KHH Event Recaps

On this page, you will find a list of all the events that the KHH bloggers have gone to and written recaps for. To give our readers a sample, there is a short quote from each recap.

1. Minnesota Timberwolves vs. New Jersey Nets

Bad basketball cannot get any better than it was tonight.

2. Charlotte Bobcats vs. New Jersey Nets

In the first quarter, The Cracker air-balled an open corner jumper.

3. Colorado Rockies vs. New York Mets: Doubleheader

The play of the day goes to a combo of Jason Giambi, Franklin Morales, and Willie Harris.

4. Houston Astros vs. New York Mets: Game Two

Whenever a run is scored on a wild pitch, you know the game is a joke.

5. Houston Astros vs. New York Mets: Game Three

In the 7th, Nickeas went out to the mound to cool Cappuccino after he allowed a few base runners.

6. San Francisco Giants vs. New York Mets: Game One

Every few innings, they had Chin-Lung Hu come onto the big screen and say something in Chinese. It was extremely random.

7. San Francisco Giants vs. New York Mets: Game Two

In the 8th inning, we decided to go to Section 401.

8. Kansas City Royals vs. New York Yankees

Chris Getz refused to strike out.

9. Chivas USA vs. New York Red Bulls

We had a very pleasant and enjoyable time in our first ever trip to RedBull Arena.

10. Washington Nationals vs. New York Mets
11. New York Mets vs. New York Yankees

After we saw R.A. Dickey lose at home to the Rockies, Astros, and Giants, he was able to win on the road at Yankee Stadium. Do you get what I mean by unpredictable?

12. Toronto Blue Jays vs. New York Yankees

There was also a 4 pitch walk with the bases loaded to Eric Thames (who?) which only exaggerated the disaster.

13. Colorado Rapids vs. New York Red Bulls

We sat in the Red Bulls Supporters section in this game. These are the crazy fans that stand the entire game and are mostly drunk.

14. Philadelphia Phillies vs. New York Mets

The disaster begun fairly unassumingly.

15. Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Mets: Game One

When we arrived to batting practice, the Pirates were practicing.

16. Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Mets: Game Two

We were sitting in foul territory in right field, which is home to Matt Diaz of the Pirates.

17. Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Mets: Game Four
18. Columbus Crew vs. New York Red Bulls

Players were moving around like zombies.

19. Greece National Soccer Team vs. Ecuador National Soccer Team
20. New Jersey Jackals vs. Newark Bears

They said that the Meatball of the Game would hit a home run. They were wrong.

21. New England Revolution vs. New York Red Bulls
22. Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees

This game was never in question for the Yankees.

23. Keeping up with the Kardashians Season 6 Episode 1

After having some scripted talk about nothing, Kris burped right in Kim’s face.

24. CONCACAF Gold Cup: Grenada vs. Guatemala & Honduras vs. Jamaica
25. Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees

Carlos Carrasco looked like an ace tonight.

26. Chesapeake Bayhawks vs. Long Island Lizards

That shows true dedication, to see a Major League Lacrosse game despite having over 5 hours of traveling.

27. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. New York Mets: Game One

The Angels had two errors tonight, and they were both on Jason Bay ground balls in the infield. In fact, they were both overthrows of first base that went into the crowd.

28. Keeping up with the Kardashians Season 6 Episode 2

The highlight of the show was Kris Humphries’ short appearance.

29. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. New York Mets: Game Two

The Mets won this game, 6-1, because they got to Dan Haren early and often

30. NBA Draft

The 2nd round escalated to an even bigger joke when a guy started blowing a vuvuzela.

31. Keeping up with the Kardashians Season 6 Episode 3

In tonight’s show, Kim gets an X-ray of her butt, Kourtney and Khloe make fun of her, and their mom fake cries.

That’s all for now! I will update this page as we continue to attend events.

Mets-Angels Recap

Mets-Angels From Citi Field

Tonight, the Angels came into Citi Field and defeated the Mets 4-3 to spoil the Mets return home after a very long road trip. Joel Pineiro pitched pretty well and got the victory, the 100th of his career, while Chris Capuano (Cappuccino) pitched well as well, but got the loss instead. I have to admit, there were many boring moments from this game, but it ended up coming down to the final pitch. I will start at the beginning. The Angels opened the scoring in the second inning on a terrible throw to first by Justin Turner. It was pretty funny and typical Mets. However, Angel Pagan tied the score at 1 in the bottom of the inning with a single. The next inning, each team scored once more to tie the game at 2. The tie was broken in the 6th inning on a Peter Bourjos double, and the Angels added an insurance run in the 7th. Ronny Paulino doubled in a run in the 8th to cut the LA lead to a run. In the bottom of the ninth, things really started to get interesting. The Angels closer, Jordan Walden, was brought in to finish off the Mets and get the save. Jose Reyes was leading off, and this should have been bad news for the Angels, especially when he earned a leadoff walk to start the inning. After stealing second, Walden then walked Justin Turner to put two runners on with nobody out and the 3-4-5 hitters coming up in the lineup for the Mets. However, Walden then proceeded to strike out each hitter and the Angels came away with the victory. It was a typical way for the Mets to lose a game, especially at home where they try their hardest to disappoint their fans. This game marked the end of my KHH season, as I am leaving for camp tomorrow. At the end of this article, I will take a moment to say goodbye to all of my loyal fans. For now, you can see a video of the final out of the game and some pictures from the final inning:

Jordan Wal(fish)den

Jose at the Plate

Walden On the Mound

Jose

An Angels Meeting on the Mound

The Situation. Reyes on First About to Steal, Walden on the Mound.

Now I will talk about some of the jokes from the game:

• After we had arrived to our seats, we realized that the tarp was on the field and there was a rain delay. The tarp quickly came off, but then the groundscrew had to start prepping the field for the game. It took way too long, about half an hour. And it was raining for 0 minutes during that half hour. Actually, it didn’t rain once when we were in Citi Field. Here are some pictures of the groundscrew and the rain delay:

The Citi Field Groundscrew Working On the Raintarp

The Groundscrew Working On a Huge Puddle

They Obviously Failed

•  Tonight was police and firemen appreciation night at Citi Field. I’m sure that they felt very appreciated by the Mets’ great performance tonight. I kind of feel bad for them that they had to go to this game. This is another example of a completely failed Mets promotion.
• One interesting note from this game was that it featured Angel Pagan vs. The Angels. And the Angel vs. Angel matchup was a good one. Pagan had two hits and two RBI’s, but the Angels (plural) got the victory.
• At one point in the game in between innings, the Mets put up some welcomes to random fans on the scoreboard. In order to have your name on the scoreboard, you have to pay the Mets. At one point, it said “The Mets Welcome Daniel G.”. I wonder who Daniel G. is. Oh, I got it! Daniel Gadzuric! Dan was obviously in the house tonight watching terrible baseball. Congrats, Gad!
• Tonight for the Angels, Jeff Mathis was batting 8th because the pitcher had to bat 9th. Mathis is batting .197 for the year. Despite this, the Mets intentionally walked him twice to get to the pitcher’s spot. Jeff is probably thanking god for letting him raise his on base percentage while doing nothing.
• The Angels had two errors tonight, and they were both on Jason Bay ground balls in the infield. In fact, they were both overthrows of first base that went into the crowd. I enjoyed both of these plays.
• Our seats for this game (before we moved up right next to the Angels dugout in the 9th inning) were right next to the left field foul pole. Actually right next to it. Here are some great pictures of the foul pole in left:

The Foul Pole By Our Seats

The Foul Pole and the Scoreboard

The Foul Pole in the Dark

• Here are a couple more of our best pictures from the night at Citi:

Jason Bay in Left Field

Travis Outlaw, the Mets Ballboy

Vernon Wells in Left Field for the Angels

Vernon Wells in Left Field for the Angels

Jason Bay Preparing for a Fly Ball

The Mets Infield

The View From Our Foul Pole Seats

Russell Branyan. Ew.

The Angels Third Base Coach

Russell Branyan at the Plate

As I wrote earlier in this article, this will be my last article of this KHH season. I hope to continue blogging while at camp for the next 8 weeks, but I cannot promise my readers anything. Maybe an occasional Sport-cle of the Day, or maybe a Mets preview and recap every night; we will just have to wait and see. Right now, I would like a moment of silence for us all to think about this great KHH season and look forward to the future.

 

 

Thank you. I also want to recall every place and event that your favorite KHH bloggers have been to this year. The Rock, Citi Field baseball, Citi Field soccer, RedBull Arena Red Bulls, RedBull Arena Caribbean, Yankee Stadium, Newark Bears Stadium, Hofstra University, and possibly more. We used every form of public transportation to get to our events, and we paid the minimum possible. It was a successful year, and I look forward to blogging in the future.

Mets-Angels Preview

Tonight, the KHH bloggers will be journeying for a final time to Citi Field to see the Mets take on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. This will be the Mets’ first game in Queens in almost two weeks. The last time we were at Citi Field was to see Greece-Ecuador last week, and we shall see if the field is in bad condition from the soccer game. The pitching matchup we will see tonight will be Chris Cappuccino for the Mets and Joel Pineiro for the Angels. Both pitchers have very similar statistics this year. They are both in the middle of the pack of pitchers. Because this is an interleague game, Pineiro will bat for the Angels. That is sure to be interesting. This should be a great game, and expect a full game recap following.

Mets – Peggle Comparisons

During the past few years of high school, the KHH bloggers have often found themselves mired in complete boredom. Sometimes we had nothing to do during free periods. Other times we needed something to do during joke classes. On (many) occasions, we were bored during serious classes. Faced with each of these situations, the KHH bloggers often played Peggle.

Peggle is a very addicting game. It involves firing a magical ball at different colored pegs. It’s sometimes fun and always challenging.

Today, I will compare all your 2011 Mets players to Peggle characters. Without further ado, let’s begin!

Mets Pitchers
RP – Pedro Beato: Pyramid Ball

 

KAT TUT - Pyramid Ball

RP – Tim Byrdak: Gopher Ball

 

JIMMY LIGHTNING - Gopher Ball (Multiball)

SP – Chris Capuano: Lobster Ball

 

CLAUDE - Lobster Ball (Flippers)

SP – R.A. Dickey: Flower Ball

 

TULA - Flower Ball (Flower Power)

SP – Dillon Gee: Magic Hat

 

WARREN - Magic Hat (Lucky Spin)

RP – Jason Isringhausen: Zen Master Hayon

 

MASTER HU - Zen Master Hayon Ball (Zen Ball)

SP – Jon Niese: Unicorn Ball

BJORN - Unicorn Ball (Super Guide)

RP – Michael O’Connor: Gopher Ball

JIMMY LIGHTNING - Gopher Ball (Multiball)

RP – Bobby Parnell: Dragon BallZ

LORD CINDERBOTTOM - Dragon BallZ (Fireball)

SP – Mike Pelfrey: Lobster Ball

CLAUDE - Lobster Ball (Flippers)

RP – Francisco Rodriguez: Spooky

RENFIELD - Spooky Ball

RP – Dale Thayer: Flower Ball

TULA - Flower Ball (Flower Power)

Mets Batters
C – Ronny Paulino: Space Blast

SPLORK - Space Blast

C – Josh Thole: Unicorn Ball

BJORN - Unicorn Ball (Super Guide)

1B – Nick Evans: Pyramid Ball

KAT TUT - Pyramid Ball

1B – Daniel Murphy: Zen Master Hayon

MASTER HU - Zen Master Hayon Ball (Zen Ball)

SS – Jose Reyes: Magic Hat

WARREN - Magic Hat (Lucky Spin)

2B – Ruben Tejada: Flower Ball

TULA - Flower Ball (Flower Power)

IF – Justin Turner: Dragon BallZ

LORD CINDERBOTTOM - Dragon BallZ (Fireball)

LF – Jason Bay: Gopher Ball

JIMMY LIGHTNING - Gopher Ball (Multiball)

RF – Carlos Beltran: Spooky

RENFIELD - Spooky Ball

OF – Scott Hairston: Unicorn Ball

BJORN - Unicorn Ball (Super Guide)

OF – Willie Harris: Space Blast

SPLORK - Space Blast

CF – Angel Pagan: Magic Hat

WARREN - Magic Hat (Lucky Spin)

OF – Jason Pridie: Lobster Ball

CLAUDE - Lobster Ball (Flippers)

And the Ultra Extreme Fever award for best Peggle player belongs to…

Daniel Murphy!  Congratulations!!

Mets-Pirates Game 4 Recap

This was the most impressive game that we have seen the Mets play all season. I think that they really responded to Terry Collins’s rant last night, but this response may only last one game. The game was played in two parts. The first part of the game was the first 2.5 innings and the second part was the last 6.5 innings of the game. The first part of the game completely belonged to the Pirates. In the top of the first inning, the Pirates had some lucky hits, but ultimately killed Pelfrey. They had two steals before the Mets recorded an out and 3 steals in the game. There was a meeting on the mound in the first inning as well. The big blows in the inning were singles by Andrew McCutchen and Matt Diaz. The Pirates scored 3 runs in the inning. After a 1-2-3 bottom of the 1st, the Pirates were at it again. Andrew McCutchen hit another RBI single and then Neil Walker hit an absolute bomb to right-center. It went over the 415 sign, the deepest part of the park, and continued on to hit the Dunkin’ Donuts sign. It probably traveled close to 440 feet and it scored 2 runs. The Pirates were leading 6-0, and then tacked on one more run in the third. It was 7-0 Pirates. To make things worse, Paul Maholm who came into the game batting .050 went 2-3 in the game. This was very typical Mets and every single person at Shea thought the game was over. We were in for our second Mets blowout loss in 2 games.

Paul Maholm at bat. He is about to get a single.

Now on to the second part of the game. This part belonged to the Mets. In the bottom of the third inning and down 7-0, Carlos Beltran hit a ball off of the facing of the left field middle deck and cut the score to 7-3. It was the first ball that I had ever seen hit past the lower deck in left field at Citi Field. This was nice, but so what. Nobody thought that the Mets would come back and win. But the Mets were not done. After a couple of boring innings, the Mets put together a great two-out rally in the 6th inning. With the bases loaded and two outs, Ruben Tejada hit a single to right to cut the Pirate lead to 7-5. Then, a pinch hitting Daniel Murphy singled as well to make it a one run deficit. In typical Mets-Pirates fashion, Ruben Tejada scored to tie the game on a passed ball by Pirates catcher Dusty Brown (who?). This was on the first pitch be Pirates reliever Chris Resop. Both pitcher and catcher were kind of a joke. At this point, Mets fans had a lot of confidence in their team. In the 8th inning, more disasters struck for the Pirates. First off, Jose Veras, the Pirates reliever was awful to say the least. In the 7 batters he pitched to, he got 2 out, gave up 1 hit, and walked 4 of them. After Ronny Paulino led off the inning with a single, he was pinch run for by Willie Harris. After this, Chris Capuano pinch hit for Jason Isringhausen. I was shocked when I saw Cappuccino pinch hitting, but he was only there to lay down a bunt. In typical Mets fashion, he was unable to get the bunt down, though Willie Harris did force a Veras balk and got to second. When Capuano had two strikes on him, something I never saw happened. Terry Collins pinch hit Josh Thole for Capuano in the middle of the at bat. Thole walked and then Ruben Tejada hit a sacrifice fly and Willie scored from third. Later in the inning, Veras gave up a bases loaded walk to Beltran to make the score 9-7 Mets. But the game was not over because K-Rod always makes games interesting. He gave up a leadoff triple to Xavier Paul, but Pittsburgh only scored once in the inning to give the Mets an impressive 9-8 victory. One thing to note about the final score is that Raphi, half-jokingly, predicted this score in the first inning. The first correct score prediction of the year goes to Raphi in a very strange game.

Jose Reyes Warming Up

To talk about the pitching briefly, Paul Maholm was fine except for the 3 run homer to Beltran and the 6th inning. Other than that, he was very impressive, but those things really hurt him. Pelfrey was pretty disgusting in this game giving up 7 runs in 5 innings, but luckily the Mets bailed him out and he avoided the loss. For the first time in a long time, the Mets bullpen did not blow the game. They were actually quite good. Congrats Tim Byrdak, Bobby Parnell, and Izzy. This was a big win for the Mets because if they lost this game, they would have lost 3/4 at home to the lowly Pirates. Even though it is not enough, at least they got 2 wins. This was the Mets biggest comeback in a game since June 30, 2000 when they came back from down 8-1 to the Braves. After Terry Collins’s rant last night, I expected the Mets to win this game, but not in this crazy fashion. I expect Collins’s rant to last one game and the Mets will return to their bad ways tomorrow night when they host the Braves. Terry was very happy about the win, almost too happy. He might have taken it as more than it actually was. I’m sorry, but all you did was beat the Pirates at home.

Pelfery on the Mound

Now on to the jokes from the game.

• Today’s Mets promotion was a Dunkin’ Donuts gift card. It is worth $2 at any Dunkin’ Donuts if you buy something there. It was a pretty meager reward for sitting through Mets-Pirates. Raphi was so disgusted with it that he gave his card to me. I am doubtful that I will use either card. Here is a picture of the card:

The Mets Dunkin' Donuts Give Away Card

• We wanted to go to Mets-Pirates batting practice today, but Raphi was 40 minutes late so we missed it. Fortunately though, we did get to the game in time for a softball home run derby. Even though they used metal bats, these guys were really able to smack the ball. I was actually surprised at how good they were. They hit many home runs. There were kids in the outfield trying to catch the balls and they all failed. See pictures and video below:

Kids in the outfield during the softball home run derby.

The Home Run Derby

• People actually sat in the upper deck of left field today! I was very surprised because this should have been the least attended game of the season. It was a Mets-Pirates day game. But people were out at the ballgame today. There were also a lot of schools that came out to Shea. Each school wore a different colored shirt and they all sat in a huge group so they were easily spotted. See pictures of upper deck left field and schools at the ballpark below:

Upper Deck Left Field

Upper Deck Left Field. People actually sat under the scoreboard!

Yellow Shirt School. Worst possible seats ever.

Some More Schools

Purple School in the Pepsi Porch

• After the home run derby and before the game started, there was really nothing going on. The Mets groundscrew was randomly watering the infield and the Mets were playing the radio in the background. They were popular songs and very unlike the Mets. See pictures of the groundscrew below:

Great picture of groundscrew. This is my favorite of the day.

• After the home run derby we decided to not leave our very good seats and go to our bad seats. Even though we got moved a few times, we never had to leave the area and we had very nice seats in the 10th row behind first base for the entire game.
• The highlight of the game for us was the paper, napkins, and plastic bags that blew onto the field. They just made the game even more of a joke. It was a very windy day and because of this, the field was covered with these things throughout the game. And they always huddled together. Sometimes there was a huge clump of napkins in left field, sometimes the plastic bags surrounded Angel Pagan in center, or sometimes they attacked Pelfrey on the mound. They also sometimes chased baserunners around the basepaths. See pictures and video below (Raphi claims that he was crying from laughter during the filming of the video):

Paper and Plastic Everywhere

Groundscrew working to get the field free of paper and plastic in between the innings. Needless to say, they failed.

More Paper and Plastic

• Because of all the wind, one of the security guards lost his light blue Mets hat and it blew onto the field. It was on the field for a good 5 minutes during game action. I wish it interfered with one of the plays. See picture below:

The Security Guard's Hat on the Field

• In the 7th inning stretch, Raphi got a shirt. I maybe should have gotten one also, but I had already caught 3 this year (I gave the first one I caught to Raphi). I already have 3 Mets shirts and I don’t know if I can stand any more of them. The shirts are wrapped with one of those long balloons that clowns use (we call it Petro’s armband) and after the last pitch of the game, I “fired away” the balloon. This expression comes from Peggle when you have such a big lead that you can just fire away and you will still win. Speaking of Peggle, I had a great shot on the train ride home from last night’s game. See a video of it below. Also see how Raphi used his caught shirt:

Raphi's Mets t-shirt catch. He decided to use this shirt to protect his legs from getting sunburned. Typical usage of a Mets prize.

• Here are a few more pictures from the game:

Jose Reyes Warming Up

Nick Evans Being Nick

Pelfrey Preparing for his Terrible Start

Matt Diaz, a Right Field Fan Favorite

Dusty Brown, Pirates Catcher. He had 4 at bats on the season coming into today and he has a great name.

Paul Maholm. He came into the game batting .050 and he still got 2 hits.

• After the game ended, we went behind the Mets dugout to try to get something from one of the players. I was sort of expecting something because they won, but I got nothing. I was kind of disappointed, but that is because I am very spoiled. In the 10 or so games that we have went to, we have caught 4 throw away Pepsi Max Shirts, got two Chevrolet Mets black shirts, 4 free tickets (to Mets-Phillies and Mets-Pirates), got 3 balls, and Angel Pagan’s hat. That is an impressive list, if I do say so myself.

If the Mets lost this game, Terry Collins would have been so angry with them, but I guess the pressure will be off them for one more day. I can’t see them beating the Braves tomorrow night, though. Here at KHH, we have some exciting events coming up. On Saturday, we will likely attend Red Bulls-Columbus Crew, possibly with Sam. Then, on Sunday night, it is possible (but unlikely) that we will go to Mets-Braves. If we do not go to this game, our last chance to see the Mets will be the day before I leave to go to camp on Friday, June 17 when they play the Angels. Next Tuesday, we will be back at Citi for Greece Ecuador. I am really looking forward to this and it should be great.

Soccer at Citi!

Mets-Pirates Game 3 Recap

Kevin Correia. He is batting .000 with an OBP of .040. That's disgusting. He should've had one of the Pirates infield singles.

This was such a classic Mets game. They blew their lead late in the game, as they usually do, and lost for the second night in a row at home to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-3. The first 6 innings of the game were as boring as watching the second quarter of Nets-Pistons, but the last 3 innings were as good as Nets-Spurs garbage time. The first scoring came in the game by a two out, two RBI single by Ruben Tejada in the fourth inning. No other team scored again until the top of the seventh, and boy, was the top of the 7th fun. The inning started off with an Andrew McCutchen infield single. Fine. But that was not all. The Pirates hit 4 infield singles in a row to start the inning, 6 hits to start the inning, and 5 infield singles total in the inning. Basically, they had 8 hits in the inning (they had 2 going into the inning) and 5 of them were infield hits and 2 of the outfield hits could have been caught. So the Pirates had one clean hit in the inning and ended up scoring 5 runs. Somehow, there were no errors in the inning, just plays that should have been made. It was very typical Mets. The Pirates added 4 more runs in the top of the 8th before a home run by Justin Turner in the bottom of the inning. Shockingly, (and this is really shocking) it was the Mets first home run in 11 games. Wow. Out of the Pirates 14 hits, 13 of them were singles and the other was a double, so they really just got pretty lucky. Or the Mets played very bad defense. Probably both.

Neil Walker swinging for the fences

The starting pitching in this game was actually pretty good. Kevin Correia got his major league leading 8th win of the season and his 7th win on the road. He left after 6 innings, so when he left he was not winning the game, but after the Pirates scored 5 runs in the 7th inning, he got the win. Even though Chris Cappuccino gave up 5 runs in 6 innings, they were not at all his fault. They all came on infield singles in the 7th inning and at least half of them should have been outs. I kind of feel sorry for him because he pitched very well and has nothing to show for it. The Mets bullpen tonight was very typical. Pedro Beato gave up 3 runs in 1 inning and Mike O’Connor gave up a run without recording an out. Dale Thayer pitched the last two innings without giving up a run. Congrats Dale! You were the best Mets pitcher of the night!

Dale Thayer making his appearance

Now on to the jokes of the game, and there were many of them.

• Raphi was 40 minutes late today, so we arrived in the beginning of the second inning. We missed a great Andrew McCutchen diving play in the first inning, but we saw a replay of it. The Pirates had quite a few nice plays in the field today. I was impressed with their defense. Anyway, we decided to use our Mets-Pirates tickets from Monday to get into the lower level. I bought the cheapest tickets possible on Stubhub. We were very successful with our choice of seat because we were in the third row and did not get kicked out.
• We were sitting in foul territory in right field, which is home to Matt Diaz of the Pirates. People were yelling things at him in our section for most of the game and told him to give them balls. They were most likely drunk. He was smiling for most of the time and not really focusing on the game. Typical Pirate. I think he also tried to talk back jokingly to the people yelling at him but I don’t know what he said. Here are some pictures:

Matt Diaz in Right Field

Matt Diaz Smiling

• When Angel Pagan was up, he hit a ball down the first base line that was just foul. It wasn’t foul until he was almost at first base and he took his sweet time walking back home and picking up his bat (he is still officially my favorite Met because I got his hat on Monday). While he was walking back, Citi Field played a full round of R.A. Dickey’s alarm clock. For those of you who don’t know what this is, it is one of the cheers they play at baseball games. Once when R.A. Dickey was pitching, we decided that it is probably The Dick’s alarm clock. It is just very R.A. I enjoyed listening to it.
• People were yelling at Anthony, the Mets ballboy (who we call Carmelo) the whole game to give them balls. He gave out more balls than usual tonight. Also, we noticed that he got a red-haired Mohawk. Interesting. See pictures below:

Carmelo

• Because we were not sitting even close to our real seats and because Raphi forgot his Tote Bag to put peanuts in (bring it tomorrow), we did not start eating our peanuts until the 5th inning when we thought that nobody would kick us out. Surprisingly, these were the first good Shea peanuts we have had and there was not an infinite amount of them. We finished them in a record 1.5 innings. I was impressed.
• In the 8th inning, Pedro Beato intentionally walked Chris Snyder, the catcher for Pittsburgh. As you would have guessed, this move did not work out well for Beato.
• Mike O’Connor came in to pitch in the 8th inning. The reason the Mets brought him in was to pitch to Lyle Overbay, a lefty. O’Connor is the Mets’ lefty specialist (AKA defensive specialist, AKA The Cracker) and yet he still gave up a hit to Overbay. Following this, he walked Ronny Cedeno on 4 pitches and then gave up a hit to Xavier Paul. He did not record an out. Well done Mike.
• During all the Mets pitching changes in the 8th inning, K-Rod was bored. He decided to stare at the game through the wire fence in the bullpen. He probably could not have been more bored and disgusted with his team. The funny pictures are below:

K-Rod bored out of his mind staring through the bullpen fence

K-Rod's still bored

• After the Mets were down by 7 runs in the 9th inning, we decided to move up like usual. We went to our same seats as on Monday when I got Angel Pagan’s hat. When the game ended we went up to the Mets dugout again. Unfortunately, they did not win so they were not celebrating on the field and throwing things into the stands. However, I did receive a ball from a mysterious person in the Mets dugout. He just threw the ball over the top of it so I was not able to see who it was. It was a relatively easy catch seeing how difficult catching a ball usually is. Also, in the 7th inning stretch, I caught another orange Mets and Pepsi Max shirt. I will wear it tomorrow to the game. Below you will find a Mets 7th inning stretch video. Unfortunately I did not take it because I was trying to catch a shirt, but it is still ok. Also, you will see a high quality version of the Mets 7th inning stretch song. It is one of my favorites.

• This game was our first blowout Mets game of the season. Most of the other games have been close, but ironically, their first blowout win or loss comes in a loss to the worst team in baseball in the last 20 years. As I said earlier, the end of this game, especially the 9th inning, was equivalent to garbage time of Nets-Spurs. For those of you who don’t know, this year when the Spurs visited Newark, they terribly blew out the Nets. The entire 4th quarter featured Steve Novak, Chris Quinn, Ben Uzoh, and Quinton Ross. It was disgusting. A similarity between the two games was that people were just yelling at the players and there was no crowd noise because everyone had left, so the players are able to hear everything people say to them. One guy today was yelling at Lyle Overbay for the whole 9th inning. See Mets-Pirates garbage time pictures below:

Carlos Beltran

Mookie Wilson with Willie Harris

Willie

Lyle Overbay bored in the 9th inning

Your favorite KHH bloggers will be back at the Citi tomorrow for more Mets-Pirates action! It is an early start, 1 PM, but we hope to go for batting practice at 11:30. There is also a high possibility that we will go to Red Bulls-Crew on Saturday in Harrison. Sam may even join us! We are looking forward to it.

Mets-Pirates Game 3 Preview

Tonight, the Mets will host the Pirates again at Citi Field. The Pitching matchup features Chris Cappuccino for the Mets and Kevin Correia for Pittsburgh. Capuano has been pretty average this year with a 3-5 record and an ERA close to 5. Correia, on the other hand, has been great for the Pirates and is going for and MLB leading 8th win tonight. The former Padre great is 7-4. To make matters worse for the Mets, 6 of Correia’s 7 wins this year have been on the road. Also, Jose Reyes will miss his third straight game after the passing of his grandmother. He probably just wants to get away from the Mets and is doing anything he can to stay away as long as possible. Hopefully he will return tomorrow. Because of Correia’s road record, I expect the Pirates to win tonight, 6-2. A postgame report to come later.

Kevin Correia

Subway Series Recap

After the KHH bloggers attended game 1 of the Subway Series (which you can read about here), the two teams played two more games on Saturday and Sunday, with the Yankees winning both of them convincingly. In game 2 of the series, the Yankees hit 4 home runs and Cappuccino got the loss, which was not surprising at all, but I think that today’s game was the funnier of the two. The Mets were leading 3-1 for most of the game, but then in the 7th inning they had one of their classic collapses. Mike Pelfrey pitched very well until the 7th inning, only allowing 1 run on a Granderson homer. But in the 7th, he fell apart. With runners on first and second and nobody out, Pelf hit Francisco Cervelli, who was trying to lay down a sacrifice bunt to load the bases. Then, Jeter had a lucky single up the middle to tie the game and Pelfrey was done. Enter the Mets bullpen. The Mets had to use Tim Byrdak, Pedro Beato, and Pat Misch before they were finally able to get out of the inning. One of the highlights of the inning was a Chris Dickerson (who?) two-run single to put the game out of reach. The Yankees scored a total of 8 runs in the inning and the game was over. Such classic Mets.

Chris Dickerson in his Reds days. This is a great picture.

The Week Ahead

This will be a big week for the KHH bloggers. Although we will skip tonight’s Mets-Marlins game (we didn’t feel like watching Josh Johnson lead the Marlins to a 1-0 victory), we will be going to the game tomorrow to see Jon Niese vs. Ricky Nolasco. Finally, we get to see a non-Cappuccino or Dickey Mets starter. And Raphi loves Ricky Nolasco. But this is only a preview for what we will see on Wednesday. On Wednesday, we will be attending Mets-Nationals, where we will see a pitching matchup of, drumroll please………TOM GORZELANNY vs. DILLON GEE. This will be one for the ages. I personally cannot wait for this game. More to come later.

Tom Gorzelanny

Why Do the Mets Hate Us?

It’s official. The Mets hate us. In games that we have went to this year, they are 1-5. Ok, ok, you can blame that on the fact that we have seen R.A. Dickey and Chris Capuano 3 times each so far, but still, they should be a lot better. To make it even worse, since the games we went to last week, they have been 3-0, beating the Giants once and the Dodgers twice. They even ended Andre Ethier’s 30 game hitting streak tonight. So why are they so bad when we go? And who are the real Mets? The ones we know, or the ones that we are seeing play now? They also have had a 5 game winning streak this year (https://kimhadhumps.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/out-of-the-blue-the-mets-have-won-five-games-in-a-row/). These Mets look like they can possibly even be a playoff team, but when we attend their games, they look worse than the Nationals and Pirates put together. The solution is for us to boycott the Mets until they prove to us who they truly are.

So I have a proposal. This may be very shocking to some and it may be very dangerous. Next week, the Kansas City Royals will be in town. At Yankee Stadium. Now, the Royals are a complete joke and they have been for the last 20 years, so there’s nothing to worry about with them (Jose Lima is their best player in the last 20 years). But the Yankees on the other hand, are not a joke and visiting Yankee Stadium would be going to new territory for us. We have never been to the stadium of a non-joke team. However, there will still be many joke aspects to the game. First of all, on stubhub, we can buy tickets for $2 for these games. Nobody wants to see the Royals. $5 will get us upper deck behind home plate, which is not a bad seat. Secondly, we still get to see the Royals even though they are playing the Yankees. Their ace is Luke Hochevar and their best hitter is Melky Cabrera (or at least my favorite hitter). Third of all, the Yankees are my favorite baseball team and I have not been to a game this year. I know it may be shocking but I think we should go to a Yankees-Royals game.

Yankee Stadium

Luke Hochevar