Daniel Murphy has seriously gone 345 at-bats without hitting a homerun.
"In that split-second, off the bat, the remnants of the largest crowd in Citi Field history, 42,122, both sides of the city’s baseball chasm, Mets fans and Yankees fans both, leapt to their feet."
42,122 baseball fans getting excited about a warning track fly ball from a batter who hasn't hit a homerun in 345 at-bats.
"In the home dugout, Terry Collins knew better.
'Nah,' the Mets’ manager said. 'You can tell by the sound the ball makes off the bat.' "
"Terry, did you think that was a HR off the bat?"
"Yes. I thought it was a HR off the bat. Then I remembered how much Murphy stinks."
Why are you even asking the manager a question like that?
Maybe Collins was hoping that the warning track fly ball would bounce off Swishers glove and go into the stands for a HR.
What happened on the Davis HR, anyway? Did Swisher lose the ball in the moon?
"Soon enough, everyone else would know, the ball dying a few steps shy of the right-field wall, the ballgame dying in Nick Swisher’s glove, a 4-3 Yankees victory that evened the Queens portion of the Subway Series at a game apiece, setting up tonight’s arm-ageddon pairing of R.A. Dickey and CC Sabathia as a rubber-game adventure."
Tonight's arm-ageddon pairing of R.A. Dickey and CC Sabathia will be a rubber-game adventure! I am paid money to write these things!
"And here’s the thing: as much as the Mets’ prosperity has stunned most of baseball and many of their own fans, Collins saw it all clearly back in February, the first day of pitchers and catchers, sitting in his office at Digital Domain Park, wondering what all the doom and gloom was all about."
I don't think the Mets are too good this year. They've exceeded absurdly low expectations which seemed to be linked to the Madoff trial rather than the actual players on the team.
“ 'I don’t see it,' Collins said, his face already fried by the February Florida sun. 'Honestly. I don’t see why people think we’ll be that bad. I heard the other day someone back home said we would lose 105 games. And I just don’t see it. I see a lot of wins out there for this team.' ”
That's what I mean: 105 losses?
"Collins was speaking for the record. But those quotes never made it into the next day’s newspaper. A lot of the quotes from that sit-down didn’t. I didn’t want to embarrass Collins because, damn, he sure sounded the way every manager doomed and destined for the second division has sounded going all the way back to 1880."
For-the-record comments didn't make it to the newspaper because you didn't want to embarrass the subject of the column.
Journalism!
"Yes. I thought it was a HR off the bat. Then I remembered how much Murphy stinks."
Why are you even asking the manager a question like that?
Maybe Collins was hoping that the warning track fly ball would bounce off Swishers glove and go into the stands for a HR.
What happened on the Davis HR, anyway? Did Swisher lose the ball in the moon?
"Soon enough, everyone else would know, the ball dying a few steps shy of the right-field wall, the ballgame dying in Nick Swisher’s glove, a 4-3 Yankees victory that evened the Queens portion of the Subway Series at a game apiece, setting up tonight’s arm-ageddon pairing of R.A. Dickey and CC Sabathia as a rubber-game adventure."
Tonight's arm-ageddon pairing of R.A. Dickey and CC Sabathia will be a rubber-game adventure! I am paid money to write these things!
"And here’s the thing: as much as the Mets’ prosperity has stunned most of baseball and many of their own fans, Collins saw it all clearly back in February, the first day of pitchers and catchers, sitting in his office at Digital Domain Park, wondering what all the doom and gloom was all about."
I don't think the Mets are too good this year. They've exceeded absurdly low expectations which seemed to be linked to the Madoff trial rather than the actual players on the team.
“ 'I don’t see it,' Collins said, his face already fried by the February Florida sun. 'Honestly. I don’t see why people think we’ll be that bad. I heard the other day someone back home said we would lose 105 games. And I just don’t see it. I see a lot of wins out there for this team.' ”
That's what I mean: 105 losses?
"Collins was speaking for the record. But those quotes never made it into the next day’s newspaper. A lot of the quotes from that sit-down didn’t. I didn’t want to embarrass Collins because, damn, he sure sounded the way every manager doomed and destined for the second division has sounded going all the way back to 1880."
For-the-record comments didn't make it to the newspaper because you didn't want to embarrass the subject of the column.
Journalism!
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