good morning all its time for the hazy, lazy Sunday edition of “this day in Mets infamy with Rusty” so lets get down to buisness
first off b-day wishes go out to one of the many ineffective pitchers that the Mets had in the late ’70′s Dwight “Saint” Bernard (1952) – little footnote about him – he was later traded for Mark “bombs away” Bomback in ’79
Joe “captain” Orsulak (1962) – one of the most clutch guys on a god awful mets teams of the mid ’90′s
New York Mets traded Tim Teufel to the San Diego Padres for Garry Templeton on May 31, 1991. – sad day indeed because other than Doc Gooden he was one of the last mainstays from the ’86 world series champoinship team and the “Tuefel Shuffle” was sorely missed – and all we got back was a washed up utility player in Templeton.
and lastly on this date in 02 Mo Vaugn was seen eating a celery stalk – when prodded by the media he said ” I’m on a vegetarian diet – nuthin but vegetables and steak !” when a reporter broke the news to him that staek wasn’t a vegetable he said ” shoot i wondered why they didn’t have hamburgers at the health food store!”
7 comments
prismo
5/31/2009-9:45am at 9:45 am (UTC -4)
I feel like there needs to be one of those desk peel-off calendars with Mo Vaughn “facts.”
Kingman 26
5/31/2009-10:38am at 10:38 am (UTC -4)
I think you may have just given Rusty a serious money-making idea!
rustyjr
5/31/2009-10:44am at 10:44 am (UTC -4)
Yeah I don’t think Mo would give me permission lol
Kingman 26
5/31/2009-10:39am at 10:39 am (UTC -4)
Ah, to paraphrase what Jerry Seifeld once said to Newman when he was pretending to like broccoli, “Mo Vaughn wouldn’t eat celery if it was deep fried in chocolate sauce!”
trs86
5/31/2009-10:45am at 10:45 am (UTC -4)
Question Kingman, are our storys showing up on the Sportspyder widget on the right? They are on mine….
Kingman 26
5/31/2009-11:05am at 11:05 am (UTC -4)
Hey TRS–Yes, for me as of this message, there are six things there, and the first is Dirty’s joke, and the fourth is your excellent minor league recap….
rustyjr
5/31/2009-10:45am at 10:45 am (UTC -4)
Hey – wouldn’t put it past him LOL