Zvon

Nymr83 wrote: ..may he live on forever as one of baseball's memorable goats. cheers!

Yea, I was rushin to get the joke up before Brocail was on the bus home.

="Johnny Dickshot"]Doncha think the Rockies home unis should say ROCKIES and not COLORADO on the front? The front and rear fonts clash too. You are correct sir! Hey its Jorge Julio. Lets see how this goes. I was hoping the Rocks would keep that other pitcher in so we could see the Pads choppin Brocail eeeeee.

Reyes YES Castillo YES Beltran YES Wright YES Alou YES Delgado YES Green NO LoDuca Yes Milledge NO Chavez YES C. Gomez YES Easley NO Anderson YES Gotay NO Valentin NO A. Hernandez YES B. Johnson NO Newhan NO Castro YES Alomar Jr. NO DiFelice NO P. Martinez YES Glavine YES O. Hernandez NO Maine YES O. Perez YES Wagner YES Feliciano YES Heilman NO J. Smith YES Mota NO Sosa NO Schoeneweis NO Sele NO Pelfrey YES Humber YES Collazo NO Muniz NO Bostick NO Vargas NO D. Sanchez YES Randolph YES Peterson NO H. Johnson YES Henderson NO Manuel YES Alomar Sr. YES Conti YES Minaya YES Conine NO

They also should have scored another on that single in the first. Why Holliday stayed anchored to 2nd then was beyond me. It was a liner 10 feet over the shortstops head on its way down. That was a certain single. These Rockies run like they got rocks in their drawers.

Does the air up there make people run slow?

Edgy that is fantasically funny and well done! Excellent! *Z tips his cap.

I watched the game from 7:30 to 8, saw all the scoring in the first. I watched the whole NBC Monday night lineup, Chuck, Heroes,Journeyman. Only tuned in to the game on commercials. Saw all the scoring during the commercials. Everything from the granny to the flubbed fly by Holliday. That tied it 6-6. And the games still on. Now thats amazin'.

...amazin'.

From Fox Sports. Ill only include details to # 4 and #1.. ] Where does Mets' collapse rank? 10. Portland Trail Blazers, 2000 Western Conference finals 9. Greg Norman, 1996 Masters 8. Boston Red Sox, 1978 7. Jana Novotna, 1993 Wimbledon 6. Brooklyn Dodgers, 1951 _________________________ T4. Philadelphia Phillies, 1964 and =blue]New York Mets, 2007 OK, so maybe we're taking the coward's way out on this one. But we like to think we're simply highlighting the irony of the 2007 Phillies being the benefit of the largest September swoon in major league history, given how that dishonor had previously belonged to ... the 1964 Phillies. Back in '64, the Phillies could have claimed the National League pennant if they'd only managed to go 4-8 in their final 12 games. Unfortunately for them, they weren't able to win at that .333 clip, dropping 10 in a row at one point and blowing a six-and-a-half game lead in just 12 days. Granted, with 12 games remaining, the Mets' lead in the NL East had already shrunk to a paltry one-and-a-half games. So at least on the surface, it doesn't seem like anywhere near as egregious a choke job. But that doesn't change the fact that with 17 games left on the schedule, New York had a seemingly insurmountable seven-game lead. It doesn't make up for the team's inability to even manage a face-saving wild-card berth. And it certainly doesn't excuse the Mets for losing five of six at home to the Nationals and Marlins in the final week of the season, when going just 2-4 against a pair of teams that combined for 180 losses in 2007 would have at least earned them a one-game playoff. In fact, all it does in our books is link the '64 Phillies and the '07 Mets in baseball history. _________________________ 3. Houston Oilers, 1992 AFC wild card game 2. Jean Van de Velde, 1999 British Open _________________________ 1. =darkblue]New York Yankees, 2004 ALCS When you're the first team to blow a 3-0 series lead in 101 years of postseason history, that pretty much qualifies you for the top spot on our list. When you do it against your biggest rival, ultimately enabling them to end 86 years of postseason futility, it pretty much mandates it. And it's not as if anyone else had come close to duplicating Boston's unprecedented rally from three games down in the American League Championship Series. The Red Sox were the first team to even force a Game 7 after dropping the first three. Only two teams before Boston's merry gang of idiots had even made it as far as a Game 6.

Is this one game wild-card playoff being broadcast on TV anywhere?

="Yancy Street Gang"]How many hours per day do you spend Photoshopping Mets images? Is that a problem? Jack: "Chloe, I need all the info we've got on a "Yancy" street gang. Start with the New York data base. Work backwards from 'Z'."

I get no sound from YouTube embeds on message boards. I want to hear that though. Ill go there and track it down.

I thought it was Ricky who turned Reyes on to the spleef. But,....It could have been Mota. Maybe he brought a bag in with him. A hefty bag. Do they test for that in baseball? Its not exactly a performance enhancing drug.

="Yancy Street Gang"]="Zvon"] He should have stood there and howled at the moon, like I was doing at that moment. Well, now wouldn't THAT have been bizarre? I was watching that game with Greg Goossen, and I was too scared to go outside and howl. Well, you have to take into consideration that I'm a werewolf when I'm not fighting crime.

Rollins. Oh my, how it pains me to say that. So what do I do with this? Do I save it? Burn it? Give it to charity? Whats the proper procedure.

You would think it would be Seaver, cause it was the only thing that made me turn my back on the team for awhile. But that was the front office I was dissin. That was Michael Donald Grant I hated. Not anything the guys on the field did. Without a doubt I choose Rogers. Not for what he did,...thats baseball. For the way he walked off that mound before the pitch was even in the catchers glove (so it seemed), like he had a cab to catch. Like he was a nine to fiver and the clock just hit five and he couldn't wait to get out of that office and jump on that train. He should have stood there and howled at the moon, like I was doing at that moment.

Johnny Dickshot wrote: It's not a slump -- it's a potentially lethal character flaw. He's just a kid. If he's a sulker that can be nipped in the bud if handled the right way by the right person. Its not too late. Cripes, it's never too late to change yourself.

So did any of ya's look hard at my opening 'BELIEVE" piece a work? I challenge you to find your avatar in the crowd Elster. Please don't tell me to remove it.

Elster88 wrote: ="DocTee"]No way this is worse than 1993. No way. agreed And I wasn't around then, but how were the late seventies and early eighties? I can't imagine it was fun when the managerial genius Joe Torre was around. Ha. He didn't quite have the team he has had during his Yankee run. I was around during the late 70's (even tho I cold shoulder'd em for a few years when they traded Seaver) and the early 80's. Thats one reason I can temper this from a personal perspective. When you become a diehard fan of a mediocre (or suckass) team, and you decide you are theirs and they are yours, all else that will happen throughout your experience with that team will be acceptable. It becomes like life, with its ups and downs. You deal with it. Im not saying you won't hate or boo or be unhappy with this team at times. But you will be loyal.

Momentum might carry them. Hitting might. If Hamels and Kendrick can pitch up to their potential, they may last. Ill tip my cap to em. Ill go with the Cubs as long as they go. If the Phils make the big show, I'll root for em. I'm an N.L. man.

Edgy DC wrote: Not having seen the lone hit Maine gave up, is there any notion that Wright gets to that ball if he hadn't taken one on the knee earlier? lol, no Elster. Thats a mixture of effects from Paint Shop pro to a photo. One's call 'brush' and it tries to change pixels to something similar to brush strokes. Its pretty kool if you dick with it enough to get the desired effect. Edge,.... Not only was there no chance, but I really think Wright showed an amazin' maturity and poise to stick that ball in his back pocket and not throw it. He had absolutely no chance to get him. It was a dieing nubber and he really reached it as fast as he could, and he played it cleanly. I'd say most third baseman would have tried winging it for the sake of it, with a no hitter on the line. And I'd also say a percentage of them throw it away and possibly open up a big inning for their opponents. That was really a fine and smart play by Wright. I was impressed he knew to let it go.

cooby wrote: ="Zvon"]Notes to self: _______________________________ 1) Somehow try to control where people write their 41st post. 2) Tell people what their opinions and beliefs should be while disregarding their own words that indicate what their opinions and beliefs are. And by all means, let them know what they are fans of, firstly or secondly. 3) Back this up with what I believe to be the truth. It doesn't have to be the real actual researched factual truth. Just some carp I picked up jumping from board to board like a monkey. _______________________________ Did I say notes to myself? Sorry,...those notes were meant for someone else. Ugh, just disregard this post. Sorry. Okay, I'll be moving on to a thread more,.... Did I say I was sorry? Zvon you crack me up Then my time here today was well spent. Some may feel they suffered a serious loss today, or during the last month for that matter. As far as I know Coob, you are the only one who has really suffered such a loss. To get a laugh out of you after that season ending baseball game we had to experience today,.....this makes everything okay.

Ugh! I discovered what the problem is! Reyes didn't keep his eyes on the prize. He was goin for the wrong ring. Did you hook him up with that spleef ring Ricky? I gots to know.....