The Will To Rock Flushing

I don’t know how I missed this when it originally aired in June.  Thankfully it was aired a on Monday.  A recommended listen.

Satchel Paige was a dazzling pitcher with a scorching fastball. A decade before Jackie Robinson became the first black player in Major League Baseball, Paige helped integrate the sport by touring the country and playing exhibition games with white players…

If you follow me on twitter you probably already know that I have a little shop on etsy.com where I sell needlework pieces I’ve created.  If not—you know now.  You should buy something!  And then tell your friends to but something. 

Now back to your regularly scheduled silence. 

2010 will be our year!

and that’s all that today means to me.  I find it amusing that Yankees fans have been coming to my desk all day to “console” me… today.  Today I don’t need your pity. Today I’m happy it’s all over. Today I can say the Phillies lost!  That’s reason enough to have a party.  The day I really needed consolation was the day it was decided that both the Yankees and the Phillies were on their way to the World Series.  That day all I could do was hope for a meteor or more realistically a 4 game sweep so it would all be over as soon as possible.  I got neither of those.  So, today I can start counting down the days until spring training when I can officially put the 2009 season in the past.

I had intended to get back into full swing blogging when I returned from my vacation in Savannah in early July.  Obviously that didn’t happen.  Let’s just say I was speachless during the last month.  Every other day a different man is down.  When Castillo sprains his ankle in the dugout things are basically hopeless.  At this point the injury possibilities are endless.  I was honestly terrified for the guys flying out to the west coast this past week. 

But hope is just ‘round the corner… can you say 2013?

Welcome to the Mets pitching staff.  Now that Chipper Jones has hit a home run off of you, you can officially be initiated into the club. 

Congratulations.

Wow, I have totally neglected this blog all season.  I’ve been in kind of a Mets depression since opening day night.  Why so sad?  Well, I came to realize that was going to be just one of very few games I’ll be attending this year.  I don’t want to be a whiner complaining about obstructed views and ticket prices and whatever else Mets fans are complaining about this week.  But the fact is, I just can’t afford to spend $30 on a ticket every time I want to go to a game.  Jeff can go on and on all he wants about $11 seats.  A few weeks ago I couldn’t even find a ticket less than $70 in April or May.  Thanks only to StubHub I was able to get tickets to the game on Mother’s Day, a tradition I’ve had with my mom and sister for the last few years.  Normally I don’t mind spending a little more on tickets for this game.  But spending $70 for seats that were once bleacher seats in Shea isn’t going to happen.  Granted, I would have a back to my seat and a nice view of Beltran (ahem)… it’s probably only worth it on opening night. 

So this, on top of everything else going on… (Did this really happen???) I haven’t been a huge fan of the Mets organization lately.  It has me in some kind of rut that I’m ready to get over and just start enjoying some baseball games. 

The Phillies are officially in last place.

UPDATE:  And now the Mets are one full game ahead of them. 

I never had any intention of blog hibernating this winter. I always thought I would blog through the playoffs and the off season.  Frankly, I didn’t have it in me.  Baseball ended in September. I didn’t have any desire to go back.  But now… just the sound of Gary Keith, Ron and Kevin makes everything feel right in the world again.

Ahhhh baseball is new again.