1984 7-11 KEITH HERNANDEZ Here's a little relic from the Renaissance... In the summer of '84, 7-11 sealed these plastic coins in the base of Slurpee cups. If you shook an empty cup, you could hear the disc rattle around like a knock-hockey puck. The fronts of the coins feature a dual “flicker” image that [...]
Note: The following exchange took place during Tuesday's game against the Rockies, starting with David Wright's strikeout in the top of the third inning and going on into the bottom of the third. Hernandez: "Fastball away, he can’t reach it. David has a hard time covering that outside corner. Ralph (Kiner, who was in the [...]
"I don’t like the fact that he’s cruising right along and he just walks two guys, Kev. It just seems like… It’s one start so I don’t want to beat up on him but Mike’s at the point in his career now and we still don’t know what he is. "What is he? He’s had [...]
Here's what happened on this day in New York Mets history: 1978: New York Mets sold Butch Metzger to the Philadelphia Phillies. 1985: In a marathon game that borders on the surreal, the Mets endure two rain delays and six hours and ten minutes of playing time to beat the Braves 16-13 in 19 innings. [...]