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SABRES, PENS, SHOTGUNS & METS |
BILL BUCKNER WAS INNOCENT |
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West Coast Craig
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LOS ANGELES SINKS INTO THE OCEAN…I know that’s the headline many of you want to read…but this, I’m afraid, is an ocean of despair. Remember that Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry had courtside Laker seats, stretched out his legs and accidentally tripped Shaq, putting him in the hospital and sabotaging the entire season? The whole city became enraged at him, and everywhere he went he faced glares and curses, even the janitor couldn’t look him in the eye. Seems exaggerated to make a joke, right? Any sports fan, however, knows the bitter, hard truth of that feeling, that your favorite team is finished. Sunday was a Mother’s Day only a mother could love in La La Land…the Lakers, who looked unbeatable a few days ago, are now limping back from Salt Lake after a pair of uncomfortably physical, tough losses; while the Dodgers and Angels are crawling on all fours after a pair of sweeps by the Astros and Devil Rays…a pair of sweeps in which they scored a combined total of eleven runs (that’s eleven runs between two teams over six games, and ten of them came Sunday). While none of this bodes too well, it’s only May and cooler heads should prevail…the Lakers will not lose to the Jazz, believe me (the NBA won’t allow it), and the local nines will…should…might…maybe start to score more runs (Andruw Jones is a rather rotund shadow of his former self, but he’s not this bad, is he?). Still, the mood is rather somber around here, people at parties and pubs are speaking in more hushed tones, wringing hands, sharing sympathetic looks.
Of course this is just a small slice, but anyone who has ever read a team’s blog page, or listened to sports radio, or watched the jabbering pundits and ex-jocks on the local post-game report, you know the hysteria that’s getting ready to bubble over. Being a fan means being a bit crazy, more than a bit obsessive compulsive, taking a lot of abuse, spending your money on something that, deep down, you know doesn’t love you back…and then you come back for more. You’re initiated early into something, are taught to love it, and then sit by as it breaks your heart year after year. Even when you taste the occasional glory of winning it all, it’s terribly fleeting…by the time the parade is over you’re already worried about next year. At some point it becomes the Stockholm Syndrome…you’ve been kidnapped and held hostage, are furious at your captors but over time you’re given scraps, moments of relative happiness, and come to crave these as the essentials of survival. Soon you find yourself out in the open with a chance to escape…and it doesn’t cross your mind. Then when the SWAT team storms the building, you want to shield your captors…you LOVE them! Leave them alone! Nobody understands them…it was you, not them!
Still, there may be some hope out there. There’s a correlating phenomenon called Lima Syndrome, in which the captors actually come to sympathize with their hostages. It was named after former MLB pitcher/character Jose Lima, who is now going door to door to all his fans’ houses and singing some hot salsa numbers to make up for years of stinking. At least he's trying. Who would you like ringing your doorbell?
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Ed Nelson
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| West Coast Craig - I was just about to pick up the Matt phone and complain how this has now become an LA-crowd-only on Mondays when you got me back somewhere around '... teams blog page'... I know exactly who I want at my door - Carlos Delgado singing The Star Spangled Banner or America The Beautiful. |
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Denise
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| The Mets should play with pink bats every day - especially Castillo and Beltran. WCC, thats a great post. And I loved the two on the weekend, Matts. You guys and Rex did a good job too. I would have Isiah Thomas ring my bell, but I would sing to him that Alannis Morrisette song with "I'm here, to remind you of the mess you left when you went away." |
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Officer Bob
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| I dont want any of them coming to my door but Lima doing it is cool - he is nuts but fun. Instead there should be a list of players voted on by fans of a team that should just send money back. For Met fans Mo Vaughn, Roberto Alomar and Pedro Martinez should all send 100 fans $100 each as payback. |
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Sam's-a-fan
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| Officer Bob, don't forget Tony Fernandez! I can't remember a worse case of someone dogging it! |
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TheMatts
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West Coast Craig: Great piece today - you're really rounding into a dandy MTM contributor. Admittedly, we the Matt Phone was ringing off the hook to the point we disconnected it; the less patient fan didn't read as much as Ed "Major" Nelson did. Phew. Good on you, Ed...
Denise, you are dead on with your compliments for Rex and, more accurately, us. We thank you for noticing. As for someone singing at our door - we'd like to have Keith Hernandez belting out "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" and then have him in for some wine and a chat. |
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MATTS-MATICS: Hockey Nuts Go At It |
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MATT FACTS:
Hillary Clinton and Don Nelson have never been seen in the same place... Jerry Manuel is not related to Charlie ManuelJerry Manuel is not related to Charlie Manuel... Somebody namd Michel coaches the Pittsburgh Penguins... Tiki Barber quit the Giants. The Giants then won the Super Bowl... The New England Patriots only lost ONE game out of 19!!! Aaron Heilman was actually funny in re to Eli and Plaxico Burress helping the Mets as a pitcher and outfielder, respectively. Repeat, Heilman was funny... Jessica Simpson would rather date Tom Brady - trust us... Eli Manning is better than Archie - now... Alyssa Milano is a Met fan. RRRRR... Rickey Henderson speaks in the 3rd Person... Shawn Green has big ears... Howard Johnson likes to stay at the Holiday Inn, ironically... Sandy Alomar, Sr. is the youngest of 9 kids. That's why he was quick around the dish. Jiminy Cricket was the Philly Phanatic in a previous life…Fred Wilpon is pals with Sandy Koufax... Mike Ditka is a really tough guy.. Buffalo has a Triple A baseball team. They are NOT called The Snowballs... Chan Ho Park has people thinking of naming a ballfield after him - it would be called Chan Ho Park Park... John Maine has never been, oddly enough, to Maine... Curt Gowdy, Jr. has never been to Yellow Knife, Canada... Kevin Mitchell played 6 positions for the Mets in '86 and, according to Doc Gooden's book, didn't like cats... John Olerud & Wayne Gretzky have never been seen in the same place... Kevin McReynolds now makes his living doing laugh tracks for sit-coms... Tony Gwynn is nearing 300 lbs... Carlos Beltran has Mercedes Benz dealerships named for him in Barcelona, Spain... Willie Montanez was called Guillermo by Lenny Randle... Rusty Staub beat Jeff Kent in a race – TODAY... Jay Horwitz is a dynamite Cricket players – somebody said... Jeff Wilpon was a decent minor league catcher... Ziggy Palfy lives in Slovakia and is a big Met fan... Superman Returns, yet still can’t hit Billy Wagner... David Wright will win the Triple Crown – on a horse... Omar Minaya is Tobey McGuire’s stunt-double in Spider Man 3... Hilary Clinton has Mr. Met pajamas – we think... Albert Einstein was a HUGE Met fan... The Metropolitan Opera House was named for the Mets after their 2nd season in ’63... Wally Backman, ’86 sparkplug, considered changing his name to Wally Back-Matt... Neil Allen and Mike Stanton, former Mets, have Allen & Stanton Streets on Lower East Side named for them.
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