Did I not do one of these in 2019? I don’t see one in the archives. Well, I almost didn’t do one in 2020 so maybe not. Anyway, with not much going on, here’s the 2020 Mets All Irish team.
The rules? Be Irish….or “close enough” that we can include you (you’ll see what I mean soon enough). No birth certificates will be checked.
And it is a Happy St. Patrick’s Day from William A. Shea Stadium (and a big thanks to Bill Shea for giving us the gift of baseball) – lets welcome Bob Murphy to the microphone (Tim McCarver is up in the TV booth) to introduce the Irish Mets – a list of Mets who have at-least Irish-sounding names, or have some Irish in their heritage.
Introducing the pitchers:
Our starters: Nolan Ryan, Tim Leary, Terry Leach, Jim McAndrew, and David Cone. (Half-Irish Matt Harvey has a photo shoot and is unable to join us today.)
The bullpen: Sean Patrick Gilmartin, Colin McHugh, Tim Burke, Greg McMichael, Chuck McElroy, Tug McGraw & Roger McDowell
Behind the plate: Mike Fitzgerald, Todd Hundley, Duffy Dyer and of course Charlie O’Brien
Third base: Daniel Murphy gets moved over to cover.
Shortstop: Roy McMillan
Second base: Doug Flynn
First base: he is part-Irish on his mother’s side, The Captain, Keith Hernandez
In left: Kevin McReynolds
In Center: Brian McRae
And the Right Fielder: Dave Gallagher
We have room for five players in the bench: Super-sub Joe McEwing, Justin Turner (with that hair I am assuming he is Irish), Jeff McKnight, WBC Team Israel’s star Tyler Patrick Kelly (son of Patrick Kelly), and this year Tom O’Malley has been sent down to the AAA All Irish Team to make room for new roster addition Jeff McNeil.
Pete Flynn will take care of the grounds, and to manage this not-so-impressive lineup, I have no idea what his ethnicity is but both Terry and Collins are names found in Irish households, so please welcome number 10 – Terry “Colactus” Collins, along with his bench coach Regis Philbin.
There were several others who didn’t have enough games to make the cut (O’Malley has the fewest total at 91, Erik O’Flaherty from 2015).
Every year I miss somebody, let me know who. Last year I missed EVERYBODY lol.
LGM
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UPDATE: @DublinMets reminds me to add PJ Conlon. Good call. Leaving myself this note here for the 2021 Post. Bad job outta me!
