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Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play
| G-Fafif Feb 06 2011 04:11 AM |
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Did a little transcribing, here.
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| seawolf17 Feb 06 2011 07:05 AM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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Probably my favorite in-person Shea moment. I can still picture everything about the scene; where we were, how the stadium was shaking.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 06 2011 08:11 AM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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was listening to that radiocast while in a car full of sweaty dirty frisbee players on the way back from a tournament in Mass.
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| sharpie Feb 06 2011 08:15 AM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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A friend of mine's father had recently died and I went to the memorial service that day in New Jersey. Got back into NYC and headed straight for some crappy tourist bar near Penn Station (the first place I found with the game on). Got there for that half-inning. Got out of there without ordering anything.
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| themetfairy Feb 06 2011 09:44 AM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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I remember that D-Dad was out that day, although I can't remember why. MK was three years old at the time, and wanted to go outside to ride his tricycle. I was outside with him when the Mets were at bat, figuring that nothing bad could happen when the Mets were on offense, but I dragged him inside when the Pirates were at bad so we could watch on TV. I heard the end of the game on the radio while MK was riding on the sidewalk.
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| Edgy DC Feb 06 2011 11:11 AM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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NIce cameo by 2008 Met Ábraham Nuñez.
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| TheOldMole Feb 06 2011 11:44 AM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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Great memories.
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| metirish Feb 06 2011 11:59 AM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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I'm all jazzed up, great stuff and great memories.
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| Benjamin Grimm Feb 07 2011 01:12 PM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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I just finally had a chance to read Greg's transcript, and it was a lot of fun. I remember where I was that day too. I was driving around running errands and listening on my car radio. As the rally built in that last inning, I pulled over into a bank parking lot so that I could listen to the game without the distraction of having to drive without killing anybody. I've since moved, and don't drive past that bank very often, but whenever I do, I remember that wild pitch by Clontz to Piazza.
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| G-Fafif Feb 07 2011 05:18 PM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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Glad you all (or y'all) enjoyed that. It was inspired by the old Jonathan Schwartz (WNEW-AM DJ for many years, big Sinatra acolyte) tradition of devoting an hour every Super Bowl Sunday morning to "a salute to baseball," which included playing some random play-by-play. I transcribed other PBP in 2006 and 2008 and decided yesterday felt right to revive our occasional custom. I'm always amazed at how great something like that reads, never mind sounds.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 07 2011 05:34 PM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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Had a similar experience, having just started a third part-time job for a restaurant-delivery service that week. I pulled off Route 22 just after making a pickup at an Indian joint, and Bobby Bo was announced. The flavor of someone's Chicken Korma died in my car's backseat as they walked Oly and Clontz did his thing.
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| metirish Feb 07 2011 05:48 PM Re: Good Day to Read Some Play-By-Play |
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SNY has Braves at Mets from 6/30/2000, Hampton pitching to Piazza, did any catcher ever take more knocks and niks behind the plate......Lopez just cleared the bases on a single.......Galaraggha even came home on the play.
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