2004 Baseball

Dodgers 10 Mets 2

Sunday Afternoon
Shea Stadium
With Sujan (barely)

Wow, the Mets are bad. But, I guess when your lineup includes the likes of Jeff Keppinger, Gerald Williams, Wilson Delgado, and Brian Buchanan, what can you expect? It is hard to tell if the Mets have given up or if they just really, really, really suck. Does it matter?

Today’s highlights included Cliff Floyd dropping a fly ball, (if the sun is so difficult to read at Shea, how come it only affects the Mets?), a Cliff Floyd rainbow throw home on an advancing runner, a Kris Benson mental error, and all around crapitude. Floyd was booed mercilessly, but he handled it well. After the game, he said he deserved it.

In the 5th, already trailing 4-1, the Dodgers loaded the bases for Robin Ventura. Sujan said if he hit a homerun, she was leaving. Sure enough, he hit a homer and she left. The Shea faithful took a break from booing to cheer former favorite Ventura for his heroics. With that homerun, he moved into 4th place on the all time grand slam list. You think he can stick around long enough to hit seven more to break Gehrig’s record? (The answer is no, Ventura announced his retirement at the end of the season.) Maybe he needs to move to an N.L. East team so he can find himself facing the Mets 19 times a year. How many more games do I have tickets for?

At least I snagged myself a nice T-shirt on Jewish Heritage Day. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d say that the Mets pitiful performance on this day was bordering on anti-Semitic .

But you don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to think maybe the fans are at least a little anti-Jewish. During the 7th inning stretch, the Mets played Mandy Patinkin’s version of “Take Me out to the Ballgame” in Yiddish. The fans booed it! Perhaps they aren’t anti-Semitic, but merely anti- Mandy Patinkin. But I'll bet they've never heard his Greatest Indie Rock Hits that he is so well known for.

Posted by dan at August 29, 2004 08:07 PM