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Friday, August 13
vs. Philadelphia

Jose Reyes – SS
Angel Pagan – LF
David Wright – 3B
Carlos Beltran – CF
Mike Hessman – 1B
Jeff Francoeur – RF
Henry Blanco – C
Ruben Tejada – 2B
R.A. Dickey – RHP

From Kevin…

Hi Shannon,

A quick story on Bo Field — the rolling-arm lady from behind the plate.

I grew up in Kearny, NJ — and very close was a diner in Lyndhurst, aptly named the Lyndhurst Diner. I’d go in four times a week or so for lunch, and got to know my waitress, Bo, very well. She was a hilariously sarcastic woman who took no one’s crap. One night, I was in from dinner — must have been around 10:30 PM — and in rolls Bo … with her straw Mets hat, Mets earrings, jewelry, etc.

Bo was the rolling-arms lady. I nearly had a heart attack.

Though we had become good friends over the years, it wasn’t until about 1996 that I learned who she was. And beginning in 1996, until the Met put those blue seats in front of hers, once a year or so, she’d sell me tickets to a game — and I had the thrill of a lifetime sitting in her seats. It was surreal.

She’s a wonderful woman — and though I haven’t seen her in quite some time, I can still hear her screaming Let’s Go Mets! She had, up to the late 1990s, kept in touch with DJ Strawberry, Daryl’s son. If you recall, she’d actually hold him on her lap a lot so he could see his dad up and close during games.

Sadly, tho, the Mets did her very dirty after all the years she had the primo seats in the house … when they put those extra rows in in front of her after I want to say the 1998 season.

Thanks for posting her pic. It brought back a lot of great memories.

KC
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Good morning.   More generic content today (been decent so far, no?) as I focus on Real Job and Media Goon minds the store.

Here’s another awesome time capsule from 1980.  Go about 2:40 in and you’ll see some light fisticuffs between the Braves and the Mets.

Wait 20 seconds later and you’ll see the greatest Met of all time (OK maybe Seaver was better and Doc had a good three years) go deep.

Ralph Kiner says it best, “Mazzilli is really something to believe.”

…and the Mad Hungarian is mad at Mr. Mazzilli

…then the video gest terribly bizarre with a magician (the Magic was back) and then some bizarro Mets song.  SNY needs to contact the guy that posted this and re-edit it for an awesome special.