The Time Has Come......

Who thinks Rockets going to throw at somebody tonight?

 

of course he will, he doesn't have to bat tonight..

 

I wearing my colors right now at work and will be throughout the day. Hopefully the crowd can energize these guys. I think the tone for the rest of the season could be set in this series.

 

I don't think Rocket will throw at anyone. His feud was with Piazza, and Piazza's not there anymore. When the Yanks play Oakland, that should be interesting.

As they pointed out, there's less than a half dozen guys left on the Mets from the last time Roger faced them in pinstripes.

 

True..........but what feud? For it to be a fued there has to be stuff going on both ways. Clemens threw at Piazza twice and then threw a bat at him, for gods sake. All Piazza did was hit some tape measure homers off the guy, which is kinda his job. The fact that Clemens wasn't tossed from that WS game remains one of the great injustices. His excuse...."I thought it was the ball". Well then, why would you throw a fielded ball at a runner half way down the 1st base line? Complete crap. However, Piazza shoulda made it a fued by charging the mound and showing some guts. Some FAN guys made a good point this AM. Imagine if it was Loduca? He wouldda charged the mound in a second, because he has balls. Even if he got his ass kicked, got suspended, etc etc......... it's the principle of the thing.

Even though my guys came out on the wrong end, it's still a fun topic to talk about.


Go Mets.

 

They've shown the bean pitch countless times, especially this week, on YES. Honestly, it looks like Clemens just lost control of that pitch. But he's a ballsy guy, and would rather make it appear he did it on purpose than admit he let one slip out of his hand.

Either way, we're all going to see it through either Navy or Royal blue colored glasses, so it will always be a secret that only Roger has the answer to.

That's probably a very good point about Piazza and LoDuca though. The only problem with it would be that in the WS, you don't want your catcher to get suspended for fighting with a starting pitcher. Obviously, unless somehow the union gets an appeal in, only one team is actually losing a player in that fight.

The bat incident also depends which side of the fence you sit on. For Mets fans, I can see being flat out angry about it. Whether Roger meant to throw the bat at him or not is inconsequential. All that matters is that your catcher could have been lost as a result.

From my perspective, given that Clemens didn't hit him, and didn't even seem to be trying to, it honestly looked like a bit of 'roid rage got the better of him, and in the "heat of the moment" just did something ridiculously off the wall. Truth be told, to me, it was one of the funniest moments in all of sporting history. The sheer idiocy of his reaction still gets a chuckle out of me when I see it.

 

If he was throwing at him he would have hit him. If he can put a fastball inside a 6 inch square from 60 feet he can certainly throw a foot long piece of bat 45 feet and hit what he is aiming at. The whole discussion of it is what is the joke here.

 

I actually think this is the reason why Piazza didn't charge the mound. I mean who is expecting something like that. Piazza just kind of stared at him with an incredulous look on his face.

Clemens absolutely should've been tossed immediately though.

 

I've always been a Piazza fan and I think he was smart to not get himself suspended in the World Series. To this day it's the only one he ever played in. Plus, he had a jagged, broken bat handle in his hands. If he wanted to go and stick it through Clemens' throat I'm sure he could have, he's a pretty strong dude. But he's always been cool-headed and I think that served him well in that moment.

 

I cannot wait to rub it in when you lose:beer:

 

Hells yeah, I'll be there tonight rooting on my Mets

Gonna get good and liquored up too, that way I'll act like a typical Mets fan.

(cmon Mets fans, we can admit that we have less class than those stuffy, arrogant, blue-blood Yankees fans...it's what makes us great)

LETS GO METS

PS, I've already started boozing for this game...gonna heckle the SHIT outta Clemens (i'm sitting 9 rows behind the Yanks dugout)

 

I see that as well.

 

and what exactly does a Met fan have to heckle Roger Clemens about?

 

Slightly OT, but I think that if Clemens pulled that same thing and Lo Duca was the batter that Lo Duca would've shoved that handle right up Clemens' ass :lol:

Piazza's the man though. I wish we had him in NY during more of the years when he was in his prime.

 

I was a huge Lo Duca fan when we had him. I can't tell you how pissed off I was when that Moneyball nerd traded him while we were in first place. Piazza too, for that matter.

 

The Time Has Went

 

The time has come...