Category: mets

Posted on

Howie Rose on John Sterling

The WSJ has an article about John Sterling which contains this gem:

Sterling says. “I make a million mistakes. I mean, that’s more of the charm.”

Yeah, charming.

Anyway, Howie (who as we all know is the best sports broadcaster in the tri-state, Mike Emrick #2 and Chris Carrino of the Nets is #3) has this to say about his Bronx counterpart.

By comparison, Howie Rose, who broadcasts Mets games, is regarded as a less intrusive presence on the air than his friend Sterling. “John’s very comfortable in that layer of skin,” Rose says. “The minute you try to change, you come off as disingenuous.”

via Another Yankee Contract Set to Expire; John Sterling In Radio Booth Nearly 4,000 Games – WSJ.com.

Posted on

The 1981 Pseudo Mets Pennant Race« Faith and Fear in Flushing

As usual with an excerpt from Faith and Fear..it looks like I stole the entire article, but this is just a small snippet.

Greg emailed me to remind me of the 1981 split season.  There was a major strike that year, and the season was played in two halves.  So when they came back in August, every team was 0-0.

Greg put it, “It’s one of those moments I love to write about — a huge deal in its time, all but expunged from institutional memory. I mean who ever mentions the “second-season” 1981 pennant race? But it was real and it was spectacular (h/t Seinfeld).”

The Mets had a second chance…but as the story unfolds, some punk kid named Mookie was taking playing time from Lee Mazzilli

Mets 7 Cardinals 6. It was the sweep the Mets needed to stay alive in the September no one could have seen coming. They were 2½ out of first place with fourteen games remaining. Never mind they were only 19-20 since play resumed in August. Forget completely that they were 36-54 when you factored in April, May and June. None of that mattered now. The only thing that mattered was the downtrodden Mets of the Joe Torre era had just captured a must win in the midst of their first deep-September pennant race in nearly a decade.

via The Happiest Recap 037-039 « Faith and Fear in Flushing.

Hmmm, if you get to the end of Greg’s story it isn’t happy at all.  Lee Mazzilli gets traded away. Stupid Faith and Fear blog bringing that up.

Did you guys hear SNY talk about Lee last night in the 8th?  Keith talked about Lee’s tight pants, and Ronnie got off a good line wondering how the Mets could have traded Lee for two minor leaguers. Look it up if you don’t know why that’s funny.

Posted on

You own these 20+ Mets jerseys

I got a great email from Joe:

It only took more than a month, but please see the attached pictures in a zip folder — all 27 of them. It’s great to see them next to each other so we can see the subtle differences as the years go on (such as the actual gray color from the road grays in ’05 to now, plus the non-black-shadowed fonts).

Prepare yourself for the blacks! In my defense of big bad Mo, I bought that for $15. Whether or not the price justifies the purchase is still up for debate.

There are some “classics” in the assorted bunch.

I have two other jerseys not pictured, simply because I don’t know where they are: Butch Huskey road gray (same road gray style uniform as Ordonez); Billy Wagner road alternate black uniform.

There’s a lot of memories, tears and love (and money) pictured there…