2004 Baseball

Pirates 8 Mets 1

Sunday Afternoon
Shea Stadium
With Sujan, Alex J., Anne, Marc, Mitch, Caryn

So much for the euphoria of just a few days prior. Before the weekend, the Mets were one game above .500 and things were looking up. A three game sweep to the lowly Pirates didn’t help matters. The Mets desperately need Reyes and Floyd back. The Mets looked listless in this game. The 1-0 lead that the Pirates took seemed insurmountable and when they poured on five runs in the 5th to make the score 7-1, it was only a matter of counting down the innings.

Jae Seo made his first start of the season and didn’t look too good. The Pirates had 17 hits and it was ugly. Typical Mets: With two runners on in the 8th, down 8-1, Lloyd McClendon took out his pitcher with a 2-0 count on Piazza. New pitcher throws one pitch, Piazza grounds into a double play, end of inning.

Marc took 150 pictures of players on his fantasy team, Mitch pontificated on the brilliance of strawberry milk, made a vow with himself to drink more chocolate milk by remembering to leave the chocolate syrup right by the milk in his refrigerator, and then left a voicemail to himself to remind himself to pick up some Strawberry Quick potion. We were all drunk on boredom… we were so bored that the 17 year old kid near us amused us to no end by repeatedly telling all around him, “When I say ‘Mets” you say ‘Yeah.’ When I say ‘Pirates’, you say ‘Boo.’ I can not tell you how amusing this was on such a day.

Posted by dan at April 18, 2004 06:17 PM