Willets Point

Do you have contrary evidence that the Red Sox have won the AL East championship anytime in the last decade? It seems to me its been Yankees every year but 1997 when it was the Orioles. Perhaps you've forgotten about the wild card. I want the Red Sox to win the division. I want the Yankees to go home.

Elster88 wrote: I wish Toronto would win the AL East for a change of pace. I'm sick of Boston, too. Boston haven't won the AL East since 1995. I think its their turn.

When I was a kid, I wasn't a baseball fan. Sure, I had Mets & Yankees caps and pennants on the wall and said I was a fan of all New York teams (although even then I preferred the Mets), I never actually watched the game. I even collected baseball cards but had no appreciation of what the men on those pieces of cardboard actually did. In 1984, there was a buzz that even someone as oblivious as I couldn't miss out on. The longtime loser Mets were suddenly good and fighting with the Cubs for a playoff spot. People were carrying transistor radios around to listen to the games. Especially on the nights that a rookie pitcher named Dwight Gooden pitched. He was so good the fans called him Dr. K. I got sucked in. Even though the Mets missed the playoffs, I watched the World Series for the first time and the next spring starting on opening day I watched the Mets. Obsessively. Even though other players became my favorites, Gooden was at the center of it all. My first season as a full-time Mets fan was one of the greatest seasons a pitcher put together ever. And then the next year the Mets won the World Series. Of course it all came crashing down in 1987 when Gooden checked into rehab for cocaine addiction. Talk about dissillusioning. I didn't want to believe it, and after accepting it thought he was a hero for finding help and solving his problems right away. And I was wrong about that too. I saw one of Gooden's last games when he was pitching for the Yankees against the Red Sox at Fenway Park in 2000. He pitched four innings of long relief and he was brilliant. I had kind of mixed feelings since I wanted to see the Red Sox beat the Yankees but with each inning Gooden pitched, I didn't want to see him fail. And he didn't, he got a save and one last moment of glory on the pitcher's mound.

Eeeeeeeew! That's incest!

Snakes on a Plane.

It's been a long while since we had a thread about doughnuts.

Don't dream it's over.

="Elster88"]="Willets Point"]="Elster88"]Just finished the most recent book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin. Pretty good stuff. I still think I like the The Wheel of Time series better.My wife loves those books. She read them all and then read them all again over the past year.Which series?A Song of Ice and Fire. I don't think I'll tell her about the other ones. She tends to get absorbed.I'm currently reading two books:The Best of Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay&

Ya can't do it all.

Delgado 1 LoDuca 2 Nady 2.5 Reyes 1 Sanchez 0.5 Traschel 2 Valentin 1

Got mine today.

Beltran 3 Chavez 1 OHernandez 3.5 Reyes 1.5 Valentin .5 Wagner .5

My DVD was shipped from Amazon yesterday.

Could also be evidence that there are some among us who feel that the Mets cannot win this on their own in a potentially tight (and exciting race) and that they need the other teams to flop in order to win. I prefer that the NL East be a strong division and that the Mets come out on top because they control their own destiny and that regular season play keeps them in tune for tightly-played post-season games.

Pete Rose in Vegas. Why am I not surprised?

Edgy DC wrote: Maybe I'd break off the Yankee pennant. Winner!

A follow-up question: You're challenged to a duel to fight someone using the Stanley Cup and the World Series trophy as weapons. The Stanley Cup is heavier and would make a good bludgeon but the World Series trophy has those sharp, pointy parts. Which would you chose?

There's not really a part of the trophy that can hold liquids so I think that might get a bit messy.

I'd have strawberries and cream starting with all the strawberries stuck on the pennants and pulling them off one by one.

He's magic.

="TransMonk"]Cincy were the Redlegs from '53 to '58. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1958&t=CN4 Name change is credited to the Communist scare of the McCarthy era. Or that could just be an urban legend.

Elster88 wrote: I believe the Mets should've worn pinstripes again today. What the hell is the point of the white unis? Better than god-forsaken black.

Benson's in the 1-1 club!

Ditto YSG. We koosmen stick together.