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iramets May 18 2007 04:06 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 18 2007 04:14 PM

From the IGT about the "Marlon Anderson" game, etc. I wonder how many games could be fairly said to be one particular player's game. In Anderson's case, he had neither a long nor especially distinguished Met career, so we all remember, as long as we remember him, the ITP HR and the game associated with that exciting moment. I suspect if you said "The Robin Ventura game" people will understand which game you mean-- though Ventura obviously had several memorable games, that's the first one that comes to (my) mind. This works somewhat better with opposing players, but even there it could get tricky: If you say "The Roger Clemens Game" I'm sure some people will think you mean the game he beaned Piazza and others will think the game he threw the shattered bat at him. (Some people even think ithose were both one game.) So write a 4-word post: "The _________ __________ Game" and let us decide if we agree on the game you have in mind. I'll start with an easy one: "The Jimmy Qualls" game. Double points if the name you suggest is also your current posting level. Extra points for the oldest, newest, most obscure game.

SteveJRogers May 18 2007 04:10 PM

Seaver's ImPerfect Game, of course The Ramon Castro Game

OlerudOwned May 18 2007 04:53 PM

The Victor Diaz Game Upon edit, we had some hell of a lineup that day. CF Gerald Williams SS Kaz Matsui 3B David Wright 1B Mike Piazza RF Richard Hidalgo LF Eric Valent C Jason Phillips 2B Jeff Keppinger SP Aaron Heilman Yates, Stanton, Bartolome Fortunato, Bell, Botallico, Wilson Delgado, Zeile, and one Jose Reyes made cameos, along with Craig Brazell(!) and Victor Diaz, who both homered. Who else but Ryan Dempster gave up a couple of late runs for the Cubs.

iramets May 18 2007 05:17 PM

Since I was there, with KC and Vic Sage, I remember the Victor Diaz game well--vs the Cubbies --knocking them out and pissing in their beer--at the end of the '04 season. The Ramon Castro game is still on the board, if anyone wants that one.

Johnny Dickshot May 18 2007 05:37 PM

iramets wrote: Since I was there, with KC and Vic Sage, I remember the Victor Diaz game well--vs the Cubbies --knocking them out and pissing in their beer--at the end of the '04 season. The Ramon Castro game is still on the board, if anyone wants that one. You don't remember that well or you'd remember who ya saw it with.

seawolf17 May 18 2007 05:44 PM

The Castro home run came against the Phillies, right? Late 2005? Easy one: The Edgardo Alfonzo Game.

metsguyinmichigan May 18 2007 05:46 PM

The one-game playoff for the Wild Card?

SteveJRogers May 18 2007 06:38 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 18 2007 06:42 PM

seawolf17 wrote: The Castro home run came against the Phillies, right? Late 2005? Yup. Against soon-to-be teamate Billy Wagner to effectivily end the Phillies 2005 season. Someone please come up with the Daily News cover the next day featuring the headline "Blast-Ro!" I saw it once on Google (Ramon Castro Mets) but now I'm coming up empty

Kid Carsey May 18 2007 06:39 PM

The Todd Pratt Game

SteveJRogers May 18 2007 06:42 PM

1999 NLDS Game 4 The Dave Magadan Game

seawolf17 May 18 2007 06:43 PM

I was thinking Fonzie's 6-for-6 in Houston, actually.

Johnny Dickshot May 18 2007 06:43 PM

metsguyinmichigan wrote: The one-game playoff for the Wild Card? To me that's the Al Leiter game.

SteveJRogers May 18 2007 06:43 PM

metsguyinmichigan wrote: The one-game playoff for the Wild Card? How about his offensive display against the Astros, or his Senor Octobre performance in Game 1 against the DBacks? OE: Seawolf says its the display against the Stros

Edgy DC May 18 2007 06:59 PM

seawolf17 wrote: I was thinking Fonzie's 6-for-6 in Houston, actually. Soitenly.

G-Fafif May 18 2007 07:06 PM

SteveJRogers wrote: 1999 NLDS Game 4 The Dave Magadan Game Could be the '86 clincher, but I'll go with the breakout doubleheader against the Cubs in '90. Two games, I guess. The Lenny Dykstra Game.

SteveJRogers May 18 2007 07:10 PM

I was thinking the 86 clincher. 1986 NLCS Game 3

Edgy DC May 18 2007 07:18 PM

The Tuffy Rhodes Game.

G-Fafif May 18 2007 07:49 PM

Opening Day '94. The Oliver Perez Game...

SteveJRogers May 18 2007 07:51 PM

I'm still sticking with Game 7 2006 NLCS. Yeah the pen blew it, and yeah he left with a tie ballgame, but that was one of the top postseason pitching performances we have ever had.

G-Fafif May 18 2007 07:52 PM

For tonight I'll go with tonight. But I don't have a lot of perspective at the moment. Ditto the Endy Chavez Game.

Frayed Knot May 18 2007 08:37 PM

<<<<------------- The Steve Henderson game was already mentioned in the other thread I was w/Dickshot at "The Bobby Jones Game"

Johnny Dickshot May 18 2007 08:38 PM

Others that come to mind: The Mike Scoiscia game The Eric Davis game The Mr. Koo game The Matt Franco game

Edgy DC May 18 2007 08:54 PM

I have no problem thinking of the game where Rusty flip-flopped between left and right as the Rusty Staub Game. Does the invocation of Olerud-Schilling suggest that duos are allowed? The Rose-Harrelson Game. The Cameron-Beltran Game. The Knight-Davis Game. Does Angel Hernandez get a game, or are their too many for one to stand out?

Edgy DC May 18 2007 09:35 PM

I think of the Mike Scott game as the Game Seven that never happened. Let's try this differently. I give the date and you give the eponym. 10-1-1982.

Gwreck May 18 2007 09:36 PM

I would call the Knight-Davis game The Brawl Game. The Benny Agbayani game. The Dave Mlicki game.

Johnny Dickshot May 18 2007 09:42 PM

The Fucking Timo Game

iramets May 18 2007 10:36 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: You don't remember that well or you'd remember who ya saw it with. My memory is at odds with yours; of course my memory is also at odds with my hand-written notes on the backs of the stubs. Sorry. I remember the DIck Rusteck game. My little brother got go to that one, and stayed home and listened to the radio. Is the benny agbayana game the opener in Japan, or the brainfreeze live-baseball giveaway one? The Bill Buckner game, of course. The Todd Pratt game. The Jim Bunning game. The Jimmy Piersall game. The Steve Finley game.

Gwreck May 18 2007 10:49 PM

Which one is the the Steve Finley game? Note that Steve also played a fairly significant role in both the Todd Pratt game and the Marlon Anderson game. I was thinking that the Agbayani game was the 13th inning homer off Aaron Fultz in 2000 NLDS Game 3.

iramets May 18 2007 10:59 PM

Gwreck wrote: Which one is the the Steve Finley game? Note that Steve also played a fairly significant role in both the Todd Pratt game and the Marlon Anderson game. I was thinking that the Agbayani game was the 13th inning homer off Aaron Fultz in 2000 NLDS Game 3. Ahh, this is complex stuff. The same one as the Todd Pratt game, is what i was thinking. The looking-in-the-glove one, and we all go nuts

Benjamin Grimm May 19 2007 06:28 AM

I'd also call the one-game playoff in 1999 the "Al Leiter Game" To me, the "Edgardo Alfonzo Game" would be this one: http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=6067

Kid Carsey May 19 2007 07:27 AM

The Alberto Castillo Game.

Frayed Knot May 19 2007 07:35 AM

The Dave Mlicki game

iramets May 19 2007 07:48 AM

Kid Carsey wrote: The Alberto Castillo Game. This is the one WP and I saw in Boston? Where he went nuts after Piazza got HBPed out of the game (by that crazy asshole headhunting cretin Pedro)? I was trying to track down the date on UMBD and came across this rather personal assessment of Alberto's people skills, by his ex-wife: "He is a bum. I was married to him in 1990 in Dominican Republic. I travelled there stayed a month during winter ball and we got married. He divorced me 3 years later, I think because I didn't get him a green card fast enough and he found someone else who did. During the time I was married to him I sent his family money, him money plus he had used my phone card to over $800 letting every Dominican on the team charge their calls home to me." Another poster on the UMBD memories site confirms: "He is a pig.To this day me and my friends think he is a womanizer." Anyway, it was [url=http://ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=5796] June 5 1998[/url] I was thinking of as the Alberto Castillo game.

Kid Carsey May 19 2007 09:13 AM

I think of the Castillo game as this 1998 opening day memory for me: METS 14TH: M. Franco singled to center; McRae walked [M. Franco to second]; On a bunt Alfonzo forced M. Franco (pitcher to third) [McRae to second]; Gilkey singled to left [McRae to third, Alfonzo to second]; Lopez popped to third; CASTILLO BATTED FOR WENDELL; Castillo singled to right [McRae scored, Alfonzo to third, Gilkey to second]; 1 R, 3 H, 0 E, 3 LOB. Phillies 0, Mets 1. It was the last day of March and it was like 85 degrees and beautiful. It was the first year I had season tickets but I didn't have them yet and we sat in the left field field boxes. KB wanted to go, KB wanted to go, KB wanted to go ... it was worth the sunburn and the wait. Regarding the Cubs memory above, didn't Vic leave us before the happy ending. I don't remember the exact seating arrangements but weren't like six of us there. My two seats and the two next that I bought from whoever and then two of us carpetbagged. My memory is shot.

Kid Carsey May 19 2007 09:17 AM

The Bobby Jones game was a game where I stupidly went to half the Jets game, missed the first inning because we had to park a mile away. Probably the most exciting baseball game I've been to. I think. See closing comment above. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2000/B10080NYN2000.htm

Mr. Zero May 19 2007 11:26 AM

The Terry Pendleton Game.

iramets May 19 2007 11:34 AM

Kid Carsey wrote: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2000/B10080NYN2000.htm There's some unusual stuff in that retrosheet account--editorial insertions as to what players where THINKING at times, etc. Not that I mind it, but it's kinda weird.

Edgy DC Jun 29 2007 10:25 AM

The Gardenhire Game.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 29 2007 10:35 AM

That should be the Rick Ownbey game, for walking 8 and allowing 6 hits, yet only one run.

Willets Point Jun 29 2007 10:40 AM

Secret Gardenhire.

Edgy DC Jun 29 2007 10:46 AM

Cool. Nice to see the walkoff guy write "few remember" about a game that... I remember! Forgot it was the first half of a doubleheader, but I seem to recall it made it out pretty easily. It also made the post-season highlight film.

Centerfield Jun 29 2007 10:54 AM

="Kid Carsey"]I think of the Castillo game as this 1998 opening day memory for me: METS 14TH: M. Franco singled to center; McRae walked [M. Franco to second]; On a bunt Alfonzo forced M. Franco (pitcher to third) [McRae to second]; Gilkey singled to left [McRae to third, Alfonzo to second]; Lopez popped to third; CASTILLO BATTED FOR WENDELL; Castillo singled to right [McRae scored, Alfonzo to third, Gilkey to second]; 1 R, 3 H, 0 E, 3 LOB. Phillies 0, Mets 1. It was the last day of March and it was like 85 degrees and beautiful. It was the first year I had season tickets but I didn't have them yet and we sat in the left field field boxes. KB wanted to go, KB wanted to go, KB wanted to go ... it was worth the sunburn and the wait. That was the game I thought of too. I moved to NY in June of '97, and shortly afterward, re-kindled my love of the Mets. (I had been a distant fan through my college years). The 97-98 off-season had been the first that I had followed with that sort of attention. It was then that I discovered WFAN. On Opening Day, I watched all 14 innings and thought to myself we might be ok at the catcher position after all. (A few months later, we'd make trade for some guy named Piazza) Sometime in April or May of '98 I was poking around the internet and found a cool Mets site with a forum of interesting fans...

Willets Point Jun 29 2007 11:22 AM

Centerfield wrote: Sometime in April or May of '98 I was poking around the internet and found a cool Mets site with a forum of interesting fans... Wow, where is that website? I'd like to find something like that online.