June 24, 2004
Reds 6 Mets 2
Thursday Afternoon
Shea Stadium
By my lonesome
Summer Dan in full effect! While you slobs had to go to work, I got to go watch two mediocre baseball teams battle it out! It was a beautiful relaxing day at the ballpark by myself. Glavine was sharp but his league leading ERA rose to 2.11. It was my first game seeing the oft-injured Reyes play this year and my first glimpse of the newly acquired Richard Hidalgo. The Mets had been playing well and were sitting at .500. A series win over the Reds would have been nice before heading to Yankee Stadium.
But, alas, a win was not in the cards. With the score tied at 2 with 2 outs in the 7th, Mike Cameron lost a routine Ken Griffey flyball in the sun. The ball dropped right next to him and three runs scored. That was it. I sat there with 23,000 others in a stunned incredulousness. Ugly! The last time I saw a crowd so deflated after one swing of the bat in the middle of a game like that was back in the early 90’s when a Ken Griffey grand slam put the Orioles away. Man, Griffey sure knows how to clear a crowd out!
Most interesting development: During that awful Toby Keith (go to hell if you’re not a God Fearing American!) song that Mike Stanton likes to warm up to, a fan behind me stood up and yelled, “I was there on 9/11, I served in Afghanistan, I love my country, but I’m fed up with what’s going on right now!” The whole section broke into spontaneous cheering and applause. This made me hopeful that maybe Bush will indeed lose in November ( um… yeah) because Shea isn’t usually the most Blue State kind of place to be.
Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue
Posted by dan at June 24, 2004 07:44 PM