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Post by Jim Boylston on Apr 16, 2010 16:28:28 GMT -5
You asked for it, you got it! Baseball fans, you can post here to your heart's content. Jim
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Post by nybob on Apr 18, 2010 17:30:00 GMT -5
LETS GO METS! We need all the help we can get! Bob
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 18, 2010 18:08:07 GMT -5
If the Mets need help, what do the Red Sox need? Surely no more overpaid underachievers. The season is already becoming dreary. Looks like the Yanks have bought themselves another dynasty, at least for a few years. Not good.
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Post by Hiram on Apr 19, 2010 13:15:59 GMT -5
LETS GO METS! We need all the help we can get! Bob Just at first glance, it seems to me that the first place the Mets need help is at first base. When you're platooning a position that traditionally is responsible for run production and solid, dependable defense, I think that reveals a fundamental weakness in the team's roster which needs to be addressed.
Having made that observation, I will also say that I hold in great respect anyone who is from New York and chooses not to run with the pack and root for the Yankees. Bob, you have my utmost respect.
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Post by Hiram on Apr 19, 2010 13:41:26 GMT -5
If the Mets need help, what do the Red Sox need? Surely no more overpaid underachievers. The season is already becoming dreary. Looks like the Yanks have bought themselves another dynasty, at least for a few years. Not good. And today the Carmines dropped their fifth game in a row. The Red Sox are getting behind early in these losses, digging themselves a hole, and don't have the offensive means to overcome these big deficits.
I think their pitching will straighten itself out over the course of the season, but I'm not sure this team can produce the runs necessary to compete with the Yankees and Rays without making some changes (Lowell and/or Ortiz?)
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 19, 2010 14:47:37 GMT -5
I thought the Sox' pitching staff had deteriorated last year and it seems to be sinking even further this season. Some players are getting a bit long in the tooth, but Paplebon has never really achieved his potential, or what was hoped he'd reach. There is some young blood and Lowell has been designated to the bench, at least for now. I still think pitching is the key. The Yanks are going to be very hard to stop; they just have too many of the front-line stars on their roster now.
I know the Sox have tried to be patient with Ortiz, but he really went downhill last year and is no better this year. Some say it was a wrist injury that he never really got over.
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Post by jrboddie on Apr 20, 2010 21:54:07 GMT -5
This is what I love about this game.
Tonight: Phillies at the Braves Bottom of the 9th, Phillies lead 3-0. Two outs! Game over? No! Braves hit 2 run homerun. Then a rookie hits another one to tie the game! Phillies go nowhere in the 10th. First man up for the Braves hits the walk off home run. If I heard correctly, a first for the Braves at Turner Field.
Anything is possible.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 20, 2010 22:23:27 GMT -5
Similar story out of Fenway tonight; Sox looking awful this year can do no better than a tie with the lowly Rangers; 6-6 in the 9th when the Sox rally and win it. The place was packed and the crowd cheered like they'd just won the series! I like the loyalty of Sox fans and fans all over the country, who turn out, year after year, regardless of how poorly some of the teams do time and again.
Allen
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Apr 20, 2010 22:30:12 GMT -5
Yeah, Allen, I just saw the highlights. Thank goodness the Sox actually had some highlights tonight. They've have been playing horribly. Now, if they were the Yankees, I wouldn't be concerned so early in the season. The Yanks traditionally start bad and then hit their mark at the end of May or early June. Once they click, you can't stop them. But the Sox aren't the Yanks, and a slow start could mean a long season for Ref Sox Nation. Let's home not.
Paul
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Post by Hiram on Apr 20, 2010 23:47:27 GMT -5
This is what I love about this game....Anything is possible. Exactly. Darnell McDonald, 31- year old journeyman, gets called up from Rochester, flies in to Boston, hits a HR in his first AB as a member of the Red Sox, then gets the game-winning hit in the bottom of the 9th. That scenario is not even possible in the NFL or the NBA, for no other reason than there is no minor league. I suppose in the NFL they could activate a player from the practice squad and have him make a huge impact, but the nature of the game (football) really precludes an individual single-handedly deciding a game (unless your name is Red Grange.)
The nature of the game of baseball is that it is a team sport that highlights individual ability and achievement like no other team sport.
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Post by nybob on Apr 23, 2010 23:03:29 GMT -5
Thanks Hiram. I have been a mets fan since 62 when i was 9 years old. I stay with them during the bad and good times. I think a majority of yankee fans are young kids who are front runners. They expect to win while i am happy if we win. Watch our rookie at first base Ike Davis. He has a smooth swing and good glove. Lets go Mets! Bob
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Post by Hiram on Apr 23, 2010 23:50:21 GMT -5
Watch our rookie at first base Ike Davis. He has a smooth swing and good glove. Lets go Mets! Bob I watched Ike Davis a few days ago when he made his MLB debut and he looked unintimidated by the surroundings (NYC), which as you know, is one of the keys to success in the Big Apple. I think he will do well for the Metropolitans.
Alright, the gloves are coming off. nybob, this one's for you. The Yankees? OK, we'll grant you this...you have won a kajillion World Series, and have retired more numbers than any other sports team (excluding the Boston Celtics perhaps), but...do the vaunted New York Yankees have a fight song? I think not. And for the "lowly" Mets? Do they? Just ask nybob...of course they do. And here it is...
Meet the Mets, meet the Mets, Step right up and greet the Mets. Bring your kiddies, bring your wife, Guaranteed to have the time of your life. Because the Mets are really sockin' the ball, Knockin' those home runs over the wall. East side, West side, everybody's coming down, To meet the M-E-T-S Mets, of New York town.
Oh, the butcher and the baker and the people on the streets, Where did they go? To MEET THE METS! Oh, they're hollerin' and cheerin' and they're jumpin' in their seats, Where did they go? To MEET THE METS! All the fans are true to the orange and blue, So hurry up and come on down - 'cause we've got ourselves a ball club, The Mets of New York town!
Give 'em a yell! Give 'em a hand! And let 'em know you're rootin' in the stands! Come on and...
Meet the Mets, meet the Mets, Step right up and greet the Mets. Bring your kiddies, bring your wife, Guaranteed to have the time of your life. Because the Mets are really sockin' the ball, Knockin' those home runs over the wall. East side, West side, everybody's coming down, To meet the M-E-T-S Mets, Of New York town, Of New York town!
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 24, 2010 8:50:43 GMT -5
Somewhere, I still have a 45 rpm record of that song that was sold in NY in the wake of the 1969 miracle World Series win. I used to have a wasted tuft of turf from the Shea Stadium infield that was ripped out by overly-zealous fans the day the Mets won that series. I kept it in my freezer for years, but it is now long gone. In all the years I've followed baseball, I've never seen anything like that 1969 season and the spontaneous explosion of hysteria and joy that followed the Series win. New York lost all of its sophistication and was like a great big small town. You could walk into a bar anywhere and you were among friends and neighbors. I saw no end of Yankee victories in October over the years, most of which were greeted with something more akin to "ho hum; the universe is in balance."
Fast forward to 1979; I had lived in the Washington area, sans baseball, for 7 years and had gradually morphed into an Orioles fan. I also became a real Earl Weaver fan, especially after I learned that we shared the same birthday and some of the same temperamental "qualities." The years that followed were probably my most enjoyable as a fan. I attended more games in the old Memorial Stadium than I had attended in my life up to that time. I came to feel very at home in that ballpark and often engaged players, attendants, ground crews and others in rapt conversation about "how things are going this year." I also saw some of the very best baseball I've ever seen on a day-to-day basis. In all that time the Orioles won two pennants and one World Series. I attended all of the home playoff and series games in 1979 (which still hurts!) and 1983. That series victory was very special and I still treasure it as the crowning moment of the Earl Weaver years, although somewhat anti-climactic for some reason and despite the fact that Weaver had retired at the end of the 1982 season. I realize that the earlier O's teams under Weaver, including the 4 20-game winners and frequent trips to the playoffs and Series eclipsed this one in the record books, and I appreciated the achievements of Palmer, Robinson, Robinson et al, that was not my Orioles team.
Over those years I even came to understand why Orioles fans saw the 1969 World Series a lot differently than I had in my NY days!
Allen
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Post by nybob on Apr 25, 2010 1:29:22 GMT -5
I was impressed with your meet the mets lyrics. Most young fans in new york don't know the second verse. They use the song all the time on the mets radio and tv broadcasts but without the words. The song was also used on an episode of everybody loves Raymond. I remember calling my brother in vegas after the show. We both said the same thing. They got the words wrong! One other thing. In the early years the mets also had a mascot dog called Homer. Well thats all for now. Lets go Mets! Bob
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Post by Hiram on Apr 26, 2010 22:10:04 GMT -5
25 Runs scored so far in Toronto tonight. Beckett got rocked, BoSox have put up 13 runs and Ortiz has apparently earned his spot as a Loyal Member of the Lonesome Pine...Papi is on the bench.
Anyone care to speculate how much longer Ortiz will be in Boston? When's that trading deadline? July 31st?
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