Click play below to watch Mike Pelfrey help out a young fan as he fell over the outfield railing at Citizens Bank Park during batting practice.
Wow, that was a scary fall. Glad he was ok. Good for Mike to comfort the the little guy.
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Pelf has a good touch with kids.
In Anaheim back in June, he went out of his way to give my 11 year old son a ball mid-game, when most players in the dugout ignore the fans.
You mean to tell me the Philadelphia media couldn’t acknowledge Pelfrey aiding the boy? C’mon…I know he didn’t save his life, but he helped in consoling the boy. UGH!
Maybe you should forward this to crybaby Jimmy Rollins!!!!
What a stupid kid. He’s lucky he landed on his side.
i bet he just wanted a hug from big pelf.
Yeah what a stupid kid. He should have figured out how to defy gravity like us Met Fans do.
The kid was wearing a Mets hat.
Yet another reason to like Pelfrey. That fall was pretty crazy, glad the kid was ok. Where the hell were his parents though?
They fell out of the stands 20 minutes earlier.
Bwawaaa haww haww!
Excellent.
hahahahahahahahaha
i almost choked when i read that
Bloody marvelous!
Brilliant reply…Funny although i do feel bad for that kid…Bet ya he’s a Pelfrey fan forever..
That was brilliant. I laughed my a$$ off when I read that.
that was perfect!! Do you do stand up???
LMAOOOOOO!!!!
I don’t think I could ever hate on Mike Pelfrey after I seeing this awesome photo;
newyork.mets.mlb.com/images/2007/02/26/cCayj8Cf.jpg
Nice — soup’s on!
Pelfrey is a souperstar in the making. Thank you, I’ll be here all night. Tip your waitresses., they work hard.
Oh man…that’s going on my blog the next time he starts. Good stuff.
This so should be Big Pelf’s photo on the Diamond Vision.
lmao!
GO BIG PELF!
ouch…for looking so comfortable and fluid on the mound, pelf sure looked uncomfortable there…glad the kids okay
HAHA. dbag kid
awwwwwwwww
Kid will probably be first in his Philadelphia high school
Ha…that one made me laugh. Nice work.
Jimmy Rollins thinks that Mike was showing too much emotion.
I like how the kid immediately stood up and tried to pretend it was no big deal, but then doubled over. Am I wrong for giggling at that?
Nothing wrong with that. I’ve been slowing it down, rewinding, scratching the clip. It’s a riot. I’m surprised Pelfrey didn’t laugh in his face.
As Homer Simpson once said, “It’s funny because I don’t know him!”
Pelfrey should have grab the kid and said, ” Hey, kid, this is why you’re not a New Yorker. Now don’t get any tears on my uni or I’ll ECW your a-s through a table.” :)
When I was about that kid’s age, i was at Shea with my Dad, my best friend and his dad — all in a Mezz Box. A pop foul came back towards the Mezz to our right and some drunk idiot reached over the front of the rail to catch it even though it was obviously not going to reach the greens but land short …..the guy flipped over the rail at the front of the mezz (in a section where it’d be a long way down to the field level). Luckily the moron held on to the rail with one hand and his friends pulled him up.
Wonder if there were any EC-DUB! chants after that fall. This is why I always give foul balls to kids. They obviously want them more.
If they are old school fans, they’d chant “You F’D up!”
or
“911! 911! 911!’ Then some tall dude would come out and chockslam this kid on the field.
Personally, would love to have seen The Sandman come out through the crowd with his cane and a beer and wail on this kid.
I have issues.
LOL!!! My favorite chant was “She’s got HERPES!” Or better yet… You F— Sheep”
Long live the original ECW.
Holy crap, thats a hell of a fall
In Chicago, they throw the other team’s home run balls back. In Philly, they throw back the ball AND the kid who caught it.
lol that was a good one
Now that was funny! Good one.
Question – is this the first time Mets Blog has linked to break.com? I love it.
Last night, a Met fan caught Werth’s HR ball and threw it onto the field.
I heard Pelfrey asked him for an appearance fee afterwards. but seriously, Pelfrey looks more like, “boy i dont know wtf to do with this kid” than “boy i am genuinely concerned”
props to the guy that said, “Kid will probably be first in his Philadelphia high school”
knowin phillies fans he was probably drunk out of mind.
hahaha. that’s true. i mean, while we’re all blindly praising pelf for “helping” this kid….what exactly did he do? and who else wouldn’t have done the same thing?
seriously. i crying kid came and collapsed into his arms and we’re acting like Big Pelf is the second coming of Mother Teresa..oh well. Still love Big Pelf!
i love how his hat falls on top of him. probably werth’s idiot kid
I actually think it was Victorino trying to sneak into the stadium, since security didn’t believe he was actually a player.
Darn, that’s a GOOD one TJ!
Actually, Victorino wouldve been fine after a fall like that because he has a super cool helmet.
Man, you guys are on tonight. That was funny.
Nothing like walking out of that place and hearing nothing but silence, but seeing hundreds of smiling Met faces.
That alone was the tonic I needed to heal my scars from Tuesday night!
ALMOST silence… broken by spontaneous “Lets go Mets!” chants.
It’s only really, really, funny because the kid’s okay.
My favorite part is his shoe coming down and hitting him after he already landed. And then, like Toasty said, the kid trying to play it off…..good stuff.
Yeah, I have a question about that – My guess is someone threw his shoe at him, the thinking being, “well, he’s already stuck down there, might as well be stuck with both shoes.”
I’ve come to really like Mike, but 99% of ballplayers would have helped the kid in that situation. I’m glad Mike did, but really is it that ’special’?
Mike Pelfrey is a hero.
Good job by Pelf, but if that was Beltran out there, he catches that kid.
No he play’s playing too deep to make the catch.
Maybe you’re right…but Endy would’ve had him for sure!
and he’d throw the kid to first to double off the runner.
an hero*
No it’s ‘a’ hero, not ‘an’ hero. ‘An’ is only used if the following word starts in a vowel. ‘A’ is the following word starts with a consonant.
Mike Pelfry is not an astronaut. Mike Pelfry is a pitcher.
Ahhh. . . my grasp of the way to complex English language. . . .
encyclopediadramatica.com/An_hero :)
Pelfrey was a hero. The kid was an hero.
the kid was an idiot.
The kid was almost an hero, not Pelf. I can’t believe I’m discussing this on Metsblog…
Mike Pelfrey for great justice!
HAHAHA. you’re right, i just reacted instinctively upon seeing “a hero”
lulz
Keith is part of that one percent. He would have saw the fan on the field and ran away like he always did. Actually he runs away everytime he sees a fan no matter where he sees them.
glad the kid is ok, that fall would have been brutal if he landed a different position. where in the would are his parents? these things simply amazes me.
his parents are in the beer line.
This is Philadelphia, not Milwaukee; his parents are well into the tank by batting practice.
By tank do you mean the jail in the basement? Oh wait. That was the Vet. Did they build a jail into the new park? The Citizens Bank Park Correctional Facility?
Now that’s Pelfhelp!
Was that a little kid? I thought it was Argenis Reyes trying to get back to the bigs?
I was at a Mets game the other night with two friends from Philly (I know, I’m an awful person). They were chanting “Other Reyes” when he came up. Just remember with Argenis, he may be Genis, but he’s Argenis.
I hate to say it but this kid got the call from Warthen. He was getting on the field to pitch the 7th.
The young phillies fan was probably back to booing rollins by the 2nd inning
he was a met fan, i saw the video on the news yesterday in hd and saw him wearing a met cap
dude, dont say that. keep that information to yourself. you just ruined all the fun.
Obviously Big Pelf wasn’t using the WWJD (What Would Jimmy Do) thought process. Rollins probably would have left him there.
it was reported that he did notice some kids falling out of the stands…wouldn’t say who, but he did notice it
The boy is a Met fan and he probably doesn’t mind falling down since he did manage to see Pelfrey face to face.
That does it. I’m tossing myself over the wall next game I’m at so I can meet my heroes.
Don’t bother, tried it. Heilman threw the ball at me, so I smacked it out for a 3 run homer.
Ha. This is one of the funnier threads in recent memory.
Did someone throw the kids’ shoe at him?
That shoe was from the Braves fans.
I’d love to hear Cohen make that call. “Back to the track, to the wall, it’s outta here!”
you forgot “looking up”, or in this case “looking down”
From ESPN and that Philly homer Jayson Stark:
One thing we know about the NL East, 2008 edition, is that the Mets won’t blow any 7½-game leads this September — because they won’t have any 7½-game leads to blow.
But more and more — as well as the Mets have played (40-25 under Jerry Manuel), and as hard as they’ve worked to expunge the nightmare of September 2007 — the Phillies look like the team in better shape to survive this marathon.
Privately, the Mets don’t seem optimistic they’ll get any meaningful contribution from John Maine (8-1 lifetime against the Phillies and Marlins). They’re not so sure about Billy Wagner, either. There are no impact pitchers they can trade for. And now consider this stat:
Here’s the record of these teams in games decided after the sixth inning (meaning the score was tied after six, or the lead changed): Phillies 31-15, Mets 11-22. Nobody we’ve talked to thinks that stat is an aberration.
“One part of it, obviously, is the difference in bullpens,” one scout said. “But the other part of it is heart. I love the Phillies’ grit. And now that [Jimmy] Rollins is hitting again, they’re the team to beat again.”
the difference between this yr and last yr 4 the mets is starting pitching…we actually have it this yr..last yr what was our rotation???i think tom glavine was our ace..we didnt have a good mike pelfrey..oliver perez was not as good as he is now and pedro martinez wasnt there last yr either i dont think and if he was he didnt do anyting
That stat is stupid. The Mets are still ahead of the Phillies right now. That means there are other stats that they have the advantage at. If the season were all about game from the 6th inning on why would we even play nine innings at all. Just start every game in the 6th inning.
What really ticks me off is these crappy sports talking heads and sportswriters wanting to manufacture a story. They loved the drama of the Mets losing last season, so they are going to perpetuate it. They will spout off any useless stat with nothing to back it up but their own self-made drama.
This is lame sports writing.
this is why scouts are idiots. “the other part is heart.”
you get PAID to say this crap? where do i sign up? i can offer much more meaningful analysis than “difference in the bullpens” and “heart.” what a fucking joke.
WOW, you slipped the F word in the there, the censors must be on vacation.
Sometimes a statement rings so true, even censors can’t stop it.
They are the team to beat, and they have been beaten.
If the Phillies do not beat the Mets it will be because they DID NOT beat the Mets, head to head 10-5.
the best part about this column is that in a week when Stark is too lazy or hungover to write his column, he can just “Find and Replace” ‘heart’ with ‘chemistry,’ and ‘grit’ with ‘in-it-togetherness,’ and ‘Rollins hitting again’ with ‘former wife-beater Brett Myers pushing kids out of the stands.’
Let me ask you, Jayyson, when was the last time the Mets had a good John Maine? Here, you don’t even have to look it up. Maine has one quality start since June 30th. I know it’s a ridiculous stat, but let’s go with it. From July 1 on, bare with me Jayson, it’s very confusing, the Mets are 32-16. I might not be exactly right on that. But it’s pretty close. In a time when John Maine has given the Mets very little, they are playing .666 ball (I’ll come over your house and do the math sometime).
So how does this relate to the falling kid again?
Jayson Stark pushed him.
Does a falling kid mean bad luck?
Because this reminds me of that black cat running on the field in 1969.
I can’t stop laughing at these posts….love it
Now that kid knows what a 17 game collapse felt like for us
I attended a DBacks game last week and at the end of the inning the left fielder tossed a ball after the last out into the stands in a section with about 3 young teenagers.
Definitly a nice gesture, but the only probably was that the toss was just short of reaching the kids. One of the kids reached out so far and was so focused on catching it that he flipped over the side and landed directly on his back. It was a short fall but I laughed my @SS off :)
oh, and so did the left fielder.
Aramis Ramirez slam. Phils down 6-4!!
grand slam aramis ramirez!!!!
ALL RIGHT!
Aramis Ramirez is offically more clutch than D-Wright.
does this game have to be about wright’s lack of clutch? geez man take a night off
Amen, I am SO sick of this stupdity.
Phillies bullpen suddenly looking very Mets-like.
I think the Mets should take full credit for this. They wore out that bullpen and now you see that pay off.
Cubs still have a chance for more.
As long as the Phillies have a 268 hitter like jimmy rollins on their team, no one can stop them. I expect him to hit three homeruns int he 9th to beat the cubbies, then drop his head and gracefully trot around the bases.
I guess Jimmy only decided to start hitting in the 9th after he was inspired by Aramis’s grand slam celebration.
“Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc…he hit a homer AND pumped a fist!! Time for me to start hittin’!!!”
b/c he has HEART
and grit…all while being extemely humble about it
scoreboard watching sure is fun. The cubs are very scary, always managed to find ways to climb back in. Rollins on first top 9th
Which gives us *two* reasons to root for the Cubbies. One, because we want them to beat up on the Phillies. And two, because we want them to get so far out in front of their division that they have nothing to play for when they play us at the end of the season!
2 outs rollins still on first
philthies lose!!
Jimmy Rollins:
“Wait– we’re playin’ a game here?? I thought we were just comin’ to Chi-town cuz Jordan was introducin’ the new Air Force One’s. WHOA!! Somone pumped a fist—time to get a HIT!!!”
hahah. nice move by charlie taking out Hamels, eh?
CUBS WIN BABY
Well, he waited too long to make the move yesterday…he didn’t want to risk making the same mistake tonight.
I love you Aramis Ramirez.
the cubs look solid, but we can worry about them later. all that matters is that they take the phils to the woodshed a few more times.
Go Cubs Go MIGHT be the worst thing ever. Even though I am very happy that they won.
Oh my god, are you kidding? I LOVE that stupid song. Hahaha.
if the mets can take care of business down south this weekend then I think the phillies will take care themselves. Charlie Manuel for president!!!
nice to see the Phils pen spit up 5 runs in the 8th to lose. If the Mets did that, you would never hear the end of it.
Oh, in the Philly paper, ever piece about the Mets series included at least 2-3 references (often the lead!) about their terrible/combustible/whatever bad phrase bull pen.
The Phils have some real issues. Madson has shoulder issues and they have to limit his work, and Durbin the overused and he is flaming out (still converting from a starter, and has made a ton of appearances).
Not sure you can ride Scott Eyre to the promised land, but who knows.
You’d think they’d have learned from their overuse of Madson and not do the same with Durbin. Madson is probably lucky that his arm is still attached to his shoulder!
Go Cubs Go
Go Cubs Go
Hey Chicago Whatdya say
The Cubs are gonna win today
haha so funny Charlie Manuel’s face after Ramirez’s grand slam. He was almost crying.
i dont know if u can really kill Manuel for tonight, three run lead, u need 3 outs to get to the stopper.
That one is on the Phils bullpen, not Manuel.
Yeah, but he should have tried to stretch out Hamels a bit longer. But I’ll take it.
Replace “Phils” with “Mets” and that sentence sounds so familiar…
Did you see A-Ram’s celebration after that grand slam? Wonder what Jelly Roll is gonna have to say about that.
does anyone know how phil humber and kevin mulvey are doing for the twins? how about the 3rd pitcher they gave up in the santana deal?
Mulvey is doing horrible. Humber is doing a very average job in AAA. Gurrera (the third pitcher) had a though start to the season and his stuff did not look as sharp according to Baseball America, but he is still just 19 (or 20?) and has plenty of time to develop.
carlos gomez’s stat
291 OBP
117 K
only 27 SB’s
clearly we did not give up the next kenny lofton in that trade.
also have you seen Brian Bannister’s stats lately. I think Heath Bell is not having the same year that he had last year although i much rather have him over Heilman any day.
really curious if the mets give heilman a chance to be a starter next year. One thing for sure, I would be shocked if he is back next year in the METS BP.
i don’t think there are going to be too many changes in the lineup next year. Pretty sure they will pick up delgado’s option. that only leaves 2nd base and left field as a question mark. personally i would love to see murphy gets a chance to be a starter at 2nd next year.
i would go with tatis to start the year and hope FMART takes over by midseason.
as far as starting pitching, they need to sign Ollie. Even if Neise pitches well, you just can’t count on him as a starter for next year.
biggest off season aquisition will be Krod. that should be Omar’s number 1 priority
44 RBIs for Aramis Ramirez from the 7th inning. No one is mentioning his name for MVP
I’ve heard his name pop up a couple of times.
Whatever. The kid is a bandwagon kid. When things are going well and he’s reaching for the ball, he cheers. When he falls 15 feet, he’s upset. BANGWAGON.
Oh, I’m sorry, I have a different definition of bandwagon. I won’t define it because I’m pretending that I have a different definition. But I do! MVP!
Go Pelfs! On the Today Show this morning (NBC) they had the kid on with his family. They also put up a picture of Pelfry and mentioned how nice he was to the kid. I’m sure someone from MetsBlog can find the clip and post it.
The mom is HOT!!!!
What! She isnt that hot.
Since Big Pelf saved a young boys life now, can we start calling him Doc at this point?
kid lost his shoe!!
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