23
2011
A Dog Named Jose and a Cockatiel Named Gil
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, a huge Mets fan, is creating quite a buzz these days with his decision to name his dog after shortstop Jose Reyes.
Another funny quote from Seinfeld came when he appeared on David Letterman on Wednesday night and said:
“You want to know why the dog is named Jose? … The dog is named Jose because I feel like we may lose Jose Reyes, and we’re trying to keep a Jose. Because I’m a Met fan. It’s actually my wife’s idea, which is why I love my wife — she comes up with ideas like this. That’s a marriage right there, a wife that says, ‘Let’s name a dog after the Mets’ outgoing shortstop.’ That keeps the love alive.” – Via ESPN
Have you ever named a pet after a Mets player?
I never did, but my uncle uncle once had a cockatiel named Gil after the former Mets manager, and oddly enough his favorite snack was carrots.
(BTW, that’s not my uncle’s cockatiel. Gil died over 10 years ago, but I scoured the internet to find one that looked just like him down to the bright orange cheeks.)
About the Author: Craig Lerner
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Maybe if Jerry would invest on the Mets, then we can keep Jose here.
So if Jerry’s dog runs away…
Not to worry. Jerry’s dog won’t run away, he has a hamstring problem, but he’ll leave home if he doesn’t get two cans of prime cut Alpo each night.
Alpo’s cheap horse meat and filler. You start at Iams or Science Diet and work your way up from there.
What a cool appeal!
And when Jerry throws a stick to Jose to fetch he yells, “Run Jose, Run.”
That’s a marriage right there, a wife that says, ‘Let’s name a dog after the Mets’ outgoing shortstop.’ That keeps the love alive.”
Careful, Jerry, that might be a sign
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours too, alex!
Bayonne, the CORE as usual, salutes you.
i got nervous yesterday i thought you were going to get banned. We need you here alex!
LOL. nope. omar got banned, he got baited by you know who, she then went on a rant and omar was banned. we should avoid by baited by these people here, i know is hard, but, is easier to see the cursing and insulting and not the instigations you know.
it is hard and she’s one of the biggest crybabies. I know it’s hard considering the age of saber and the snarky saber geeks here and all of that and the sympathizers who lie down and question nothing. These are the most trying times i’ve had since joining Metsmerized back in 2006
Yes my friend, you have to have zen like patient here now. no more mets baseball, is all about payroll, numbers, and kissing alderson’s behind. hang in there my friend, hang in there.
How dare you. How does MMO continue to put up with these bold face lies? Seriously, now you are blaming ME for Omar getting banned? How did I bait him? You keep using that expression, wrongly of course, but tell me in your convoluted way, HOW I baited him or you for that matter, EVER.
When someone poses a question, or responses to a comment posted that is NOT being baited, that is the poster being held responsible for their words, do you know what responsibility means?
Is this how the big boys handle things? They blame others for their actions and can’t have a mature debate? Make bold face lies up and make chauvinist remarks? While you continue to make up LIES about people calling you out about your race. You and your friend should be ashamed of yourselves, but that won’t ever happen, first you have to have a bit of pride, dignity and humility to understand that.
If you have one bit of clue, you’d know that I rarely posted on this site over the last year up until 2 weeks ago or so, so you sure do throw a lot of blame my way when I’ve hardly been around.
If that’s the way the “Big boys handle things”, show me a man, I’m too old to deal with boys……………
Disgusting………..
Hope you have a HT kay. i don’t see where i said kay baited omar to get him banned, BUT, with that being said i find it odd that w/o mentioning who baited him to get him banned you jump the gun. i guess this is called accussing yourself.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this one out you said “he got baited by you know who, she then went on a rant and omar was banned.”
Since there are SO few women that post here, and you say that to every post I write………..
Genius……….show me that rant, prove it? Is that like how I attack you and never made a donation to the site?
Like i said before, have a happy thanksgiving ok.
Alex HT, can you image if Kay and Jessep had a baby, what a hot air selling machine that would be. Take the apologist group to new heights. have a great weekend
Will, Happy thanksgiving to you & yours too my friend, LMAO, that was very funny!!!!!!! the CORE, salutes you my friend…
LOL. nope. omar got banned, he got baited by you know who, she then went on a rant and omar was banned. we should avoid by baited by these people here, i know is hard, but, is easier to see the cursing and insulting and not the instigations you know.
You instigate by saying “he got baited by you know who” and then you complain about instigating?
Talk about sticking your ass in you mouth, I mean foot.
sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………………… happy thanksgiving man..
Happy Thanksgiving to you too.
I think the Braves are probably working on a big deal for Jair Juergens to try and find a big bat for the outfield. and their freeing up payroll.
Lou, the current rumor surrounding Jurrjens is to the Yanks for a deal surrounding Nunez.
A former neighbor named his dog Mookie.
I once ate a Strawberry.
My first Golden Retriever was named Casey.
srt – The funny thing is I also have a dog named Casey. He was already named when we adopted him from an animal shelter.
I named one of my parakeets Shea after Shea Stadium came down.
I had a boxer for years named Casey Stengel