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BOB MURPHY NOMINATED FOR THE IRISH AMERICAN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

One of my favortite places to eat and watch sports is FOLEY’S NY PUB & RESTAURANT, 18 w33st in the shadow on the Empire State Building, has released the names of this years nominees for the IRISH AMERICAN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME:
Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame Announces Nominations for 2010 Induction Class
 
Foley’s NY Pub & [...]

CHECK IT OUT: ALL DOWN THE LINE

Caryn Rose of Metsgrrl fame has a new site called All DownThe Line. The site is devoted to Ms. Rose’ travels around the baseball landscape and the ball parks she has visited. As always the words and picture are first class. Do yourself a favor and bookmark this site.

SPEAKING WITH THE ENEMY, MY INTERVIEW WITH CRASHBURN ALLEY

Over the weekend while looking while watching the shingels of my roof fly through the air with the greatest of ease, I did a Q & A with the talented author of Crashburn Alley, Bill Baer (and Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Digest Daily and ESPN The Sweet Spot) on our beloved Metsies. Bill is hoping [...]

“GOOD-BYE, LUV” RON LUNDY 1935-2010

If you are under 45 years old, you probably have no idea who Ron Lundy is. Lundy, one the great voices of 77 Music Radio WABC a radio station that just screams of summertime, school yards and stick ball games of my youth, whose signature open was “Hello Luv, From The Greatest City in the World I’m Ron [...]

MORE IMPURE THOUGHTS

Daniel Shoptaw, the Prime Minister of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance and the operator of the Cardinals blog C70 At The Bat, does a series on his site, Playing Pepper where he interviews bloggers from other teams sites to get the lowdown on their season. Now up on C70 At The Bat are the New York Mets [...]

NOT EXACTLY A MAINE MAN

We are told not to take the stats from spring training too seriously especially early, but the quotes coming from John Maine after his cameo appearance yesterday left me a bit unsettled.
Because of the rain the last couple of days in Florida, the Mets have tried to rearrange the pitching assignments to make sure every [...]

LAZY SUNDAY

WOW  What a weekend!  Saturday we had tickets for a show at the New Victory Theatre and decided to go by car instead of ferry/subway.  As bad as the weather was, lots of traffic on the roads and on the sidewalks.  Driving rain and 50 MPH winds but the city was still packed as was [...]

RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY……………

With the witch hunt by guys like John Harper and the Legion of Ignoramuses A/K/A the callers to WFAN talking out their ass about Jose Reyes’ Thyroid (how is this for a man bites dog story, Joe Benigino and Evan Roberts are now the best and informative hosts on the station since they had an [...]

IT’S MARCH 12TH AND THE METS ALREADY HAVE ME EMOTIONALLY DRAINED

 
The worst part of the Reyes Thyroid melodrama is not the illness as it appears with rest and proper diet, Reyes can get his overactive Thyroid under control, it’s the fact that the front office now has to make some very important personnel moves and that alone should set all our Thyroids into overdrive.
As a [...]

“THUMP” THAT WAS THE OTHER SHOE DROPPING ON THE JOSE REYES SAGA

I’m sure you all heard by now that Jose Reyes will start the season on the DL and could be out till the middle of May. The thyroid condition that he claims the doctor told he didn’t have will have him sideline from any physical activity for awhile as doctors check his thyroid gland and [...]

BOB MURPHY NOMINATED FOR THE IRISH AMERICAN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

CHECK IT OUT: ALL DOWN THE LINE

SPEAKING WITH THE ENEMY, MY INTERVIEW WITH CRASHBURN ALLEY

“GOOD-BYE, LUV” RON LUNDY 1935-2010

MORE IMPURE THOUGHTS