Congratulations to the Mets

[Peter James]

Not going to talk about the controversial call earlier in the game, but it was 51 years coming. Good performance.

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[Rob Z]

Hi Peter-are you a Mets fan?  My 10 year old son is on his way right  now to see the Mets vs Nats tonight.  

The Mets are his team, and Johan Santana is his favorite pitcher. He's been a nervous wreck about this series!  If the Nats take it he won't talk to me for a week! [scared]

I was the same way at his age-The Big Red Machine in the 1970's was the only thing I cared about before I discovered girls, cars, money, etc. [big grin]

 

[Peter James]

When I was a baseball fan I was a Mets fan. Unfortunately the baseball strike opened my eye about professional sports in general and I was turned off to it after the strike. My wife, however, is a HUGE Mets fan. Her whole family is. So when the Mets win, I live in a happy household (If mama ain't happy - nobody is happy). I've actually not been to Citi Field for a game yet - just a concert. I have sent my wife to a few though. Tough loss last night - I hate going to a game ending the way it did (I've been to plenty of them at Shea). Just tell your son that there are 160 games a season and dropping a couple to the Nats isn't the end of the world (I know it's still hard to take as a 10 year old). Did he get there early enough to tour Citi Field? I remember getting a tour before it opened. You can see the world series trophies etc! Great times

 

[Rob Z]

Yes, he has been to the new stadium to see several games.  My sister-in-law (his aunt) has some connections of some sort and got some extra cool stuff for him last season.  

He is in a frump right now because the Nats won the series, and now because they lost last night to the Yankees. His temperament is also affected by how well David Wright plays. But R.A. Dickey (second favorite pitcher and fourth favorite player overall) killed the Nats with the knuckleball, so that raised his spirits a bit.

It's hard being 10 years old! ;D

I, too, went onto a boycott of baseball after the '94 strike.  We had decided we didn't want to do the traditional sort of "go to the beach" honeymoon, so we had set up a west coast trip, planning to travel from San Diego to Seattle and to see games at all 6 stadiums. We got married in Virginia, got on a plane to California, and once we got there MLB went on strike.  GRRRRRR......

We still had a great time and spent three weeks travelling from San Diego to Seattle.  We decided we wanted to move to San Francisco based on our visit there...until we looked at the real estate listings!!! [eek]

 

[Peter James]

I'm not a fan of knuckleballers, but I do like RA! Man the Mets really put themselves in a hole this weekend. My wife's brothers were at the game Sunday. One is a Yankee fan and the other a Mets fan. Could not have been a pleasant car ride lol! My wife and I made the same trip you did a while back! Flew into San Diego and rented a drop top and cruised up the coast. We stopped in Napa Valley though - that was as far as we could go time permitted. We saw every field except Oakland. San Diego was great! LA was about what we expected. Anaheim was a pleasant surprise. During the 7th inning stretch we could see the Disney fireworks which was a nice treat. San Fran was also our favorite. But we did look like a bunch of tourists - everybody bought blankets and jackets and we thought they were crazy. Well, by the 7th inning we were freezing!!!!

 

[guitar_ed]

Peter,

My folks moved to the Bay Area, Palo Alto specifically back in 1962.  They went to a ball game at Candlestick Park, in July.  It was 80+ in Palo Alto, their friends told them to bring blankets and coats.  My folks ignored them, as any right thinking person would.  Ooopppssss...  It gets pretty danged cold in SF in the summer time when you are dressed for warm.

Oh well.

Take care,

edg

 

[greg mann]

Mark twain claimed San Fransisco was a nice place. He, "spent a winter there one summer."

 

[fritter63]

We like to say...SF is so special , they have their own weather