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 Post subject: The Mets Are Pissing Me Off
PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:21 pm 
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I don't speak Spanish so I can't talk to a lot af Met ballpayers anymore now but as a little boy who lived at 844 Flatbush Avenue in a 3-floor walkup a long time ago I got to Ebbets Field with my father. Monster seats were $2.50 reserved along the lines just behind the $3.50 box seats. You were IN THE GAME and up close. I went to a World Serious game in 1953 and watched Brooklyn win it. Those were $7.50 seats and I had no idea that anybody could have that much money to watch a baseball game.

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In 1962 as a teen I used to hump and haul with the Bee Line bus out of Hempstead to snag the E train in Jamaica to the 7th Avenue stop to grab the D train up to the Polo Grounds. A bag of sandwiches and $1.25 and a can of soda wrapped in aluminum (wrapped by your mother) got you general admission and sometimes a doubleheader on a weekend or holiday.

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My old man would never take me to Polo Grounds when the NY Giants played baseball there. He hated the Yankees, the Giants, and the German that hit him with 4 rounds in Italy, in that order.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mets Are Pissing Me Off
PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:32 am 
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I screwed up by studying French in school for 6 years.

Spanish and not running out a ground ball would have done me better.

Or maybe the one-hand catch for a drop. I'm not sure.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mets Are Pissing Me Off
PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:30 am 
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speaking fluent spanish would have landed you a spot on the worst team money could buy...Minaya needs to be shown the door he has single handidly turned the Mets into the Expos..Wright a leader?? How???? He would need a translator to even communicate with this morose bunch of crybabies..I have season tix and will not attend a game without becoming violently ill..Rather go to my kids LL games where the kids actually follow their coaches advice and execute on sound fundamentals..They are 10.


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