What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Clocking in at nearly 9 minutes here is the finished version of “1986.”
As with the other episodes this is a proof of concept made by a fat guy using an iphone and youtube clips. Yes I kinda glossed over the season, the playoffs and Game 7. I try to keep my production time limited to two hours. In theory, as a proper SNY series there would be access to additional clips and players.
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Last weekend I headed out to The Berm after the game.
Seems like a cool place to watch a game. I couldn’t get there from my seat during the game, so these are all taken about half an hour after the 10 inning tie last Saturday.
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The beer buckets seem cool.
From today’s Mets pre-game notes. Please note that any sloppy punctuation or formatting is my faulkt – cutting and pasting a PDF
25 YEARS AGO: The Mets will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of their 1986 World Series championship throughout the 2011 season. The Mets defeated the Red Sox in a dramatic seven game series…Mets first base coach Mookie Wilson will forever be remembered for his Game Six World Series at-bat
LHP JONATHON NIESE: Is set to make hissecond spring start…In his first appearance,Niese tossed 3.0 shutout frames, allowing two hits with two walks and two strikeouts in a no-decision vs. Washington on March1…Niese finished 2010 with a 9-10 record and a 4.20 ERA (81 earned runs/173.2 innings) in 30 games, all startsLed all rookies in strikeouts and finished…tied for sixth in wins…Threw the 34th one hitter in franchise history on June 10 at CitiField, beating the Padres, 3-0 in Game Two of a doubleheader…Retired a franchise record 21 straight to close out the win and did not allow any baserunners other thanChris Denorfia, who doubled in the thirdinning…Became the ninth Mets rookie to make at least 30 starts in a season and thefirst since Jae Seo in 2003…Did not allow astolen base (four caught stealings) to leadthe major leagues among pitchers with a tleast 105.0 innings pitched.
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Some shots from Saturday…these of the back fields and the behind the scenes. Click on any item for a larger view.
I was getting a quickie tour so I kind of just fired off shots…hence the varying framing. Sometimes you just need to enjoy the moment over worrying about what you’ll post on the blog, know what I mean?
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Ah, March…the weather is warm, my new jerseys have arrived in the mail and it’s time to be optimistic.
I know it’s strangely fun to daydream about the Mets fire-sale and another summer of soap opera in Flushing…but what if this is 1984?
Maybe Pelfrey is real? Maybe Jon Niese can step it up. Maybe Chris Young’s pitches were moving as much as I thought they were when I saw him myself last Sunday. Maybe Santana does come back – and even if he isn’t lights out, but we do know the man has guts.
Maybe Terry is the right guy. I’m sensing a scrappy like-able club, something I haven’t been able to say about lots of Mets team, and some of those were winning teams.
Maybe Ike hits 20 again.
Someone will play second base..and my money is with Murph winning over the fanbase.
Perhaps contract years for Reyes and Beltran work the magic that contract years often do.
Maybe David Wright plays more like Shea Stadium’s David Wright.
Jason Bay isn’t going to hit 6 home runs again.
Maybe scrappy sparkplug Angel Pagan stays healthy and sparky
Maybe it won’t matter who catches.
Maybe K-Rod will man up and play better.
Couldn’t that team actually win some games? Couldn’t the Phillies run into bad luck? Look at the 1990 Mets – they went to war with Viola, Gooden, Cone, Sid and Darling..and a 28 year old Strawberry who hit 37 HRs when 37 HRs was a steroid-era-60.
Ya Gotta Believe, right?
I’m upping my prediction from 83-79 to 90-72.
