“A billion dollars worth of Mets in left field and none of them could catch that ball” - Kevin Brown pic.twitter.com/rQcjceGPop
— Keith McPherson (@Keith_McPherson) September 17, 2026
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"A billion dollars worth of Mets in left field and none of them could pick it up."
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That’s the left fielders ball since baseball was a twinkle in Abner Doubleday’s eye.
This is the most Mets thing ever.
I've seen little league players do better than that.
What would Casey Stengel say ?
It’s worse for college sports. Michigan (Ann’s alma mater) lost to Western Michigan in regulation time and Michigan had a player payroll of at least five times more than Western.
Nebraska volleyball beat Creighton last night and basically the same thing.
Good commentary, but why should multi-millionaires get their uniforms dirty playing out the string in a game between two last place teams? Somebody might get hurt.
Guess you missed the final play, Dave.
Begley : Don'tcha know that D1 college football games now run 60 minutes plus 1 second? New rule -- look it up!
"I've been in this game 100 years, but I see new ways to lose I never knew existed before."
Casey Stengel, 1962
40 wins and 120 loses
"Can't anyone here play this game?" -- Casey Stengel
That would happen in Oakland all the time when the marine layer would float in. Visiting teams would lose sight of a major league pop-up in the No man's land between the infielders and the outfielders.
Those plays are trouble, but either the shortstop or the left fielder needs to make the call. The third baseman was put in a position to fail and he did.
Lindor, the shortstop, will likely be in the Hall of Fame someday, which makes this even more egregious.
'...ya gotta talk it up out there boys' - he says to the little leaguers...
In other baseball news MVPete Crow-Armstrong hit his 43rd and 44th home run last night to set a Cub record for left-handed homers in a season.
This kind of thing happens all the time at Wrigley, especially on clear sunny days. Add the wind and nothing is routine.
This kind of thing happens more than once every season, I was watching the game, and as an Orioles fan, well I was when Brooks Robinson was throwing guys out to Boog Powell at first, had hope that it would drop because I have seen it many times when a ball is hit to where three guys should catch it.
As revenge goes, this is pretty weak sauce compared to what the Mets did to my boys in 1969, in fact I think that that’s what the lyric in Hotel California is about, or it could be the Beatles breaking up, or maybe Woodstock, but that event defined 1969 for me.
"As revenge goes, this is pretty weak sauce compared to what the Mets did to my boys in 1969,"
Nothing compared to what they did to the Cubs. I remember when the Mets went ahead of the Cubs in September asking my dad if the Cubs would come back. He said "I don't think so."
Pretty soon you're talking real money.
A billion dollars doesn't go as far as it used to. Especially in NY.
"Tell me about it." Bill Buckner.
I'd do that job for less, and never complain. Call me.
As a 15 year-old Cub fan in 1969, the late season collapse was a defining event in my life. Seriously, I've never viewed sports the same way since.
A ball Cubs fan Steve Bartman would have easily snagged.
You got, no you got it, no you got it. Nope, nobody got it.
The sort of play we did in little league.
The out fielder came up too close behind the infielder, so the 3rd baseman couldnt judge if he could go far back enough to catch the ball without running into him. Better to let the fielder catch it. And the out fielder didn't step up.
The visual of Stephen Cohen flushing billions down the toilet.
Yup, flushing in Flushing.
Why hasn't a Luigi type targeted a professional athlete? Why is there a sort of double standard where we can criticize the gaudy salaries of CEOs but not athletes?
Part of it is, obviously, racial (especially if you're a Democrat). But, more importantly, we all tend to think of athletes as underdog workers who had the courage to unionize!
Anyways, sports are getting pretty gross. These massive salaries are creating terrible incentives for young men and their parents. Way too many parents invest way too much money in youth sports. And what about the terrible effect sports gambling is having on young men? I heard someone say that young men are investing 50% less in their retirement accounts than young women. This is bad news because this is how losers behave.
Great call.
That oughtta make those $18 beers extra sweet.
A foul fly ball down the third base line the other day at Fenway, and the fielder could have had it, but a fan was trying to grab it, too. It ended up bouncing back into the field and the fan ended up wearing beer from all the jostling, and a slice of pizza from a guy behind him that was pissed he thwarted the easy out.
The dog that won't hunt.
Loved the grin on the face of the Oriole on second.
Lindor, Bischette, and Soto sounds like a law firm.
“The sort of play we did in little league.”
In Little League I learned that if you saw the ball AND you could get to the ball you called “Mine” or “I got it” and the others backed off. Of course I played Little League ball in the 1950s.
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