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2019-20 Canes Miscellaneous News Thread

My favorite Mets banner day memory was in 1980 when I paraded on the field with the sign I had made about my favorite player...

When the Mets play
The other team learns
How to play baseball
From John Stearns!

Stearns was in the dugout during the parade, and when he saw my sign, he came out and high-fived me!
 
Some great memories of some of the buildings and teams that you guys have mentioned in your trip down memory lane. I also remember the old IHL and had a family member play for the Flint Spirits back in the day. That league was pretty good hockey, just a step below the AHL with many great rivalries. Bill's list of the Michigan IHL teams was great, I use to play in some minor hockey tournaments as a kid and it was always a thrill as a youngster to skate in some of the IHL arenas in Port Huron (McMorran Arena) and Flint (IMA Sports Arena) when we would play travel tournaments.

I lived for a year in Orlando when the Solar Bears first got down there and went to some games, they actually did a really nice job with that team out of the gate, had some solid crowds in the 14K range and had a few long time NHL guys like Allan Bester. The teams original GM was no other than our very own Don Waddell.
 
I know of the Saginaw Spirit, didn't know anything of a Flint Spirits. Come on, Saginaw! Be original! For once
 
bagopux said:
We would always go to banner day at Shea. At least I think we would. It was a long time ago. At least my dad loved baseball, though. ;) Was at Shea to see Seaver pitch one of his many one-hitters (vs. the Cubs) in 1977. Steve Ontiveros clean single in the 5th inning... grrr. And we still don't have a legit no-hitter!!!
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Why isn‘t Santana’s legit?

My father saw an Allie Reynolds no hitter the first time he went to a Yankees game. Didn’t matter. He lives 5 minutes from the Nationals/Astros spring training site and 15 minutes from the Cardinals/Marlins site. He’s been to a handful of games in the years the stadiums have been open. But even with his ambivalence for baseball, during the summer, there was always a Yankees game on TV. His sister was convinced that our TV was broken because all it ever had on it were sporting events.
 
I just remembered that I went to a couple of OHL games in 1986, when I was on an audit in Peterborough. And I saw Gretzky play. Keith, not Wayne. And I remember a few fights from that night and looking at the roster, I see one of Gretzky’s teammates was Bryan Marchment. The Petes had a bunch of future NHLers...Kris King, Jody Hull, Luke Richardson, Dallas Eakins, Tie Domi, Ron Tugnutt, Kay Whitmore. No, I didn’t remember them off the top of my head, that’s what hockydb.com is for.
 
bagopux said:
A ball that was clearly fair, and clearly would have been at least a single, was ruled foul (link), and of course it was Carlos Beltran who hit it.
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Meh. Blown calls happen. By that logic, Armando Gallaraga should get credit for a perfect game because it was ruined by a blown call on the 27th out.
 
cmaleski2 said:
Was it Kevin Haller who was picking ar Gretzky that night or am I misrembering?
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Yeah, it was Haller. Made him a VERY short-lived local hero ... pretty much for just being an annoying git, because he was otherwise fiercely mediocre, and gone to Anaheim that summer IIRC.
 
andyt said:
Meh. Blown calls happen. By that logic, Armando Gallaraga should get credit for a perfect game because it was ruined by a blown call on the 27th out.
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Santana pitched a no-no. It's in the books. No asterisk. But it's just so Mets to have it happen that way.
 
andyt said:
I just remembered that I went to a couple of OHL games in 1986, when I was on an audit in Peterborough. And I saw Gretzky play. Keith, not Wayne. And I remember a few fights from that night and looking at the roster, I see one of Gretzky’s teammates was Bryan Marchment. The Petes had a bunch of future NHLers...Kris King, Jody Hull, Luke Richardson, Dallas Eakins, Tie Domi, Ron Tugnutt, Kay Whitmore. No, I didn’t remember them off the top of my head, that’s what hockydb.com is for.
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The OHL was magical back in the 80's, we had season tickets for the London Knights in the mid-1980's and the amount of future NHL talent was so abundant, especially since the NCAA and European guys were nowhere near the numbers they are today in the NHL.

Speaking of the Petes...the greatest Pete of all time was Stevie Y...after that you had Bob Gainey, Larry Murphy, Doug Jarvis to name a few of the old timers.
 
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Yeah, it was Haller. Made him a VERY short-lived local hero ... pretty much for just being an annoying git, because he was otherwise fiercely mediocre, and gone to Anaheim that summer IIRC.
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I literally was walking by the house Haller lived in in my neighborhood as I read this!
 
*AH* said:
Yep Haller was all over Gretzky until Wayne totally lost his cool and committed some egregious foul that got him tossed to our cheers and jeers.

Another game in G'boro, he did the same to Lindros, who wasn't thrown out but... I was on a Flyers forum the next day and comments were made like, "Where was Lindros, I don't remember seeing him at all". I replied that he had been in Haller's shadow all game.
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