| the old ballgame just noticed that tonight is opening day. that doesnt sound quite right but its true nonetheless. the mets and the cardinals have the marquee game on espn 2 at 8pm. was going to do a rundown of the mets coming out of spring but im too lazy. (that sounds about right for a baseball fan.) so the top link has the kranepools societys quick and dirty rundown of the mets lineup. nothing much left to say but "play ball!"
more mets. david wright profile in ny mag.
ichiro suzuki on facing newly minted major leaguer daisuke matsuzaka:
"I hope he arouses the fire that's dormant in the innermost recesses of my soul," he says. "I plan to face him with the zeal of a challenger."
apparently ichiro is more quotable than notable. he struck out three times in their showdown bringing much shame to his family.
as usual im a font of misinformation. ichiro k'd three times last night against josh beckett. tonight is the overhyped tete a tete. catch it live on espn 2 @ 7est.
ichiro is 0-4 so i guess the cloud of shame still hovers over his family but the story of the game is that the redsox have been no hit through six by 21 year old felix hernandez considered one of the top young pitching talents.
meanwhile mets pitcher oliver perez walked seven including four in a row and hit one batter in two and two thirds innings before being yanked from the game.
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I not enough of a poet to write "Ichiro at the Bat", so here's a link to the original.
when i started watching baseball again in 1999 i spent some time on a mets message board. in fact i "watched" games online (monitored the continously updating boxscores. cbssportsline calls them the unfortunately named glogs now) more often than i actually saw them. and the board was rather erudite for a baseball crowd so i ventured a few ill conceived verses at times in the casey at the bat vein. all i can recall are the first lines to an ode to the pitching staff.
things would look brighter
if we had more than leiter
kicking the rubber these days
and dotel is just swell
when he reaches deep in the well
but at twenty-three still has a ways....
meanwhile i just had a cat nap and the last words someone said to me was "you cut the story off" and then i woke up.
gotta give a-rod some credit after all the shit he took last year. hes hit two more homeruns tonight taking his total to 14 which is the most ever for april and he still has a week to go. unfortunately for the yankees their pitching has been woeful as three of their starters are injured. after tonights lost they dropped to 8-10. and to add insult to injury, red sox manny ramirez is profiled in the new yorker. oh yeah, and the mets are back in first albeit by 1/2 a game.
According to a study last July by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, Republican fans prefer the Yankees over the Mets by a greater proportion than do Democrats. When asked who they would want to win a subway World Series, 62 percent of Republican respondents chose the Yankees, while only 29 percent chose the Mets.
The numbers were more evenly divided among Democrats: 44 percent would choose the Yankees in a subway series, and 41 percent said they would want the Mets to win. (Fifteen percent didn’t know or wouldn’t say; Red Sox fans, perhaps?)
Nonetheless, Matt Cerrone, founder of the lively Metsblog.com, believes that the Mets have an undeniable Democratic mien. “The Mets tend to have more blue-collar sensibilities, and Democrats tend to be more the working-class party,” Cerrone said. “Mets are more fun-loving, lighthearted, … more like liberal progressive thinking.”
In the deja vu all over again department Roger Clemens is retuning to the Yankees, announced during today’s game with Clemens on hand in the owner’s box. On a personal level I never liked Clemens much, seems like a classic uber-jock, but there’s no doubt he’s at the top of the list for pitchers from the last generation of the 20th century. And the Yanks need pitching badly (actually they’ve got pitching badly, but you know what I mean.) I also resent the “retire”-return-for-a-short-season strategy he’s worked in recent years, but all’s fair in love and sports, and it has allowed him to extend his career beyond his physical limitations. How much the 44 year old has left at this point remains to be seen…
just saw part of a press conference. he said one of his sons is going to university of texas to become a sculptor.
Well, that was probably the worst seasonal melt-down by any team I’ve personally rooted for, single game melt-downs being another story…
im just glad im out of town and didnt have to see it. it was so catastrophic that it was almost easier to take because clearly by the end they didnt deserve to get in to the playoffs.
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- dave 4-02-2007 2:10 am
more mets. david wright profile in ny mag.
- dave 4-04-2007 8:19 am
ichiro suzuki on facing newly minted major leaguer daisuke matsuzaka:
"I hope he arouses the fire that's dormant in the innermost recesses of my soul," he says. "I plan to face him with the zeal of a challenger."
apparently ichiro is more quotable than notable. he struck out three times in their showdown bringing much shame to his family.
- dave 4-11-2007 10:33 pm
as usual im a font of misinformation. ichiro k'd three times last night against josh beckett. tonight is the overhyped tete a tete. catch it live on espn 2 @ 7est.
- dave 4-12-2007 2:00 am
ichiro is 0-4 so i guess the cloud of shame still hovers over his family but the story of the game is that the redsox have been no hit through six by 21 year old felix hernandez considered one of the top young pitching talents.
meanwhile mets pitcher oliver perez walked seven including four in a row and hit one batter in two and two thirds innings before being yanked from the game.
this newsbreak brought to you by panasonic hdtv: if its not panasonic, its something else.
- dave 4-12-2007 5:05 am
I not enough of a poet to write "Ichiro at the Bat", so here's a link to the original.
- mark 4-12-2007 9:41 pm
when i started watching baseball again in 1999 i spent some time on a mets message board. in fact i "watched" games online (monitored the continously updating boxscores. cbssportsline calls them the unfortunately named glogs now) more often than i actually saw them. and the board was rather erudite for a baseball crowd so i ventured a few ill conceived verses at times in the casey at the bat vein. all i can recall are the first lines to an ode to the pitching staff.
things would look brighter
if we had more than leiter
kicking the rubber these days
and dotel is just swell
when he reaches deep in the well
but at twenty-three still has a ways....
meanwhile i just had a cat nap and the last words someone said to me was "you cut the story off" and then i woke up.
- dave 4-12-2007 10:48 pm
gotta give a-rod some credit after all the shit he took last year. hes hit two more homeruns tonight taking his total to 14 which is the most ever for april and he still has a week to go. unfortunately for the yankees their pitching has been woeful as three of their starters are injured. after tonights lost they dropped to 8-10. and to add insult to injury, red sox manny ramirez is profiled in the new yorker. oh yeah, and the mets are back in first albeit by 1/2 a game.
- dave 4-24-2007 6:49 am
According to a study last July by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, Republican fans prefer the Yankees over the Mets by a greater proportion than do Democrats. When asked who they would want to win a subway World Series, 62 percent of Republican respondents chose the Yankees, while only 29 percent chose the Mets.
The numbers were more evenly divided among Democrats: 44 percent would choose the Yankees in a subway series, and 41 percent said they would want the Mets to win. (Fifteen percent didn’t know or wouldn’t say; Red Sox fans, perhaps?)
Nonetheless, Matt Cerrone, founder of the lively Metsblog.com, believes that the Mets have an undeniable Democratic mien. “The Mets tend to have more blue-collar sensibilities, and Democrats tend to be more the working-class party,” Cerrone said. “Mets are more fun-loving, lighthearted, … more like liberal progressive thinking.”
- dave 4-25-2007 7:57 am
In the deja vu all over again department Roger Clemens is retuning to the Yankees, announced during today’s game with Clemens on hand in the owner’s box. On a personal level I never liked Clemens much, seems like a classic uber-jock, but there’s no doubt he’s at the top of the list for pitchers from the last generation of the 20th century. And the Yanks need pitching badly (actually they’ve got pitching badly, but you know what I mean.) I also resent the “retire”-return-for-a-short-season strategy he’s worked in recent years, but all’s fair in love and sports, and it has allowed him to extend his career beyond his physical limitations. How much the 44 year old has left at this point remains to be seen…
- alex 5-06-2007 11:56 pm
just saw part of a press conference. he said one of his sons is going to university of texas to become a sculptor.
- dave 5-07-2007 1:10 am
Well, that was probably the worst seasonal melt-down by any team I’ve personally rooted for, single game melt-downs being another story…
- alex 10-01-2007 3:02 am
im just glad im out of town and didnt have to see it. it was so catastrophic that it was almost easier to take because clearly by the end they didnt deserve to get in to the playoffs.
- dave 10-01-2007 4:51 am