Category: mets

There is no question, Jason Bay is the worst free-agent signing in Mets history. I was looking at George Fosters numbers last night, and quite honestly, if Bay put them up, we would hold a parade.

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Bay is a decoy. The are more holes in this team than 100 pounds of Swiss cheese, but idiots like myself are only focusing on Bay. Hes an easy target. While Im ranting about him, Im forgetting we have no depth in the rotation, that our catchers stink and that our bullpen is 100% worse without Frank Francisco.

via Mets vs. D-back, Game 103: Why Jason Bay has to keep playing | New York Daily News.

Hmm…Foster’s 1982 .247 13 and 70 might not warrant a parade (back in the 80’s we only used those three stats the way nature intended.  Go stuff your OPS crap, it’s just adding two numbers together to look cool.)

But 1983’s .241 28 and 90 sure would, not to mention .269 24 and 86 the following year.  Again this was the era when 30 home runs won you an MVP (go look up Dale Murphy’s MVP stats kids).

From April 2011, a tour of the home of the Formerly New York Giants and their appreciation of team history.

I went to visit the New York Giants, and I was amazed at how much they care about New York Giants history.  Click on any of the photos below for a bigger view.  First up, I LOVE this sign.

Next, someone named Mel Ott apparently played baseball in New York City.  You’d never know about his 22 year career, his 511 home runs pre-steroids or his three World Series appearances unless you flew out west.   Then again, he never played for Brooklyn did he?

Next we have Bill Terry.  I bet you’ve never heard of Bill.  That’s because the Giants aren’t allowed to be spoken of in NYC but let’s all go ON AND ON AND ON about the Dodgers and their one dopey World Series.  Bill played fourteen seasons in New York, all at first, none in Brooklyn.  So let’s not talk about him.  Even though he’s in the Hall of Fame and you have never heard of him.

Before we move on, maybe you are thinking “Who cares about the Giants?”  Fair point.  But why not have things like this for Mets of the past?  It’s a great design.  Yeah yeah there’s a museum and yeah they hung some stuff on the walls but they could do so much more.  They being the Mets.  I’m half asleep – redeye and all.

Moving on..

There’s Luther Taylor.

Who?

This is why it is important that someone sticks up for the history.  I had to look up Mr. Taylor myself, and I am glad I did…

Taylor was profoundly deaf and performed on-field communications with his teammates in sign language. He is credited with helping to expand and make universal the use of sign language throughout the modern baseball infield, including but not limited to the use of pitching signs. He played baseball at the same time as another deaf player, William Ellsworth Hoy, more commonly known as Dummy Hoy.

See what sticking a picture of someone above a concession stand can do?

Here’s Hoyt Wilhelm…he played for several teams including the 1954 Giants.  You know what the 1954 Giants did?  No, you don’t because we’re not allowed to speak of them.  THEY WON THE WORLD SERIES.  Yep, one year before the dopey Dodgers but let’s all act like the Giants never happened.

I have some other photos but they are on my other camera and that’s enough history for today anyway.  AT&T Park also has statue technology and is obsessed with someone named Willie Mays who wore #24 just like Kelvin Torve and Rickey Henderson.

Let’s take a look at the Promenade.  As you know, Promenade comes from the French word for overpriced.  Well in San Francisco it connotes taking a walk along the water.  Let’s head up this escalator to see what a Promenade brings us..

OK, we’ve taken the escalator, we’re probably way up high…oh wait, what’s this?

And to our right?

Dudes, it’s awesome having a baseball game on one site of you and the water behind you.  Granted it was a day game and 75 and sunny.  And the view of the game…

Not bad at all my friends.  Not bad at all.  Click on that one for a better feel of what you’re looking at.

It’s a week worth of night games and one 3:15 start.   Even if 10:15 wasn’t already too late for most people to tune in to a belly-flopping Mets team, the Olympic games are on this week and provide an alternative form of entertainment…even on tape delay.  Even for more serious fans, if you’ve got a partner that isn’t a baseball fan and wants to watch the Olympics, this team isn’t exactly providing you a reason to say “but but but the Mets are on!” beyond the simple fact that watching something other than Mets baseball seems somewhat alien.

via This Is When Everyone Tunes Out.