Category: mets

Spent the last three innings listening to Bob Uecker today.  Much like my experience with Jon Miller, it was pleasant to listen to one man do a game solo.  

Never mind Uecker’s beer commercial persona, he calls a good game.   Sure he’s a homer – got a little to excited on a fly ball – but he also razzed the fans after the Mets scored in the eight basically saying “calm the hell down everyone we have two more at bats.”  Maybe it was something like “what are you booing for?” but the message was the same.

It’s always a pleasure to hear a game without endless in-inning commercials (I only percieved one, for a sausage!) and without some schmoe telling you “23 Skidoo And Bobby Abreu” or whatever nonsense Sterling has this week….and because I like to razz Howie Rose, I actually believed the attendance figures.  22 straight sellouts for the Brewers!

This talk of going back in time and changing the scoring of yesterday’s one hitter is crazy.  

Every time someone doesn’t like a call we’re going to appeal it?   If he had given up a second hit later would they be trying to get this down to a one hitter?

What about the 1972 Red Sox?  They finished 85-70 and a HALF GAME behind Detroit who finished 86-70.   That seems sucky in retrospect.  Let’s round everyone up, play that extra game and if Boston wins let’s replay the entire playoffs.

It also seems unfair that the 1995 Expos didn’t get a chance to win the World Series.  Let’s round everyone up and play out the end of that season.

Don Denkinger – yep let’s make that good too.

Now that there’s replay and no-hitter appeals no injustice shall stand!

You accidentally name your new rotunda after someone who never played for your team?   Keith Hernandez Rotunda here we come!

You forget your team colors are blue and orange and not black?  We’ll remind you!

Mets Sell More Than 1000 Season Box Seats; TOTAL SURPASSES GIANTS …

$3.95 – New York Times – Nov 17, 1961
The insigne done in orange and royal blue, official colors of the new club, … be available to the Mets and Houston, the other new National League team. …

I got stuck in traffic on my way from Flushing to Yankee Stadium today.  The Triboro (I mean, cough, RFK bridge – horrible idea renaming that one by the way) – anyway the Formerly Triboro had a lot of traffic and I knew I was going to be late for the Yankee game.

So I flagged down an officer and told him my predicament.  He turned on his siren and escorted me to the stadium.  I was comfortably in my seats by game time.

Now some of you may not believe me, but this is a new service available to all citizens that the NYPD has started offering.  Since all men are created equal, and there is no caste system in the United States, nor would the NYPD ever provide special treatment for one particular citizen (oh say, Alex Rodriguez), the next time you find yourself late to a ballgame pull over a cop car and yell “Hey buddy, how about an escort?”

1.  Seahawks – Favre won’t head off into the sunset happy, and neither will Holmgren.

2.  Arizona – I have been writing this blog since 1948 and have made the same prediction every year.  Never been wrong.

3.  Rams – unless Martz returns….

…oh wait he is in San Francisco, a team nobody sees coming.   Watch for J.T. O’Sullivan and the Mike Martz offense to light up the scoreboard.   They may not win it all, but they may remind you of the recent Bengals teams.

1.  Giants – teams don’t repeat, the Giants were never that good to begin with, and there is a PSL Curse upon this franchise.

2.  Eagles – Donovan McNabb is back, they have great backs blah blah blah.   Never works out.

3.  Redskins – Daniel Snyder still owns the team.  Talent won’t matter, and they don’t have the talent.

Tony Romo is for real.   Get ready for a third generation of Cowboys fans living throughout the entire country.