My Sandlot's Baseball Humor
Enter
My Sandlot
Baseball's back in Flatbush
Strat-O-Matic insights and humor
at their best
Named for the world famous Coney Island rollercoaster, which can be seen over the outfield fence, the Brooklyn Cyclones are the Single A affiliate of the New York Mets in the short season New York Penn League.
So it's not exactly Snider, Reese, Robinson, Campanella, Furillo, Hodges, Newcombe, Branca, Erskine...or even Bud Podleiban or Preacher Roe...but natives of Flatbush are thrilled about their team.
Maybe Jose Lima needs to give a new doo a try. Here's Jose the last time he could remember how to pitch. Coincidence??? I think not... Lima Time is over in H-Town however, as he takes his act to Detroit.
The 1943 Brooklyn Cyclones
Check out Heckle Depot
and
Strike Three.com
Dodger great Don Newcombe congratulates
Cyclone GM Steve Cohen on bringing
baseball back to Brooklyn.
week of 6/24/01
Ever since Walter O'Malley's Dodgers bolted for the west coast in 1957, Brooklyn has longed for the return of professional baseball. Welcome the Brooklyn Cyclones!
What a difference a day....errrrr, hair makes...
It does seem like pitches from Philadelphia Phillies pitchers are as big as beach balls to opposing hitters lately, as their lead in the NL East continues to dwindle.
for the fun of the game...
Archives
week of 5/27/01
week of 6/3/01
week of 6/10/01
week of 6/17/01
Max Patkin...Paoli, Pa native.
Whether you thought he was funny or not, you still have to shake your head and say to yourself...boy, you can make a living doing just about anything in this great country...
Check out the official team website
www.pagelinx.com/cyclones
He says it was on a whim, but Mike Piazza has given up his long curly locks...and his Pert shampoo contract money...in favor of Billy Idol blond. Can that shake both he and the Mets out of their funks?
Or perhaps Piazza did it as an enticement for the Reds' Dmitri Young to join the Mets? Here's Young giving us his best missing link impression...
Chicago Cub first baseman Julio Zuleta attributes this pile of shhhtuff to the team's success this season. Come on Julio...it's a pile of garbage. Old candy wrappers, chicken bones and rotten fruit just don't work. Everybody knows it takes whiskey, cigar smoke and pagan idols. Where's Jobu when you need him???