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Welcome to the final edition of Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log , a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I saw there for myself, namely 402 regular-season and 13 postseason games in total. The Log recorded the numbers. The Tales tell the ...
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I didn't buy a pair of seats from Shea Stadium. I bought a brick instead. An outfield wall brick . It's a lot less than the seats if not quite equal value. Nine bricks, once you factor in shipping and taxes, would amount to two seats. You don't need nine bricks. I didn't need two seats.
One ...
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Though I'm not yet up to counting the days to pitchers and catchers, I will crawl out of my post-Shea depression long enough to call your attention to the following.
• All-time Shea Stadium organist Jane Jarvis is making a public appearance at Saint Peter's Church, Lex and 54th, Sunday ...
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Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log , a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I saw there for myself, namely 402 regular-season and 13 postseason games in total. The Log recorded the numbers. The Tales tell the stories.
9/28/08 Su ...
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Where are my manners? I've been so caught up in my own post-September 28 sorrow and self-pity that I've completely forgotten to thank the Tampa Bay Rays for ensuring that this October sucks just a tiny bit less than last October and every October in these parts since 1995. That tiny bit, ...
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A conversation with Laurie has raised between us
a very good question: Why are the Mets selling
Tom Seaver's locker? I know why: because they can . For $41,000. Why would the Mets sell it, though? Why wouldn't you preserve the locker of ...
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The last man to touch a baseball in
a postseason game at Shea Stadium turns out to
have been Adam Wainwright's catcher, Yadier Molina. That's really too bad, but really quite appropriate. Molina, you might recall, set the stage one half-inning earlier ...
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I couldn't leave. Eventually I did, but for
a few moments, I just could not. I was
a runner caught off second — frozen, absolutely frozen. My intention was to turn and exit the Upper Deck, the kind of task I'd accomplished with aplomb who knows how ...
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I won't claim it's an original thought, but
as the final outs ticked down today, I mused
to myself: It's 2006's Game 7 in miniature. There was Oliver Perez, a scarily unknown quantity, pitching on three days' rest and acquitting himself very ...
"It’s time to be a MAN.” -- Johan
A long time ago I lived in a group house outside Washington, D.C., and the male housemates had a running joke. The premise was that the world's men had formed a union, and our president was Steve Young, then the never-say-die quarterback of the San ...
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O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over 'til another year?
—Ralph Stanley
O, Mets. That's all I keep saying to myself this week. O, Mets. I won't know what it means 'til after Sunday's game. Maybe later.
Maybe much later.
It is not out of the question that Johan ...
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I love the Mets because I love the
Mets. I don't love the Mets because they are
such a well-run organization filled with the kind of people whose baseball acumen translates to a satisfying sense of your fate being in good hands. Only the Pirates ...
The rain stayed away. It might have been better if it had come.
If it were May or June, this would be one of those drab, no-show games that you immediately toss down the memory hole. Being late September, it was like having cinder block after cinder block piled on top of you. Chris Volstad ...
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Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log , a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 399 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories...including ...
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My back to the wall, a victim of laughing chance
This is for me the essence of true romance
Sharing the things we know and love with those of my kind
Libations, sensations that stagger the mind
—Steely Dan
I've crossed that fine line from theoretical home stretch to the beginning ...
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What if the Mets survive, but none of us do?
This is heart-attack stuff , brutal baseball in brutal weather, a Nor'Easter of cruelty and joy and panic and hope buffeting you and threatening to blow you down altogether. How many moments did that game offer to pierce the heart, whether with ...
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Sometimes in the winter I'll be doing some household chore and I'll realize that for the last five or 10 minutes I've been brooding about a moment from the Mets' past, turning it over and over in my mind and wondering how everything could have gone so wrong. Sometimes I even catch myself ...
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Another summer at Perry's. I can't. I swear.
—Stacy Hamilton, Ridgemont High School, 1982
I will not tell you how dreadful Wednesday night's loss to the Cubs was. You can infer that for yourself; you probably already have. I will not dwell on the eerie fact that at the exact same ...
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I'm a Wild Card waiting
In the middle of the deck
You'd better get a bigger gun
I'm not dead yet
—Ralph Covert and the Bad Examples
Your 2008 Mets: By no means dead yet.
That was the win the Wild Card-leading Mets needed Tuesday night. We need more of 'em, but that one was ...
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God bless Johan Santana.
In the beginning he didn't look particularly on his game -- the Cubs were getting pretty fair swings against him, and I was more than a little sick to my stomach thinking of finding Johan on the wrong end of a 3-1 or 4-2 score, the recipient of stoic attaboys and ...
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Your Soul...$41,000