Zvon

He was 11 years old. I can relate with him about his mom. When I was going to games in 70 my friends and I would go to day games. We went to ALOT and felt like we had the run of the stadium. There was this box (4 seats) out in right that was always empty, and we'd sneak down to that box. We'd stay there for a bit, and then go on adventures in seating. So eventually we wanted to go to night games and my mom was like "I dunno about night games.." I said "mom its totally safe!" and she said "We'll see about that. You can go to that night game coming up but I'm going with you and your friends." I wasn't bummed that she wanted to go. I knew if I wanted to go to night games on a regular basis that I would have to go through what some might consider embarrassing. Jeeze, this is running to long (Buck almost Kaboomed--Tuefel holds Duds?), long story a lil shorter: So she comes to the game with us, we go up to nose bleed seats, and around 2 innings in I say "Okay, nows the time to sneak down to our special box seats (we could see they were empty). And my moms like : "I dunno about this sneaking business. You won't get in trouble, will you?" Me:"No way mom, we do it every game! That box is always empty and they never check tickets out there." So we go on down to the seats, I tell my mom to do like we always do, and thats look like you belong. Walk confident. Not sneaky. And we did and we got to the box. Sat there for maybe a half an inning when an usher came up and asked to see our tickets. Of course we didnt have any, and he busted us good and sent us back upstairs, and my mom was so embarrassed. We laughed about it later though, and from that day on I was allowed to go to Met night games w/o adult supervision. I was 12.

And that's what I did too. Slept over at the Shea ticket booths. There were long lines. I was second or third in the line I was in and the best seats I could get were mezz-box. I wonder if Gary snuck onto the field that night, like many of us did. We played football in center until the cops came and everyone scattered. From what Gary's saying, I doubt he did. He was a good boy.

73 playoffs: Gary was there, and he did run out on to the field! It was wilder in '73 because there were more fans who wanted to have their own '69 like experience of celebrating on the field. And yes, it did get out of hand.

Niese walks in a run. I'm steppin off. I think I have some hard liquor somewhere. Shots on me. That was an interesting last out.

Niese has thrown 42 pitches and the first is not over yet.

Niese gets the first two pinkos and then walks 2 with a single sandwiched in there. Bases all red, 2 out. And a hard hit grounder goes right through Wrights legs. Unreal. BOOOOOO David! That coulda, shoulda, woulda been the inning. 2-0 and we have not even batted yet.

Ashie62 wrote: Mike Leake can be hit. He can also hit. Being that pitchers who don't hit get all kinds of hits vs. us, I figure Leake will have a good game at the plate. On the mound though, he will suffer the fate that all opposing pitchers face in IGTs started by me.

I guess its time for me to step up and take my loses. And wins. This one's gonna be a win.

No idea when I made this one. Not recently, I know that. I might have posted this already but I don't recall (you guys already know I have a brain like a sieve). When Wright makes a play with his tongue out, I'm always worried about this happening.

Turner doing one of those things he does well.

Thank you TMF. We'd love it if you honored the thread with anything you want to share from your adventures in photography.

Ankiel 1 Duda 1 Byrd 3 Turner 0.6 Marcum 0.4 Hawkins 1 Lyon 1 Burke 1

Non-Jeffshops, of course. Anything that involves an image that you're not sure where to post can go here as well as photoshops, Met tributes, funny stuff (pictures to caption would be nice), and whatever else you feel would fit here. It does not have to be about the Mets if its worth seeing and sharing. Try to keep it baseball though. My first one is a tribute to The Whitestone Wonders classic no hit saving catch. oe:just the catch:

Tejeda : fly out : GAh. Turner : K : GAH! Mets lose.

Buck: K : gah.

Okay, all we gotta do is hit this guy while he's down.

Edgy MD wrote: I'm glad Burke isn't striding toward the first base line as much, but he's still doing it a little. Can't see the upside to that. He said (booth said) that standing on the 1st base side of the rubber helps his fastball. Dunno about his stride tho.

NICE PLAY MUFFY! He had to get rid of that ball wicked fast.

Whenever Dudas hair sticks out of the lil holes on top of his helmet he does good. UGH, these umps. I guess he did swing (Byrd)

Damn, what the hell is Broxton eating these days? Other players?

Swan Swan H wrote: Zvon wrote: Was Gary there in '73? At the playoffs? Justin time for a steal. I thought you took the train there together. That would have been too kool. I'm sure he must have a story to go with it. Maybe not one he'd tell publicly, but I'd love to chat w/him about the series. What he said leads me to believe he ran onto the field at the end. I'd like to hear some details about that.

Gah! Don't be helping him Muffy! Its on Ankiel.

Was Gary there in '73? At the playoffs? Justin time for a steal.