Happy Bobby Valentine’s Day!
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By SF comedian Sean Keane.
I also blog at:
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The World's Game
And my web series is "Elevator To Space"
This was from May 26, 1987. The Mets eventually came back to win 3-2. That’s right, it was a ONE run game.
(via mightyflynn)
“[Shortstop Elio] Chacon… was eager but not very talented. And he kept running into the outfield and knocking down Richie Ashburn as he was about to catch a fly ball. And he didn’t speak any English, so Joe Christopher went to him and tried to explain this and then he went to Richie Ashburn and said, “If you’re going to catch a fly ball,” he said, “and you see Chacon coming out, what you want to say is, ‘Yo la tengo. Yo la tengo.’—‘I’ve got it.’ And he’ll pull up.” So Richie practiced, he said, “Yo la tengo” and a game came along and it was a fly ball. He looked up for the fly ball. Chacon rushed out for him. Richie said, “Yo la tengo, yo la tengo,” and he put his hands up—and was knocked flat by Frank Thomas, his left fielder. That was the Mets.”
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Roger Angell on the 1962 New York Mets, the losingest major league team in the modern era, as quoted by Geoffrey C. Ward in Baseball: An Illustrated History. (via nullarysources)
And that’s where Yo La Tengo’s name comes from!
(via mightyflynn)
In what has to be the highlight of the Mets’ entire week, their game against the Braves tonight was postponed because of rain. They can’t possibly lose a sixth straight game until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.
A jubliant D.J. Carrasco chanted, “Mets don’t lose! Mets don’t lose!” as his teammates carried the head groundskeeper into the locker room on their shoulders, and then sprayed each other with apple cider.
“Frankly, I just want all of this to over. But, if the Mets are going to take on an investor, OF COURSE I’m hoping Valentine is part of the group they allow in. I am not even sure why. I just like the sound of it. The idea of him pacing in a suite overlooking the activity, his arms folded, a Mets hat on, tapping his lips with his pointer finger, staring down the field, is hilariously intriguing to me.”
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Matt Cerrone, MetsBlog - Bobby Valentine group among names of possible investors in Mets (via sportsnetny)
I’m personally hoping for Bobby to piss off the other investors, get banned from their meetings, and sneak back in wearing a disguise.
(via oldtimefamilybaseball)
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The Wilbon family is selling off shares of the New York Mets, as a result of a lawsuit brought by Bernard Madoff’s victims against Fred Wilbon’s investment firm. You’d think that a team that’s still paying Bret Saberhagen and Bobby Bonilla for two more decades would have more sympathy for victims of fraud.
Lady Gaga at the Mets game:
“I’m not your babe, I’m not your babe, Fernando Tatis!”
“FUCK YOU”
I counted 7 f-bombs in the video footage.
It’s not a true East Coast road trip for the Giants until an opposing player or manager curses out an umpire. Since they missed Bobby Cox and the Braves on this swing, it was nice of David Wright to take up ejection duties for everyone.
At this point, does a Mets fan react to a Yadier Molina jersey like a Crystal Lake camper does to a hockey mask?
Now with Pujols batting as the winning run, Ryan Ludwick gets thrown out stealing
A few questions:
- How tired is Ryan Ludwick? This game started six-and-a-half hours ago. Dumb.
- If it was a hit-and-run, that’s even dumber.
- At what point in the game did Tony La Russa begin drinking?
And then Pujols doubles. I hope this game goes another 11.
