Thursday, June 26, 2008

WOMEN IN BASEBALL 2.

Compare these two stories:

• Another awesome and inspirational Women In Baseball feature from We’ve Got Heart, profiling Amber Theoharis, the Orioles’ sideline reporter, and
• REDACTED:A story about childish behavior by Our Brooklyn Cyclones. I don’t know what’s worse, the behavior (if true) or the “she deserved it” type comments that follow it. This type of behavior, if true, would make me consider a Cyclones boycott for the season. Mark Healey gets to the bottom of the story, which turns out to be not true.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

THEY DON’T EAT. DON’T SLEEP.

Ed Vedder dedicated “Rats” at MSG last night to Shea (well, partially, while talking about Seattle history and oh, I was out at Shea Stadium the other night and they have big rats there. It gave me an excuse to yell LET’S GO METS).

And to the guy wearing the VEDDER 10 custom Mets t-shirt at the back of the floor… um, well, the jury is still out whether that is cool or not, just like it’s out on the guy with the custom Mariners jersey that said PEARL JAM 10. And of course, anything is better than someone with a Yankees jersey reading AMENT 10.

(We vaguely discussed approaching every person at MSG last night wearing Cubs gear and asking them to tell us who the backup catcher for the Cubs was… but then thought better of it. We’re mean, we know it.)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

(U) R.A. DICKEY.

I wasn’t going to post anything tonight. But the 7 year old in me started giggling earlier in the game, when discussing the unfortunate surnames of two of the Mariners pitching staff, Mr. Putz and Mr. Dickey. You know what? There wasn’t a lot to be happy about tonight, at all, so yeah, we were going for humor in anything we could find - including the renaming of Mr. Dickey (whose name, unfortunately, is not Richard) around the third inning. I felt that was deserving of its own post, so, here it is.

Monday, June 23, 2008

OFF HE GOES.

A POST IN TEXT MESSAGING:

Shirley in Seattle, 6:03pm: Soooo, you know that Vedder is at Shea? He apparently took BP with the M’s.
MG:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
He apparently didn’t do very well… but better than most of our guys.
AUGHGHGH
[I start dialing TBF and thinking, how quickly can we get to Shea? and Why the hell do I not have my camera with me?]
is that a good AUGH or a bad one
Bad
That’s what pregame radio girl said - the source of all this
WE WERE GOING TO GO TONIGHT...but we have Mets tomorrow and PJ on Wed and Mets-Yankees Fri

Me: “We didn’t even think about it.”
TBF: “Why would he be there?”
Me: “Because he is a Baseball Guy and it’s the last year of Shea.”
TBF: “No, because he knows someone in the Mariners. If the Mariners were at Yankee Stadium and Ed was in town, he’d be there.”
Me: “He wouldn’t do that. He’s not like Springsteen.”
TBF: “I would have thought about it if the Cubs were in town.”
Me: “The cat would have thought about it if the Cubs were in town.”
TBF: “I didn’t know Ed was a baseball bigamist.”
Me: “I’m going to use that.”
TBF: “Feel free.”

I’m going to blame Vedder for Felix’s Grand Slam, because it is easier than blaming Johan.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

MAINE-TALLICA.

I’ve been talking about making this shirt all season.

Now I just have to figure out how to get one to Mr. J. Maine.

Friday, June 20, 2008

WKND INFO TROLL: ADVICE ON ST. LOUIS AND KC

Thanks to one Mr. B. Springsteen, TBF and I are now headed to the Show Me State in August to see the last E Street Band shows of the tour. In desperate need of a vacation, we are going to bookend it with visits to friends, barbeque, Sonic Drive-In, photography, and BASEBALL.

It’s too bad the Mets aren’t in town but we’ll make the best of it. The Braves are playing the Cardinals and the Tigers and the Rangers are playing in KC. There’s a ballpark tour in St. Louis, and we know about the First Pitch Seats already. In KC, well, prices are cheap. We’re straight on geography and hotels.

But… we’ve never been to the parks and would love tips and advice, and especially local tips and advice. Food? Drink? Barbeque advice? Dos and don’ts? Music advice (besides Blueberry Hill)? Throw ‘em out.

IT’S CALLED THE LOGE, NOT THE LODGE.

For the benefit of everyone doing Google Searches about Is The Lodge At Shea Good? or Lodge Seats Shea Stadium:

loge [lohzh]
–noun
1. (in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
2. a box in a theater or opera house.
3. any small enclosure; booth.

lodge [loj] noun, verb, lodged, lodg·ing.
–noun
1. a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
2. a house used as a temporary residence, as in the hunting season.
3. a summer cottage.
4. a house or cottage, as in a park or on an estate, occupied by a gatekeeper, caretaker, gardener, or other employee.
5. a resort hotel, motel, or inn.
6. the main building of a camp, resort hotel, or the like.
7. the meeting place of a branch of certain fraternal organizations.

Isn’t it nice that we had a night off? We enjoyed it, and we needed it. Let’s see if the Mets did.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

HOW’S THAT WORKING FOR YA?

There was no internet in my office today, which means, effectively, that there was nothing we could do. I spent five hours waiting around for a part to come in that would resolve said internet outage, only to be then told it would still be a few hours, and then gave up and came home.  The whole time, I’m thinking - how great, I don’t have to read about any more of this nonsense… before I walked out on the street and paid attention.

So much for the ‘we’ll do it in the middle of the night, so it won’t make the morning papers in NYC!’ plan, dudes. That went well, dontcha think?

We’ve had to deal with weeks of this bs. Now we’re going to have to deal with MORE weeks of this. Because this week will be the whole “Mets on the road dealing with Willie’s firing!” both in LA and in Denver (because what else are they writing about in Denver right now), and then it will be “Mets come home after Willie being fired!” next week.... especially since remember who we play next week?

The Mariners.

Who just, um, fired somebody.

Good times ahead. I predict we’ll stop talking about this… in 2009, or whenever the Wilpons decide we should all find out about the ticket prices for next year.

Gothamist has all of today’s papers nicely displayed. *sigh*

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

MEET THE NEW BOSS.

And life goes on.

NEW DAY RISING.

What a completely cowardly way to do this. Another strike against Omar. At least the clock is ticking for him now, too.

Now what?

Discuss amongst yourselves.