Zvon

Biggest hit of Wilma's life.

Edgy MD wrote: Really hate that railing/fence. They should have a little garden between the rail and the fence. With a little path running thru it. A PATH! A PATH!

The dreaded rail above the fence comes in to play yet again.

Thank you TMF I have to admit I drooled a little bit when I saw how this came out.

Damn. Its the 8th inning. I never get company when its one a those sloooowwwww games. 90 pitches in the 8th. Gotta love it. Ronnie with the Python reference

Buck with a 2 out single drives in run #2. 2-0 after four.

Kong76 wrote: Posted with no direction towards you, Z .. just thought the kid was good. He was. I was wrong. You didn't change my mind. The kid did. Can you imagine if ten or fifteen years from now he ends up doing Met play by play?

Yea. I agree with Keith. Let the kid take it the rest of the way. Ohh. I mean the rest of the game, not the inning. Gah.

Q drives in a run with a hit. The kids good luck!

Kong76 wrote: Best kid-caster ever!!! I have to stand corrected cuz he is a great kid, and its not his fault he thought Ike was taking balls. The kid couldn't see the plate. Still, don't quit school.

Your cute kid, and well dressed, but don't quit [crossout]your day job[/crossout] school. Lights up talking about his grand-dad. They got to get that kid a cushion to sit on so he can actually see home plate. Wilmer Flintstone Flores with his first hit ever. In MLB.

A collective awwwwww from the fans at the game (and me here) as Colorado's Rosario strokes a line single for their first hit of the night.

That last pitch to Byrd was a fastball? That's some movement Chacin has. 0-0 After one.

Harvey with a smooth first. Was missing high & hard when he missed. Two pops and a K.

This came out nice. It was a super bitch colorizing the photo, I guess because of all the white in the grain. It looked like shit until I shrunk it down in size. I also had to color over the outfield wall. Started a three panel version of the catch but I don't have three photos good enough to use to show a progression. I do have two and I'll see how that looks. So far it looks pretty damn kool. So just in the testing phase I am making a bunch of additional cards. Ha.

JCL, I believe that nickname will only stick if used in context. Wilmer "Flintstone" Flores.

I watched the end of that game. Brown dropped and easy fly ball and even the Phils yakboxes (booth) were wondering if Pap would say nasty things after the game, especially if they lost it. As far as I can see he behaved.

Great article G and great post Edge.

I have a thing like that for Tommie Agee. As a kid I idolized him.... Same here. He was my first favorite Met. After Agee had left the Mets, and in fact professional baseball, me and my friends formed a neighborhood softball team one Summer. We even sprung for uniforms (jerseys). This was around Junior High School. I chose # 20 for my jersey. I was still Jonesing for Agee. Here's a terrific Sports Illustrated piece on collecting the autographs of every 1969 Met. It's a long read, but worth the time. Agee becomes the focus of the piece. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1065221/index.htm That is such a beautiful article. The writer made me feel very "at home". Again, thnx for sharing. I found these quotes to be most notable: ?June 13 [1969]. Al Jackson, the last original Met, is sold to the Reds. A shame, for he has creditable penmanship. Exchanging line up cards with Ron Santo before a game in 1969: "You remind me of Tug McGraw," Hodges tells Santo. "When he was young and immature and nervous, he used to jump up and down. But he doesn't do it anymore." September 24. The demipennant is clinched 6-0 over the Cards at Shea. Gary Gentry throws the shutout, and the next morning's New York Daily News carries this headline: THE MOON: ASTRONAUTS TOOK 9 YEARS, METS 8. On the Mets then president forcing Cleon to read a public apology in regards to his recent advantures: It was so wrong for Cleon Jones, a man who had lived his life behind a scar, to be humiliated by M. Donald Grant, a man who had lived his behind an initial.

I saw clips of this performance last night. Wright was great. His pitches were untouchable.

cooby wrote: Dismal....do you mean depressing? Cause we watched it on HBO in 1980 or so and I was depressed for days and couldn't shake it...there was just something dragging me down about that movie. Never could put a finger on it. It was dismal with a chance of depression. Like todays weather. Seriously. It was like the movie was a ball and chain that dragged me down as well. I think because back then I was expecting so much more, like an up, bright, cartoony thing. Ive always been a Williams fan (and Walston fan from MFMartian) and they did their jobs very well. The sets were expansive yet as drudgy as the mood they create. I think it's failure has to be pinned to Robert Altman (Im a fan of his work, usually) and the direction he chose to take it. As well as directing, he wrote the story. I really think I'll appreciate it now more than I did then when I re-watch it. In a nostalgic sense. Or I could be setting myself up for the same disappointment I experienced back in 80.

Young 1 Byrd 1 Davis 1 Lagares 3 Mejia 1 Torres 1 Atchison 1 Hawkins 1

MFS62 wrote: Zvon wrote: A tap out by Wilmer. Oh yea, happy birthday rook. In the very least you are now part of Met trivia. Its my wife's birthday, too. She's not a part of Met trivia. Later She is now. Happy Birthday Mrs. MFS62!

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I see that you had to lay some new sod and dirt on the portion of the field right before the incoming Staub and to the umpire's right. Yes, luckily an easy patch job because I could just copy and paste a small section from the visable part on the other side of the ump. John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I just assumed that was Bud Harrelson in the middle and wouldn't have considered Boswell was the guy. I've always thought that was Boswell. I'm sure I posted here to that effect way back when. I still do. He's moving like Bud would, or did, but his hair (and I think I can see those side burns) says Boswell That article above about Agee is one of the best Ive ever read. Thanx again batmags. One thing I have noticed about Tommie. In the last years of his life I never saw a picture of him smiling. He seemed so sad.