I Heart Roger Clark

It's a shame that the Roger Report can't be bottled and stocked in a bodega near you because every now and then it'll give you a buzz - or at least the feeling that you're somewhere over the rainbow (remember the Franciscan monk?) - better than any malt liquor out there. Case in point: today's report outside of Shea Stadium. First, there was Roger in a Met's jersey looking like, dare i say it?, he ingested Mr. Met. Perhaps it was just the cut of the shirt but it definitely looked like something (something with a baseball for a head) was hiding under there. Next stop on the NY1 Yellow Brick Road involved children in little Mets jerseys singing the line "I believe!" over and over again. Kids singing is generally something that only the singing kids' parents enjoy and this was no exception especially since the song in question was ONE line long. Roger interviewed an older guy (no idea who he was because I missed his chyron) who was with the kids and seemed pretty convinced that this "song" had kept the Mets alive and might very well carry them through to a World Series win. This is Oz after all, so you can't really blame him for hoping. The segment cut out when the kids got their hands on a microphone behind Roger and started shouting their own little Munchkin-type phrases like "Go Mets!," "I love the Mets!,:" and "Aaaahhhh!!!" at a deafening volume. Thankfully, Pat dropped a house on this scene and we cut to commercial.

Later, we returned to Roger - mercifully all by his lonesome this time - who was giddy over the fact that he no longer had to cover the Yankees. Join the club, Clark. I felt like Dorothy, and I'm sure you did too, when I realized we "weren't in the Bronx any more." But the best of all of the weirdness today was when Rog mentioned that tickets to a championship game might be available on Ebay. Pat, in an unusual break from his straightman role, tried to sucker Roger into inviting him along to any game he might score tickets to by referring to him as "Pat's Pal." Not surprisingly, Roger was confused by this so there were a couple of awkward moments until Pat blamed the producer (isn't it always the producers?) for telling him to cut it short and Roger was captured in a brief freeze-frame (vogue!). The NLCS has only just begun and I sense this can only get worse. P.S. no flying monkeys