tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88235744198177552842012-02-16T02:23:54.063-05:00Jen and Abby were best friends in Georgia when they were 5 years old. Then Abby's family moved away. They found each other years later in a bar in Brooklyn still having much in common: Boys and Baseball.WonderGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858368047396996816noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823574419817755284.post-79045152073678021412012-01-07T11:49:00.000-05:002012-01-07T11:49:00.780-05:00

A recent NY Times article about the love of my life, Mr. Met, recounted one of my favorite stories in this history of baseball.  This once again proves that The Mets will always be the most fun team ever. Before there was a Mr. Met. the Mets' First mascot was Homer the Beagle.  Casey hated him and would not let the poor dog sit in the dugout.  They trained Homer to run around the bases every

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Here is a darling customer who enjoyed a meal here at Fort Defiance tonight.  I enjoyed his mustache.

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So Movember is right around the corner, and we have finally caught up on this side of the pond.  Do you part and help sponsor these handsome lads from the Clover Club. In their honor, another shot of a most noble and sacred mustache.

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Why not? I have already mentioned at great length my love for Keith Hernandez.  Now witness the power of the George Harrison. Martin Scorsese made a beautiful film in tribute to the great man and Beatle.  His quiet observation and understanding of love, life and music continues to inspire me. Thank you George.

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Actually it was full of school groups on this hot mid-day, mid-week game.  And what the crowd lacked in size, they made up for in enthusiasm. Especially when the cameras put them on the big screen. Very Cute...as is Billy Marlin (though he is NO Mr. Met, natch).It was a good game that moved at a good clip and even went extra innings...i love Free Baseball!  The Marlins had their opportunity to

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Well, baseball is finished in the Big Apple.  A mere week after the Mets season ended, so did the Yankees.  Anything can happen in those short series.  And despite predictions that this season was a dud, the last day of the regular season was one of the most thrilling in history. As I make preparations to possibly move to a city without a Major League Baseball team (oh the HORROR!), I have

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Yup..it happened.Ok..its not my beloved Mets (who have won 5 in a row, btw) and I am not even in NYC. But I get to see my first game of the year in the hot sunshine of southern Florida. And I get to see the beleaguered LA Dodgers, my sister's new adopted team since her cross country move.I think I should make a sign for the Dodgers today, "MOVE BACK TO BROOKLYN!!"That would solve a lot of their

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Ok...for me, 4 outta 5 are Baseball films. Call it my nostalgia for Americana or my love of the game or my love for boys and team sports. But I just can't help myself.# 4 is The Natural - a touch of magical realism, hope that springs from great tragedy. Its a beautiful film visually and that music is compelling and twangs my heart springs every time and makes my soul soar. #3 is Field of

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I feel like a crocus just peaking its head out of the snow. Opening day today for Baseball (tomorrow for my beloved Mets). Its been a rough winter sans boys AND baseball. Here's to Spring's eternal hope that I get both again in my life soon!

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And no, I am not talking about the passing of Mr. George Steinbrenner...I am talking about my beloved National League FINALLY won an All-Star Game! 13 years with a lousy stinkin' tie in between, the year Super Joe McEwing should have been nominated to the team as an All-Star Journeyman, the AL has owned our asses. So glad our long nightmare is over. Even if it took a pudgy Brave to do it.I

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Even my true Orange and Blue Mets heart melts for this Rescue Me commercial featuring Derek Jeter. Well done boys. I get shivers and tear up every time....

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Meh...I am already over the World Cup this year. All this build up and anticipation and then nothing really happens...kinda like my love life as of late. And I am left with blue balls (ovaries?) the size of a soccer ball.But the Mets are playing great! And there was almost a double no hitter in baseball last night! And this week I headed out to Coney Island for the City High School

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I alwasy had a soft spot in my heart for the Pirates. They have had great retro uniforms, love that pill box hat, and they have one of the most beautiful parks in the league (so I hear...a visit in indeed in order). Now they all have Mustaches! Yhay!PITTSBURGH -- Manager John Russell was pretty much the only holdout of Bobby Crosby's mustache challenge, which was issued a week ago to start a

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And for one brief shining moment, I imagine sailors running through my town, singing and dancing looking for dates.The 1944 musical, On The Town was unique for being filmed on location here in New York City. As you can see in the opening number below, they sure took advantage of the city. From Grants Tomb, to the Brooklyn Bridge and Top of the Rock in between, a lot of the sights look the same!

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When I was a little girl, I dreamed of becoming the first female professional baseball player. I was too young to know that there already was a professional player, a whole league of them in fact.Many of us first heard of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Players Association thanks to the Penny Marshall film, A League of Their Own. Though the Geena Davis character, Dottie

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I pulled an animal rescue last night when I found an abandoned fish in a dirty bowl outside in the rain last night. I cleaned him up and gave him some food. He is a blue beauty and is the same kind of fish that my darling high school sweetheart Steve gave me in collage. I named that fish Zoe because she was red a beautiful like a flower and I dug that Lenny Kravitz song at the time. Steve was

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So I look like this today. True.I was talking to a fan last night at Dressler who said not to get my hopes up. Yeah..seasons can suck when they don't win. But its the first day! Anything can happen! Miracle collapse and ruin just leans to miracle comebacks. Besides its a beautiful day and Shea 2 is a beautiful park. Lets just watch the boys play!True to the Orange and Blue[Achilles In The

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Ok, I challenge you not to be touched by this performance at The Grammys last night. Dave and his band had back up from a large group, some of them 16 year olds from the Grammy in the Schools program. I also love this song You & Me. Like many of the songs on the album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, Dave expresses his growing love for his wfe, their family and their changing life together.

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Mark Gamble's "I Think I Need a New Heart"Night two of tormented insomnia leads me to more sweet songs that make me wish I was in love. Tonight its The Magnetic Field's I Think I Need a New Heart from their three volume concept album 69 Love Songs. I was first introduced to this album due to track 22 on volume 2, Abigail, Belle of Kilronan. I always wanted a song with my name in it. I planned

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20 years ago I discovered singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston. I remember being a bit tipsy at a party with a boy I liked, both of us singing "Bad Reputation". Suddenly I'm on the street Seven years disappear below my feet Been breaking down Do you want me now? Do you want me now? Suddenly I'm down in Harold's Square Looking in the crowd, your face is everywhere Been turning around Do you want me

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In the midst of my winter depression...I am watching Mets Classics. Sept 18th, 2006. The Day I assumed they clinched the National League East title. I do not recall what else could make this game a "classic". They are playing Florida. Yuck. And it only serves to remind me that this was the year they should have gone all the way to the World Series. Woe!I prefer watching those games from

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Yup...this sums it up for Met Fans.LeSigh!Well the Yankees are my second favorite team and it will make many members of my family happy.I just wish I was in the DR with Danny Murphy. Boo hoo hoo!"Mets Fans have the choice of two evils"[NY Times]

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Hey there, Hot Legs!With the Mets season over before it began, I am already dreading the long cold winter with no baseball. The good news is that maybe this will be the year I catch some winter ball. One of my favorite Mets, Danny Murphy will be playing in the Dominican Republic this year! I believe he'll be playing for the Águilas Cibaeñas.I have always wanted to go to the DR, and the combo

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cLenny Dykstra's Financial Careerwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorJoke of the Day

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I like giving player nicknames. I like those nicknames to be inscrutable, wacky and spontaneous. They may not always make sense to anyone but me...but i like to use them over an over again until they just become accepted fact...again accepted fact just to me.This of course all started with the legendary Porkchop during the spring training trip in aught 7. This year we have seen the

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I didn't know my injuries were contagious...hold it together boys! Look! I am getting better! Playing softball last week I ripped a single, walked twice and scored form 1st base two times! Not bad for the first day back on a bum ankle. I have another game today. The ankle is wrapped, the missing sports bra has been summoned (Thanks roommate!). I think I am ready. Are you, boys? I'd

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The NY Times this Wednesday gave a nice review to the food at New Shea. He loved the burger, and who doesn't love Shake Shake?! At $5.75 it easily beats the Yankee $9 Johnny Rocket in both taste and value.I had the Shrimp PoBoy this week and while Mr. Bruni tasted nothing but pepper, I felt my sinuses cleared from the whole grain mustard. There was a lot of shrimp, though.I was disappointed

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Great game last night at Shea (New Shea? Shea II? ToShea?). Big Boppers all night long. And as long as we score more runs that the opposition, we will win. So keep those hits coming, boys and try not to drop any more easy pop ups! You were giving me more Braves inspired gray hairs!

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On a packed bus going to LGA last week, I befriended a Mets fan who I overheard saying on the phone, "Its me, I met you at Shea last week.." I said, "You still call it Shea?" Yup. And so should we all. Its just easier, right? Last night I was watching the game on TV and kept thinking they were playing an away game, despite their white uniforms. It just still looks foreign. Start winning

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When I was a tween (before that term even existed) I ate up young adult novels like anyone else. But having a mother who was an YA author meant I was given access to the very best, natch. I never really got into Judy Blume or other girly angst. I preferred mysteries (Encyclopedia Brown), classics (Nancy Drew) and books with a feminist tom boy slant. I remember one of my favorites took a

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My bum foot is straining against the confines of this cast...yet, when free, only craves the security, safety and upward mobility the cast provides. My foot is now officially "dating" my cast.Blerg!

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Oh I kinda felt this coming...Still it is disappointing.Lenny's Dykstra's carefully created personal is crumbling apart. Your wife of 20 years filing for divorce? Sad but it happens. Borrowing 23k from your Mother so you can charter a private plane?! Dude, you need help. That is just pathologically stupid and sad. What is it about the privileged and rich that make them so completely and

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Luck? Karma? Kismet? Things long associated with baseball. And forces lately I think that have been messing around with my life.Losing my job...surgery...heartbreak...accident at the gym...all these things piling up lately have made me lose faith in myself. I sit and worry for days on end about my fate and whether or not I have any control.Then there are the days where I let it all be and

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So I am writing this as a challenge to get Jen to write a response. This blog is supposed to be about boys too, you know?I don't think I have been encumbered, though my Mom is a reader and I don't feel comfortable putting the most graphic details on the web. I have written about some boys, right?Well to be perfectly honest...there just isn't a lot of action happening around these parts these

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I got an email from a Yankee fan friend of mine. He writes, "Hope you're doing well and are geared up for the upcoming baseball season. From what I've seen on TV so far, you guys win the new stadium comparison - Citi Field looks like a great place to catch a game; new Yankee Stadium looks like a grotesque recreation of the original, filtered through a prism designed for the tax shelter set."

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I will always have a strange relationship with the Atlanta Braves. They are my evil rivals. And yet they were the major league team I saw when my folks took me to my first baseball game at the old Fulton County Stadium. Jen grew up a Braves fan so I can't out and out hate them. Yet I got my first gray hair during the 1999 National League championship series. Every time I see more gray I

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Shea lives on at The Jackie! The NY Times dining section today did two stories on the food options at the two new ballparks. Much has been made over Yankee Stadium's Garlic Fries (a clear rip off of the popular San Francisco Treat that is not Rice-a-Roni) and all you can eat dining for one super large price. I have been to buffet in the fancy seats at a hockey game. Its good and I love to be

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...It was God Crying bitter tears for Shea!The Final Goodbye: Shea Rests in Pieces[Ny Times]

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PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT TODAY!!!And Danny Murphy is already there...voluntarily working out. Can I volunteer to help? Jen is a a Licenced Massage Therapist, you know!! Lets use those skills! Sports medicine was supposed to be my fall back career just so I could hang with the boys. Now I think my skills are more geared toward working PR with them. Teach them how to deal with the public

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My dog is aging like George Clooney and I am aging like Ethan Hawke. How is that fair? These are my thoughts as I study the widening crack in my skin between my eyes, not 1 inch from my latest out break of a volcanic painful spot. Again, how is it fair to be dealing with both aging and acne? I swear it is weak moments like these where if I had access to a syringe of botulism or cortisone I

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I have taken to sleeping with the dog on the couch. I find falling asleep with the TV on soothing, though others say it is a sign of depression. Its cold. Its dark and gray. I worked out for almost two hours last night and still feel none of the expected endorphins coursing through my body. And we are still weeks away for Pitchers and Catchers. There will be no spring training trip this

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...Is clearly ragging on your own team! That is why the underdog Mets really appeal to me. But really, guys? This logo is the best you could come up with? All that money? All that talent in the NYC area conclave of graphic designing hipsters?Even this site has more creativity! The Keith logo is my favorite, natch!Oh How I love that 'stache!And it was a nice dig at his Met loving colleague,

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xkcdIts has been mentioned before that Baseball is a game of statistics. In a game where failing 6 times out of 10 will put you in the Hall of Fame, its no wonder Baseball and Love seem so similar. After all, ideally you only find true everlasting love once in your life, so I guess the odds are even worse in love than in Baseball. Like my friend Matt wisely said on the subject of love and

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It must be setting in now...I am watching Hockey because it is being played out of doors in a Baseball Stadium...Not just any ball park..Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. I could certainly become a hockey fan if I got to go to a baseball stadium all year round. I guess that sounds weird. But I do like the energy and speed of a hockey game. Those kids got moxie. I like to see a little

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My Favorite 'stashFourteen years ago today I boarded a train at Union Station in Washington D.C. with two suitcases bound for New York City. This set in motion my reunion with Jen, the last decade or so of debauchery with the boys, and my return to a real baseball town and my beloved NY Mets.So take a look at this list for some fine examples of facial hair in baseball from a Brooklyn Blogger. I

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An empty seat in Coney IslandReasons why I love living in NYC...Some guy, in a Yankees hat,natch, gave me shit about my Mets bag when I was going into the gym today. It led to a spirited and friendly discussion about the merits (and faults) of both our teams. NYers love a good natured argument. When I asked him how much money they were gonna spend, he assured me with confidence, "As much as it

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The Mets have put up their Spring Training Schedule! Oh Pork Chop how I long to see you again!Last year Jen and I had our first Spring Training trip together. Jen had been before with her Dad, hitting every team they could as they tore across the state. I started going every year during my spring break (I really think I became a teacher to be like Annie Savoy) driving my Grandparents to see my

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This would have grossed me out as a kid, I swear.Before I gave my heart and soul to Roger McDowell, I had a brief, lusty affair with Lenny "Nails" Dykstra. I was only 10 at the time so his height was not an issue yet. And as you can see from the before and after pictures in this post, the Skol and steroids had not yet rotted his brain and body. I prefer to remember Lenny as the 1986 Sparkplug.

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I think I am lucky to have had many best friends. I hope to have many more, one who might even want to have a family with me. But I am always in it for the long haul and hope that many of these best friends will be there til the very end. I know I will try my best. That is why I am inspired by this story of best friends for 90 years! Way to go ladies! I can see Jen and I with walkers or

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Playing The Field: best friends explore their love for sport, road trips and the boys of summerAbby:It took me ten years living in New York City, but I had finally found my Cheers bar. You know, a place where everyone knows your name? Or as my Irish friends would call it; my Local. Except there was nothing local about Magnetic Field. First of all, it was in another borough, Brooklyn. I was a

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