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Edgy MD wrote: D.B. Cooper is a terrible ump. Agreed #1.

Edgy MD wrote: I just noticed Al Jackson was on the field. Did he get inducted while I wasn't looking or was he there in a guesty capacity? Don't know, but Jackson's in our Heart Of Fame.

Great talk. Yikes, now the Piazza days are becoming nostalgic. We're all gettin old.

Great Piazza booth talk. I'd like to see the complete interview the third guys did for SNY. Wonder how much it would cost for just that interview.

Great piece G. http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2013/09/29/as-we-began-piazza-ended/

[bigpurple:bvemprfx]WHOA![/bigpurple:bvemprfx] Throw beats Young. Young beats the tag!

Edgy MD wrote: BANG! BANG! Stealing third with a lefthanded batter. Let's steal home. I would love it, but wait for two out. Give Duda (gah) and Wright a chance to pick him up.

YEAAAAAAA. Lucroy hesitates! 46!

Theres one! 45 leads the league!

Young singles. Steal two!

Wow. 161 games played this season by Murphy. He's strooong.

How many times are we gonna have to listen to this song today Ed? "he's stroooong."

Frayed Knot wrote: Yeah, me too. Working off the radio feed. Is Valentine really absent? This is SNY's doing and they can suckMahBalls. It's not that SNY is embargoing their stuff from MLB.TV, it's that MLB.TV (and the MLB 'Extra Innings' package) are contracted for games only, not for pre-game shows, no post-game stuff, etc. IOW, this is not something that SNY just arbitrarily chose to withhold. Just on the phone with my brother (I could be over there-hes having meatballs!) and he said the same thing. I say fuck em all and what they're doing to baseball. Darling crackin me up. I'm gonna miss the guys more then the baseball, I think. OE: My bro has the package from comcast and he was blacked out.

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, me too. Working off the radio feed. Is Valentine really absent? This is SNY's doing and they can suckMahBalls.

My MLB.TV is not showing anything. Says game will begin shortly. Ha, what a rip.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I think that Butterball Field was closer to the lake bank or edge. Do you? Is that a road running alongside old BB Field? And does it go under the field? If it was, and I do think you are right, I'd have to swivel Butterball Field even more. Or else right field disappears into the lake. Which is certainly possible, though I thought unlikely. Read a story where Babe Ruth was playing right and came in to the dugout in the middle of an inning. Huggins said "What are you doing?" and Ruth said, " I'm not going back out there. An alligator came out of that lake." So it's certainly possible that a portion of right field ran right into the lake, before fences, and the field can be moved without having to swivel it. More recent pictures also have me questioning the fields position between its third base line and the cage. Also, the cage's actual position, which may have been a little more back towards the home plate area along that fence. This pic makes the cage look like it goes back further than I thought.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This ex-Met is posing in a first baseman's stance on the third base bag at Butterfield Ball. Figures. At least his foot's touching the bag. Notice the back fences separating the field from the lake -- the same fences that would be there when the Mets took over Miller-Huggins Field. Who is he? At least he could do at least one thing right. Sign his name. Marvelous Marvin Throneberry

G-Fafif wrote: Mets and Phils tied for third at 73-88. Also hanging in the balance of Game 162, the outcome of the all-important CPF prediction contest: doctee 74-88 msf62 74-88 G-Fafif 73-89 sharpie 73-89 Wow. May the best men win. And I can't believe G or Sharpie want the Mets to lose today.

This is the view Casey had from the bench. This is 1967.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: This is a recreation of how the field looked round 66-74. I have found some pics that confirm certain things and show other things to be incorrect. But this is done. I might make an alternate to reflect the actual name of the fields, lake, tree (yea, that tree has a name) and other stuff. I thought the fields would line up perfectly put they didn't. They just couldn't without changing the parking lot. I may even have the top field a little too close to the corner. But it makes sense, and if you follow the right field foul line of the bottom field, that could be that strip where the grass didn't grow on other pics, like Botz. This is really coming along. Excellent work! That orange outfield fence is new. I'll post pictures of that fence during the Mets era later on. I thought the Sadecki spot was a lot closer to the cage. The orange fence thing is just the existing outfield fence mirrored to fit there. Wasn't sure what was there. Those rows of trees? A fence--I can tell now which pictures are that area in the background. I've got a much better idea what is over in that direction now. It should not be that fence and warning track. This is another view of how it looked in 2008. I'm looking for a picture of the place when both fields were there. They appear to be very rare.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Rod Kanehl at Butterball Field, pre-cage.batmagadanleadoff wrote: Chris Cannizzaro on the mound at Butterball Field. The parking lot is there, even though the picture is pre-cage and old side fence without the middle beam/pipe. Awesome pictures. batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: A Toppless Met. Butterball Field. A The Man From Topps photo. He never broke into a Topps set - not with any of the four teams he played for. But maybe one day, he'll wind up in the Citi Field Topps Historical Mets Exhibit. Who is he? bump That's Tommy Moore.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zimmer and Hickman at Butterball Field, 1962. Whoa,wow.

The Mets and Yankees never occupied the field together as far as I know. When each did they would take cabs from Huggins Field to where they were playing. Al Lang field was one place they played alot.

Young 1 Murphy 1.5 Harang 4 Feliciano 0.4 Aardsma 0.2 Hawkins 1 Francisco 0.4

Now see, this is supposed to be The Babe and Lou Gehrig (pretty sure that's Huggins too) at Huggins Field. I don't doubt that it is, and its kool they played there, but there are no connections to the Mets days. It doesn't interest me. Now these pictures... I think one has been posted here already. These are interesting. In the jumping guy one I think that's the foul line from Huggins, and it goes into the corner where the other field was yet to exist. That parking lot is there to the right. It runs the same angle. Same with the one from 1958. The structure to the right? The clubhouse in those days? The one the Mets used isn't there yet. Looks like there were many more trees down there then. And in the one with Whitey Ford, that area behind him should be where the fountain was. Maybe its there and we can't see it, or not there yet. Can't see the light pole. Maybe he's moving it there in that pic. So am I to understand this is the last year there will be minor league baseball in St. Petersburg?