2004 Baseball

Cubs 2 Mets 1, 10 innings

Friday Night
Shea Stadium
With Sujan

Glendon Rusch came back to Shea to show his old team how it is done. Kris Benson looked good as well. But like everything as else this season, the Mets came up short. Derrek Lee’s RBI single in the 10th proved to be the game winner.

Mets fans were in the minority on this night. Cubs fans were quite obnoxious. What happened to the lovable loser image of the Cubs? The fans were acting like Yankees’ fans. All full of cockiness and bombast. At least the Yankees win, these fans shouldn’t get so damn cocky because their team never ever wins. Between the fans at this game and the fans in the bleachers at the game we went to last July, my interest in seeing the Cubs win is rapidly dissipating. I was very happy that the Mets beat them the next two games. (And this started a freefall for Dusty’s teams that did keep them out of the playoffs.)

Sujan amused herself by coming up with new nicknames for the putrid Mets. Some examples?
Kaz Matsui became Spazz Matsui. Braden Looper became Braden Pooper. Mike Stanton became Mike Stankton. To listen to her giggle after each new name was definitely quite amusing.

The best heckle of the night was a simple one. One fan kept yelling at Cubs’ closer LaTroy Hawkins by referring to him as “LaToya.”

(La Troy Hawkins image deleted)
LaTroy

(LaToya Jackson image deleted)
LaToya

Bill

Posted by dan at September 24, 2004 07:07 PM