Archive for June 25th, 2009

Mets and Yankee fans are invited to show the best “fan flair at Pershing Square” this Friday, june 26 at NOON, for the chance to win a pair of tickets to Sunday’s game of this week’s Subway Series at Citifield.

Daniel Murphy and Joba Chamberlain will be on hand to pick the most festive flair for their home teams and award one pair of tickets to Sunday’s game to a Mets fan and a Yankees fan. The lucky fans will sit in the Field Level Premium area with access to the Delta 360 club.

I can’t make it tomorrow… anyone going to go to represent us??

A special thanks to @swirlywand for the info

A rare sighting of an endangered species occured on the night of June 23rd – an “Oh Murph” moment. It was spotted in the third inning of the Cardinals-Mets game at Citi Field, in Flushing, New York when Daniel Murphy committed an error at first base.

“Incredible,” said local fan and Murphaholic Paul Rizoglou, who was in attendance. “These used to be spotted regularly, almost expected, when Murph was manning left field. I’m surprised I just saw one in person.”

With runners on 1st and 2nd and one out, Murphy cleanly picked a bouncer to his left before spinning and throwing towards second base to execute the first half of a double play, only to bounce the ball two feet in front of Alex Cora, sending the ball towards the outfield grass, an unearned run came home on the play.

As the game dragged on through the 6th inning, the Cardinals remained up 1-0 and Murphaholics everywhere began to wonder if this would be another “Oh, Murph” moment that would cost the game. Road games in Florida and St. Louis were two of the more conspicuous sightings from earlier this season.

As if the sighting was not special enough, the “Oh Murph” moment was made even more unusual in that it involved a play with his throw, and not with his buttered outfielders glove or spikes.  Scientific correlations, however, do indicate that an increase in Murphy’s batting average and pitchers-per-at-bat tend to indicate a rise in Oh Murph moments.