Friday, August 11, 2006

News from the Dee El

From Mark Hale and the NY Post:

Brian Bannister (strained right hamstring) was set to pitch last night in Triple-A in his fourth rehab outing...

Mike Pelfry, the Mets' top pitching prospect, is on the seven-day DL with a right lat muscle strain. Pelfry is currently at at Triple-A Norfolk.
And following the Lo Duca story of the other day, and my comment about "echoes of '86," comes this from Bob Raissman and the NY Daily News:

Still, anyone who has spent time following the Mets, from the Polo Grounds to Shea, knows the current spate of Lo Duca stories seems like tofu on white bread compared to the flat-out Mets debauchery of the 1980's and early '90s.

Stories of sex (including bullpen masturbating), drugs, bar fights (sometimes among teammates) and other assorted deviant behavior all appeared in front of the newspaper and led TV/radio newscasts. Back then, covering the exploits of Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry was a full-time job.

3 comments:

SheaHeyKid said...

Wasn't david cone the bullpen masturbator, in front of some chick fan? I seem to remember something like that..

Fredo said...

Can't remember.

Check that. It was Cone, indeed.

Fredo said...

Hmmm. Don't know why that link didn't work. Let me try again:

http://archives.cjr.org/year/92/3/mets.asp