faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 8/22/2008
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If you want to feel welcome at Shea Stadium (or its successor facility), here's a piece of advice. Don't be the man on the mound when the Mets clinch the pennant there. All will never be right for you in Flushing again.
Our sample size is two pitchers, so the rule is open to interpretation. But the precedent isn't pretty.
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Nolan Ryan enters Game Three of the 1969 NLCS in ...
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Amazin' Avenue —
... but it's our dump*, and I'll miss it for all the great games I saw there in person and at home.
* Sorta reminds me of Leslie Nielson's line in the phenomenal Naked Gun: "It's a topsy-turvy world, Jane, and maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans, but this is our hill and these are our beans."
At MetsGeek, Alex Nelson looks at the pitchers the Mets will face against the Astros this weekend.
Really good article at Fear and Faith in Flushing about the two pitchers who closed out NLCS series for the Mets at ...
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