Nice of SNY to put the Brooklyn Cyclones-Lowell Spinners game on last night while the Mets took the night off, and what a game! What an ending! The Cyclones needed a win to clinch the McNamara Division of the NY-Penn league (No doubt Jeffy is out on Flatbush Ave looking for a seamstress to make a flag for the division champs) and got one in extra innings on a balk. A BALK!Â
With runners on 2nd and 3rd and 2 outs, Spinners pitcher Ryne Miller while getting ready to deliver a pitch to J.R. Voyles, hesitated in going to the stretch and was called for a balk. Micah Schilling jogged down from 3rd with the winning and division clinching run. Bizarre to say the least.
Kevin Burkhart and Dave Gallagher did the telecast and for most of the evening I kept wondering who is Gallagher related to at SNY or with the Mets that he got this gig? He even gets time in the studio when Maz takes a day off. You know the Mets are in for a bad game when the first two faces you see when you tune in are Matt Yaloff and Dave Gallagher. Bad karma is a bitch. Burkhart gets demerit as well for not knowing that Frank Tananna was a guy who went from throwing his fastball in the high 90’s to a finesse pitcher. Bad job out of you Kevin.
The Cyclones now get to meet the Staten Island Highlanders in the first round of the NY-Penn League playoffs.
Our favorite seamhead Mr. Met is alive for induction into the Mascot Hall of Fame:
 Mr. Met yesterday rebounded from a nearly 13,000-vote deficit to finish within 2,700 of the front-running San Antonio Coyote after The Post put out the call for fans to go online and vote for their favorite knuckleball-head.
The Amazin’ result forced organizers to call a powwow.
“This may sway the committee to possibly induct him anyway,” said the hall’s vice chairman, Chris Bruce, of the close finish. “The online poll carries weight, but it’s not everything. All is not lost.”
NO JUSTICE NO PEACE if Mr. Met does not make the HOF. I’ ll call for a jihad if he doesn’t make it.
Oh what a jealous bastard that Phil Mushnick is. Although his characterization of Keith Hernandez as Thurston Howell III is funny, who really gets annoyed by Hernandez’ “I’m better than you way†and for being bored at a bad baseball game? I can tell you first hand that Mex’s act is no act. Back in the day, I would spend some time in Rusty Staub’s establishment where the baby back ribs and booze were the best. A lot of NY athletes hung out there as well none more than Hernandez. The line in the movie Goodfella’s where the owner of a restaurant the goomba’s  hang out in  asks Paulie Cicero to take it over and let Henry Hill run it because as he said “Henry is here so much he’s almost a bar stool†could definitely be applied to Keith Hernandez at Rusty’s. Hernandez was not the friendliest guy in the place unless of course you had breasts and a vagina. So when Mex says ‘he has a car waiting for him†or he’s pissed off that his favorite steak house is not open or he has no patients with bad relief pitching it’s just Mex being Mex.
Ben Shpigel in today’s NY Times has a great story on the best unremarkable season in Mets history.
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This post was written by kranepool on September 7, 2007
Steve?
Do I detect an Air Of Sarcasm, being directed @ the Scion to Succeed Fred Wilpon, Namely, he who’s called Jeffy?
Why, according to a Canary of mine, am I finding out that their “Ebbets Field Of Schemes” will be a Ballpark full of Quiche-Eaters” & “Sherry-Sippers”?
Michael,
You have brought up my biggest fear that the “real fans” will be left out at $iti Field.