{"id":7145,"date":"2009-04-30T16:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=7145"},"modified":"2009-04-30T16:09:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T20:09:57","slug":"strawberry-fields-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=7145","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Fields Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent radio commercial for opening days at the Citi Field goes like .. bring the whole family, tour the new facility for $3 with free parking (during the game day, it’s $18) .. meet Strawberry. It reminded me of Disney has mickey mouse, Buckingham Palace has Queen and the baseball stadium in Queens has Strawberry Field.<\/span><\/p>\n

I enjoy play softball but baseball is never my cup of tea. However, I know Darryl Strawberry<\/a>, he’s to baseball to me as LT<\/a> – Lawrence Taylor, never Larry Taylor \ud83d\ude42 – or Joe Montana to football: the most prominent and striking figure of the sport when I started getting to learn.<\/p>\n

Straw’s pics, two thick black stripes under his playful and curious eyes were all over New York in the 1980s. He\u2019s tall and gracious build, a piece of an artwork. That\u2019s my impression of him, the fearsome slugger of Mets that won 1986 World Series championship with Mets. When later he became of a real artwork with all sort of troubles in life, and even he won 3 more World Series with Yankees, I seldom paid any attention.<\/p>\n

He’s been in the news lately, either to promote the Citi Field or his book or both. I was amused to hear one day on SNY where he’s an announcer now, the interviewer asked him about the Mets. And he replied that Mets is a great team with a huge potential<\/a> – that was the identical word the former GM used to describe him when Frank Cashen<\/a> refused Straw’s demand, a Jos\u00e9 Canseco type of contract.<\/p>\n

This last Tuesday we took my father-in-law to the game. There wasn\u2019t Straw in the field. Under the above 90 degrees weather, the Mets scored 2 runs in the first inning and one more in the second. But Florida\u2019s Marlins ended up won the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recent radio commercial for opening days at the Citi Field goes like .. bring the whole family, tour the new facility for $3 with free parking (during the game day, it’s $18) .. meet Strawberry. It reminded me of Disney has mickey mouse, Buckingham Palace has Queen and the baseball stadium in Queens has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-7145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}