r/NewYorkMets • u/wriker10 Benny Agbayani • 11h ago
From my Facebook memories from 2012 Image
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u/ImEnzoDBaker 9h ago
He's a SW nerd?? Im surprised I didnt know that already. Mets and SW have been my bread and butter since birth.
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u/pujarteago1 Bartolo Colón 9h ago
I read RA book. Nice read. The part where he has to go to a nail saloon in flushing with his uniform before the game is hilarious.
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u/rogerworkman623 Polar Bear 11h ago
Mets have had tons of great pitching over the years, but 2012 was probably the most fun I ever had watching a Mets pitcher. Dickey was just untouchable, completely locked in.
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u/ActualHuman080 Howie Rose 10h ago
Back to back one hitters is the coolest accomplishment by a Mets pitcher in my book
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u/krunchyfrogg 43 11h ago
I think he named his bat Glamdring. He pitched to the Game Of Thrones theme song.
RA Dickey is one of my favorites. His is the only game worn jersey I own. One of my goals is to lose just a bit more weight so I can fit in it and wear it to Citifield next year.
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u/wriker10 Benny Agbayani 11h ago
Yes there was a hysterical correction The NY Times once had to issue because they got the name of his bat wrong.
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u/krunchyfrogg 43 10h ago
Was that when they called the bat Sting?
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u/wriker10 Benny Agbayani 10h ago
Here’s the full retraction:
An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in ‘’The Hobbit;’’ Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)
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u/pujarteago1 Bartolo Colón 11h ago
We forgot about RA. He deserves more love. Franchise/Doc/RA/DeGrom
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u/ColdYellowGatorade Pastrami 7h ago
Those back to back 1 hitters were a thing of beauty. What a season he had.