Friday, October 6, 2006
Let's Go Mets
I don't blog about baseball very much. And, being the superstitious animal (be it monkey, penguin, or Panda) that I am, I certainly don't want to jinx anything, but the Mets are in the playoffs for the first time in six years. Despite losing two of their best pichers to season-ending injuries (Pedro Martinez, one of the best pitchers ever, is out at least 8 months, Orlando Hernandez injured his calf jogging in the outfield the day before he was supposed to start Game 1) the mets have won their first two games against the dodgers and only need one more win to the series and move on to the NLCS -- probably facing the St. Louis Pujol-- i mean Cardinals. Last night, i got no work done, because i was sitting at home watching Tom Glavine, a 40 year old pitcher, throw six shutout innings, and Julio Franco, who's 48, beat out a double play ball to first base. It was fun to watch - and made more fun by the constanbt text messaging back and forth between me and my brother, reminiscent of our email exchanges during the 2004 NLCS when the Red Sox came back from an 0-3 deficit for the first time in baseball history to beat the Yankees and move on to the world series. It's sad that Martinez and Hernandez are hurt, and i don't know how far the Mets can go with out them, but they're doing a pretty great job thus far and it's fun to watch.
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I was Roy's guest at the senate meeting (Roy was standing in for Andre), a senate meeting for which John Sexton had to miss a Yankees game for (he later attributed this decision to his personal "virtue"). When all the senate members were saying their names and affiliations, a man from the business school added to his intro "Go Mets." There was much laughter.
ReplyDeleteDid you know, by the way, that by 2008 NYU will be run via wind power, and that the university will single-handedly be responsible for ending global warming?
Yes, but the wind will be generated entirely by impopverished physics PhD students waving palm fronds 23 hours a day for stipends based entirely on how many watts per year such toils generate.
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