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Not Amazing Enough

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Even though Endy Chavez made one of the best catches I have ever seen live, or on reply for that matter, the Mets still went from you gotta believe to you gotta bereave (NY Newsday’s cover today) in the span of 24 hours yesterday by winning game 6 on Wednesday and then losing game 7 in crushing fashion last night. Check out the ice cream cone scoop of a catch below:
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I did it. I actually posted a Met to my blog. That catch makes you do crazy things – it was that good. That being said, I found it incredibly annoying having the Mets in the playoffs while the Yanks were sitting at home and while I didn’t actively root against the Mets, I’m not sorry to see them lose either. There is now no more baseball in NY in 2006 and I say “good.” Let’s go Isles and J-E-T-S!

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1986 WS Game 6 Reborn in NES

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This game featured one of the all-time classic NY sports moments – the famous Bill Buckner error (though everyone seems to forget that 3 singles and a wild pitch proceeded that momentous event). To pay homage to it, somebody reenacted the bottom of the 10th inning of the 1986 World Series using the classic NES game “RBI Baseball.” Now, its not just the players and the action that was recreated. Oh no, that would be too easy. Also included is Vin Scully’s audio perfectly syncronized to the action on the field, I mean in the game, which makes this simply fantastic. I have no idea how much time this took but I sincerely thank San Diego Serenade making this bit of sports nut/nerd art.
UPDATED on 4/17: Yahoo! Sports today had a great article about the RBI Baseball re-creation that Conor Lastowka, aka San Diego Serenade, put together. It just goes to show that WGTCTIP2 is truly ahead of the Mainstream Media (MSM) curve.
Via Monty