Although this guy is darker than the adults, it’s still Mets colors — and that is a fitting post for today’s news of the Mets’ “Tom Terrific”. They are beautiful sleek swoopy birds.
I love to see them flying around at the stable.
I, too, mourn Mr. Seaver. He was a huge part of my childhood. He was not only “The Franchise”, but a personal hero as well. And when the Mets traded him, it broke my heart. The whole debacle served as a wake-up call that baseball was a business. I never looked at baseball the same afterwards. But I sure do like Barn Swallows. 🙂 JK.
I wrote an angry letter to Frank Cashen at the time, in disbelief that they could have done such a thing and saying how I didn’t know if I would ever visit Shea again. He actually wrote back to explain the decision. It was a decently long letter too, But it still makes me shake my head that they could have done that to Tom Seaver.
I believe that you and I are talking about different years. I was speaking of the trade in 1977 in which Tom Seaver was traded for three nobodies. Frank Cashen didn’t become GM till 1980. In 1983, Seaver returned to the Mets, but in 1984 he was picked up by the White Sox because the Mets, under Cashen, had failed to put Seaver on the protected list from free agency because they thought no one would claim a 39 year old pitcher. They, of course, were wrong and New York lost The Franchise” a second time. Sigh. JK.
Right. That’s when I wrote the letter — the second time — but when he was traded I was still a very active Mets fan. I would scale and flip and trade baseball cards with the insufferable Yankees fans across the street trying to get Mets cards. I even practiced my flipping and scaling technique with my Dad. Every Sunday when we stopped for the paper, I’d get new baseball cards and rifle through them, hoping for a Met. When Tom Seaver pitched against the Mets in those years after the first trade, we’d watch and hope that the Mets would not score against him, but that he’d be taken out and THEN they would score. It was a long time to be rooting for this Met on the wrong team so when he returned, I was ecstatic. And when they didn’t protect him, I was enraged. And sad. {sigh.}
I think all of New York was sad. Even the Yankee fans. JK.
I eventually returned to the Mets to root for them and stuck by them — but when they dismantled their World Series team right after that victory that killed my spirit for the game. And I was the one Tim McCarver was talking to when he would say, “For those of you scoring at home….” I had a score card and would score the games. But no more after they, once again, made such stupid moves. {sigh.}
Although this guy is darker than the adults, it’s still Mets colors — and that is a fitting post for today’s news of the Mets’ “Tom Terrific”. They are beautiful sleek swoopy birds.
I love to see them flying around at the stable.
I, too, mourn Mr. Seaver. He was a huge part of my childhood. He was not only “The Franchise”, but a personal hero as well. And when the Mets traded him, it broke my heart. The whole debacle served as a wake-up call that baseball was a business. I never looked at baseball the same afterwards. But I sure do like Barn Swallows. 🙂 JK.
I wrote an angry letter to Frank Cashen at the time, in disbelief that they could have done such a thing and saying how I didn’t know if I would ever visit Shea again. He actually wrote back to explain the decision. It was a decently long letter too, But it still makes me shake my head that they could have done that to Tom Seaver.
I believe that you and I are talking about different years. I was speaking of the trade in 1977 in which Tom Seaver was traded for three nobodies. Frank Cashen didn’t become GM till 1980. In 1983, Seaver returned to the Mets, but in 1984 he was picked up by the White Sox because the Mets, under Cashen, had failed to put Seaver on the protected list from free agency because they thought no one would claim a 39 year old pitcher. They, of course, were wrong and New York lost The Franchise” a second time. Sigh. JK.
Right. That’s when I wrote the letter — the second time — but when he was traded I was still a very active Mets fan. I would scale and flip and trade baseball cards with the insufferable Yankees fans across the street trying to get Mets cards. I even practiced my flipping and scaling technique with my Dad. Every Sunday when we stopped for the paper, I’d get new baseball cards and rifle through them, hoping for a Met. When Tom Seaver pitched against the Mets in those years after the first trade, we’d watch and hope that the Mets would not score against him, but that he’d be taken out and THEN they would score. It was a long time to be rooting for this Met on the wrong team so when he returned, I was ecstatic. And when they didn’t protect him, I was enraged. And sad. {sigh.}
I think all of New York was sad. Even the Yankee fans. JK.
I eventually returned to the Mets to root for them and stuck by them — but when they dismantled their World Series team right after that victory that killed my spirit for the game. And I was the one Tim McCarver was talking to when he would say, “For those of you scoring at home….” I had a score card and would score the games. But no more after they, once again, made such stupid moves. {sigh.}