darryl strawberry Stories - Amazin' Avenue
Tuesdays with Dani: We need to go 19-8-0
According to James Mirtle's playoff projections of the postseason cutoff, the Lightning need to go 19-8-0 to make the playoffs. So, you're saying there's still a possibility? Here are your links for the week:Your Lightning links: Martin St. Louis and head coach Guy Boucher talks with Dave Lozo and...
Let's Go to the Videotape: 1986 Mets, A Year to Remember
For a good chunk of my youth, my family did not have a VCR. We didn't have a lot of things, truth be told, but Kid Me felt the absence of a VCR more than any other material good. My grandparents, who lived next door, did have a VCR, which I set about exploiting as often as possible. Primarily, I...
Pitching Bias in Mets Hall of Fame
I'm willing to hypothetically bet $20 that your favorite Mets player of all time wasn't a pitcher. Oh, I might have to pay out on a few bets. Surely, some of you will designate Tom Seaver as the Met most likely to set your nostalgic heart all a-flutter. Others might give Jerry Koosman the...
Amazin' Avenue Restaurant Review: Strawberry's Sports Grill
Strawberry's Sports Grill42-15 235th St.Douglaston, NY 11363 Located just steps from the Douglaston Long Island Railroad Station, Strawberry's Sports Grill opened in the summer of 2010. Mets great Darryl Strawberry is the proprietor of the sports bar/restaurant. A standard-size bar area...
Diamondbacks 14, Mets 1: Hall Of Lame
Through 3.1 innings, Jon Niese didn't allow a hit or walk and notched two strikeouts. Thoughts of the franchise's first no-hitter danced in the heads of some fans, on Mets Hall of Fame induction day no less. Then, with one out in the fourth, Kelly Johnson walked, Justin Upton broke up the no-no...
Cycle, Repeat
Baseball events are weird things. Not the individual events -- singles, doubles, etc. -- though those can often be interesting as well. I mean baseball events like hitting four doubles in a game, which has happened 24 times, most recently by the Jays' Alex Rios a little over a week ago. Or hitting...
Welcome to Wrigley Field
Most of you know that I grew up and still live in southwest Michigan, about an hour and a half from Chicago. I had no family connections with baseball, really, and it was a sport that I got into on my own. Baseball cards and Little League were my introductions. The box scores in the local...
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