2004 Baseball

Mets 6 Yankees 5

Sunday Afternoon
Shea Stadium
With Sujan

Check out this line score-

NYY 001 010 210 5
NYM 121 000 11x 6

The Mets finished their first ever sweep of the Yankees and also their first ever season series victory (4-2) against them! It was a beautiful way to celebrate the 4th and to wake up from the previous night's festivities in Philadelphia. The surprising Mets continued to stay in the race and Richard Hidalgo continued to be hot as hell!

Ty Wigginton hit two homers, including the winning one in the bottom of the 8th. Looper held on for the save and the fans ate it up. (Yeah, live it up Mets’ fans! This was the final chance to smile for the rest of the damn season.)

Sujan claims that Mets’ outfielder Eric Valent looks more like Bill than either Hairston or Roberts. Hmmmm…..

Valent in his UCLA days.

Mantzouris

My favorite Jae Seo moments of the season: When he was taken out of the game in the 6th inning, he was heading straight to the American flag painted on the grass. Right before he got to the flag, he gracefully sidestepped it so as not to step on Old Glory. After celebrating with his teammates on the field after the game, he doffed his cap and continually waved to the section of his Korean fans who had been loudly cheering for him all game.

Favorite heckles:

The guy behind us kept calling Jeter a ballerina for his histrionics behind the plate- arm raising before every pitch, the way he sticks his ass in the air if a pitch is even remotely inside.

The guy in front of us who called out when Giambi was at the plate, “You use steroids.” The woman to his right told him that that wasn’t being nice so he amended his heckle to “You used to use steroids!”

For at least one more day in 2004!

Posted by dan at July 4, 2004 07:05 PM