What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Oh crap…been sitting in the hot sun all day…cooler nearby….cleaning out inbox…bouncing around on the intertubes…a little “extra” money on Paypal and….oh no, I’m going to be in my own “You own this Mets jersey” series.
I’m starting to have a problem…I mean the Stars and Stripes jersey isn’t even here yet….and now my iPod is playing “Stairway to Heaven.”
I’m becoming a parody!
Then again, this is gonna annoy Osh41. Â Heh heh. Â Have a BBQ Osh.
I spent the day reading more of the awesome Faith and Fear book and it bought back more of that stuff I of course know but it still zings my brain:
Lee Mazzilli won a ring with the Mets!
Lee was the All-Star on some of the scrubbiest Mets teams of all time, and then the Mets broke a young boy’s heart by playing someone named Mookie and then trading Lee away for two nobodies named Ron Darling and Walt Terrell. What did the Mets need those guys for?
Now it sounds like something I would make up…a fantasy that Lee would come back just in time for the stretch run in 1986.
That just doesn’t make sense. Why would that happen on the real world?
Fortunately it did, and I lived long enough to see Lee Mazzilli celebrate winning a Mets championship.
I don’t have strong memories of Lee’s departure in 1989. Maybe Osh41 can remind me. I was probably on the rag about it. I was on the rag about the Mets from about that day until I walked into the Mets museum this April.
Anyway, that October my dad died and August and September were spent in a hospice. Lee Mazzilli being waived? Who cares in the scheme of things.
Tomorrow: the awesome book unrepresses memories of the Juan Samuel trade.
“There is another”
LJ Mazzilli homered yesterday and the UConn Huskies play for the Big East title today. Â Yes his dad is who you think.
Imagine me walking around Citi in 2015 with a Mazzilli jersey?!
Tip of the hypothetical blue and orange beer to Matt for the heads-up.
Got a note from Doug about his book. Â I’m not educated on this subject but it seems interesting to me, so I thought I’d link:
Good evening. My name is Douglas J. Gladstone, and I am the author of the new book, A Bitter Cup of Coffee; How MLB & The Players Association Threw 874 Retirees A Curve. With a foreword written by the Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, Dave Marash, A Bitter Cup of Coffee tells the true story of a group of former big-league ballplayers denied pensions as a result of the failure of both the league and the union to retroactively amend the vesting requirement change that granted instant pension eligibility to ballplayers in 1980. As you may know, prior to that year, ballplayers had to have four years service credit to earn an annuity and medical benefits. Since 1980, however, all you have needed is one day of service credit for health insurance and 43 days of service credit for a pension.
Three of the ex-major leaguers profiled in the book are ex-Mets George “The Stork” Theodore and Rod “HotRod” Gaspar. Both long retired, Mr. Theodore is a school guidance counselor working for the Granite School District, in Utah, while Mr. Gaspar sells insurance in Mission Viejo, California. Another former Met, third baseman Roy Staiger, of Oklahoma, is also one of the retirees affected by this situation.
Let me know if this interests you guys, I might be able to interview George Theodore.
Saw this last week in a store…I think the NY looks chubby. Â They will wear this tonight.
