For the most part the Yankees have prevailed in the Subway Series, but that’s not to say the Mets haven’t had their moments.
Mike Piazza took Ramiro Mendoza into the picnic area one year. … There was the afternoon when the Mets torched Randy Johnson.
What’s your favorite Subway moment?
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I’ll go with Matt Franco’s game winner off of Rivera in ‘99…
The only subway series I acknowledge is when its for the world series. Thats my favorite moment regardless of the outcome. Interleague has ruined it…
back to the real question at hand.. come on John…
Delgado..when is a slump not a slump and just a really bad season and he should take a seat for a bit?
everytime he gets to the plate i see doubleplay. how many line drives have gone by him? much more consistently than the rest of the team… i have even half turned around on Green. the injury did him good. he’s proving himself!
come on.. dont dance arouund it..;-]
Mo Vaughn, in perhaps his only memorable moment as a Met, homering deep into the night, against that slob, David Wells.
No Vaughn? wasnt that his only at bat ever on the mets?
“Mike Piazza took Ramiro Mendoza into the picnic area one year.”
Are you going to start up those rumors again?
yeah he got married just to throw us off the scent.
that alone upset jeter and a-rod to no end.. 3 was company for them :-o
(bad me i mentioned the stankees)
my favorite subway series moment is the time the yanks were riding high on a 9-game winning streak and the mets were all sorts of messed up losing 9 of 10 and they came into the bronx and Ollie Perez, Tom Glavine and El Duque dominated the bombers for three days…or at least that WILL be my favorite moment.
Game 1 of the Subway Series, 2006 at Shea: Geremi Gonzalez (remember him?) throws BP to the Yankees in the first and spots them a bunch of runs. But Carlos Beltran hammers a three-run bomb off Randy Johnson to get us back within reach. The Yankees get a little further ahead, but Xavier Nady (remember him?) goes yard to tie the game. The Yankees go ahead by one again, then Kaz Matsui (remember him?)ties it with a single. Meanwhile, Darren Oliver (remember him?) held the Yankees at bay, Billy Wagner strikes out the side in the top of the ninth, then in the bottom half, D-Wright, batting against Mariano Rivera, smacks a long drive toward deep center field. Johnny Damon gives chase, but ultimately – and futilely – sticks up a desperate gloved hand. The ball lands safely just shy of the wall…
Inning over. Ballgame over. The Mets win.
THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
YANKEES LOSE!
And moments later, after the yellow-Afro-ed Jose Lima (remember him?) playfully pounded D-Wright in celebration, he was released.
What about the real story about this team—that they allowed the Dodgers to not only beat them, but to thoroughly embarrass them in the process? Between Kuo’s bat flip and Penny’s confrontation with Green, the Mets appeared to lack backbone, which, to me, is a more troubling indicator than their performance in the W-L column.
Benny, you’re 100 percent right. And John, if you’re reading this, please ask Shawn Green about these comments Brad Penny made to an LA Times reporter following yesterday’s game: “When you’re doing that and you have a reputation for doing that, people will be watching you,” Penny said. Penny said he did not consider brushing Green back during that at-bat rather than waiting for a verbal confrontation afterward. “I didn’t really have a chance,” Penny said. “I had a guy in scoring position and a better hitter [Carlos Beltran] on deck. It would have been nice to have a six-run lead right there.”
The Mets tendency to roll over has gnawed at me since that Neanderthal, steroid-fueled Roger Clemens pulled his beaning and bat shard-throwing antics seven years ago and we didn’t do anything about it. Think the ‘86 Mets would’ve allowed Kuo to clown them and Penny to intimidate them?
My favorite subway moment was the first time saw grafiti all over one of the cars.
what about that time when the yankees were up 3 games and then lost 4!!!!! straight to the Bosox in the ALCS??? remember that?!?!?!?
best memory is probably estes going yard on clemens’ fat ass after he unmarkedly missed clemens’ fat ass. but anywho, piazza dinged him too!
also…dae sung koo flaming johnson…that was brilliant!
My favorite moment was when Piazza clobbered Clemens at Yankee Stadium in early 2000. He hit a grand slam off him which contributed to a 12-2 Yankees loss that saw Clemens exiting the game early in the 5th to a chorus of boos from Yankee fans. Unfortunately, Clemens chose to respond to his spanking with beanball and bat-throwing tactics later in the year.
My second favorite moment was Koo’s trip around the bases against Randy Johnson. Man, that was hysterical.
Mel, the graffitti was on one of the first non graffitti cars as the then mayor was cutting the ribbon. that was the best
2000 World Series. Shea Stadium. Game 5. ‘nuff said.
I agree with Chuck. My favorite was when the Yankees celebrated their 26th title at Shea Stadium.
Game 5 of the 2000 WS was a great game as Leiter was truly magnificent. There was probably no starter who pitched as well as him during that whole postseason. No one. Too bad Abbott had that bad back and let that weak dribbler go under his glove. Ordonez would have had that. Bad break for the Mets. And too bad we had Benitez and they had Rivera. Switch just those two players and the whole outcome would have been totally different.
Toss up between Estes going yard on Clemens, and Koos Double and heads up base running on Johnson. Those were really fun games.
2000 WS was simply unfair. That’s when the Yankees had character, and a good team…
Ahhh, Tim is a Yankee fan who’s come over to say hello. Well hello there!
While this isn’t a subway series memory, one of my all-time favorite memories of Yankee Stadium is when the Red Sox stunned and humiliated the Yankees in 2004 with an unprecedented comeback victory and Yankee collapse and danced all over their field. Pedro was even there, and maybe they can put a huge picture of him celebrating that momentous occasion on the walls of the new Yankee Stadium.
I won’t troll too much more here in Metsland—but Gail—PLEASE! How can one of your favorite moments as a Mets fan be a game the Mets didn’t even play in! You prove that you—like many Mets fan—enjoy seeing the team you hate (i.e., the most successful sports team in history) lose more than you enjoy seeing the team you claim to be a fan of win. It is pathetic!
hey stankee fans . go back home to the bombed out bronx.
geez we dont go into your blog. dont come here.
typical stankee fans they jump off the bandwagon when their team is hurting and then when the yare back on track they rail the team they went to after desserting their own team.
Mets fans have a die hard attitude. not like the bronx boo birds.
Chuck, did you even bother to read what I said? I said it was my favorite memory of Yankee Stadium. Not my favorite memory as a Mets fan. So, you of course are wrong (and have reading comprehension issues). I do not enjoy seeing Yankees lose more than I enjoy seeing my Mets win. Though I admit, the Yankees’ tumble this year has been thoroughly and exquisitely enjoyable—from the talk of firing Torre and Cashman to rumors of A-Rod wanting out! Haha.
Meanwhile, you are exhibiting behavior so typical of Yankee fans and that which you accuse me of—your foray here reeks of an obsession with Mets fans greater than your interest in your own team. I hear it with such psycho Yankee fans as that Joe D from the Bronx who always calls the FAN. 90% of what he wants to talk about are the Mets! Now that’s pathetic!
gail the reason they are like that is .. we believe in next year.
they live for every year… and if they dont get it their lives are shattered forever..
Steve, yes you are right. It’s not that Mets fans don’t want to win every year, it’s just that there’s more to life than the need to jump off a bridge just because the team you root for may stink it up.
I would like to correct one thing you said however. Instead of “they live for every year” it’s more like “they live for very year as well as every year in the past”! Whenever they are confronted with how sucky their team may be playing, the only answer they have is to look back at faded glories that are at least 6-7 years old. Sad.
well we do that too when proving the bandwagon point. where were yankee fans 85-88?
shea stadium rooting for their new fav team.
;-]
and where were they 10 games ago?
rooting for mets.. until rles reversed for a short period.
but they will be back.. just you wait and see,. most of those fans are far too predictable.
the true yankee fan is hard to find. because the bandwagoner will never admit it u have to trick em into submission.
Gail,
Your analysis could not be further from the truth. In fact, I am not a Met hater—I certainly root against them when they play against the Yankees but New York is a better baseball place when both teams are competitive. The Mets are like a pesky little brother—always trying to show their big brother that they are just as good. I rooted for the Mets in 1986—not because I was jumping on the bandwagon but because I DO HATE the Red Sux—they are the Yankees big rival, not the Mets.
I followed a link here about the subway series and posted my message responding to the question asked. YOUR post—in response to the original question asking for your favorite subway series moment—is about a moment that the Yankees lost to the Red Sox. Mets had nothing to do with it. Frame your answer however you want, you are the one with reading comprehension issues. AND THEN you go and talk about the joy you found in the Yankees tumble this year! Jeez, you really want to prove my point.
Regarding the FAN: I don’t listen to Sports Radio very often because it is mostly inane impulsive drivel that changes with each days victory or loss…
Love your team—laugh and cry about your team—stop judging yourself in comparison to the Yankees and foricing yourself to live in the shadows of the Yankees historical superiority.
Enjoy the weekend. I will be at the Cathedral of Baseball on Friday and Sunday enjoying the games. Hoping the Yankees extend their streak to 12 in a row!
Steve C. – you just make me laugh. You will always have bandwagon joining in a city like NY, but stop trying to lump born and bred Yankee fans in with the newcomers. Yankee fans bought more than 4 million tickets each of the last two year—and countless overpriced pretzels and beers—to watch the Yankees. The Mets have a long way to go to catch up with that fan-proven success.
Good luck to you and your team—starting Monday.
what?! please. our pretzels are as overpriced as yours..
Met fans are true fans because we dont boo our team and we dont leave them when they are down.
Chuck, I repeat. You’ve got reading comprehension issues. Serious ones. Or were you just too lazy to read the whole thread before you bothered to post? Huh? Now that would make sense, wouldn’t it? Because then you’d see the post about the Red Sox was my SECOND post on this page—I originally gave my answer to the question as John Delcos framed it. And it had nothing to do with the Red Sox. I only brought up the Red Sox after it was clear some Yankee fans had trolled over to try to start up trouble. I posted it to yank your chains, and it’s clear I was successful. Even then, I said it was my favorite “Yankee Stadium” moment—NOT METS MOMENT.
Since you never listen to the FAN, I’ll fill you in. Fans of both sides call up to bash the other team, but the worst offenders by far are Yankee fans, especially this dude who calls himself Joe D (and I think he’s from Brooklyn, not the Bronx as I originally said). The first word out of his mouth is ALWAYS about the Mets. He is typical of many Yankee fans who call up the FAN. With your supposed superior team, with its supposed superior history, why is there such a need to obsess about the Mets and their fans?
And I’ll tell you what, for all the Mets’ attempts to show their big brother they’re just as good, they did a bang up job of it in the mid 80s. In fact, they showed the Yankees up pretty good as the Mets became the kings of NY for quite a few years, pushing your Yankees to second class status.
We love our team. I hope you find enough love for yours in between all this obsessing about us Mets fans on an inernet blog. Enjoy your sojourn into the Bronx to watch one of the most talented pitchers of our time, but also one of the most suspect in terms of integrity and class.
yeah the bat chuckin b@st@rd that he is…
ok maybe that was uncalled for.. but sio was his chucking of the bat.
And Chuck, since you’re so obsessed with attendance figures, let me fill you in on the NY situation. Even when the Mets were the hapless darlings of baseball their first decade, they outdrew the team with the more vaunted history 7 out of 10 years. That’s right, New Yorkers wanted to see a losing Mets team more than the well established but staid and characterless Yankees. And who was the first NY team to hit 3 million in attendance? Correct! The Mets! They did it more than 10 years before the Yankees even sniffed that number. Know your history. It will help you from looking uninformed when you venture among Mets fans.
Chuck, correction—my post with the Red Sox was actually my third post on this page, not my second. The previous two both talked about Yankees-Mets games. So there!
Gail you are wasting time on a yankee fan. ;-]
Steve, you’re right. But it was just too tempting to expose his ignorance and arrogance.
Gail, you is funny lady. A little crazy and obsessed, but funny. I gave you a little rope and you hanged yourself real well. So upset that you keep coming back over and over and over to respond (and doing a very bad job of it).
Perez looked good. Nice game.
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