Well, not really west more south east from here is Philly as I’m on the NY-Pennsylvania border but any way when it hit the bunk in my tent last night I had no knowledge of the score of last nights game. I have a radio with me but you can’t get an AM signal and all that’s on the FM dial is bad lite music or hillbilly tunes. But when I went to sleep for some reason I just had a feeling that the Mets had won. My big fear when I’m up here, besides a bear having me for a late night snack is a Mets pitcher will pitch a no hitter and won’t see it live. Yeah I know it’s stupid but dumb shit always bothers me.
Anywhoo, when I got up this morning I opened my foot locker and right on top was my Mr Met t-shirt   and my Mets socks so I knew that was an omen that all things Mets were good.  So I grab my bag (this is 6 AM) and head off for a shower and to get dressed before making the camp breakfast. I see the lodge is open and I dash in click on the IE and type in espn.com and my heart is racing.
As the site pops up I see “Mets hang on for 10-9 win” OH SHIT I goots read this game story. How devestaing would it have been to lose tha tgame My God a 9 run lead evaporating like that. Maybe it’s a good thing I neither saw or heard this gameÂ
First things first. The NL players did the Mets and their fans a favor by not naming D-Wright and Jose Reyes to the All Star team as both players have taken this disrecpet and are taking it out on the baseball. Wright has 21 HR and 70 RBI but no berth in the All Star game Miguel Tejada goes over Reyes is a joke but this is the kicking the ass the team has needed thank you NL players.
BIlly Wags better get over this bout of Benitezitis quick and Omar Minaya needs to make a move that does not involve bringing up any more Zephrys. We need bullpen help and we need it fast.
Petey stepped up with 105 pitches through 5 but the Mets need a better from him.
Warlorad Jerry got tossed I see following a disputed HR call that’s three ejections in half a year for J-Man more than the last guy had in 3 1/4 years as bench boss  Â
The second half schedule favors the Mets with more home games than road and their furthest trip to Houston.
Looks like we’re back in bring on the Giants
I give all you out of town Mets fans a load of credit for following the Mets the way you do it’s not easy when you can’t watch or listen to your favorite team every night.
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This post was written by kranepool on July 8, 2008
Steve,
Be thankful you did not watch. I almost was in cardiac arrest. If they blew a 10-1 lead, they would have been done for the year. It was so symmetrical, seeing Werth face Wags like on Sunday. I think every Met fan was pacing, I certainly was. The funniest thing though, is as soon as Endy caught the last out, Cohen blurts out, “And they win the damn thing 10-9″, just like the late, great Murph.
How Heilman gives up an HR to Gee-off Jenkins is unfathomable. The guy swings in the same place every time. Just pitch the mofo up and away, he is Dave Kingman from the left side. Anyway, when that little gnat Victorino lead off with a hit in the ninth, you knew it was going to be trouble. Then a Wags-like walk to Bruntlett, and get the oxygen for the Howard at bat. He k’s big Ryan, then gets pain-in-the -ass Burrell to fly to right. By this point, I’m pacing like a lion in a cage at dinner time. Thank God Werth got under that ball.
I guarantee a let down tonight, but I’m ok with it. They know they can beat the Cheesesteaks, and are 7-3 vs. them. It may be a fun summer after all!
Hey Kranepool. I know what it’s like to try and get the Mets on the radio. I live in the Syracuse, NY area and my work schedule gets in the way of my TV viewing, so I have to catch the Mets when I can on the AM dial. For some idiotic reason, NO AM station in this area carries the Mets. I have to try and get WFAN to come in, which actually works pretty good after 8:00 PM. Before 8, forget it, I get static. I wish a station up her would carry them.
Kranepool, I have been reading your blog for over a year and a half now. I have enjoyed it immensely. I am from Kansas and now live in St. Louis, but I was 8 when I chose the Mets to win in 1986. That was the last time I got to watch a baseball game with my dad, so the Mets have been my team ever since. I’ll never be as die hard as you, but I wanted to let you know that I appreciated the fact that you gave a shout out to those “out of town Mets fans” in your latest blog. I’ll always feel like a transplant, but reading your blog helps make me feel like a part of the family. Thanks, man.
I always love your stories about your little league team, as I, myself, am a high school baseball coach. Kids these days are hurting for the fundamentals!
Love your Blog! As an ex NY’er living in NC now it’s been hard not being able to follow the Met’s live. I’ve found a site that will allow streaming of MLb.TV so I can watch each night. It’s a beautiful thing. I get to work early in the AM so I went to bed last night thinking the Mets have a 9 run lead this should be a cakewalk. Checked this morning and I was like WTF?? Almost blew the game. I agree bullpen help is much needed.
Let’s go Mets!
Steve,
Your man Murton was just traded to Oakland as part of a deal for Harden.
WOW I may have to stay in the woods so not to jinx this team.
Yeah Rich, I’m bummed about Murton I’d love to have seen Omar grab him but he is the ideal Billy Beane player he will flourish in Oak-Town
Steve,
I think a few weeks in the woods will do you (okay, the Mets) the world of good.
As you know I listen to every Met game on mlb.com from afar (east side of the Atlantic), which is great. The main downside is no one to talk to about the games. For that, I’ve been tuning in here for years.
Sometimes I miss the carefree way you used to write about those awful Art Howe teams (when you didn’t expect or even hope to win). Are those old archives still available somewhere? I used to have tears in my eyes from laughing as I read about Joe McEwing & the rest (once you explained the nicknames to me).
Anyway, just thought this was as good a time as any to say thanks again.
Eagle we go back a long way and those days of “Joe McUseless” seem like a loooonnngg time ago. I have to go back to the old site and see if the archives are still there with those old posts. I’d like to find my post when Scott Kazmir was traded as that on ealways was my favorite.
As for staying in the woods I reall have a jones for some concrete and and open fire hydrant right now.