" It's time to perfect your impersonation of him !"
First off I admit that I will be rooting for the Texas Rangers during the World Series. This is partly because I like to root for a team that has either never won a World Series title . I am also rooting for the Rangers because I still haven’t gotten over what the Cardinals did to the Mets in ’85 as well as ’06 !
But lets face it in a scant 10 days or so the ’11 baseball season will be over, and with the exception of us Mets fans worrying if our team will be able ( or willing) to re-sign Jose Reyes at a price he deems “fair market value”, well it may be very quiet around here until the hot stove truly heats up come late November.
So what is a Mets fan to do ? Sit around twiddling our thumbs ? Getting ourselves hot and angry by listening to negative Mets callers on the WFAN ? Well I have composed a small list of things to do until the General Managers meeting commence some time in early next month.
1. Have the ’86 World Series on a constant loop while you wear leg warmers and have the greatest hits of ’86 blaring in the background. ( The ’80′s are bound to come back in style sooner or later !)
2.Debate who was the better Mets manager – Jeff Torborg or Art Howe.
3.Write a 200 page dissertation about the deadly consequences of gravity !
4. Hire Ruben Gotay for your kids next birthday party !
5. Hone your Jerry Manuel impersonation.
6. Start the cult of Mo Vaughn – your motto could be W.W.M.V.E ( What Would Mo Vaughn Eat) ?
7. Watch a really bad Nicholas Cage movie ( that should keep you occupied until March !).
8.Take up the ancient art of Origami
9. Ponder what could have been if the Mets never traded Nolan Ryan.
And lastly … Watch cat videos on YOU TUBE WHILE LISTENING TO THE GET METSMERIZED SOUNDTRACK !!!
And with that said… HERE COMES THE INFAMY !!!!
Mets alumni celebrating a birthday today includes:
Middle infielder from the ’67 team, and Mets coach from ’05-’09, Sandy Alomar is 68 (1943) .
Jack of all trades utility man from ’00-’04, Joe McEwing is 39 (1972). He was just hired by former Met teammate, Robin Ventura to be a coach on his staff for the Chicago White Sox.
The New York Mets traded spot starter/middle reliever, Tom Parsons to the Houston Astros for Catcher, Jerry Grote on October 19, 1965. This was probably one of the most overlooked trades in Mets history. Grote may never have been a offensive force, but he was a strong defensive catcher who knew how to handle a pitching staff.
Mo Vaughn has cleared out every McDonalds from Passaic to Ponoma. It seems that he is on a quest for the mythic States Avenue game piece which will make him the winner of a 200 dollar Spa gift certificate !!!
13 comments
MetsFan4Decades
10/19/2011-12:20pm at 12:20 pm (UTC -4)
#9 – I was just having a discussion the other day with my Dad on that Nolan Ryan trade. I hated that trade almost as much as the Seaver one back in the day.
I’m rooting for the Rangers as well.
Who has the pool on the number of pitching changes La Russa will do during this series before all is said and done? LOL.
Anonymous
10/19/2011-10:24pm at 10:24 pm (UTC -4)
whatever the line is, I am taking the over!
TRS86
10/19/2011-1:04pm at 1:04 pm (UTC -4)
Man I change by mind on Reyes everyday. I can’t imagine being in Sandy’s shoes.
MetsFan4Decades
10/19/2011-1:19pm at 1:19 pm (UTC -4)
It’s all going to come down to years and money I believe.
I still want Reyes signed. I know the risks with his legs, I know he probably will never have again the numbers he put up in 2011. I still believe he’s got some 2008 type years left in those legs and that Reyes is still better than most SSs out there.
I think the odds of Sandy getting him signed though are not very good. He’s going to file for FA and you just know there will be a GM or two throwing 7 years and big $$ at him.
Sandy didn’t have much to work with last off season. I’m looking forward to seeing just exactly what his game plan will be now that he has a little more flexibility.
Anonymous
10/19/2011-2:04pm at 2:04 pm (UTC -4)
Gotta re-sign him. Must do it.
Will it happen?
I highly doubt it.
Anonymous
10/19/2011-2:10pm at 2:10 pm (UTC -4)
Nice work!
OK, here’s a few from me:
1–Ponder who was the better manager–Gil Hodges or Davey Johnson. Davey had more overall to work with, but that 1969 pitching staff was amazing. For fun, go to BaseballReference and check out the pitching performance during the last few weeks of the 1969 regular season. Amazing indeed.
2–Watch Leaving Las Vegas and Adaptation and realize that while he indeed is a f***ed up guy who has made more bad movies than Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase combined, Nicholas Cage is, when in the right setting, a great actor.
3–Ponder what might have been had the Mets drafted Reggie Jackson instead of Steve Chilcott in 1966. Consider it–Reggie hit a HR in game 7 of the 1973 World Series. Now, had he been a Met then? Forget the inane debate about George Stone—you don’t start him over Seaver or Matlack! But with Reggie, we very possibly not only win in 1973, but might have been so much better during that whole era. That one draft pick probably is the difference between Met history having three titles instead of two.
4–Realize that the only reason Mo V wanted that spa gift certificate is because the spa just installed a big cafe.
MetsFan4Decades
10/19/2011-2:52pm at 2:52 pm (UTC -4)
Hey Kingman…..you know darn well if we had drafted Reggie instead of Chilcott he still would have wound up a Yankee. If Grant wouldn’t pay Seaver chances are he wasn’t going to pay Jackson either. Cheap SOB. LOL……
Anonymous
10/19/2011-4:04pm at 4:04 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, but maybe we would have had Reggie until 1977!
Are you going to tell me that our childhoods would not have been better with Reggie as a Met from 1967–1976??
Yeah, it would have been extra painful when he went to the Yanks, but still MF4D—every time I think about this it hurts. We very possibly would have won the 1973 World Series and who knows what else we may have done from 1969–1976…
MetsFan4Decades
10/19/2011-5:42pm at 5:42 pm (UTC -4)
Oh, that one big bat in the lineup in ’73 would have surely had another WS flag flying at Shea/Citi.
Anonymous
10/19/2011-5:49pm at 5:49 pm (UTC -4)
If you’re going to play the “what-if” game (if my grandmother had b*lls she would have been my grandfather) suppose the Mets would have picked Johnny Bench in the 1965 draft as well as Jackson in the 1966 draft and had never traded Ryan and Otis. Just how good would they have been? But OTOH they picked Tom Seaver’s name out of a hat or something like that after the Braves pick was voided and four teams passed on Doc Gooden in the 1982 draft so it tends to balance out.
Anonymous
10/19/2011-2:36pm at 2:36 pm (UTC -4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT9nG7f-rE0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
MetsFan4Decades
10/19/2011-2:54pm at 2:54 pm (UTC -4)
Ha! Had me going for a few seconds until I realized that wasn’t a real kitty.
SaltyGary
10/19/2011-11:09pm at 11:09 pm (UTC -4)
Originally I only thought my issue would be with a yank Phil series. Now I am having a hard time with this matchup. As a Mets fan circa 85 I am all set with the cards and as a ny sports fan I am all set with anything from Texas except “njstuckintx” . Normally as long as its not nl east I root nl but I am going to go with rusty and root for tx since they haven’t pulled it off yet and bobby v is a former manager.