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…6:53 pm…
I am going to try and live blog some random thoughts about the game, from my phone, while here at Shea Stadium.
…7:04 pm…
The buzz from Shea is that Brian Schneider made a visit to the hospital for special surgery today, to check out some sort of issue with his back apparently – this is why he is not in the lineup I would think.
Also, I think Daniel Murphy got the biggest round of cheers from the 15-or-so thousand fans in the stands during the introductions.
…7:08 pm…
I love that they play Stronger by Kanye West as the players take the field.
…7:24 pm…
As loud as boos were after Pedro Martinez let up the second run in the first inning, the cheers were louder following Jose Reyes’s stolen base.
…7:30 pm…
I walked behind the WFAN radio booth, and could hear them speaking the broadcast, which was like hearing a band in person for the first time after only knowing them in CD.
…7:38 pm…
They let me in today with a press pass, meaning I do not have a designated seat.
In other words, it’s very difficult to watch a game in this building without a designated seat to stop at.
No matter where you stand, there is some security person shooing you on your way.
…7:40 pm…
I’m standing here on this Blackberry, I hear a roar, look up and everyone is looking into the sky. Before I can finish thinking, ‘Hmmm,’ a foul ball bounces a few feet to my right.
In a way, I guess it would be fitting for me, Matt from MetsBlog, to die by way of a foul ball in Shea.
…7:49 pm…
Cow Bell-man says hello.
…8:18 pm…
This place erupted when Ryan Church tied the game. There is a clear tension in the air among us fans.
Also, my camera battery died, but a girl who reads the site, who stopped me to say hello, was using the same camera and let me borrow her battery.
So, thanks, Liz.
…8:00 pm…
There are way too many Cubs fans. Also, for a team that is not making the post-season for the first time in years, Yankees fans are still too proud for my taste. There are countless of them, wearing full blown Yankee jerseys to Shea. It’s quite annoying.
…9:00 pm…
I’m up, and I mean, way up in the absolute last seat in the stadium, upper deck, corner seat in left field, and I think I”m going to throw up.
Apparently, I”m now also afraid of heights and was not aware of that until this moment,
Nevertheless, it’s awesome to be up here and see the stadium in full, to get a wide scope of it all.
…9:10 pm…
The fans gave Pedro Martinez an appreciate cheer and standing ovation as he walked off the field, which he acknowledged by tipping his cap, waving his hand as if to understand that this could very well be the last time we see him on the mound at Shea.
Then, before that touching moment could sink in, Rincon let’s up a three run homer to silence the crowd.
…9:04 pm…
Lots of boos for Rincon as he walked from the mound.
Someone just asked me why the relief pitchers no longer wait to pass of the ball to the next reliever. My answer was, ‘So they can get off the field as fast as possible,’ I would guess.
…9:43 pm…
The crowd has broken into at least three Let’s Go Mets chants on their own, not at the prompting of the PA system, or Kevin James, which is always great to see.
That said, Darryl Strawberry was just up on the Diamondvision leading a chant, which was pretty cool, actually.
…10:00 pm…
Wow. I know what it looks like to see 10,000 umbrellas bouncing up and down in unison…amazing slide by Church. Just incredible.
By the way, late-season candidate for MVP: Ramon Martinez.
…10:20 pm…
The crowd is going crazy with anticipation.
…10:33 pm…
They’re not dead yet, folks.
By the way, screw the Wild Card. I still want this team to beat out the Phillies for the division.
Like the scoreboard said after the game, “Believe.”
Have a great night Mets fans, I know I will.
don’t forget to actually take in the game.
again i ask, why no pinstripes?
i guess ramon martinez is not really good
They need to get someone up in the pen RIGHT NOW!
Looks like Piniella packed it in tonight….Fontenot in the 5-hole
How many games has Pedro NOT given up a run in the first inning?
only once i believe
Matt, maybe they’ll let you join them in the booth….How cool would that be!?!?!?!
Is Dykstra drunk?
He may be sickened by the stock market gyrations of late.
It always amazes me that he is one of the great entreprenuer/investors of our time.
Hello back to CowBellMan
Say what you want about him, and I think I’ve said plenty….the guy is always smiling no matter the score – seems like hes just happy to be there. We could all learn something from him.
Are the fans jeering everything they dislike? JEZE……this is nuts.
Show us that your a REAL Metsy fan and StreeeeK while Pedro is pitching!!! after they tackle you on the way out tell “slappy” to Kiss it!!!
Somebody should beat the piss out of the willie clone in the dugout!!! and while there at it Kick Slappy in his knee
Make sure you give her the battery back..dont try to pull a fastone on her…..
yo matt ur the freakin man ur like a mini espn bro lolz..i like 2 see ur over there holdin down the mets while we tryin 2 grind it out hope u can fullfill ur dreams of being a short stop in a neighborhood baseball league maybe a double aa team hey u never no lolz pedro on fire go k dro!!!! lets go mets!!!!!!!!
goodbye season
STFU.
THATS ALL FOLKS!!!
THEY CANT EVEN BEAT THE C TEAM!
TRULY PATHETIC!!
remember when the mets c team beat the cubs c team in the 9th inning in 2006??? Yea payback is a bitch
ST.FU
Well to the Fans we hung in there….To the front office its really time to do an overhaul, Omar you did great by giving us a new sense of having a team to believe in..(Remember how bad thigs were in 05) but please let the older guys GO!!!!
We need younger Arms and we really need to apply the money in right places, HAVE TO GET K-ROD, and give us some Firery,attitude type guys..Jerry has done all he can, We need to add a quality starter if possibile to go with Santana,Pelfry, and Niese(let him pitch through out 09′)..Utilize Parnell,Putz,Smith,even Feliciano, ADD Krod, Take delgados option.. Move Murphy to 2nd,(if not O-Hudson)…And a Younger Catcher (Do we have anyone?) we can keep schneider but need to have a young catcher playing…
this with the current Core Group thats in place will work, AND the only OLD guy worth looking at and ONLY if the years are 3 or Less,Once all has been done, Take a look at Manny (the guy does one thing and one thing well thas MASH!! as much as Id like to devolop a LF, with Manny and added Pieces the Mets would have a WS team for next year and the year after..This will give Murphy,evans and Martinez the time and platoon time to show if they are the future>…
OHHHH and get rid of the bench!!!!
IM DONE! 20 YEARS OF BEING A MET FAN HAS OFFICIALLY ENDED! HAVE FUN BEING DISAPPOINTED IN THE FUTURE MET FANS…I WISH YOU ALL WELL!
P.S.: I WONT BE ROOTING FOR THE PHILLIES BY THE WAY, SO DONT THINK THAT LOL
If that’s your philosophy, you were never a fan to begin with.
See you in four days.
you will be back when we step onto the field on october 1st…
STFUSTFUSTFU
FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!
…of high-priced mediocrity. Thank you Omar and the Wilpons
STFU
Anyone think maybe Mookie cursed us after his falling out with the team. The biggest play in karmic history for this franchise belongs to him. Maybe its not the curse of the Mookie instead of the curse of the Babe or Billy Goat or anything else??? Just a thought.
Last one out turn out the lights, will ya?
everyone saw that double play by your mvp…haha…if your smart right now, you will turn off the tv and say bye bye!
if you are smart you will forbid yourself of seeing an empty Citi field for years to come!…just dont root for the phillies! lol
Your exactly the kind of fan the mets don’t need. You could always be a yankee, they love fairweather fans.
S.T.F.U.
AMAZING. THANK GOD.
wow
WAY TO GO OMAR !!!!!!!
Matt, you are just too funny.
‘In a way, I guess it would be fitting for me, Matt from MetsBlog, to die by way of a foul ball in Shea’
i swear this team is gonna kill me. whatever happens, they have provided more heartbreak in a single season than i ever thought possible. that said, if this has not been the most exhilarating rollercoaster ever, then i dont know… i mean how many crazy games have there been? how many? huge win LETS GO METS!
Yeah, where are all the “fans” who say we’re done, that we have no heart, blah blah blah…? Oh, we got heart, baby, and plenty of it!
S*ck it BOYZ!!!
BELIEVE.
EXACTLY. THIS IS AWESOME…thats why ive been preaching all day: one. game. at. a. time.
LETS GO METS!!!
TUG WAS RIGHT.
wow matt i think that is the first time i saw on this site the word screw.
Okay. I don’t care what anyone says. This is FUN. If you’re the kind of fan that would rather see your team run away with a division by 20 games, then go root for the Yank-mes (but not for another decade). Our Mets are in the thick of the pennant race — yes, limping toward the finish line, maybe coming up lame — but in the hunt. BASEBALL RULES. CANCEL!!! RAMON!!! CHURCH!!! CARLOS VOLTRON!!!!!!
JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS OUT, THEY PULLED ME BACK IN
matt u said exactly what Keith said about the NL East. he was pretty fired up too!
WORD
LOLOLOL. Post of the night.
BELTRAN is the man!
Kudos to Church, Cancel, Reyes and Martinez – Ramon that is.
Pedro: thanks for the effort tonight and the memories from your HOF career. You are clas s above most.
As much as last night hurt, tonight helped. As far as they fell last night they rose tonight. I WANT THE WILD CARD cause they proved tonight they can beat the cubs. I don’t care if pinella “rested starters” that was the real bullpen they touched up all series long. And harden and zambrano no longer scare me.
Hey, good thing Jerry listened to all the commenters on here and sat Church tonight! Just like they cut Delgado and called up team MVP Mike Carp!
Believe in this team guys. After tonight, no one should ever accuse these guys of not having heart. That was a gutsy win – full of clutch hits. And Wright even had a sac fly!
But seriously, the season has three games left. Let’s get it done, baby! Let’s Go Mets!
Great job by Matt tonight and a great job by the crowd
And how about that Church slide? Never saw anything like it but it tied the game up. Couldn’t have got the win w/o it.
What a magical night and a great way to cap off what was easily the best day of reading on MetsBlog since the beginning. Exceptional dividends paid both emotionally and entertainment wise on both parts. Great job Matt. +100 Internet points!
dude, the cubs didnt use any of their pen for pretty much the whole series, if you were watching the games you would have heard the booth say that every game….that reg lineup is deep and very powerful, they could break thier curse this year
I was ripping Church for his lackadazical play but he sure did show up tonight… Way to Go Church… Keep it up Baby…..
Do the Mets really feel it necessary to put me through all of this? Really?
That said, I like where this is going. Thanks Pedro for proving me wrong with that splendid performance, and the Carloses for coming through with TWO OUTS in the bottom of the ninth!! THANK YOU!!
Now please get your rightful vengance against those Fish!
We should have won last night, but we should have lost tonight. I swear, nothing goes as it should with this team. When you run out Ramon Martinez and Robinson Cancel in your starting line-up out of necessity, you shouldn’t win. But there you go. I’ll admit, last night almost pushed me over the edge, but I got a grip and exhaled before tonight’s game, and I’m glad I did.
Also, if this team makes it through as either the Division Winner or the Wild Card… man, the post-season will seem pressure free after this regular season.
So, until they kill me, Let’s go Mets.
I was at last nights game. I felt the pain…greatly. So much so i was in a funk all day. But I stayed till the final out. After the mets failed to score in the 9th and as the fans began to file out a man sitting next to me asked himself “where are all the fans going”? Without any hesitation I said “they’re not going anywhere..we are all here”. And that is the thesis of this post. Fans.
Now I don’t want to get into a philosophical coversation on what constitutes a ‘fan’, but as devatasted as I was last night, I felt even worse this morning to read the ocetwhelmingly negative posts this morning.
It is games like tonight that should remind all us ‘fans’ who we really are and where we are at. In a motha eff’n pennant/playoff race. Let’s act like it. The energy of tonight true fans who attended and stayed through the game inspite of the forecast made me whish I’d gotten tix for tonight. However, I don’t regret it one bit.
I believe We all will be rewarded if we can simply accept that our team is flawed and stop expecting perfection. Yes our pen is garbage. But I feel that any potential post season oppenant does not want to face the NY Metropolitans.
Positivity. Sycronicity. And ya’ gotta believe.
Let’s go Mets!
Ps. Please forgive all gramatical errors as I am writing this on mr PDA.
PPs. LET’S GO METS
‘I believe We all will be rewarded if we can simply accept that our team is flawed and stop expecting perfection.’
So true….
9:22 I opened by fortune cookie which read:
“a pleasant surprise is waiting for you”
9:40 I emailed Matt the following…
With the rain, I am reminded of the grand slam/single game.
Hope it has the same result!!!!
Mets win! Met win!!!
Braun just hit a Granny… Mets better take care of business with the Fish… By the Way Pinella and the Cubs gave away this game… If Marmol and Wood Pitched Mets would’ve been dead for sure… Thanks Louuuuuuuuuu….
Are the Pirates a major league team? Talk about a bunch of freaking muts with zero pride.. I guess it’s appropriate that we’re going into final weekend tied with the Brewers…
LETS GO METS!
techwon27 shut up man ur such a hater let the mets rock we gonna grind it out no matter wat and pedro did his fukin thing im prayin lou goes really od hard on the brew crew but i really wanna handle and take the divison like keith said we derserve it lets go mets…haters= eat a dick!
i wish we had ryan braun… clutch.
good work matt
Pinstripes …we need to start wearing them…
let’s go mets
WHAT are you talking about?? This is not a choke job. Nobody is “anointed” the division title or a playoff spot beforehand. Jeez. You sound like one of those whiny Yankee bandwagoners, always talking with an air of entitlement.
Listen, this is an old fashioned pennant race. Nothing wrong with it. When the Mets lost the division to the Cardinals in ‘87 by only 3 games, did they call it a “collapse”? No! To everyone whining about how hopeless the Mets are, grow up and get a life!
No using logic here……stop it or you will be banned.
Sometimes I wash Al Gore never invented the internet…. ;)
Oh. I get it. You’re trying reverse psychology. Won’t work.