Friday Happy Hour at the Elysian Fields Bar & Grill
Welcome to the Elysian Fields Bar & Grill, where Shea Stadium still conjures up memories of the Amazin' Mets of 1969.
* Rangers pitchers are hitting .141 in Interleague play since it began in 1997, fifth best in the American League. Bobby Witt still has their only home run.
* The Twins have the highest batting average at .170. But no American League team has yet to beat the Rangers .368 average (7-for-19) in 1997 for the highest single season average by their pitchers.
* Indians pitchers have hit four home runs in Interleague play: Dwight Gooden, Dave Burba, C.C. Sabathia and Jason Davis. No other American League team has more than one.
* TBS announcer Ron Darling on Mets manager Willie Randolph: "He is always going to be on a simmering seat especially in that town, and that's unfortunate but that's just how New York can be. But when you are ownership and you are a town that expects you to be a 95 - 100 win team and you look more like an 85 - 90 win team then a lot of frustration seems to build in a town where there's more TV shows than actual players talking about baseball."
* Mike Mussina on leading the Yankees in victories: ``Funny how things happen. When I got to Spring Training, I was hoping to stay in the rotation. A lot of people assumed my best stuff was behind me. Granted I don't throw 90 mph anymore, but I still know how to pitch.''
* St. Louis is the only city in which the Rangers have never played. Unless you count Washington D.C. I guess you do, although the Rangers will take care of that next week.
* Actor James Caan: "My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper."
* Just for the heck of it: Damon Buford.
* On June 13, 1973, the Dodgers had an infield of first baseman Steve Garvey, second baseman Davey Lopes, shortstop Bill Russell and third base Ron Cey. They stayed together for the next 81/2 years.
* New York City wanted the Brooklyn Dodgers to play on the site of Shea Stadium. Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley refused since they were from Brooklyn. By the way, the Mets have played more games at Shea than the Dodgers did at Ebbets Field.
* At one time they thought about putting a dome over Shea Stadium. But the structure couldn't support it because it's built on swampland.
* Every heard the town of Downey? It's just south of Los Angeles. Karen Carpenter's hometown. They almost had the Dodgers before Walter O'Malley got his free land in Chavez Ravine.
* David Clyde's first career complete game for the Rangers came at Shea Stadium on April 27, 1974. Against the Yankees. They played there in 1974-75 while Yankee Stadium was being renovated. Yankees drew 10,162 for the game. A Saturday at that and Clyde was the winning pitcher.
* Clyde pitched a second complete game at Shea Stadium later that season. This time he was the losing pitcher in a 2-0 shutout by future Ranger Doc Medich.
* Nolan Ryan started his career with the Mets and went on to throw seven no-hitters in his career. He threw a no-hitter for three of the four teams he played for but not the Mets. They still don't have a no-hitter. Neither do the Padres, Rockies or Rays.
Don't look now but your age is showing..these youngsters have no idea of the beautiful music Karen and Richard Carpenter made.. Then to top it off you mention both Brooklyn Dodgers and Chavez ravine... way before their time. Not that older is always better but when Brooklyn and Milwaukee and the Giants all duked it out for the privilege of playing the Yankess in the series it was surely good baseball.
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The Downey Dodgers.....Hmmmm! What's a dodger anyway?
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"We've only just begun to live, a kiss for luck and we are on our way.........and Fredr_us older is better. Ha ha, TR get a new suit!!!!! It is amazing to me how disrespectful this younger generation is to themselves and to its elders. IT is the age of entitlement. Here is one for Rhodes, "in the last days, people will be lovers of themselves....." We are their folks, so don't sign up for any season tickets. Ha ha. It is the end of the world as we know it, i belive REM.
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So i guess the question becomes, if you knew Volquez was going to win 18 to 20 games would you still have traded him? If the answer is we would not have then the next question is why didn't the vaunted GM and the scouting department not know. Ham is covering Daniels butt on this deal, but, the bottom line is they were very wrong about Volquez, maybe he is using that as motivation, who knows. The bottom line is and i have said it before and i will say it again. It is about the pitching, we would be better off if we would have kept Danks and Volquez, period end of story. I just hope from this day forward that we don't trade any more young pitchers especially when they are so close to taking the next step. Everything last year pointed to the fact that Volquez had done that especially at the end. Again Ham is covering and is "feel good story", but it is about the pitching. Ask Ron he will tell you.
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Dwidre-The world will never end. This age will but the world never will. Jesus Christ will return and when he does the age of Grace will end. If you haven't received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior before His return that is when it will be too late. You better do it while there is still hope because, no one knows the time when he will return and it must be soon. He's coming back!
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