The winner is LatNam, for his “Riding into Atlanta, the Sienfeldian second spitter”. As a prize, he gets to compose one of the “Fun Mets Facts” for the upcoming series, and gets a copy of The Official 1985 Spring Sports Record Book of the Southeastern Conference. LatNam, email me with your Mets fact at bravesjournal at gmail dot com.
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Wooohooo! I want to thank all the little people. My wife for never giving up on me, even when I was trying to think of a word that rhymed with “Rog,” Dix and Stu for getting me through Evidence four days a week, and Russ Ortiz for sucking so much.
LOL…
Congrats!
Latnam, evidence is a bitch!
Robbery.
Wryn, yours was funniest and had the best rhymes, but your meter was off.
Noooo!
My meter was friggin’ perfect!
You rhymed “times” with “slime” though.
Fun Mets Facts:
Pedro Martinez is a Jorge Sosa-look alike.
Shea Stadium with the skyline mowed into center field was the ugliest thing ever last April.
When the site for the current Shea Stadium was being planned, it was in the winter, when air traffic is routed around the city a different way. It was never thought that during summer air patterns, a plane would fly over every 90 seconds.
John Rocker used to look at fans behind home plate at Shea, ask them if they wanted a ball by pretending to underhand toss it, then only to throw his hardest fastball into the screen. Said John, “It was funny to watch them jump. Did they not know there was a screen there?”
Can’t we all just get along?
I like LatNam, and I like his poem. However, if we’re holding meter against Wryn and one bad rhyme against AAR, shouldn’t we hold misspelling “Seinfeld” against LatNam?
You know you’re dumb when John Rocker outsmarts you.
Mine sucked!
Oh well, no hard feelings. My ability to write haikus and my being a former state champion in checkers have served me much better in my ability to pick up chicks than has my ability to write sonnets.
Wryn: I once placed second in a checkers tournament at The Boys Club? when I was 10(ish). Therefore, if ever we meet in person, I’d be willing to test your checker skills, winner take.. umm, I have $.50. Winner takes that. I’m keeping the SEC stat book. 😉
And I’ll give you the Haikus thing. I can never remember which lines get 7 and which get 5. I mean, sure I could look it up, but that’s a lot of work.
5,7,5 biatch!
Dix asked for it:
Everyday I sit
To the right of David Dix
Sometimes he smells bad
I am a ninja
You had better be careful
I will kill you dead
There was a state checkers championship? What’s next, a contest to see who can speed read the most Berenstein bears books?
Oh controversy
sonnets are too subjective
checkers for the win
RBfatc,
Checkers is nothing. Next weekend I’m in a beirut tournement where the top four places qualify for the state championship (MD)!
That’s right, there’s a state championship for beer pong. I can’t believe I still play it. (obviously, my priorities in life aren’t where they probably should be).
My roommate is the UTC Beer Pong Champ
I was the UGA radio trivia champ for a whole year, but then this art-school guy stomped me. Slain by a slew of Renaissance questions!
But I did get to eat free at this really good restaurant for a while. A great ongoing prize for a college student.
FYI – The Met fans up here have officially become intolerable. Here’s to a big outing from Mr. Sosa.
Holy crap. The Mets are putting so much stock in this series, I would hate to see what would happen to them if we took 2 out of 3.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=klapisch_bob&id=2411038&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos2
It’s just too bad we can’t play them full strength. We’ll get our chance.
To be true, as long as we don’t get swept (and fall 7 GB), I’m fine with whatever happens in the series. Staying within 5 before an easy trip to Washington sounds good to me.
Maybe Jorge will remember that he pitches better when he wears gray and has Atlanta across his chest. Can we go get in the time machine and get Jorge from last season?
Marty McFly:”Doc, we might need more room to hit 88mph.”
Doc Brown: “Roads, where we are going, we don’t need roads.”
But I did get to eat free at this really good restaurant for a while.
Taco stand?
Not the Taco Stand, but I did live right around the corner on Cobb & Milledge. It was my cafeteria. Cheap and good. Can’t beat that place. When I was back in Georgia last October, T-Stand was the very first place I went.
No, the free dinners came from Shipfeifer’s Gyro Wrap. I was a big fan of that place, too, but it was a little expensive for a college student.
The taco stand is no longer as cheap as it used to be. It’s been gentrified.
I think you should be DQd from your beer pong tournament for calling it beirut
T-Stand seemed pretty cheap to me, but then again I live in the most ridiculously expensive area in the country.
When I went back to Athens that week, I was there for a wedding, so there was a bunch of other folks rolling into town at the same time. When I walked into the T-Stand that night I saw a guy I knew from Oregon who just got to town for the wedding, too. For both of us, T-Stand was the very first stop.
I came 900 miles, he came 3,000.
au contraire, he should be rewarded for not conflating beirut with a different game entirely.
I actually miss Taco Stand. My jr. and sr. year of undergrad, I lived downtown, and Taco Stand was a 3-4 times a week standby. But then, I had to grow up. So for grad school, it was fish taco friday’s at Barberittos. I miss them both, but Taco Stand the most. The slurpie-like margaritta’s, the perpetually stoned cashiers, the mystery of a soft “meat” taco, ah, the improvidence of youth.
Seinfeld was in town Saturday. A guy with his money, out touring, means only one thing. He loves to give back to the fans. Or, being married is a real drag, so much so that one would sleep in a hotel for 3 months rather than be with a nagging wife and small children. Either way, it was a good time.
Lastly, I conversed with a native Mets fan this weekend, he said the last game he went to a Shea, there were 5-6 guys with “mops” on their head dyed black. I guess we have Francour’s Franks, they have Pedro’s Jheri’s.
Like other guys who came from standup comedy, Seinfeld is devoted to the craft. To those folks, there’s no higher calling & there’s nothing better than succeeding at standup because it’s your ass on the line. Ever see a lousy comic in person? It’s painful & embarrassing. That’s why it’s so hard.
Incidentally, Seinfeld is a huge Mets fan from Long Island. He occasionally comes on WFAN to talk Mets. For that, I’ll forgive him.
NMS, you are absolutely right. I’m not really sure how that happened and I’d like to blame my cold medicine, though that’s no excuse.
Haiku is easy
It’s five then seven then five
Doesn’t have to rhyme
Although I will say that that is a touchy subject and while the two (beirut and beer pong) are different games, the differences vary depending on where you are. I’ve never played with paddles, for instance.
First pitch tonight, hit hard at Pedro’s toe. The Mets great 2 week run is over.
I hate haiku ’cause
You start to get going and
Suddenly it just
Well, I just remember when we could feed all three of our family members there for under $10, whereas now the prices are commensurate with those of fast food places. I suppose the quality of ingredients may have gone up, but I think the place changed once they put up the tv and weather protecting glass outside. I speak, of course, of the TS on prince and milledge.
My brother used to tend bar at the Tao Stand. IIRC, he was quite happy that they didn’t raise beer prices during the Olympics – he made a lot of tips that summer.
I was at those gold, bronze and semifinal games. Nigeria played two awesomely fun matches. To this day, I still harbor good feelings towards the country due to the experience their team gave me.