2004 Baseball

Mets 6 Brewers 5, 11 innings

Sunday Afternoon
Shea Stadium
With Sujan and Dave N.

The Mets weren’t playing so well and they were about to get swept by the Brewers led by the hot-hitting Lyle Overbay. And when they gave up 3 runs in the top of the 8th to go down 5-3, it seemed like they were headed to an ignominious sweep. But Ty Wigginton’s 2 run pinch hit single tied it (pinchrunner Jae Seo’s brilliantly eluded the tag at the plate to tie it) and the slumping Kaz Matsui’s game winning pinch hit single in the bottom of the 11th won it. He was mobbed like he was Robin Ventura or Todd Pratt or some shit like that.

Conversation highlight- Could we possibly list all of the teams in order that David Segui has played for? The answer-almost.

Heckling highlight- The woman behind us kept calling David Weathers, Shrek Weathers. Yeah, it was a mellow day.

You be the judge. If you're confused, Shrek is the top photo and Weathers is the bottom one.

Mets 4 Rockies 0

Sunday Afternoon
Shea Stadium
With Sujan, Lily, Lindsay, and Claire

For my school’s auction, I decided it would be fun to donate an afternoon. The lucky winner would win a day at Shea with Sujan and me. The lucky winner Lindsay chose two other kids from my class and we were off. None of them really knew that much about baseball before the game and one of them (Lily) even thought she was a Yankees fan before the game. This is taken from Lily’s writing about the game.

5 Great Mets fans

On Sunday, Mr. Raphael and Sue-Jan Came to my house. Lindsay and Claire came too. We were all going to a Mets game together! Yes, I was a Yankee fan at that time but I didn’t care. Because what could be better! Gong to a Met’s game with your teacher, techer’s feansay, and your two best friends! So when we got there, we had “lodes” of food. We ate while we wached. At one break of an inning, we went to get suvanears. I got a Mr. Met bobble head.
I was liking this expeareance. Then, we went bach to our seats. There almost was a no hitter! It ended up to be a one hitter. Picher Tom Glavine. At another break of an inning on the score board, it said the Mets welcome Lily, Claire, Lindsay, and Dan! You think I’m lying, but I’m not! I’ll tell you why. It is because my dad has a friend named Tom. Tom has a friend that works on the score board. Tom knows me so Tom asked his friend if he could put our names up there. It was so cool.
I was Loving this expeareance! Then At the end of the game, we got to run on the baces. That was cool too! Then, we started to head home. When we got home, I thanked Mr. Raphael and Sue-Jan and they left. Then I shoed my parents My Mr. Met bobble head, that I adored, and then made it clear that I had become a mets fan. My dad agreed with me.
Then the next day at school I menchened for the 1001th time to Mr. Raphael that I had become a …. METS FAN!!! I Looooooved that Expeareance!!

The end

Lily neglected to mention that Sujan finally got her chance to run around the Shea bases. She capitalized on the chance to get on the field using the kids as an excuse. Then she pushed her way around the mean woman who told her that running the bases was only for kids. What a bad example!

Sujan also still blames me for ruining Glavine’s no-hit bid (which lasted for 8 1/3 innings) by talking about it during the game. But I had to explain it to the girls because they had not idea what was going on. When I was talking about it, Sujan walked away from us and covered her ears. It wasn’t my fault!

The Mets excitedly reached .500!

Braves 9 Phillies 3

Saturday Afternoon
Citizen’s Bank Park
With Sujan, Jim, Eric, Amie, Mitch, Phoebe, John Battles

The Vet used to be the ballpark that made me want to take naps. After one game, Citizen’s Bank Park picked up where the Vet left off. This is not fair to the new ballpark in Philadelphia because it is a lovely new park and they still have such a great mascot. But this game left me cold. The fans were suffering from Camden Yardsitis, a bunch of non-baseball fans there just to take in the scene at the hip new place. This game was sold out and I’m glad I had bought advance tickets despite Eric’s claim that Phillies’ games are never sold out and even if they were, he could roll into Philly and get eight tickets together for five bucks each.

Quote of the day- Eric on Doug Glanville, “He was fouling off pitches with the heart of a tiger.”

Hunk of the day- Jim liked the cut of Chase Utley’s uniform.

This game was preceded by a Pat’s stop and was followed up by a Tony Luke’s jaunt and some incredible gelato. Then Mitch was off to the subway before getting hit on by Philadelphia teens impressed with our New York tags.