WARNING: Baseball Season!
Yesterday I heard someone in the outer office tell someone else, “You should go talk to her now, she’ll be listening to a ballgame later on.” Which wasn’t actually true; the Cubs didn’t play yesterday. Still.
I’m going to print this out and put it on my office door.
I love baseball, but this year I need to Rangers to go as far as possible in the Stanley Cup playoffs, because the Mets are going to be abysmal. It is going to be a long, long season.
Willie Mays makes his iconic over-the-shoulder catch deep in center during the eighth inning of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series. The catch preserved a 2-2 tie and allowed the Giants, who swept the series, to win the game in the 10th inning. (Frank Hurley/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
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Gary Carter passed away this afternoon at age 57. The catcher played for four teams during his 19-year career (Expos, Mets, Giants, Dodgers) and made the all-star team 11 times. (Andrew C. Bernstein/Getty Images)
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Mets centerfielder Lenny Dykstra celebrates after hitting the game-winning home run in Game 3 of the 1986 ALCS against the Astros. The Mets would win the series in six games before beating Boston in the World Series. Dykstra turns 49 today. (Manny/Millan/SI)
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Mets outfielder Darryl Strawberry signs autographs for fans before a 1983 game against the Pirates. (Manny Millan/SI)
Aw, Darryl.
The White Sox hired Robin Ventura to be their new manager. Let’s hope his tenure is more successful than this 1993 fight against Nolan Ryan in which Chicago’s new skipper was punched six times by the 46-year old before teammates came to his rescue. (AP)
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NOLAN RYAN SCHOOLS ROBIN VENTURA! FAVORITE BASEBALL FIGHT EVER! ♥ ♥ ♥
Also, congratulations to Ventura. He was my favorite when he was a Met. Grand slam single ftw!
I live in New York and am I Yankees fan, my whole family is Mets fans, and I hate when Mets fans insult their team, and put them down. Like I was at a Met game once and they were losing, the guy sitting next to me said to someone on the phone “I’m at the mets game, would rather be at a funeral.” and granted not all are like that,but I do know Yankee fans would never put down their team, and say that.
It must be nice to have the luxury of cheering for a winning team instead of perennial losers. But those of us who love our losing teams have to develop a thick skin to withstand the pain of consistent loss and the barbs from being told continually that our team sucks. We know our team sucks, we know it more than anyone else. We’re not stupid or blind to their faults - just loyal. We criticize our team out of frustration for another losing season. We criticize them because they’ve let us down yet again. We criticize them because we love them and want them to be better.
Your team is like family. You love ‘em, but don’t necessarily like them all the time. I can say mean things about
my little sisterour overpaid left fielder, but goddammit, you can’t!
Exactly. And also, Yankees fans tend to be annoyingly arrogant about their team. Given the Yankees’ tendency to win a lot, it’s not unjustified, but it just makes me want to tell them to act like they’ve been there before. Ugh. As a Mets fan, I have a lot of issues with Yankees fans en masse. (obdisclaimer: I like many individual Yankees fans just fine.)
(Source: baseballsecrets)
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(via cubsmagicnumber)Someone on my flist linked this and man, it is AWESOME.
SAY HEY!
♥Willie Mays♥
