The mildly interesting tale of The Sadecki Spot!! Part II > The Dream

Researching for this series of posts on 

The Sadecki Spot I did a lot of Googlin', mostly for photos. I found many of The Old Perfessor where he himself appears at The Spot.

I had a dream the other night and in it Casey Stengel came to me and asked why am I looking at so many pictures of him. I told him I was a fan and wanted to know more about him. 

He said "What do ya mean kid, I've been dead a hundred years." I said "No Casey, you will live on forever through pictures like these and through footage and articles and quotes. You are like the grandfather of the Mets." 
He said,"Really...?"

"...Lemme tell you something about those Mets. I loved em. They were my Amazin' Metsies. Amazin,amazin,
amazin,amazin. 
I say that four times cause I managed them four years. Three and a half years, actually, and I never had a bench. Mr.Weiss had a bench, ya know, down in the spring camp. I wanted a bench and I told him and Weissy says "No, they will always think of you as a Yankees manager, Casey, not a Mets manager. You don't want them to remember you for that. This team is going to be a losing team until we get up some steam. You just get them out of the starting gate. The fans will come out to see you, the great Yankee skipper Casey Stengel."" 

Mets general manager George Weiss on his bench.

I waited for Casey to take a breath. He didn't. 

"So I says I don't want anything to do with them bum Yankees. They put me out to pasture. Said I'm too old to be on the field! I'll show 'em. Gimme a bench." And George says "No. Years from now people will forget all about these lowly Met years. You'll be remembered for the Yankees.

I'd like a bench please, right over there.

Your name will be on a Hall Of Fame plaque that says Yankees." and I says "George, thats all well and good, and I hope that comes to be, I'm proud of those years, but right now I'm here and I'm not too old to give these people what they want, and that is National League baseball! They don't want me. I'm a side show. So I'm gonna put on a great show and make this team mine. I still have some good years left. Gimme that bench over there." and Wiessy says "You don't need a bench Casey. You got an office." and I says... 

"Mr. Weiss, without a bench I can't manage a team." And I was right. I had a team full of bench players and no bench." "

Casey gets his bench.

Casey peruses the deed to his bench.

Joe Pignatano, the only major league player to end his career by hitting into a triple play, which he did while playing for the Mets in the eighth inning on September 30, 1962.