Category: mets

I’m still recovering from last night – left the Stadium at 2 am and got home at 3:30. But a quick snapshot of the last several days.

From Saturday through Tuesday, the tally for me is:

• 2 stadiums (Yankee & Shea)
• 4 games
• 40.875 innings (two 8 1/2 inning games, one 9 inning, and one 14 5/6)
• I don’t know how many players, pitches, etc.
• 6 hours waiting in lines for autographs at FanFest
• 4 HOF autographs (Earl Weaver, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, & Gary Carter)
• 3 children of HOFers met (Mantle’s sons and Jackie Robinson’s daughter)
• Several Team USA autographs
• I think a dozen hot dogs and eight beers
• Almost 1,000 pictures taken (which will be reduced to probably 150 once I go through them)
• One new David Wright jersey (home, blue pinstripe, with Shea patch, size 44)
• An undisclosed amount spent on souveneirs
• About 28 hours total of baseball activities

(And last night’s 15 inning adventure was my SECOND 15 inning game this month. I saw one at SafeCo a few weeks ago too.)

I think I need a few days for everything to sink in but man, did I enjoy this weekend.

Nice touch mentioning Bob Sheppard last night.  

With all this talk of putting George in the hall…how about Bob!

A little late this morning, stayed up late and have this whole job thing etc…

As always I loved the All Star Game.

I hear some chirping on WFAN about A-Rod leaving early.   As a fan of leaving work early and days off, I am not going to begrudge the man for leaving – assuming he even did leave.   Maybe he just wants to spend today and tomorrow, full days, with his kids.

WHERE WAS SEAVER?  In the interest of fairness maybe he had a family emergency or something.

Wright would have pitched next?  Cool!   I would have loved to see that, and a pitcher playing a position.

I suspect that’s the last we will see of George Steinbrenner.

Poor Yogi is getting up there too.  He’ll soon need to stay out of the spotlight the way Scooter did.

Kinda cool that FOX didn’t bombard us with “and look who is in the second row, the stars of Fringe!” nonsense.  Unless they did it at midnight when maybe I nodded off for a pitch or two.

I was surprised there were/are only four living Yankee Hall of Famers. 

Quiet day.   See ya tomorrow.

Bud black

Ben sheets

Aaron cook

Brian mccann

David wright speeds by. Not much love from crowd. No mets love.

Dan uggla on his cellphone

Another gap. Crowd begins to lose buzz and wander.

Geovany soto. The city is as quiet as you'll ever hear it

Nate mclouth

Hanley ramirez.

Ernie banks and fukudome

Holliday

Adrian gonzalez

Cars going faster now as parade gets kinda long.

Back to the daily planet. Hope it was fun for you
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A-Rod. Crowd buzzing. Enjoying it the way jeter isnt. Looks relaxed.

Roy halladay

Kevin youklis

Michael young

Grady sizemore

Some guy named scott kazmir. Hes loved.

Mariano rivera

Ervin santana

George sherrill

Dioner navarro

Francisco rodriguez

Josh hamilton big ovation

Jd drew. Jason varitek

Joakim soria.

Justin morneau cool guy

This is a great event. Crowd getting quieter

Evan longoria

Cal ripken biggest ovation yet

Clint hurdle

Papelbon shows heckler his ring

Lou piniella big ovation

Lull

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