Irving Picard

“‘MR. MET NOT ONLY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY BY WITHDRAWING HIS HEAD INTO A SHELL, BUT ALSO LAUNCHED HIS OWN SCHEME OF FICTITIOUS T-SHIRTS.”

Mr. Met

“AINEITBDRMCTIWOBDFPHISTPWNHCCS — ALTHOUGH IT’S NOT EVEN IN THE BILL, DON’T RATION MY CARE THAT I WOULD OTHERWISE BE DENIED FROM PRIVATE HEALTH INSURERS, SO THAT PEOPLE WITH NO HEALTH CARE CAN SURVIVE.”

Story of the Colliers at The New York Times.

“ANY HOPE OF BENDING THE COST CURVE IS NOW OUT THE WINDOW, DUE TO THE HIGH TOLL ON THE METS OF NOT JUST THROWING CURVEBALLS … BUT ALSO JUST BENDING OVER.”

OK, OK, perhaps I’m just bitter, but maybe those fly balls by Delgado and Church that descended harmlessly at the warning track in the last two innings … were the victim of the very same winds that held back the last fly ball off the bat of the Orioles’ Davey Johnson in 1969. Poetic justice?

Shea Stadium, R.I.P.