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catlover79
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A's fans were still able to make their fury at the Astros known when the teams played in Oakland last night. They may not be physically allowed in the stadium, so they did the next best thing:

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I read that Houck said he was "bummed" that he would missing a start. Hmmm, if only there was something he could have done to make sure he could play in every park. 

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caracas1914

caracas1914

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Went to Chavez Ravine last year after many years to catch a Giants road game versus the hated Dodgers, and no doubt due in part to that awful incident a few years back where the Giant paramedic fan was violently bashed, personnel was wery welcoming to all the Giant fans.

Hate to admit it, but the upgrades to Dodger Stadium were nice, and it's still an ideal stadium in many ways.  

However a group of us Giants fans were seated in a couple of rows among other Dodger fans and this jackass Dodger fan was berating all of us thoughout the game.   IN particular he was harassing two guys wearing Posey Jerseys, so of course the "p*ssy" and Pissy play on names, then he pulled the usual homophobic taunts toward  SF fans (I mean really? It's frigging 2015) and when Sergio Romo got up to pitch came the racist Mexican rants, which made even the Hispanic Dodger fans next to us uncomfortable.  So finally one of the Posey guys who noticed his speech patterns turns around and yells "How long ago did you move over from the East coast, jerk?" To be met by silence.  Even the Dodgers fans around us were chuckling over that one.

Listen I understand the reasoning behind it, but I still can't get over the Dodgers fans started to leave from the 6th inning on.  WTF?  The game I went to was a pitcher's duel that went extra innings but even by the 7th so many  fans had left,  I know LA traffic/congestion is a bitch, but still.....

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Moose135

Moose135

4 hours ago, King of Birds said:

And yeah, Dodger Dogs are just regular hot dogs, but what were you expecting?

Not baseball related, but speaking of hot dogs...I'm a big auto racing fan, and for years had heard people rave about the "World Famous Martinsville Hot Dog" served at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.  A few years ago, after moving to Charlotte, I went to Martinsville for a NASCAR race, and tried the WFMHD for myself. For the "full experience" you need to get them with cole slaw, onions, and chili, although I went for just kraut and mustard.  On the plus side, they are only $2 each, but once you get past the preternatural red color, they are just hot dogs, I didn't see what the big deal was.

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Maximum Taco

Maximum Taco

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1 hour ago, cleo said:

Does anyone know why there are a couple Jays fans at Camden Yards dressed as bananas? Yesterday there were a couple dressed as yellow birds but with Jays shirts. Or are they making fun of the Blue Jays?

Might be a Munenori Kawasaki reference, even though he's with the Cubbies now.

He gave a pretty weird interview once after he left a game due to cramps that he needed to eat more bananas, because "monkeys never get cramps"

And then after the Jays clinched the AL East last year he drunkenly slurred that "we don't need bananas, we need champagne"

He was a weird guy. We liked him a lot in Toronto.

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xaxat

xaxat

It's also possible they just wanted to dress up like bananas. 

I went to a game at PNC Park and found myself sitting next to a guy dressed like a banana. Because he felt like it. 

Our seats were right behind the visitor dugout, an area that receives a lot of camera coverage, so it wouldn't surprise me if there is tape of the announcers saying "Look at that guy trying to pretend he's not sitting next to a banana!"

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prican58

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I have a question for any Twins fans. How is Eduardo Nunez doing at 3rd base? I know he's hitting .318 but he could always hit when he was a Yankee. We traded him because he wasn't very consistent defensively in the infield. I always liked him and I am curious how he has been received. Glad he has found a home.

Let me just say that I adore DiDi Gregorius.  Derek who?  (just kidding)

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cleo

cleo

19 hours ago, Maximum Taco said:

He gave a pretty weird interview once after he left a game due to cramps that he needed to eat more bananas, because "monkeys never get cramps"

Thanks. That is indeed weird, but interesting.

 

2 hours ago, xaxat said:

Our seats were right behind the visitor dugout, an area that receives a lot of camera coverage, so it wouldn't surprise me if there is tape of the announcers saying "Look at that guy trying to pretend he's not sitting next to a banana!"

The funny thing was the camera panned over these guys, two of them, and neither of the announcers said anything so I wondered if it was some well known joke I didn't know- this is the first season I've watched baseball. 

It's always interesting seeing what's going on in the stands :) 

MVFrostsMyPie

MVFrostsMyPie

3 hours ago, rippleintime17 said:

Eight in a row for the Giants! I hope they can keep this hot streak going, I'm heading to SF at the end of the week! 

Woohoo! I wish the smurfs would have lost today, it would have made it extra awesome. 
Hope Duffy's Achilles heel won't give him too much trouble and he'll be able to play in Pittsburgh! With today's game, he became the leader in the major leagues to consecutive games played. I'm excited for the end of the week! Going to all 3 games vs. the Phillies :)

pennben

pennben

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Well, aren't you a grumpy gus:)  As a Cubs fan, I'm just having a hell of a lot of fun this season.  I know it can turn south at any moment, or at the worst moment and break my heart.  Nothing new there.

What is surprising to me, is this new feeling that I have that the Cubs can actually be good for awhile and if not win it all this year, I'm going to have fun next year.  And if they don't win it all next year, I'm still going to have fun....it's an entirely different feeling about what that old mantra "wait til next year" means these days.

I hope they win it all this year, but I'm having a blast watching along the way regardless.  And I think I'm going to have fun for many years to come seeing as how this team is built.

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Lantern7

Lantern7

I would have thought the same as a kid, going to Sunday home games at Shea with my parents. I've been to Citi Field a grand total of five times, and I took pictures like a tourist for most of them. Off the top of my head, the Mets should consider two statues: Tommie Agee on one knee after recording the last out of the 1969 World Series, and Jesse Orosco on his knees after striking out Marty Barrett to end the '86 Series.

King of Birds

King of Birds

Oh yeah that Butch Huskey is top notch Met.  So I took a minute and made a poll for you, Lantern7, and all the rest of the Met faithful: Which Mets player should get a statue?

You get to pick 4 - I figure one statue for every couple of interesting places at Citi Field. I did some decent albeit half-assed research (I did live in upstate NY at one point of my life, I was around Mets fans.)

MyAimIsTrue

MyAimIsTrue

27 minutes ago, King of Birds said:

So I took a minute and made a poll for you, Lantern7, and all the rest of the Met faithful: Which Mets player should get a statue?

I may not be a faithful but I did grow up not too far from Shea so I voted:  Tom Seaver (had to be serious with at least one pick), Doc Gooden, Keith Hernandez ("I'M Keith Hernandez!"), and John Franco just because he's a city boy.

mojoween

mojoween

I'm nosy.  King where in Upstate New York?

My husband grew up a Reds and A's fan.  Well too bad for him, he's been married to me for 20 years next month so he watches all Yankees all the time and we see the Didi/Starlin commercial eleventy seven times a night.  My husband also says "yep" to nearly every question asked of him.  "Are we taking the scenic route to the Catskills?"  "Did you let the cat out of the garage before you shut the door?"  "Is your store open regular hours on July 4th?"  "Yep, yep and yep."

Naturally, every time he says yep I now say "will you be my best friend?" and he can't help himself, he says "YEP" complete with exaggerated neck waggle.

And now you know more about me than you every knew you didn't want to.

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ratgirlagogo

ratgirlagogo

2 hours ago, King of Birds said:

Which Mets player should get a statue?

Given that at this point the ballpark is obsessively arranged around Jackie Robinson WHO WAS NEVER A MET no matter how important and admirable he might have been - I almost feel like any Met would do.  I think I might actually go for Marvelous Marv Throneberry just because the press alone with him helped cement the team in the city's affections.

Lantern7

Lantern7

At the base of the statue: "Don't bother, Casey. He missed second, too." How about Johan Santana, with a list of all the pitchers who lost no-hitters from 1962-2012 at the base?

ETA: Here's my near no-no experience: one time, I saw Doc Gooden pitch seven no-hit innings. Bottom of the seventh, he gets a huge ovation at the plate . . . and he homers. For real. Bad news: he gets too amped afterward, and he loses the no-hitter and the shutout in the eighth.

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Moose135

Moose135

11 hours ago, ratgirlagogo said:

Given that at this point the ballpark is obsessively arranged around Jackie Robinson WHO WAS NEVER A MET no matter how important and admirable he might have been - I almost feel like any Met would do.  I think I might actually go for Marvelous Marv Throneberry just because the press alone with him helped cement the team in the city's affections.

That was my "Butch Huskey monument" reference - the giant number 42 in the rotunda.  Not that the Wilpons would ever allow it, but when the stadium was going up, I had hoped Ralph Lauren would buy the naming rights and call it the Polo Grounds.

 

9 hours ago, MattDuffysCat said:

Today was such a good game for the Giants! 15-3. perfect birthday present for me ;)

Happy Birthday!

 

8 minutes ago, Lantern7 said:

Daily News is making the statue thing an issue. It made the front of today's edition, with Nancy Seaver saying its a shame her husband doesn't have a statue. The story itself was in the back pages. The News needed the room to shame Congress.

The Daily News is on the same level as the NY Post when it comes to news coverage, and it ain't world class...I guess both the Daily News and the Seavers have gotten past the paper's role in driving him out of New York in the first place:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/midnight-massacre-article-1.224970

Nonetheless, the Mets' own internal feud, slowly simmering since February when Tom Seaver had blasted board chairman M. Donald Grant for not trying to improve the team, suddenly erupted onto the front burner of the city's consciousness in mid-June, culminating with what will be remembered forever in New York baseball lore as "The Midnight Massacre."

The principals were Seaver, "The Franchise" and arguably the most popular player in the city; Grant, the buttoned-down, authoritarian Wall Street stockbroker whose tight-fisted fiscal policies had contributed mightily to the Mets' decline and evoked widespread criticism from players and the media; and Dick Young, the Daily News' acerbic columnist, whose siding with Grant in the dispute evoked conflict-of-interest charges from rival colleagues and the enmity of Met fans.

In the end, it was a column by Young -in which he invoked the names of Seaver's wife, Nancy, and Nolan Ryan's wife, Ruth, and claimed that the Seavers were jealous that Ryan was making more money with the California Angels - that ultimately forced the June 15 trading deadline deal that would live in Met infamy.

"That Young column was the straw that broke the back," Seaver said from his vineyard home in Calistoga, Calif., the other day, when asked to reflect on the trade 30 years later. "Bringing your family into it with no truth whatsoever to what he wrote. I could not abide that. I had to go."

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King of Birds

King of Birds

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It's MLB Wednesday "getaway day."  It's maybe the one day that the MLB does schedule day games so teams can shuffle off to the next series.

 

ETA: Hey mojo, forgot to answer you when I posted earlier. I lived ever so briefly in Gloversville, and then Saratoga, and did four years in Ithaca. Now, there are those New Yorker people who'll get their nickers all-aflutter will say "That's not upstate!!" but most of the world thinks anything above Westchester, as upstate.  As for your Reds/A's hubby : Come on. When the Yankees sucked in the Donnie era, and the A's won in '89 and Reds in '90 .... he must've been King of the World!  Or does this pre-date your marriage?

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MyAimIsTrue

MyAimIsTrue

3 hours ago, King of Birds said:

and did four years in Ithaca. Now, there are those New Yorker people who'll get their nickers all-aflutter will say "That's not upstate!!" but most of the world thinks anything above Westchester, as upstate.

Yep, to me anything above Westchester is upstate!

My father did four years in Ithaca way back when and somehow Ithaca College is still standing.

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xaxat

xaxat

ESPN is airing a promo for Sunday's Bucs/Dodgers game featuring Andrew McCutchen. At one point they refer to him as the "Captain of the Pirate ship."

To quote Micheal Ray Richardson, "The ship be sinking."

I was worried going into this season, but this team hasn't been competitive for an entire month.

(Coincidentally, as I was typing this Tony Kornheiser used the same quote about the Bulls.)

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