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Over at Bugs & Cranks, Brad Bortone proclaims this week as the time for the Mets to make a statement against the Braves and Phillies.
Bortone also pens an excellent post on his trip to Shea Stadium for the Mets first post-September 11 home game against the Braves in 2001.
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Is there any chance of a rain out tonight? Weather.com is not promising, but I have tickets and I don’t want to take the trip for the cancellation. I know they have ceremonies planned and the Braves don’t come back all year, so they will try to get it in…I’m just wondering if anyone has heard anything.
I checked the radar on weather.com….The red patches (which I interpret as ‘bad’) have already passed, and only the light green patches (’not as bad as red’) will go through Flushing. Also, I had heard that the rain is supposed to subside early in the evening.
So based on my extremely unqualified opinion, I’d say the game goes on as planned, with first pitch within 20 minutes of schedule.
The 9/11 article was amazing, absolutley amazing.
Gave me chills.
your title is wrong – should be 9/11, not 9/21
“Remebering 9/21″ is in reference to the Mets first game back at Shea.
No they played on the 21st and the was a truly great article, I actually had goosebumps reading it. The quote by John Anderson concluded the article very nicely. Well done
There have been a lot of great articles today on this topic but I think this is the best one
Does anyone have a link to the Piazza home run from that night?
Its the 3rd bullet point….
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070911&content_id=2201195&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym
great article and thanks for that link brings back some bitter sweet memories
the article was very good until i got to the part where he almost unnecessarily explains that he left the game before it was over bc benitez was a shaky reliever.
I hate to say it but I agree with that. Shoulda quit when he was ahead
Many thanks to MetsBlog and its readers for the nice comments regarding my Bugs & Cranks Mets piece from earlier today.
Having read the criticisms regarding the Benitez comment, I went back and read the article again, and now agree that a slight against Armando did not fit well with the rest of the story.
The point I was trying to make, was that I did not want to let anything ruin one of the most amazing moments I’ve ever experienced during a baseball game, if not my entire life. Hence, my early exit. But in retrospect, that point was somewhat lost with the Benitez comment, which has now been removed from the post.
Thanks again to the MetsBlog community. It is highly appreciated.
Man, what a memory. It was probably the number one moment in my life as well. I was a college student who lived and worked within 5 blocks of Ground Zero, feeling like a refugee. And boy, did that moment really lighten my life, if only for a few moments. Just watching the clip sends chills down my spine. Not to sound corny or trivialize anything, but the Mets are the third love of my life (wife and dog come first), and it was great that one of my “loves” could come through on that day and make a difference. Sorry to get all sappy, but it was indeed a moment to remember.