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In a hilarious post to Amazin Avenue, James sets the rules for the Gary, Keith and Ron Drinking Game, such as, ‘Take one sip when Keith refers to Howard Johnson as ‘Haji,’’ or, Take two sips when Keith tells the viewers to watch David Wright’s shoulder.’
…by the way, keith calls him Haji because Howard Johnson became HoJo, which became Haji, which became Ali Haji-Sheikh, which becomes The Shiek…
This week in Sports Illustrated, Michael Bamberger does a Where are They Now for the 1969 Mets.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Interleague Play is only good for an additional 100 tickets per MLB team.
…hat tip to Mets Police for the link… and, if this is the case, i think it’s time to kill interleague play, since the novelty wore off years ago, and now it just makes the schedule awkward and unfair…
In a post to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Eric Trager explains what its like to be a Mets fan in Philadelphia.
To read more about last night’s win against the Dodgers, check out post-game write ups from the Real Dirty, It’s Mets for Me and the Daily Stache.
Lastly, Meet the Mets will be Citi Field’s Eighth Inning Sing-a-Long, getting 45 percent of the vote on Mets.com.
…by the way, i agree with WFAN’s Craig Carton, it would be pretty fun and appropriate to play I Like it Like That, from the hook, after every time the Mets score… i don’t even like the song, but i like the idea…
I think interleague is still nice. But the novelty has worn off because the match-ups are the same pretty much every year. They should do a rotating schedule like in football. So the NL East will play say the AL east this year 09, then the AL west 2010, then the AL Central on 2011 then the AL east again in 2012 and rotate it all over again. Each team in the divisions play the same # of games home and away(3) vs each team in that division.
I agree it definitely lost its novelty and is definitely unfair especially to NL East teams. With addition of the wild card how is it fair that the Mets get to play the Yankees twice, Red Sox once, and the Rays. When some teams from the central and west get to have a much easier interleague schedule. Look at last season for example we lost the Wild Card by 1 game to the Brewers. I wont even look but I guarantee the Brewers had an easier interleague schedule than we did. Guaranteed. With the addition of the Wild Card, Interleague baseball is unfair to many teams.
Actually, last season the Mets had the Mariners and Rangers on their interleague schedule, so it wasn’t too tough. Balanced out 6 games iwth the Yanks and Angels.
But the point is certainly valid. Remember in 2007 when the Mets played all 4 2006 playoff teams (NYY, Oak, Min, Det) for a total of 15 games? That was real fair.
I don’t mind interleague, but I am SICK of 6 games every year with the Yankees. It’s played out. Should be 3 at most, or they should go on rotation with everyone else.
I would do away with interleague play or at least seriously reduce the number of games – maybe to about one or two series per year. It is getting tired and with all the mlb viewing packages and mlb audio available now, fans living in other cities can easily watch (or hear) their favorite team all season long.
Here’s one thing I like about random interleague games – years ago I set a long-term goal of seeing a game in every city/stadium in MLB. Once interleague came about I amended that goal to seeing the Mets in every stadium. So far, I’ve only been able to pull off the Bronx, Baltimore, and Boston, but every year when that schedule comes out I look for potential road trips to AL cities, knowing the won’t be there again for 5-6 years.
I’ve never understood the rationale that interleague should go away if its not dramatically MORE successful a draw than your average Pirates-Rockies game. But I do think it needs to be set up at the very least so that teams in a division play all the same teams the same number of times, like the NFL does with interconference matchups, pitting division vs. division.
I loved the bit they did this morning on “I Like it Like That”. I was actually laughing out loud in my car each time they played the clip after a highlight … good radio (which is rare these days). I agree, I think it would be cool for them to start playing that – and even using that song as a song after a win, since I have always despised Taking Care of Business, which reminds me of Willie.
I’m sorry Matt, but I found the article about Mets fans in Philadelphia to be kind of uneducated. First of all, I’m a Mets fan who lives and is from South Jersey in the Philly area. It’s like 90 mins from NY but a lot closer to other suburbs in NYC. While there aren’t many Mets fans around there, I know there’s some Phillies fans up in Northern Jersey. It’s not that far. Plus, the Phillies have won their title. The Mets had their day that influenced some people to jump on too though.
I understand the Mets aren’t the Yankees. Mets fans have much more integrity. But you don’t have to be from New York or the area to be a Mets fan. I’m sure during the 1980’s there were BS Mets fans that jumped on just like the Red Sox in recent years.
Next, if this guy actually had a clue about Phillies or Philadelphia sports fans period he’d know that most diehard Philadelphia sports fans aren’t actually from the city of Philadelphia. Philly’s a dirt poor city. Half the city probably can’t even afford cable. Most ”diehard” Phillies fans live throughout the area. They’re not from Philly. They just like the Phillies, Eagles, Flyers and Sixers because they’re in the area and that’s who they got on TV.
For the fact that Philly’s such a poor city too, it’d make absolutely no sense why someone would want to move there. So I don’t get that either. New York’s a much better city to live in. While it’s expensive, you get paid a lot more. You pay for what you get in Philly and there’s really no difference between that and some random city like Cleveland to people. I’ve actually met a decent amount of people from the Philly area who move up to New York. Either they like Frank Sintara’s lyrics or they’re going there for the money.
I hope no one’s really that naive when they go to Citizens Bank Park. The city’s like 40% black, yet like 5% of the Phillies jersey you see are black. Does it take a genius to realize that these fans actually don’t live and aren’t from Philly? Just look around the lot. There’s more Jersey tags than there are PA even including like all of the PA suburbs.
The whole cursing and this and that is something you see everywhere. I’ve come across lots of vulgar and stupid Mets fans too. While they probably wouldn’t piss in a sink or throw wet towels at an opposite fan taking a leak, they’re not the easiest fans either.
Also, I do find interleague play to be a little trivial. I like seeing other stadiums, but it’d do us more good to see our competition in the Wild Card. I think it’s easier for NL fans to complain since they lose more of the games though.
Interleague play has helped me get to see up to 9 different cities and 12 different stadiums. Besides being to Shea and Citi, and the old Yankee, I’ve been able to see the Vet and Citizens Bank, Toronto, Tampa (although not against the Mets), Baltimore, Florida, Washington and Pittsburgh. I doubt I would go down to Baltimore to see another team play. Or Toronto.