Saturday, February 03, 2007
thank god it’s friday
Hamburgers picked up from DuMont Burger.
Food on the coffee table.
Mets Grrl and TBF on the couch.
“Hand me the remote.”
“I’ve got it!”
“Fast forward!”
Slowly, a green field surrounded by bleachers comes into view. There’s no sound, and I am beginning to regret that I didn’t make TBF tape the listing noted as “Beisbol” on the Spanish-language channel (I am learning Spanish via podcast, and discovering that any information about baseball in Spanish is likely to make me work just a little bit harder). After a few minutes, the commentary begins, just as we recoil in horror from the sight of Jose Lima on the pitchers mound.
Yes, it is Friday night, and we are so desperate for our fix that we have RECORDED the first game of the Caribbean World Series, Dominican Republic v. Venezuela, which took place at 3pm today. We would have recorded all of the games today, as well as programmed the DVR to capture the whole weekend’s festivities, were it not for the previously-mentioned dilemma that we have about 20 hours’ worth of baseball playoff games on the DVR that we cannot come to any mutually satisfactory resolution in re: their disposition.
We didn’t last all 15 innings, and no, we didn’t get to see Anderson Hernandez almost hit that walkoff home run, but for a little while there, it was Friday night and we had baseball, and everything seemed all right in the world.
On the way to pick up the hamburgers, I started whistling unconsciously. It wasn’t until TBF joined in that I realized that I was whistling the tune to the second verse of “Meet The Mets”. Not even the first verse - the SECOND verse. Clearly, we need help.
March 22 can’t come quickly enough.
Poor little metsgrrl…..but, you may pity me as well. For, here I am on a Saturday night, foraging hungrily through likely sources on the web (and some not so very likely).....for any tasty tidbit…..any news about our Metsies…...no, that doesn’t count vague promises of a future MLB All-Star Game (at Citifield, no less)sometime within the decade (I think they know how desperate we are, so they’ll print nearly anything). But, patience will out, for within a month’s time, there will be daily dramas reported from Spring Training, as the pitching staff saga unfolds with the start of the 2007 season following closely behind. So, if only for the time being, we have to make do with a lot of less than appetizing non-news, I guess we won’t starve.