My my, busy afternoon around here. Via @newyorkmets and there’s more on Examiner.
Picture of Keith Hernandez putting up sheetrock
Mets Police 80′s Week: Tom Seaver returns in 1983
My favorite day of all-time at Shea. I will never forget as Tom Seaver strolled in from right field. The Franchise was back. Only a bunch of idiots would ever let him go again. From Sports Illustrated…
At about one o’clock, Seaver went out to the rightfield bullpen to begin warming up. Ed Lynch, the swingman on the Mets staff, was also asked to get ready, in case Seaver hurt the left thigh that had bothered him in spring training.
It wasn’t until the Sunday before the Tuesday, April 5 game that Seaver committed himself to his 14th Opening Day. He’d pulled the quadriceps muscle of the thigh during a spring-training game against the Phillies 11 days before, and he’d missed one warmup game and cut short another tune-up. But on Saturday he’d thrown fine.
As Seaver started warming up, Lynch was pacing back and forth. “All these people were here to see him pitch,” said Lynch, “and if I’d had to start, I could just hear the boos. No, actually, I’d have heard a lot of whos: ‘Who the hell is Ed Lynch?’ “
SI: Why The Blue Knight (Sandy) needs to trade Jose Reyes
In a must read that will make you mad and make you sad, Sports Illustrated lays out something I said back in the winter about Sandy. Watch this video and stick with it – I made it over the winter but it’s more and more prophetic. Sandy can make the choice that noone else will face. The right choice.
Trading Reyes isn’t a white flag. It isn’t a bad PR move or something that should be seen as the Mets tanking their season. Their TV ratings are already bad. Their attendance is already low. A deal like this one isn’t going to make a significant difference in any of that.
It’s just the right choice. The smart choice. The choice that makes the most sense, given the probabilities.
It will hurt. Of course it will.
And it will. And it sucks to have to let one of the franchise career leaders go…but if you think a 7 year deal makes sense I don’t agree. If you think Jose and his friendly agent are going to give the Mets a home-town discount, especially so Fred can have his $100 million payroll, I disagree.
It will be harder to get good stuff back given the DL stint, but as we’ve seen with K-Rod, Sandy is good at this.
You can make the choice that noone else will face. Yes it sucks. Start throwing rocks at me now.
Mets Police 80’s Week: 1988 Channel 9 Mets opening
Mets Police 80’s week: September 11, 1987
One of the low-points in Mets history. Crushing.
September 11, 1987. This is one Mets game I can never forget. The Mets had injury problems you wouldn’t believe (unless you were alive in 2009), almost brought Tom Seaver back, and scratched and clawed all the way back….they were going to catch the Cardinals after all that…and then Terry Pendleton stepped to the plate as Osh41 and I stood out in right field on the Field Level at Shea…
Daaar-ryl, Daaar-ryl,” sang the faithful, and Darryl Strawberry came out of the dugout to acknowledge the cheering after his two-run homer in the first inning. “Mooo-kie, Mooo-kie,” the fans crooned after Moookie Wilson hit a home run in the second, and Wilson’s wife, Rosa, sitting behind home plate, hugged the guy next to her, who happened to be Richard Nixon. “Ho-Jo, Ho-Jo,” the crowd bayed at the man standing on second base in the fourth, and Howard Johnson tipped his cap after a successful steal that made him the eighth player, and first balding infielder, to join the 30/30 Club for those players who amass 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in a season. “Sweep, sweep,” they chirped.
Chops were being licked all over Shea Stadium last Friday night as the New York Mets, leading the St. Louis Cardinals 4-1 in the ninth, closed to within one out, one strike even, of slicing the Cards’ first-place lead in theNational League East to a measly half game.
From SI’s “Take That!” – you youngsters will definitely want to read it.
