Debunking False Childhood Memories
by njk237 on Feb 2, 2010 4:41 PM EST
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PrintI was 7 years old in 1995 and my baseball memories are somewhat hazy. I remember a few things. I owned a t-shirt that featured caricatures of Bobby Jones, Pete Harnisch, and Jason Isringhausen with the words YOUNG GUNS printed beneath. So, there's that. As far as the team on the field, I have vivid memories of how the ideal first inning would go for the mets. A Brett Butler hit, a Jose Vizcaino sac bunt, and a Rico Brogna RBI hit to drive in Butler. In my eyes at the time, perfection. I thought I'd peruse Baseball Reference and Ultimate Mets Database and see how many times this actually happened, since it sticks in my mind so clearly.
I filtered 1995 down to games where Brett Butler scored at least 1 run, then looked at each box score looking for the combo of first inning runs, Vizcaino sacs and Brogna RBIs. Here's what I found.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN199505110.shtml
May 11, 1995. Bobby Jones matching up against John Smoltz. Braves go down 1-2-3 in their half, and the Mets come to bat. Butler doubles to right, moves to third on a Vizcaino sac bunt. Brogna doubles to center to score Butler. Jones went on to pitch an impressive game, 2 runs over 8. John Franco got the save, and the Mets won 5-3. Magic.
So that's the one example I could find of the sequence I remember so vividly.
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I was born in 1995
They showed the game from the exact day I was born (May 6, 1995 against Cincy) on MLB Network a few weeks back
Goodbye Sir Dr. Sen. Brain SOCKS! D.D.S.R.S.V.P
Wow
Just read the play by play for that game, pretty crazy. I think they took out Mlicki too early. Speaking of Mlicki I also remember his first interleague against the Yankees. I think they show that one on SNY sometimes?
I've seen it exactly once.
SNY gets a big old F when it comes to airing “real” Mets classic games. Armondo Benitez balking in the tying run and all of that was cool and all, but there’s no reason it should be a ‘Mets Classic’. ‘Classic’ should be reserved for more meaningful games/events/etc.
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Feb 2, 2010 11:45 PM EST up reply actions
It could be worse.
I share mine with Mike Tyson.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Feb 3, 2010 1:05 AM EST up reply actions
I share mine with Pi
and that insufferable child Justin Bieber.
"Three home teams advance, and the fuckin' Jets" - Rex Ryan
Mine is shared
with John Isner and Joe Crede
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
I share mine with such luminaries as
Tetsuya Nomura, Matt Damon, and the great Mike Morgan
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Feb 3, 2010 11:59 AM EST up reply actions
on the plus side I share one with the great Bo Jackson
on the minus side I share one with Shane Dicktorino.. i feel dirty now.
by KeithsMoustache on Feb 3, 2010 12:13 PM EST up reply actions
I've got, among others:
Captain Kidd, Akira Kurosawa, Chaka Khan, Moses Malone, Damon Albarn, Mark Buehrle, and, uh, Richard Grieco and Perez Hilton.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Feb 3, 2010 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
I actually share a birthday with a lot of cool people, some I'd like to meet, for various reasons.
Albert Einstein tops the list, Cylon number 8, Quincy Jones, Kirby Puckett, Bobby Jenks, Billy Crystal, Michael Caine and the two most important Eva Angelina and Brianna Love. Also Karl Marx died on my birthday.
"Three home teams advance, and the fuckin' Jets" - Rex Ryan
I share my birthday with
Clive Owen, Gwen Stegani, the immortal Wil Cordero, Neve Campbell, and was born on the exact same day in 1984 as Ashlee Simpson. I’m a better lip-syncher than she is, though.
So yea, my birthdays in common kinda suck, but some cool things have happened on my birthday. In 1951, Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard Round the World. “Black Hawk Down” happened on my 9th birthday, OJ was acquitted on my 11th (I didn’t say they were all good things). The Mets 162nd game of 1999, with the walkoff wild-pitch against the Pirates was on my birthday, and I’d had tickets for that game since the beginning of the season, still one of my top-3 Shea Memories. Perhaps most importantly, the first ever buffalo wings were served at Anchor Bar in Buffalo on my birthday in 1964. You’re all welcome.
2009 Did Not Happen
I still like Duff's better.
If there's ever a riot at Citi Field and Oliver Perez was the starter, I started the riot.
Oddly, Duff's is widely regarded as the bar in Buffalo with the best wings in town.
"We're just as bad as the old Mets, but this time nobody's laughing"
-Dallas Green
by Stephen Schmidt on Feb 7, 2010 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
It wins my vote.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Feb 7, 2010 3:09 PM EST up reply actions
Nothing too noteworth happened on my birthday.
The biggest, and worst was that Krakow was liquidated on my birthday in 1943.
At least 2015 will be awesome, epic Pi Day, 3/14/15
"Three home teams advance, and the fuckin' Jets" - Rex Ryan
Not too much happened on my birthday
John Wilkes Booth was shot. The Gestapo were formed. Guernica was bombed. Also, I missed this originally but Hack WIlson of 191 RBIZZ! fame and Kosuke Fukodome were born.
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
The only thing I remember that happened on my birthday
was the Mets clinching the division in 2006. That was pretty cool, I guess.
by wrightttxgirlllx3 on Feb 6, 2010 11:15 AM EST up reply actions
If I recall correctly
Dave Winfield shares your birthday
"I've been trying transcendental meditation, and that helps me be passive and wait on the curve. I've got to find something else to hit the slider." - George (The Stork) Theodore
is there something in the water with AA readers and that date?
may 6, 1985 for me.
Thanks...
…just looked up my birthday (June 23, 1990), Mets beat Phils 3-0, Doc pitches a 2 hitter (both to John Kruk, though he did GIDP) and Strawberry hits a 2 run jack. Pretty good day to be born if you ask me.
On my birthday, a few hours after I was physically born
Mike Scott shut down the team in Game 1 of the NLCS.
My earliest Mets memory was from a game in June or July of 1995, where the newly called-up Edgardo Alfonso hit a double that would wind up being the difference of the game, a Saturday afternoon contest.
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Feb 2, 2010 11:48 PM EST reply actions
wow, I feel like an old man here
I’m 99% certain that this is the first game I ever went to:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN198508250.shtml
I remember very little, given that I was 5 years old at the time, but I do remember it being a day game against San Diego, which narrows things down a lot. Given how Sunday afternoon games were when I normally went to see the Mets when I was really young, and given that I remember the crowd going nuts very early in the game (the Mets scored 3 in the bottom of the 1st), I’m pretty sure that was the game.
Somehow, a chain of events unfolded that put Steve Phillips in a professional broadcast booth Sunday night so he could rip Carlos Beltran. Try to explain that in any other terms.
I beat you by 11 days.
My first game was August 14, 1985, a 2-1 loss to the Phillies. Here’s my writeup of my memories of the game. (I actually did an entire series of posts on all the games I ever went to at Shea if anyone is interested.)
I just remember how BIG everything seemed, but I was 8 at the time so everything just seemed so different.
There were no games played the days I was born as my birthday is March 30, and they didn’t play March games back then, but the first game after I was born was started by Tom Seaver in his last opening day start before being traded.
And like Ian, I really feel old now.
wow i got the same birthday as Megan fox,
Janet Jackson and henry Fonda
and on my birthday the mets lost in 12 innings to the expos in the year where the mets were “the worst team money could buy.”
what a terrible mets fan day and year…
Ummm...
Given those choices, I’d say Janet and Henry Who?
Famous actor from like 50 years ago
Only reason I know this is because of my english class.
by metsbaseball93 on Feb 4, 2010 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
Henry Fonda was awesome
the Longest Day = epic win.
Also, now you have an opening line for when you meet Megan Fox. “Hey, did you know we have the same birthday as Henry Fonda. He was a great actor.” It’s Gold, Jerry, Gold.
2009 Did Not Happen
What is wrong with kids these days?
How could you not know who Henry Fonda is? The only movie I’ve seen him in was 12 Angry Men, but I heard of him before I saw that.
"Three home teams advance, and the fuckin' Jets" - Rex Ryan
something to live for, then
All of you people need to go see The Lady Eve, stat. Pretty much the best movie ever.
More than just a famous actor
One of the greats. Here, watch a few of these; you’ll be glad you did. Just don’t start with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Get used to him as a good guy first.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Feb 5, 2010 8:08 PM EST up reply actions
The best thing Henry Fonda ever did was
was father Peter Fonda who voiced The Truth in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
"Three home teams advance, and the fuckin' Jets" - Rex Ryan
And was Henry Fonda in The Good the Bad and The Ugly?
He’s not listed in the credits of the movie nor is it on his page. Did you mean Once Upon a Time in the West, another Leone western?
"Three home teams advance, and the fuckin' Jets" - Rex Ryan
But he ought to watch TGTB&TU anyway.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Feb 5, 2010 8:25 PM EST up reply actions
All I know
is that he’s in 12 angry men bc we watched the movie in my english class and my teacher went on a three day rant about how amazing he was while I got three solid days of sleep in english
by metsbaseball93 on Feb 6, 2010 1:29 AM EST up reply actions
Kids today.
No appreciation for good movies.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Feb 6, 2010 3:29 PM EST up reply actions
So you're saying Saw IX, or whatever they're up to, isn't as good as something like A Clockwork Orange?
"Three home teams advance, and the fuckin' Jets" - Rex Ryan
even as a joke, that sentence made me die on the inside
because so many people would probably choose Saw 74234 or whatever theye up to now over Clockwork.
by KeithsMoustache on Feb 7, 2010 1:14 PM EST up reply actions
i dunno
i think Requiem for a Dream summed up the mood pretty well.
by KeithsMoustache on Feb 8, 2010 10:24 AM EST up reply actions
I'm sure you would've been paying rapt attention
to a black and white movie when you were his age.
Adults today…
Yeah, I was
Saw 12 Angry Men for the first time in the 9th grade.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Feb 7, 2010 10:22 PM EST up reply actions
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