Category: mets

I am going to disagree with the “surprisingly” part of the excerpt below.

Fans aren’t buying tickets as much.  Expenses, HDTV blah blah you have read all that elsewhere.  I’ll throw in $35 to park and the difference between going to Yankee Stadium 1977 and Fake New Yankee Stadium.

My Yankees fan Mr. Sunshine told me at one point yesterday he saw tickets available on the secondary market for $6.

Surprisingly, Yankee Stadium wasn’t sold out on Friday night.

The team announced a crowd of 47,874 for the first game of the Subway Series.

via No Subway sellout on Friday night – Yankees Blog – ESPN New York.

Kids, I used to love the Mayor’s Trophy Game.  That was an anuual game where the Mets and Yankees played each other in the middle of the season.  I thought it was awesomely cool, and when the Mets won it meant a lot to me.

Being a kid, I didn’t realize the players just wanted to go the heck home.

In his now-famous 1979 memoir, “The Bronx Zoo,” Yankees reliever Sparky Lyle wrote that Nettles had said before the inning began: “If I get a ball hit to me…I’m going to throw it into the stands.”

via The Mystery of the 1978 Mayor’s Trophy – WSJ.com.

I know with 2011 eyes, the Subway Series that doesn’t even sell out, and every game on TV a mid-season exhibition game seems silly…but back in the day it was awesome.  I think they often didn’t bother to televise it – I’ll have to check in with Greg Prince’s memory bank on that one.  Well, it was fun to find out the next day who won (by reading the newspaper!).  A different time kids, a different time.

Oh man I saw the Times headline and I was like, “Hey my site is about nothing!!” and got all excited.  Alas, it is about nonohitters.com

On the Web site, each of the Mets’ 35 one-hitters — five of which were thrown by Seaver — is accompanied by box scores and game summaries written by Lammers. Also featured are pitchers who threw no-hitters before or after their time with the Mets.

via A Mets Web Site About Nothing – NYTimes.com.

K-Rod on Yankees fans…

So to make them quiet, make them ‘shut up’ at the end of the game is quite nice,”

via Mets Blog – ESPN New York.