During today’s Intrasquad game, which ended in a scoreless tie by the way, the Daily News handed Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom a couple of mice and the two go doing play by play.
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That’s what spring training is all about right there. A few dozen players taking to the field to prepare for a new season but still having fun and remembering it’s just a game.
I miss those old days when we didn’t have internet and how I used to hit my father up for a dime to get the Sports Final edition of the Daily News, in the Brooklyn where I grew up we called it the Night Owl.
During the spring it was full of funny stories and anecdotes from the team. Managers like Gil and Yogi were always good for a great story and you knew they were having just as much fun as the players. Gil’s stories always carried a moral, while Yogi just made absolutely no sense at all and nobody really cared.
In the eighties the Mets teams were full of pranksters and jokesters. They were young like today’s team and we had so much personality and colorful characters. Howard Johnson and Roger McDowell were always good for a few laughs. And I loved how they used to seek out and prank Gary Carter who always fell for their gags, took it in stride and also got a kick out of it too.
I miss those days. Now we live in a culture of “gotcha reporting” where reporters prefer to dig for seedy drama and sensational storylines, so they could then brag about how many retweets they got.
I guess new isn’t always better.
