Oh my goodness. I may just pack up the blog right now and call it a career.
Mike from Bayside just sent me the coolest thing ever, and I’m not even messing with Osh41 with this one.
Behold…Tom Seaver, August 1977. Think about that that means. Watch, then let’s discuss.
It just looks so wrong. The red. The Reds. It looks unholy. I can deal with pictures of Tom in other ballparks, but there he is, pitching in my youth wearing the wrong color.
What the hell is happening when the ladies are dancing on the dugout?
I am going to watch this video so many times now. I kinda wanna reference a certain video by Lonely Island, that’s how excited I am.
This was the era when Joan Payson’s Daughters were running the team (Mettle the Mule anybody), The dancing ladies were one of there brainstorms along with a few other really bad, lame, and CHEAP ideas..
Ah..to go back…I was only 27!
Cool. Seaver was lucky to get away. He won 75 games with the Reds through 82. Those horrid Met teams with him on them? Wasn’t meant to be.
Amazin! Getting rid of Seaver, I still remember it like it was yesterday. It must have felt somewhat similar, but another dimension, when the Dodgers and Giants left. It can’t be all business, or all greed; surely some of it has to be pure malevolence, to deal the heart of the franchise out like that.
To be fair, Tom wanted to go…since they weren’t going to pay him more.
Loved the fact that the Mets didn’t have NOB of the jerseys. Might have been the only redeeming value of the teams in those years, though.
he almost stayed.
then dick young wrote a article which kind of made a negitive remark about his wife nancy.something about jealously among the mets wives.
seaver had enough