(sorry for the repost, but a handful of tickets still remain for CSTB’s Cubs/Mets Nosebleed Special next Monday night. If you’d like to attend, please get in touch with me in the next day or so or you’re SOOL – GC)
(the Cumbucket Media Board Of Directors present your editor with a cake, one week early)
September marks the anniversary of one of the most influential, often imitated and widely read sports blogs in existence. But enough about Deadspin, it also happens to be the 5th anniversary of Can’t Stop The Bleeding becoming part of the daily routine for several dozen of you. Accordingly, we’ll be marking this historic event on Monday, September 22, at 7:10pm. The New York Mets will host the Chicago Cubs that evening in the final Monday regular season game at Shea Stadium, and CSTB has secured a special stash of upper deck seats for the occasion. Tickets are $11.50 — probably the last time you’ll see a Mets home game for that cheap — and you’re encouaged to RSVP at [email protected] if you’d like to attend. There’s a limit of 2 tickets per applicant.
A postgame event is being planned for a somewhat more intimate venue late that evening. Same address to RSVP, however no paypal action is required if you’re going to skip the trip to Shea. But keep in mind, this could be your last chance to a) experience a night at NYC’s 2nd most beloved ballpark, b) apologize to Carlos Delgado or c) throw batteries at Scott Schoeneweis bask in the splendor of a CSTB field trip before Cumbucket Media sells the entire operation to Emmis Broadcasting.
I would like to take this opportunity to announce the inaugural CSTB Philly Stringers Confab which will he held on the final (currently scheduled) day of the baseball season at Citizens Bank Park.
Cumbucket Media politely declined securing the Bill Giles Party Suite for us and the game has been sold out since February, but any readers who just so happen to be planning on attending the game are invited to meet up with CSTB correspondents Chuck Meehan and Jason Cohen.
Festivities will include either A: Hoisting a pint of Yuengling Lager and toasting the future-HoF GM who rescued the Phillies from their annual disappointing runner-up status and brought consecutive playoff berths for the first time in 30 years, the manager who kept his charges loose and instilled a never-say-die ethos and the players who managed to catch their second wind and rode a late season surge into the playoffs for the second year running, or B: Cursing the has-been baseball flatworlder who was brought on as a trouble-shooter by a staid, change-averse country club of an ownership and could only tweak one barely squeaked moment of triumph that ended with a 3 and out in the playoffs, a stuttering hillbilly manager who was routinely out-maneuvered by every manager not named Ned Yost and marquee players who disappeared for chunks of the season at a time and whose mid-season offensive collapse squandered the best collective Phillies pitching in a generation. Participants will also be escorted for an exclusive meet-and-greet with former Phillies legend Greg “The Bull” Luzinski, unless of course, you want to go down to Ashburns Alley, swing by Bulls BBQ and meet him yourself. All interested can contact [email protected].