Marlon Anderson
JMB · June 11, 2005 at 8:20 pm · Filed Under General baseball
Do yourself a favor and catch some sort of sports recap show tonight — Marlon Anderson of the Mets just hit a pinch-hit, inside-the-park homer off Francisco Rodriguez in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game at two, ending in a collision at home. I think he might need stitches. The whole thing is fun to watch, including the part where he blows a bubble with his gum while rounding second base (you might not see this depending on the angle). I kid you not.
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And my PE teachers alway said chewing gum while running was bad, tsk.
They never had a comeback when I mentioned that Gary Payton did it all the time either…
And Floyd just hit a walk-off! The M’s won’t lose any ground in the West tonight.
The Russian Dude came back today, yes? Where was his cannon arm from the depths of Shea?
Watching Ol’ Man Finley day in and day out is really starting to wear on this Angels fan. Can we have Randy Winn?
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You can have Winn for Colon. We’ll even throw in Brett Boone. And if you just keep Finley, we’ll add a Scott Spezio as a special thanks. You know you want him back.
Now I just need to sit and wait till mlb puts up the highlight of the game. MLB All Access is great, just a pain when it takes them awhiel to get the higlights and condensed games up.
The Angels-Mets game is now up at MLB.com
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/subscriptions/all_access/index.jsp?ymd=20050611
Marlon Anderson’s inside the park HR is at approximately 4:03:01 on the Windows Media Player. Your welcome.
It’s always cool to see The Team That Plays In The City Where Disneyland Is Located lose.
That was great watching him blow the bubble right before 2nd. I watched the highlights off it and not the game replay. What a play by him, I bet he was gassed going around 3rd.
Speaking of inside-the-park home runs, Olivo(!) had one of the 3-run variety tonight down in Tacoma, completed by barrelling through the 51s’ catcher, for what would end up to be the game-winning runs. This in addition to a 2-RBI double earlier in the game.
Is it me, or have almost all of Olivo’s hits in Tacoma been for extra bases? If I’m not mistaken, in 28 at bats he’s had 5 hits, 1 which was a double and 3 which were home runs. The mind boggles…
Anybody happen to know where I could see the clip besides on MLB.com? I’m behind a firewall here in Australia, which means no streaming videos (it’s extremelly annoying!) so MLB.com doesn’t work for me…
Derek Jeter blows bubbles while running the bases too.
I saw the bubble thing. Awesome. Floyd’s walk-off was pretty sweet too, especially because a couple pitches earlier he jacked one just foul.
I saw Wilson Valdez blow a bubble while fielding a ball this year when he was with the Mariners.
So, is the only way to get MLB-TV these days to pay full price for it? I know there was this MSN deal last year, but I don’t think that exists anymore, unless I just can’t find the info on it.
Deanna, I believe you are correct. He also has 9 RBI with those 5 hits. So at least when does get those rare hits he’s being productive.
Gabriel, I haven’t found the MSN deal this season, either.
I used to play keyboards in college, and I’d chew gum while on stage. It annoyed a lot of people, but I retorted that it was my way of keeping tempo.
Gabriel – you’re right. There’s no option but to pay full price.
I liked how they set it up a few years ago how you could buy each component separately. I bought just the condensed games.