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11 Alive? IGT 7/18/08: Mets @ Reds

G-Fafif Jul 18 2008 04:26 PM

On the birthday of former Mets manager Joe Torre and the late Mets fan Sandra Prince, the Mets attempt to stay in first place and tie a team-record winning streak. METS Reyes SS Anderson LF Wright 3B Beltran CF Easley 2B Delgado 1B Tatis RF Schneider C Maine P REDS Bruce CF Keppinger SS Griffey RF Phillips 2B Dunn LF Encarnacion 3B Votto 1B Bako C Arroyo P Let's Go Mets!

TransMonk Jul 18 2008 05:54 PM

Reds strike first on an ugly solo HR by Jay Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce.

KC Jul 18 2008 05:55 PM

Mets down 1-sniffle through three on a Bruce home run off the end of the bat away and flicked over the right center wall. Bring the wood in the fourth, for Sandra!

TransMonk Jul 18 2008 06:01 PM

Double-walk-double for the Mets w/ 1 out in the 4th. Tie game...opportunity for more...

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 18 2008 06:01 PM

11 Alive? Wow. I had $5 on "This one goes to Eleven."

metsguyinmichigan Jul 18 2008 06:15 PM

Tonight for Sandra!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 18 2008 06:28 PM Re: 11 Alive? IGT 7/18/08: Mets @ Reds

G-Fafif wrote: METS Reyes SS Anderson LF Wright 3B Beltran CF Easley 2B Delgado 1B Tatis RF Schneider C Maine P First-ever (as far as I know) all-odd uni number lineup in team history.

TransMonk Jul 18 2008 06:35 PM

This inning is a comedy of errors. Heads out of asses, boys.

KC Jul 18 2008 06:56 PM

JCL: >>>First-ever (as far as I know) all-odd uni number lineup in team history<<< Toss up between what's cooler. The fact, or that you cull that fact from some Mets numbers database.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 18 2008 07:35 PM

Let's rally, Sally.

KC Jul 18 2008 07:38 PM

They march out Cordero again for slappin' ... he gets a quick out.

TransMonk Jul 18 2008 07:40 PM

10 is the highest number.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 18 2008 07:41 PM

Well that was pretty shitty. I guess Tatis isn't gonna hit the 3-run homer every time we need it. More concern for another lousy outing by Maine.

Nymr83 Jul 18 2008 07:41 PM

thats ok. we'll go for another streak starting tommorow. this was the least painful loss in awhile, i hope all our losses follow 10 game winning streaks.

G-Fafif Jul 18 2008 09:14 PM

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 11 Alive? Wow. I had $5 on "This one goes to Eleven." The element of surprise...though the Reds weren't fooled at all.

G-Fafif Jul 18 2008 09:15 PM

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Tonight for Sandra! Thanks for the thought. Tomorrow for Mets Guy in Cincinnati.

cooby Jul 19 2008 07:55 AM

Jinx

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 19 2008 11:01 AM

Rickey Henderson forced Reyes to spend the All-Star Break getting new tattoos on his elbow, and he's hit nothing but popups since

batmagadanleadoff Jul 19 2008 12:04 PM

I like this thread title. I like the clever reference to an obscure and by now, scarcely remembered jingle. But wasn't "11 Alive" Yankee territory?

Benjamin Grimm Jul 19 2008 04:03 PM

I think of it as Odd Couple/Honeymooners territory.

Valadius Jul 19 2008 04:05 PM

I don't get it.

G-Fafif Jul 19 2008 05:18 PM

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think of it as Odd Couple/Honeymooners territory. 11 Alive debuted as WPIX's theme the same fall season "The Odd Couple" entered syndication. The was another 11 Alive in Atlanta around the same time...spooky!

batmagadanleadoff Jul 19 2008 05:29 PM

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think of it as Odd Couple/Honeymooners territory. I dunno about this. It seems to me that you're slipperying the slope for an upcoming IGT thread title like this one: Here come the -- Metsies Let's get behind and cheer the -- Metsies They're gonna learn to fear the -- Metsies Everyone knows they play to win, cause They're the New York --Metsies

batmagadanleadoff Jul 19 2008 05:32 PM

="G-Fafif"]11 Alive debuted as WPIX's theme the same fall season "The Odd Couple" entered syndication. The was another 11 Alive in Atlanta around the same time...spooky! Fats Waller would commonly sell the rights to a song he created and then go across the hall and sell the same rights to the same song to another publisher. Maybe Fats wrote the 11 Alive theme.

batmagadanleadoff Jul 19 2008 08:31 PM

Valadius wrote: I don't get it. 11 Alive was the WPIX Channel 11 logo/slogan/identity during the Joe Torre Mets manager era. WPIX televised Yankeee games back then. Here's a YouTube link to [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQc3J3JwPk&feature=related]"11 Alive".[/url]

Benjamin Grimm Jul 19 2008 08:47 PM

I don't associate "11 Alive" with the Yankees in any way at all. During those years, I watched The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners on Channel 11. I never watched the Yankees.

batmagadanleadoff Jul 19 2008 09:06 PM

="Benjamin Grimm"]I don't associate "11 Alive" with the Yankees in any way at all. During those years, I watched The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners on Channel 11. I never watched the Yankees. I guess we differ in that respect because I never watched the Yankees either but I still associate 11 Alive with the team. I'm a big Honeymooners and Odd Couple fan, too.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 19 2008 09:09 PM

My dopey neighbors tried to get themselves on TV by bringing a sign to MFY Stadium reading: THE YANKEES ARE ALLIVE (sic) BECAUSE 11 IS ALLIVE (sic)

G-Fafif Jul 19 2008 10:30 PM

"11 Alive" doesn't resonate MFY with me, even though it took me several years to associate Channel 11 with the Mets. Just a matter of semantics, I suppose. Channel 9 had a slogan in the fall of '73: The Great Combination, New York and Channel 9. The extent of that great combination was the Mets, Bowling for Dollars and a coveted VHF frequency.