancing drugs, there were writers who kept him off their ballot last year simply due to the fact that he played in the steroid era, while noting that they would include him the next time around. There were also plenty of writers who recklessly lumped Piazza in with known steroid users such as Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa. Other writers cited Piazza�s lack of defending himself against steroid allegations as a primary reason for leaving him off the ballot. Now that Piazza has denied the steroid allegations in his book Long Shot, there seems to be no excuse left for the writers to hide behind. So, how�s Piazza faring so far? The ballot was announced about three weeks ago, and they have been trickling in from writers since then. Darren Viola (@RRepoz on Twitter) has been tracking the ballots and compiling the results. As of December 17th, with 4 % of the ballots counted, Piazza�s name appeared on 78.3 % of the time � a shade above the 75 % required for induction. If the current trend holds, Piazza will be inducted along with Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Craig Biggio, and Frank Thomas. There�s still a long way to go, but perhaps the momentum is (rightly) on Piazza�s side this time around. http://risingapple.com/2013/12/19/mike-piazza-faring-well-early-hall-fame-returns/ Later returns: Piazza off pace. Seaver's Vote % Record in Jeopardy. http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/the_2013_hof_ballot_collecting_gizmo

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