Steve and the Tank! - The Mets Were RickRolled at the Last Shea Home Opener

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

The Mets Were RickRolled at the Last Shea Home Opener

It was a cool but sunny day for the last home Opening Day at Shea.

DW hit it to the wall. Two out. Darn it! It's better to see him in person than on the 7 train as a wax statue. (Many thanks to Linda for the DW permalink and for joining me at the game.)

Moyer kept throwing it over to first to keep Castillo at first. I yelled at him like "he's not Reyes!" Beltran grounded out to third to end the inning. It's scoreless at the end of the first.

Delgado hit a solo blast to right center. Pagan flew out to left center. Mets 1 - Phillies 0.

Time for a new feature, Verizon Wireless' Dancing with the Fans. "It's so bad," Linda says. I concur but it's so bad, it's good.  More later on how I can improve this later.

Moyer is the oldest "official" player in the majors at 45 years old and 4 months. He's almost as old as Jessie Orosco a few years ago on the Yankees but not as old as El Duque who is probably is my Dad's age. BTW, Happy Belated 76th Birthday to my Dad a couple of days ago on Sunday, April 6th.

Drinking a gallon of water a day is good for you but you have to go to the restroom. The good news is that my superstition of running to the restroom works because the Mets scored a run while I stepped away from the action.

Perez walked Moyer in the top of the fifth but got out of the jam.

After DW's "Wright Way" advised all kids to wear a helmet, he hit a double down the left field line. A fight broke out between Mets and Phillies fans near the third baseline. Beltran unfortunately grounded out to end the evening. BTW, where is Jose Reyes' Spanish Language Academy.

Castillo is out with a strained right knee. Ouch!

Perez gave up three hits in 5.2 innings but runners on the corners. Joe Smith walked another batter but got out of the jam.

The seventh inning was where it fell apart. Schoenweis loaded the bases. Delgado's throw to Reyes at second hit Utley in the back and the Phillies scored two runs on the play. Darn it! The Phillies added another run to make it 3-2 at the Seventh Inning Stretch.

Schneider hits a single up the middle. Chavez grounds into a double play. Reyes hits a single up the middle. Easley hit the ball a ton to left but it was caught the left field warning track. Darn it! At the end of seven, Phillies 3 - Mets 2.

Stephanie from Franklin Square, Long Island, beat out Vinnie from Staten Island to win Verizon Wireless' Dancing with the Stars.

The Phillies scored another run in the top of eighth to take a 4-2 lead.

Aaron "The Human Raindelay" Heilman keeps looking back to second and then gives up an RBI single. Darn it!

The RickRollers strike again to the tune to the great Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up".

I ask all of you to please call the Mets to demand that they have me sing this classic song during the Verizon Wireless Dance with the Stars contest. I maybe a few years too old for "American Idol" but this is a nice consolation prize. To quote Milli Vanilli, "you know it's true."

While everyone cheers Mr. Met, Linda boos him. She is still emotionally scarred from a ferry trip from the City to Shea a few years ago where Mr. Met had all the kids singing "Meet the Mets". It drove her to near insanity and almost prompted her to throw Mr. Met overboard. It's a good thing that on the Antarctica Marathon trip three years ago that she didn't see nor hear Steve and I singing karaoke or we could have been thrown into the freezing Antarctic waters. Whew! :-)

Mr. Met's handler unfortunately prevented me and others from getting our exclusive photo with Mr. Met. I've got photos with A-Rod and Playboy's Miss November 2007 but my photo album isn't complete until I get a photo with Mr. Met.

Nice to hear the Twilo music for Brooklyn Pete. Where you at bro? Yeah, my Blackberry is on the fritz. It has a Java error and doing a cold reboot could cause the lose of all the data on my Blackberry. You know life will suck if anything bad happens to my Blackberry.

DW struck out looking on a questionable call. Beltran doubled down the left field line. Delgado grounds out and Beltran advances to third. Brady Clark walks to first. The Mets don't score and lose the game 5-2.

Posted by a dejected Tank reporting live from Shea Stadium.