A Baseball game is played in Taiwan on the anniversary of Tom Seaver's MLB debut, but first some very sad news.
NY
Post: Anthony Causi, beloved Post sports photographer, dies of coronavirus at
48. Mack talked about his personal connection to
Anthony back on April 2nd. Our prayers are with his family and with
everyone impacted by this virus.
NY
Post: Mets COO Jeff Wilpon also released a statement, on behalf of the team, as
“RIP Anthony” trended on Twitter: “We are deeply saddened to learn of
Anthony’s passing. He was a charismatic photographer who brought fans closer to
the action with his breathtaking images of the Mets. More importantly, he was a
friend to so many of us through his numerous spring trainings in Port St. Lucie
as well as being a fixture at Citi Field. Our heartfelt condolences go out to
his wife, Romina, son John, daughter Mia and the entire family.”
Now some good news.
Baseball is back! The
Uni Lions beat the Chinatrust Brothers yesterday in 11 innings (Line Score).
CBS
Sports: Actual baseball highlights: Chinese Professional Baseball League
becomes first to play ball in 2020. [Other than Latin America's winter league that is.] Kai-Wen
Cheng, an outfielder with the Uni-Lions, hit the first home run of the CPBL
season in the first inning (video
from Twitter.) The home run came off
Ariel
Miranda, former pitcher for the Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles.
Taiwan
News: “Meanwhile, the Lions starting pitcher was Ryan
Feierabend, who played for the MLB's Seattle Mariners from 2006-2008, the
Texas Rangers in 2014, and the Toronto Blue Jays in 2019… Richard Wang, World
Baseball Softball Confederation's Asia correspondent, told CNA that a baseball
season means Taiwan is still able to have a normal way of life. ‘We are very
lucky that Taiwan can have a baseball season, and at the same time, it also
reflects the solid achievements by the government in coronavirus prevention,’
Wang said.”
NY
Post: The game was played without fans in the stands. There were, however,
some strategically placed robot fans, including some that beat drums to add an
aura of atmosphere to the game.
FYI,
As of Sunday, Taiwan has recorded 388 COVID-19 cases, including six deaths,
population 24 million.
SNY.TV:
'So many Mets greats wore the black'. Pete Alonso
again clamors for return of Mets' black uniforms.
Deesha
Thosar NY Daily News: Pete Alonso finds silver lining in celebrating Easter
without baseball. “I hope everyone has a blessed and Happy Easter! Today is
really special for me because I haven’t been able to celebrate Easter since I
was in high school,” Alonso wrote in a tweet on Sunday. “I understand the
gravity of what’s going on, but there are little victories in each day.”
Mike’s
Mets: Great Games: June 11, 2005 Mets vs. Angels. That was a great game
featuring an inside the park home run by Marlon
Anderson (video included).
Centerfield
Maz: Remembering Mets History: (1967) Tom Seaver's
MLB Debut, April 13, 1967.
Centerfield
Maz: Tomas Nido:
Mets Back Up Catcher (2017-2020). Maz
gives an in depth recap of Tomas’ career so far.
Bill
Madden NY Daily News: '62 Mets were 'loveable loser' newcomer to National
League. It was not the greatest of days, gray, cold and drizzling
throughout, which accounted for the sparse crowd of 12,447. But as Dick Young
wrote in the Daily News of that April 13, 1962 game: “They sat and stood in the
steady rain, chattered incessant encouragement, cheered Frank Thomas’ mid-game
homer and rooted right up to the end for the Mets to avert the eventual 4-3
defeat by Pitt.”
Rising
Apple: Shortened Mets season could help Jeff McNeil set a new franchise record.
In a shorter season, John Olerud's
.354 New York Mets batting average record could be in even more danger with a
guy like Jeff McNeil
around.
Rising
Apple: Will Jacob
deGrom reach David
Wright status with the fans?
Ranking
MLB's top 100 players with 2020 season on hold. #1. Mike Trout; #2. Mookie
Betts; #3. Gerrit Cole; #4. Christian Yelich; #5. Jacob
deGrom; Other Mets on the list: #37. Pete Alonso;
#72 Michael
Conforto; #92. Jeff McNeil.
Empire
Sports Media: The top 7 moments of the 2019 season for the New York Mets
(+video). Great stuff. A sure fire pick me up.
Metsmerized
Online: Mets Second Basemen: Three Who Got Away - Justin
Turner; Daniel
Murphy; Jeff Kent.
Brian Joura Mets 360.com: Thoughts on the
Arizona plan and a shortened MLB season. Brian likes the discussion of different ideas
even if they never happen. He adds: “My
strong preference is to abolish the DH. But if you told me the “cost” of a
computerized strike zone was the adoption of the DH, I’d sign on the dotted
line. And who knows, we may see both of those things if/when the Arizona plan
for the 2020 season goes into effect.”
NBC
Sports predicted who would win the proposed Grapefruit East Division made up of
Nationals, Astros, Mets, Cardinals, Marlins: “Expect the Astros to walk away with this
one, but it’ll be close.”
Deesha
Thosar NY Daily News: Yoenis Cespedes could thrive in MLB's Grapefruit League
plan. Picture this: Yoenis
Cespedes comes up to hit every two or three innings because he’s batting
cleanup as the Mets designated hitter against the Nationals in the middle of
August.
Steve
Contursi Reflections On Baseball: The MLB Florida-Arizona plan for a resumption
of the 2020 season is a winner. Add some bells and whistles, and this could
turn into a home run for baseball.
Stephanie
Apstein Sports Illustrated.com: Bursting the Bubble: Why Sports Aren't Coming
Back Soon. The NBA, NFL and MLB are
dreaming up ways to play amid a pandemic, with talk of isolating players in
Arizona or Las Vegas or maybe on the moon. It all sounds great, until you talk
to people who actually know science.
NBC
Sports: Should Baseball come back this year? The Arizona plan outright calls for players
to be separated from their families. That’s no way to live. The players would
be treated like livestock or robots, not like people. It’s putting profit
before common sense.
USA
Today: Former Chicago Cubs infielder Glenn Beckert dies at 79.
Daily Herald: Images: Former Chicago Cubs' Glenn Beckert.
Daily Herald: Images: Former Chicago Cubs' Glenn Beckert.
USA
Today: Phillies' Zack
Wheeler not for MLB's proposed idea: 'Not going to miss the birth of
my first child'.
12UP.com:
Cole Hamels
Makes it Clear He Would Leave Family to Play Baseball This Season.
Mack’s
Blast From The Past comes from April 13, 2012. Mack talked about Baseball Stuff - Drew Storen,
Brandon
Kline. “Nationals closer Drew Storen
underwent surgery today in Washington to remove a small bone fragment from his
right elbow joint, said his agent…Brodie Van Wagenen”
Born April 12:
- Paul Lo Duca (1972)
- D. J. Carrasco (1977)
- Danny Garcia (1980)
- Justin Ruggiano (1982)
- Brad Brach (1986)
- Tomas Nido (1994)
- Nelson Burbrink (2001)
New York Mets signed free agent Ralph Terry on April 12, 1967.
New York Mets signed free agent Jesus Alou on April 12, 1975.
New York Mets signed free agent Dyar Miller on April 12, 1980.
Transactions:
Blaine Boyer granted free agency on April 13, 2011.
Toronto Blue Jays claimed Aaron Laffey of the New York Mets on
waivers on April 13, 2013.
1962
|
On a wintry day, the Mets play
their first home game ever when only 12,000 fans show up at the Polo Grounds
to see the return of National League baseball to the Big Apple. On Friday the
13th, the Pirates score the decisive run on two eighth-inning wild pitches
thrown by Ray Diavault, beating the New York expansion team, 4-3.
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1983
|
The Phillies, trailing by five
runs entering the final frame, beat the Mets, 10-9, when Bo Diaz
hits a walk-off bases-loaded home run. The Philadelphia catcher's 'ultimate
grand slam', a home run which wins a game when a team is down by three runs
in the bottom of the final inning, is tossed by Neil
Allen, who faces only the final batter.
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2012
|
Josh
Thole's bizarre base running blunder leads to a very odd double play in
the second inning of the Mets' 5-2 victory at Citizens Bank Park. After
successfully reaching second base on R.A.
Dickey's sacrifice bunt, the 25 year-old Mets' catcher shocks everyone,
including the Philadelphia defense, by trying to return to first base, where
he is tagged out to complete the unusual 3-1-6-4 twin killing.
|
2009:
San Diego beats the Mets, 6 - 5, in the first game to be played at Citi
Field in New York. The first batter of the game, Jody Gerut,
hits a home run off Mike Pelfrey
as the Padres jump to an early 5 - 1 lead. New York ties it on a three-run home
run by David
Wright, but the winning run scores when Luis
Rodríguez reaches on a three-base error by RF Ryan Church
and crosses the plate when Pedro
Feliciano commits a balk.
2013 - Matt Harvey
takes a no-hitter into the 7th inning, until the Twins' Justin
Morneau hits a homer that clanks against the right field foul pole at
Target Field with two outs. Harvey has the longest outing of his career, giving
up only two hits in 8 innings in the Mets' 4 - 2 win. The Mets have seven
consecutive hits in the 5th to score all their runs.
2017 - In the longest game yet played at
Marlins Park, the Mets defeat Miami, 9 - 8, on a homer by Travis
d'Arnaud in the 16th inning. Mets starter Robert
Gsellman gives up 8 runs in 4 2/3 innings, but seven relievers combine to
pitch 10 1/3 scoreless innings. Yoenis
Cespedes hits a pair of homers, while d'Arnaud has four hits, including a
bases-loaded triple and his game-winning homer off Adam Conley,
who had been scheduled to start the next day. For the Marlins, Marcell
Ozuna hits a grand slam in the 1st.
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7 comments:
Hope everyone had a happy, healthy Easter and Passover.
Sad news about Causi. Simply put, it is a killing field in NYC Metro. A death to COVID in less than every 2 minutes, for a week now. Our leaders were far slower than Taiwan in taking this killer seriously. And Taiwan should be applauded for their extraordinarily low death rate. The “we’re NY” false pride is being torn away, leaving fear and mortality.
By the way, deaths at local nursing homes are soaring, and the spike is no doubt due to COVID but is being undercounted, and deaths at home due to COVID are undercounted too.
That said, why not consider one “league” playing its 2020 baseball in Taiwan. Among other things, it would stick it to the deceptive leaders of Beijing.
In the good new department, my brother Jim and nephew Michael have recovered from COVID. Most people do recover once they get it.
It was fun watching the Mets’ 1986 and 1988 clinchers. Gooden and Darling threw complete games. No doubt both were well over 100 pitches. Topic never seemed to come up.
They say things like this don't truly sink in until it knocks on your door.
Found out yesterday that my sister-in-law's cousin died of this in Queens.
Now comes the beginning of your post.
This fucking virus...
Sorry to hear about the family death, Mack.
Queens is insane, due to too many poor immigrants living in high density housing. Like a match being struck around dry tinder. I guess Bill de Blasio was too preoccupied with how his sanctuary city policies would look in a COVID spotlight to act quickly. My guess is your family member’s death could be collateral damage from those policies.
Those living conditions will remain, unless someone gets creative and sets up massive tent cities in very rural areas for them north of the city, like Turkey’s migrant camps, to spread them out, so how you really get the death and infection rates down, and get them to stay down, around here in NYC Metro is beyond me.
Mack, Sorry for your loss.
Don't want to get political here and point blame here or there. Taiwan has handled the virus better than anyone. The US and other other countries need to learn from that. Also, they make PPE and masks in their own country and don't have to depend on imports for these.
Both deaths shares a period that looked like they were coming out of this. Same for singer-songwriter John Prine.
DO NOT think any rallying means you are done with this.
Mack, true on that.
I just have to wonder what drugs they both got, and at what stage, and if earlier administration of the current drugs of hope might have saved either of them.
Tom
And you know how I hate to get political here, but that being said, if The President removes Tony Fausi from the task force, I am done with him and his ego BS.
I will write in Mark Cuban.
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