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T0mShane

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Mine? When my favorite player of all time--Don Mattingly--tracked a foul tip toward the stands. The ball was out of reach and Donny Baseball, standing at the wall, steals some popcorn from this little kid's bag. Everybody is watching the ball except the kid, who turns around and watches Donny stealing a few kernels, smiling. A great, iconic baseball moment.

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My favorite baseball memory is the first game I ever went to.

I was about 8 or 9, and my dad surprised me and a couple of friends with a game at Shea. Just walking through the tunnel and seeing the field was absolutely awesome. One of my favorite memories.

And then I had to watch the Mets play.

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Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series Homerun was also a great one.

Ugh. I was rooting so heavily against the Dodgers in that series after they beat the Mets in the NLCS and was in the hospital with a Grade 3 concussion. One of the many times I was awakened by a nurse shining a light into my eye was right before that home run, so I caught it on the 15" TV in the room. I'll never forget (the previously unhittable) Eckersley mouthing "Wow" and watching Gibson gimp around the bases.

F Kirk Gibson.

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Aaron Boone (on tv)

Was sitting in the next-to-last row of left field. Didn't see the ball once it went under the top deck, but knew from the rest of the crowd going batsh*t we Yanks had won the pennant.

Best memory-being with my dad at the clincher in 1996. He died last December.

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Being a kid back in the early '60's with my dad at old Crosley Field in Cincinnati watching a young Pete Rose earn the name "Charlie Hustle".

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Did Pete do a pregame seminar on baseball odds-like 5 1/2-6 1/2,how to ditch the Mrs. for a young whore, how to doctor a bat?

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Was sitting in the next-to-last row of left field. Didn't see the ball once it went under the top deck, but knew from the rest of the crowd going batsh*t we Yanks had won the pennant.

Best memory-being with my dad at the clincher in 1996. He died last December.

I was at the AL East Division clinching double header with my Dad on my birthday in 1996. Yanks won the first, lost the second but Cecil Fielder hit two homers and Pop called 'em both. That was awesome.

But my favorite was Old Timers Day 1990. Pop got us great seats, third row behind the visitors' dugout. This was only a few weeks after the Yanks traded Dave Winfield to the Angels and as it happened, the Yanks were playing the Angels that day. Winfield comes in after warmups and is walking toward the dugout with Dave Parker and Pop yells out to Winfield, "Hey Dave!" Parker looks up at us as if he is expecting us to throw him something to sign and Pop goes, "not you Parker!" and cracks Winfield up. Good stuff. :yes:

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JohnnyHector

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Was sitting in the next-to-last row of left field. Didn't see the ball once it went under the top deck, but knew from the rest of the crowd going batsh*t we Yanks had won the pennant.

Best memory-being with my dad at the clincher in 1996. He died last December.

I was in the same situation, being in the right field upper deck during the Leyritz HR in Game 2 of the ALDS in '95.

That was a better time when, as a Mets fan, I could enjoy a Yankees game - before all of the bandwagoners and general obnoxiousness drove me to dislike the franchise.

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I was in the same situation, being in the right field upper deck during the Leyritz HR in Game 2 of the ALDS in '95.

That was a better time when, as a Mets fan, I could enjoy a Yankees game - before all of the bandwagoners and general obnoxiousness drove me to dislike the franchise.

Speaking of Leyritz, he is on trial in S Fla for DUI manslaughter. He ran a red light & killed a lady a couple years ago..Not looking to good for him right now.

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Speaking of Leyritz, he is on trial in S Fla for DUI manslaughter. He ran a red light & killed a lady a couple years ago..Not looking to good for him right now.

I know someone who was going to some kind of fundraiser for his legal fees a couple of months ago... I personally wouldn't give him a dime and hope he pays for his what he's done.

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I was at Game 1 of the 2000 World Series. I was 14 years old, and even though I was a Mets fan in Yankee Stadium, I didn't see the need to keep quiet like the other Mets fans in my section. Whenever a "Let's go Yankees chant" would start, I'd yell "LET'S GO METS!!!" At one point after yelling this, a burly Yankee fan turned around and said "....You've got brass balls, son." Yes sir, yes I do.

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Read this and remembered how much I missed the old "stats vs. scouting" debates from back in the early 2000's:

Alderson is the mentor to Moneyball, and while associates expect him to seek some managerial experience, being that it's New York, they don't think he'll go for someone as strong-willed as Valentine (one of Moneyball's tenets is that the manager is seen as middle management, which might be part of the reason Bochy didn't last in San Diego too long after Anderson got there).

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/jon_heyman/11/03/offseason.preview/1.html#ixzz14T51oGNa

The mentor to Moneyball...For some reason that always happened...Some guys swore Beane wrote the book to show the world how smart he is...Many failed to realize that Michael Lewis wrote the book...and nothing in the book mentions the idea that the manager is supposed to have no will of his own...at least from what I remember.

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