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4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Ceetar Apr 03 2012 07:07 AM

Last game in Port St. Lucie. 1) Andres Torres CF 2) Daniel Murphy 2B 3) David Wright 3B 4) Ike Davis 1B 5) Jason Bay LF 6) Lucas Duda RF 7) Scott Hairston DH 8) Josh Thole C 9) Ruben Tejada SS Pelfrey and Nova. I guess the Mets acquisitcized (i can't spell) to the Yankees angry demands to have a DH since Yankees pitchers explode near baseball bats.

bmfc1 Apr 03 2012 07:18 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 03 2012 07:21 AM

Good article in The Times on the history of Mets-MFY games (also reminding us what an ass George Steinbrenner was): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/sport ... f=baseball And there's another in the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... %3Darticle

bmfc1 Apr 03 2012 07:20 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

How I hate them. New York Yankees ? @Yankees The last 6 times Kentucky has won the NCAA men's basketball title, the @Yankees have gone on to win the World Series.

Ceetar Apr 03 2012 07:21 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

that story has been making the rounds all week. Bound to break the streak. Yankees have also never won with a sitting Republican president.

sharpie Apr 03 2012 07:23 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Yankees won plenty of times with Eisenhower in office.

bmfc1 Apr 03 2012 07:25 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

It seemed arrogant, and therefore within character, for them to use their official Twitter feed for that information.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 03 2012 07:26 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

The Mets have never finished in first place with a Democrat in office. But they did make the playoffs (in 1999 and 2000) as a wild card when Clinton was in the White House.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 07:46 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

sharpie wrote: Yankees won plenty of times with Eisenhower in office. Witnesses say Ike was always standing at the time.

Ceetar Apr 03 2012 07:53 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Edgy DC wrote: sharpie wrote: Yankees won plenty of times with Eisenhower in office. Witnesses say Ike was always standing at the time. Lol. well, it's a Yankee story so I didn't care enough to fact check. It's amazing how much incorrect info gets around. Apparently it's something like the last 8 or so titles, and it may have been prompted by an op-ed in the Times by Ari Fletcher.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 07:56 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: sharpie wrote: Yankees won plenty of times with Eisenhower in office. Witnesses say Ike was always standing at the time. Lol. well, it's a Yankee story so I didn't care enough to fact check. It's amazing how much incorrect info gets around. Apparently it's something like the last 8 or so titles, and it may have been prompted by an op-ed in the Times by Ari Fletcher. It gets around because we don't care enough to fact check.

Ceetar Apr 03 2012 08:02 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Edgy DC wrote: It gets around because we don't care enough to fact check. Fair enough. But it's time consuming to fact check each and every rumor or tidbit you hear.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 08:04 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Hmmmm... Anybody else?

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 08:08 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

I don't really want to come across as unreasonable, because I love you and I hope for your happiness. I long for it. But if you're going to take some time to write, to pass on information without attribution --- essentially backing it with no authority but your own --- you can and should take the time to fact-check. And in fairness, no baseball fan or educated American of any depth should have to take much more than a moment's reflection to recall that (1) the Yankees won a pile of championships in the 1950s, (2) the president then was Dwight D. Eisenhower, and (3) Ike was a Republican. Twitter is making us insane.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 03 2012 08:10 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

As part of the research I was doing on my Seaver thing, I came across some stuff indicating that (not surprisingly I suppose) M. Donald Grant took the mayor's Trophy Game very seriously too (as did Casey in the early years). I'm probably fudging the details here, but it was in '77 and Grant was upset that the Mets were going to start Ray Sadecki (who'd been released and was becoming the Mets batting practice pitcher). I think he wanted a better guy to go. The game was rained out anyway. I went to the Mayor's Trophy Game in '75 (I think ??) at Shea. As I recall it, big crowd, MFYs won.

Ceetar Apr 03 2012 08:20 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

So I'm bad at history. sue me. (trying to make an effort be better with some of that, personally) I actually did NOT know that Eisenhower was a republican. Nor did I know his exact term years nor the list of Yankee Championship years confidentially enough to see the red flag when I noted it. You're right, it's sloppy of me. But I'm at work and I'm already multi-tasking when I'm posting here (and way too much, yes) And yes this one would've been an easy fact check but it's not always. I'll try to be better about presenting these tid-bits as unconfirmed water-cooler type info I see them as.

bmfc1 Apr 03 2012 10:11 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

MFYs: Gardner 7, Swisher dh, Chavez 3, Jones 9, Nunez 6, Cervelli 2, Wise 8, Hall 4, Bernier 5. Nova, rhp.

Vic Sage Apr 03 2012 10:22 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

1) Andres Torres CF 2) Daniel Murphy 2B 3) David Wright 3B 4) Ike Davis 1B 5) Jason Bay LF 6) Lucas Duda RF 7) Scott Hairston DH 8) Josh Thole C 9) Ruben Tejada SS other than the DH, I assume this will be our opening day lineup. If it stays healthy (a big "if", with so many players coming off significant injuries), this lineup could generate a sufficient amount of runs to be a winning team. Unfortunately, the pitching and fielding are sufficiently inadequate as to make it unlikely that those runs will be able to stand up.

metirish Apr 03 2012 10:43 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

bmfc1 wrote: Good article in The Times on the history of Mets-MFY games (also reminding us what an ass George Steinbrenner was): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/sport ... f=baseball And there's another in the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... %3Darticle what a wanker indeed.....

Frayed Knot Apr 03 2012 12:19 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Pelfrey does the 1-2-3 top 'o one ... but there was no Jeter in there so it really doesn't count.

Ceetar Apr 03 2012 12:25 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

And now the Mets are raining hits. Torres, Murphy, Wright, sac fly for Davis, Bay.

sharpie Apr 03 2012 12:30 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

As they constantly remind us, Yankees have won 27 WS. Presidents they have won under: Coolidge 3 (GOP) Hoover 1 (GOP) FDR 6 (Dem) Truman 5 (Dem) Eisenhower 3 (GOP) JFK 2 (Dem) Carter 2 (Dem) Clinton 4 (Dem) Obama 1 (Dem) Democrats 20 Republicans 7 They have won 7 times in election years. In those years the GOP won the Presidential election 4-3.

bmfc1 Apr 03 2012 12:50 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Anybody enjoying LaRussa in the booth? How about when Ron Darling brought up Y. Molina and how great he is? Fun for all Mets fans!

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 01:14 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Five-zip and still rallying in the third. The Yanks may not have sent much of a big-league team to face the Mets, but they did send a big-league pitcher in Nova, and the Mets are sending him to an early shower.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 03 2012 01:26 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Yeah I realized while listening that if I owned the Mets, I'd probably try to make them go all out to win stuff like this. Lucky you.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 01:31 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Five strikeouts and no walks for the Pelf.

TransMonk Apr 03 2012 01:51 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

That's not horrible. As low as my expectations are for Pelf, I'm still pulling for him to do well.

Ceetar Apr 03 2012 01:58 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

TransMonk wrote: That's not horrible. As low as my expectations are for Pelf, I'm still pulling for him to do well. They were _swinging_ strikeouts too. (at least most of them)

Benjamin Grimm Apr 03 2012 02:03 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Well, sure. I think we're all pulling for him to do well. There's really no upside to him pitching poorly. I mean, maybe it would get Harvey here sooner, but I figure that once he's ready, he'll be here pretty quickly, one way or another.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 03 2012 02:08 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

WTF Niese will cost him the win.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 02:13 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Five-run sixth to put the Yankee-clothing-wearing baseballers in the lead.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 02:20 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Turner plates Baxter and we all tied up.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 02:40 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Byrdak in to pitch the eighth. It strikes me that he might face tougher batters in a minor league game at this point.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 02:43 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

A perfect 2/3 of an inning for Byrdie. Maybe they try to throw him tomorrow against the varsity also.

PiggiesTomatoes Apr 03 2012 02:47 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

He did look good. Let's see if we can get one more run.

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 02:49 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Mets going all-out to do just that for him by sending up... Francisco Peņa. And he singles.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 03 2012 02:49 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

the ambidexterous pitcher Pat Venditte on the hill for the mfys

Edgy MD Apr 03 2012 02:50 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Ruben Tejada walks. Will Terry have Mike Baxter bunting?

PiggiesTomatoes Apr 03 2012 02:50 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Two on, no outs...it's a rally. Baxter almost did some damage.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 03 2012 02:52 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

4-6-3.

PiggiesTomatoes Apr 03 2012 03:02 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Interesting (to me, anyway) that no NL East team will finish Spring Training with a winning record.

Frayed Knot Apr 03 2012 03:11 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

And Ike - playing the whole game - ends it with a walk-off !!

PiggiesTomatoes Apr 03 2012 03:13 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Crushed it.

Frayed Knot Apr 03 2012 03:19 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

And there was much rejoicing (yaaaaaay)

metirish Apr 03 2012 05:22 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

And the auld bag of bones is turning in his grave......

MFS62 Apr 03 2012 09:55 PM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

OK, I'll say it. I like Ike. Later

Edgy MD Apr 04 2012 08:17 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

With the contract on the table as this game unfolded, I've got to wonder how much green that fart cost Niese.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 04 2012 08:42 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

WHAT??? THERE'S A TAX ON FARTING!?! OBAMA IS TAKING AWAY ALL OF OUR FREEDOMS!

Ceetar Apr 04 2012 08:47 AM Re: 4/3/12 MFY @ Mets

Benjamin Grimm wrote: WHAT??? THERE'S A TAX ON FARTING!?! OBAMA IS TAKING AWAY ALL OF OUR FREEDOMS! It's all the Mexican coming over the borders!