If you read Mets Police every day you know this site is mostly about the off-field experience as a fan, so I write this with the utmost resepct, but Tom Seaver is seeming old to me.
A friend of mine pointed it out to me a few months back, and I stayed in denial, all the way through most of Studio 42.
Tom tends to give long answers now and lose his way as he goes along. A few times Costas threw out a question and Tom gave a great answer, just not the answer to what Bob asked. At the end of the special they cut to a clip of Tom’s HOF speech and there was the sharp pointed Tom I remembered.
This post isn’t about picking on Tom, it’s about making sure we appreciate Tom all we can. (Much like we do with Kiner.)
I hung on every word of the special last night. Did you hear him speak about Gil? Damn, I want to meet Gil Hodges. Every time Tom speaks of Gil I wonder what might have been, a common theme for Mets fans and for Tom himself when he spoke of the Imperfect Game.
Did you catch the part where they showed Tom on June 15, 1977? Compare that the reaction of Jose Reyes last week and you tell me which one is The Franchise. 44 years later Tom was tearing up watching it.
I totally forgot that the Yankees brought in Lindsay Nelson to call Seaver’s 300th win. I was out chasing a girl that day and Osh41 is still mad at me for not taping the game. Sorry Osh, try eBay.
Your takeaway if you’re say under 40, which I know you are….Tom pointed out he could come back now and go 0-20 for five years and still have a winning record. Amazin’
What a great special. I guess we have to talk about loans and negativity for a few hours. I do have some uniform stuff coming up and then I’m heading to the Holiday Party so it won’t be all doom and gloom around these parts. There’s plenty of other sites if you want to run the Wilpons out of town.
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Random thought…we were talking about Murphy on twitter last night. He is Santa today. So I said, “The Mets wouldn’t be stupid enough to open themselves to Mets Trade Santa headli…..oh wait, eff.”
They wouldn’t make Murphy Santa if they thought they’d deal him, would they?