Comments on: Juggernaut: The Day My World And The Mets Collided http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html Thu, 23 May 2013 12:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Metsie http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375866 Metsie Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:39:42 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375866 LOL For those that have no idea what the hell we are both laughing at….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLJ8ILIE780

]]> By: rob http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375865 rob Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:39:03 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375865 Matt–
As a fellow blogger on MMO myself (Tie Dyed), I should not be at a loss for words. But I am. All I can say is ‘Wow.’
What a moving, honest pece of writing. Just awesome stuff.
I always like reading these personalized pieces but this one takes the cake.

And thanks for your service, as well.

]]> By: Matt Balasis http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375852 Matt Balasis Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:44:48 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375852 Funny, someone told me that probably wouldn’t happen today because it would be interfering with mail/correspondence from home … Mother’s of America would not approve! Lots of stuff used to happen that doesn’t any more & I’ve been told the further back you go the crazier it gets. I believe DI’s used to carry loaded pistols during WWII. We had this DI who got bounced to our platoon because he hosed his other platoon down in the showers, in full uniform fatigues, with soap and everything … he also supposedly had a recruit clean a trash can with Brasso — from the inside!

]]> By: RandomGuy http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375827 RandomGuy Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:02:28 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375827 Nice story!

I don’t get why you had to do push-ups for the words in the letter though..

]]> By: Matt Balasis http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375817 Matt Balasis Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:47:25 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375817 LOL! … i love that skit …

]]> By: B-Met Fan http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375777 B-Met Fan Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:22:48 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375777 What a post fantastic. Your Dad sounds so much like the Dads of my era. Any emotion was considered a weakness. I grew up in a Yankee household and slowly moved toward the Mets when the Yankees dumped Yogi. We had standing rules in the house meant to keep my emerging Met passion in check. I had only seen major league baseball games at Yankee Stadium and was dying to get to Shea. The rule: my father would take me to a Met game only if they reached .500 after the first six weeks of the season. In the mid 60′s that seemed like a life sentence. There were also rules for television. The New York team with the best won/loss record would be watched on the color television in the living room. The team with the poorer record could be watched through the snow storm of an old black and white in the attic. I watched a lot of early Met baseball in the attack. I think that might be part of why I came to root for them so hard.
Great post. It brought back a lot of old memories.

]]> By: Mr North Jersey http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375773 Mr North Jersey Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:05:42 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375773 Finally got around to reading your post Matt.

One word, Wow.

Thanks for sharing such a personal moment.

]]> By: srt http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375664 srt Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:52:59 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375664 Great story, Matt. Thanks for sharing.

Too bad you didn’t decide to take charge of your life just a few months later. You might have been in town then to witness the greatest Met season I’ve ever seen. :-)

]]> By: Metsie http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375652 Metsie Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:32:33 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375652 Shouldn’t the title be JARHEADNAUT?

“We spent many sweltering hours on the parade deck marching”

Marching Up and Down the Square?
Actually sargent I have a good book I would quite like to finish…
Right Off you go! Anyone else have something they would rather be doing than Marching Up and Down the Square?

]]> By: Joey D. http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375646 Joey D. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:29:12 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375646 Hi Matt,

Forgot to add that I think either my Dad called me or I called him before waking my wife’s pop out of sound sleep.

]]> By: Joey D. http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375643 Joey D. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:27:46 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375643 Hi Matt,

Thanks again for sharing some beautiful memories of you and your dad with us. I remember calling up my father-in-law moments after the ball went through the legs of Buckner because he loved to watch the Mets too. Needless to say, I woke him up because he turned the game off as the Mets were making those first two outs and went to sleep. He wasn’t at all angry at me for waking him up but was in total shock when I told him we won the game – unless I mistook that lack of anger and total shock with him still being half asleep!

]]> By: Matt Balasis http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375595 Matt Balasis Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:39:09 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375595 We do it all, air, land, sea,
prose AND poetry …
Stay on your boat Squid!
;o)

]]> By: Joe D http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/03/juggernaut-the-day-my-world-and-the-mets-collided.html#comment-375581 Joe D Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:12:14 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=110014#comment-375581 When did you Jarheads start getting so sappy? I thought you guys in the Corps were above such sentimental slop?

Great post, Matt… :-D

GO NAVY! FLY NAVY!

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