The Mets Police

Tonight is rained out.

Tomorrow is a split admission day.

If you had tickets for the day gameattend the day game

If you had tickets for Wednesday night then show up Thursday night.

Real Job Boss gave me some work to do

Shannon,

I was at the game last nite (yes, with my Shawn Green #20 jersey on), and needed to vent. Feel free to use my anger thoughts below in any fashion you want, or just to amuse yourself. Thanks as always for the blog, you do an awesome job with it!
-Greg

I didn’t hear what Howie said about those ‘fans’ doing the wave, but I’m glad something was said. The wave has become an all-too frequent occurrence at Met games, and it has to stop. It’s a tie game in the 8th inning, Pelfrey’s got two outs already and two strikes on the batter, and the majority of the upper deck’s got their attention on these fools instead of urging Big Pelf thru it.

Not only is the wave outdated and childish, but more importantly, it looks asinine in an upper deck that’s only 1/3 of the way filled! My seats are in the top row of section 521, so I’ve got a pretty good view of the upper deck. Not only does the wave make everyone look foolish, but because of it, NOBODY was into the game! If you weren’t participating, odds are you were either cheering them on, or hopefully staring at them in disbelief. In a game that should have had fans cheering wildly on every pitch the last 3 or 4 innings, nobody was hanging on the edge of their seat when the Padres got a runner into scoring position, and nobody was standing and cheering with two outs and two strikes. It’s not far to the organization, it’s not fair to the fellow Mets fans, and it wasn’t fair to Mike Pelfrey. He pitched 9 terrific innings, wanted the 10th, and we’re more concerned with standing and putting our arms above our hands when the action’s going on? Please.

I had switched over to TV in the tenth. I didn’t hear this but Hooray for Howie!

On the other hand it further confuses me on who is picking the uniforms? I had come to finally believe it was the pitcher. Maybe Howie was just goofing on Charlie’s preferences?

I’m proud of Howie.

Here’s a note from Chris:

Did you happen to hear the home run call by Howie Rose last night? After calling Ike Davis, Howie Rose got very pumped up and actually screamed out “The power of the pin stripes! Take that Charlie Samuels!”. I hadn’t seen anyone mention anything on their blogs this morning but I thought it was great. They just replayed it on the Joe and Evan show as the turning point of the game.

-Chris P.

I was listening to Orel Hershiser talk on ESPN about Starsburg’s performance and he mentioned that the phenom tipped a few pitches.   He then slipped in that Gooden was tipping pitches in 1988 and addeda comment that the Dodgers only got two runs off him.

My brain gets fuzzy, and for accuracy and good writing maybe you should go read those Faith & Fear guys who probably have written a 20 page essay on this….but I do have Google and half a memory left.

Game 1 NLCS:   2 runs, 4 hits, 7ip, 10 strikeouts.   Tipping pitches.

Game 4 NLCS:  the last baseball game my father would attend.   Gooden was sailing along…and I don’t wanna talk about it. Go look it up. 8 and 1/3, 9 ks and one really annoying home run in the 9th.  Dynasty over, we just didn’t know it.

Game 7 NLCS:  my brain has blocked this one out…Dr. K to the rescue.  Darling went one, and Davey played all his cards.  3 shut out innings in relief but the score was already 6-0.     Awful.  Makes you wanna banish Ronnie to the Expos.

I don’t recall ever before hearing about Gooden tipping, but I heard it with my own ears this morning.  For a guy tipping pitches he sure had a great series…except for one deadly pitch.

My vote for blog of the year may go to The Apple.

This morning Randy has a David Wright version of the Jeter commercial and as part of my Honor Among Bloggers rule, you will have to click here to see it.