I can’t believe it !! I just can’t friggin believe it !! When I went to bed last night the Twinkies were winning 3-1 going into the bottom of the ninth, and when i just woke up I checked the score and saw the Skanks won the game 4-3 in eleven innings !!!- Somebody please kill me !! – Okay with that said here comes the infamy !!!
Birthday greetings go out to former pitcher for the ’64 team – Grover Powell (1940)
One of the many scrubs that tried to fill in for Jose Reyes -Ramon ” hands of concrete” Martinez is 37 (1972)
Our highest rated prospect – Fernando ” F-Mart” Martinez is 21 (1988) . It is now put up or shutup time for the kid now he has to prove he can play with the big boys.
Today marks the 48th anniverserary of the 1961 expansion draft so here is the list of the loveable losers we selected that day.
pitcher Sherman Jones from the Cincinnati Reds
pitcher Ray Daviault from the San Francisco Giants
catcher Clarence “Choo Choo ” Coleman from the Philadelphia Phillies
outfielder Joe Christopher from the Pittsburgh Pirates
Pitcher Ed Bouchee from the Chicago Cubs
Legendary outfielder Gus Bell from the Cincinnati Reds
Pitcher Craig Anderson from the St. Louis Cardinals
Sammy Drake from the Chicago Cubs .
Second baseman Felix ” The Cat” Mantilla from the Milwaukee Braves .
Infielder Elio Chacon from the Cincinnati Reds .
Pitcher Jay Hook from the Cincinnati Reds on October 10, 1961.
Catcher Chris Cannizzaro from the St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher Roger Craig from the Los Angeles Dodgers
Legendary outfielder Jim Hickman from the St. Louis Cardinals .
Pitcher Al Jackson from the Pittsburgh Pirates .
Hobie Landrith from the San Francisco Giants.
Third baseman and original Brooklyn Dodger – Don ” Popeye” Zimmer from the Chicago Cubs .
John DeMerit from the Milwaukee Braves .
Pitcher Jack Fisher from the San Francisco Giants .
New York Mets released reliever Takashi Kashiwada .
Well All I can say is I have to stop listening to the Ken Rosenthal on the WFAN – cuz he is such a pessimist when it comes tot he Mets !! He claims we aren’t in the running for either Lackey Bay or Holliday which just makes me wanna pop a Prozac !!
7 comments
metsfan4decades
10/10/2009-9:32am at 9:32 am (UTC -4)
And did you see that bad call by the ump? Man, their error rate on getting calls right this season has just been atrocious across the board. Had he called that one right, this game probably would have had a very different ending…
trs86
10/10/2009-9:58am at 9:58 am (UTC -4)
I will say this on Saturday when nobody is around but I am having a hard time rooting against the Yankees. Now granted I am not rooting for them either. I do enjoy watching a team play with that much confidence and swagger without showing someone up. But enough of that.
rustyjr
10/10/2009-10:33am at 10:33 am (UTC -4)
i will find it unwatchable if it is yanks/ philths in the world series – there is no lesser of two evils here btw according to David Lennon from newsday the mets shsould look into godzilla for lf/ 1b next year – ugh
stickguy
10/10/2009-12:10pm at 12:10 pm (UTC -4)
As much as I dislike the yankees and their fans (I hate smug, and I think they invented it), I certainly give them credit for getting a good team out of their 200mill investment. But did it have to be A Roid saving the game for them?
But, like I said, I live in the philly market, and don’t have any close yankee fan friends. So, it really means nothing to me. Besides, they have to live with the whole payroll issue, meaning they really don’t get credit for winning, only scorn when they dont!
Now, the Phillies I really have to root against. I am hoping the roxs and the weather take them down, and the series never comes back to Philly.
Kingman 26
10/10/2009-9:17pm at 9:17 pm (UTC -4)
TRS’ I completely agree; it’s very hard to root against these Yankee’s. They play hard and largely well and make few mistake’s.
Not rooting for them but it is hard to root against guy’s like Jeter and Tex.
Unles’s the Angel’s win we are going to see a Yankee’s title.
dentulous
10/10/2009-11:59am at 11:59 am (UTC -4)
true, but the twins had so many opportunities to win this game. Nathan blew the save, no runs scored when bases were loaded, not to mention the base running mistake by Carlos…..
kind of what you expect to see from the Mets….. I kid, I kid.
stickguy
10/10/2009-12:15pm at 12:15 pm (UTC -4)
one thing bugs me about the yankees. OK, more than one, but I digress..
there is this myth that they are some big home grown team. I think this is not really true. Yes, they have a lot of plyers that came up through the system (ST must be held at Lourdes, since they never seem to feel the effects of age). But, they have all hit FA (some more than once), and been resigned to huge deals that other teams couldn’t or wouldn’t meet (and to be fair, I am not sure how many deals were done before they actually hit FA, but it is the same impact).
Unlike a team like the A’s, that developed plenty of top talent, but just couldn’t keep it.
That is a huge advantage given them by the massive payroll, and frankly, there isn’t really a difference to resigning your own FAs vs. ones from other teams. It just happens that they had a couple of good drafts back in the early 90s!