Saturday, August 14, 2010
The guy who won the '86 World Series
Half-listening to Steve "The Schmoozer" Somers on WFAN after the Mets game last night, he took a call from Fanwood NJ, a guy complaining about Mets abysmal hitting, common gripe, the voice sounded familiar. Hey, I know that guy. Haven't seen him in years, but he's a rabid Mets fan, & he lives in Fanwood. In fact, he has a jar of Shea Stadium pitcher mound dirt from '69 series win, a powerful mojo, & claims to have won the '86 series by opening it during the 10th inning of the 6th game, when the Mets were an out away from losing the series to the Red Sox & staged an improbable comeback capped by Buckner's error at first base. I had no reason to doubt him. I'm sure he tried everything else, changing seats, putting the jar of dirt on top of the TV; actually exposing the sacred soil to the tainted air of New Jersey was an act of total desperation.
He & his wife did some major interior renovating when they bought the Fanwood house. Whenever they needed a wall taken out, they invited friends, supplied pizza & beer, & an assortment of sledge hammers & crowbars, & let us have at it. It was very theraputic. Interesting pair, lost touch with them as they settled in raised a couple of kids.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
He & his wife did some major interior renovating when they bought the Fanwood house. Whenever they needed a wall taken out, they invited friends, supplied pizza & beer, & an assortment of sledge hammers & crowbars, & let us have at it. It was very theraputic. Interesting pair, lost touch with them as they settled in raised a couple of kids.
Labels: baseball, religion, sports
