The bottom of the third inning of tonight’s Mets/Marlins telecast on FSNY was marked by a visit from Subway shill Jared Fogle.
Fogle (above), whose claims of having lost 200 or so pounds are disputed by a Dessert Town representative, plugged his products in a manner that would do Peyton Manning (if not the Goo Goo Dolls) proud.
Fran Healy, apparently starstruck, claimed not to know where Shea’s Subway stand was located.
(the hard working staff at Shea’s right-field Subway eagerly await the arrival of their new colleague, Mr. Healy)
Mets fans, showing their keen sense of recent history, booed David Wright after the third baseman grounded into an inning-ended double play in the 4th. But at least they’re the ones who bothered to show up —- it doesn’t appear as though a Pedro Martinez/Dontrelle Willis duel was sexy enough to pack the mezzanine, never mind the upper deck.
There were about 900 people there with me last night to watch Jae Seo duel Some Pitcher Named Vargas. While it was a fine game, you have to think that if the star power of that matchup can’t bump things up into five digits, there’s no way some jheri-curled dude and the best pitcher in the National League is going to do the trick, either. From what I heard, though, it was all moot tonight because the game was over in about 45 minutes.
Willis so dominates the Mets that I think all his wins against them this year — including CSTB “Day” At Shea, which Dontrelle shortened to about an hour and a half — add up, cumulatively, to the length one Steve Trachsel warm-up session.
if I had a Cy Young vote, I’d give the nod to the D-Train on the specious grounds that he’s more fun to watch.
seriously. If Willis was doing his thing in LA, Chicago or NYC, people would be going absolutely nuts.