The Mets lose by 2-1 to the Padres for the third straight day.
Kids today! When I was a young man in the pre-Sports Center days and the Yankees took a western road trip, the NY Times coverage was an enduring source of confusion. Due to the late starts and early print deadlines, the Times would often have coverage of the Thursday game in the Saturday paper. Folks not concentrating carefully would glance at the sports section and think, how odd, that score looks just like the one from the game a couple of days ago.
But now the Mets confusion is real.
The Pads also won their immediately preceding game (final of the series vs. Cubs) by a score of 2-1. They are now the only club in MLB history to win four straight games 2-1; it didn't even happen in the dead ball era.
In this area, we take our sports successes as we find them.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | June 08, 2008 at 12:00 PM
The Mets aren't confused....they know they stink
Posted by: Ashamed Mets Fan | June 08, 2008 at 12:20 PM
DoT, Maddux was superb in the win over the Cubs harking back to his younger days....dagnabbit!
Posted by: Larry | June 08, 2008 at 02:56 PM
Tough to score runs in Petco.
Plus Wright is going through one of his period power outrages and Beltran isn't picking him up. And Church has come down to earth (so to speak).
Posted by: SteveMG | June 08, 2008 at 03:23 PM
outrages
Outages dummy, not outrages.
Try to be pithy and wind up looking like a moron.
Posted by: SteveMG | June 08, 2008 at 03:49 PM
I take it our blog leader is a Mets fan like me.
SteveMG, don't worry about it, you may look like a moron, but at least you're our moron.
Posted by: David | June 08, 2008 at 04:13 PM
you may look like a moron, but at least you're our moron.
I think I'd rather be a free agent.
I'm left-handed; somebody will make me an offer.
Posted by: SteveMG | June 08, 2008 at 04:22 PM
Maddux was indeed superb, and yet again it availed him nothing. If he had been traded to any other club he would have passed Clemens by now, but I fear he may not make it even by the end of the season.
And it's not tough for everyone to score in Petco--Pads, yes; Mets, yes; but other visitors seem to have no problem.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | June 08, 2008 at 07:03 PM
How are Agee and Swoboda doing for the Mets? Whoops, another "good old days" brain malfunction from an aging Boomer!
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 09, 2008 at 09:07 AM
Never will there be one as Marvelous as Marv.
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Posted by: kim | June 09, 2008 at 09:10 AM
Pads complete four-game sweep of Mets for the first time since 1980. My hunch is that Willie Randolph better get his resume out on the street.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | June 09, 2008 at 09:45 AM
Since this is a French themed thread, can I mention that the people who think Jerry Lewis is a genius have made mentioning wine on the internet illegal.
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan | June 09, 2008 at 01:35 PM
Nor does either team get a favorable mention in Stuff White People Like at the ballpark:
Not to mention: In the Sunday NY Times Travel Section. Sushi, expensive sandwiches, alder smoked salmon. Baseball in retro stadiums (architecture). Diversity (Japanese centerfielder). Literary criticism (Ichiroll; too punny).
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan | June 09, 2008 at 05:31 PM
Hi patrick
you said:Nor does either team get a favorable mention in Stuff White People Like at the ballpark:
The drinks were excellent, too: a split of Laurent-Perrier Champagne for my girlfriend; a tall, ice-cold glass of hoppy Anchor Steam Beer for me.
And the view at our walk-up, alfresco table was impossible to beat: palm trees swayed, sailboat masts bobbed and, in the distance, the Bay Bridge stretched out across foggy San Francisco Bay.
I feel you linked what stuff white people liked at the ballpark..
And because i've read your postings for like 2 years i know you were just teasing a link that parodies all the racial stuff with the dems these days..
And i totally agree patrick..
But here is the hoopsters 2 cents.. ( ahh hah.. TM puts a sports link on JOM and I'm not posting? Good luck with that!)
My opinion is not to put racial stuff in your posting.. There was not one time in the 3 page web story from the Times that had the word 'white' in it..not once..I didn't check whitey, cracker or any other word that alluded to white.. but i did read the story...And i feel you misrepresented the tone and content of the story..
And i know you were just teasing and i really respect your viewpoints..
I played ball in the bay area in college and have never ever ever felt racial overtones in our sports..
EVER!!We were brothers in arms..great friends to this day..
You're a good guy patrick and the wounds of past racial disconnect has been exposed and ripped open this season..
It breaks my heart..I was raised in a different environ..I'm going to stop now..
It's a sad year with the racial stuff..
Posted by: HoosierHoops | June 09, 2008 at 06:37 PM
not to put racial stuff
If that's cringeworthy for you you're in for a long campaign season. The non-left is going to be taking a lot of fire no matter what so lighten up already.
Posted by: boris | June 09, 2008 at 07:46 PM
Boris: I stand by my post..let's move above race..
Let ideas stand on thier own..And you can't take 4 words i posted out of context and reply to that..Give me a break..4 words?
But whatever..those are the hoopsters feelings about race..it should be a non-issue today...
Posted by: HoosierHoops | June 09, 2008 at 09:19 PM
it should be a non-issue ...
Put it on the list how things should be.
The rain should never fall till after sundown.
By noon the morining fog should disappear.
In short there's simply not a less convenient spot for happy ever aftering than here on planet earth.
It obviously is a big issue for the Dems and thy're going to play it positive and negative. There's talk on the street it sounds so familiar. Wary expectations, everybody's watching you. People you meet, they all seem to wisper. Even your old friends treat you like you're sime kind of hick.
Posted by: boris | June 09, 2008 at 10:14 PM
hi boris..
at least you quoted me 6 words this time..
and you quoted an eagles song to back you up..
very impressive..
I understand the point you are making, and i can't really disagree.. I was just saying.. :)
kind regards,
Posted by: HoosierHoops | June 09, 2008 at 10:37 PM
HH, this is precisely my objection to Obama. Much of the country is way beyond the sort of racism that Obama talks about. And the Dems are going to play the race card like they have a whole deck full of them.
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Posted by: kim | June 09, 2008 at 11:30 PM
HoosierHoops, we need to keep up with our JOM--another SWPL--themes.
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan | June 10, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Jay Leno is the frontrunner for Best Joke of the Year, 2008 edition. Paraphrasing from a couple nights ago:
"The Hillary Clinton campaign spent an incredible $210 million before conceding the other day. Can you think of another organization that spends $210 million to come in 2nd? Oh, right -- the New York Yankees."
Posted by: Dave | June 13, 2008 at 09:07 PM