Brogna Bros: Mets in Retirement 2019

[G-Fafif]

Jay Payton and Butch Huskey are your featured alumni this weekend. They'll be in the Mets HOF meeting and greeting, 5:30-6:20.

[Ceetar]

Carlos Beltran joins Neil DeGrasse Tyson on an episode of Star Talk, coming soon.

[G-Fafif]

This weekend's alumni are inspired choices: Ron Hunt and Skip Lockwood.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Edited August 10, 2019 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

If it was Recker that Alonso tore the jersey off of, time would have stopped.

[Edgy MD]

Shane Spencer is https://theathletic.com/1027944/2019/07/25/its-the-only-thing-i-know-how-to-do-a-long-way-from-yankee-stadium-shane-spencer-is-a-baseball-lifer/bringing the wisdom of years to bear on Korean junior players.



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[G-Fafif]

Ty Kelly tweets his retirement. Says baseball was better when he played.

[Edgy MD]

If you find Wally Backman's arrest just isn't disgusting enough, another former-Mets first rounder is being charged with https://local21news.com/news/local/shawn-abner-charged-with-animal-cruelty-in-cumberland-countycruelty to animals.



(The account is really, really awful and disturbing, so be forewarned before you decide whether to click.)

[G-Fafif]

https://youtu.be/Nm6VJ8jZAYkhttps://youtu.be/Nm6VJ8jZAYk



Willie Mays remembering his Met years in the most Willie Mays light possible. Even with Jim Breuer as interviewer, Willie is delightful.

[Edgy MD]

"They're DEAD LAST. From what you came from, now you're in a ... your team is DEAD LAST!"



At the time of the trade, the Mets were in first place in the East, and the Giants in last place in the West. Breuer needs to be sent to Mets jail.

[G-Fafif]

Jim kind of smushed together the trade and the following season, and Willie's nickname isn't “Say Hey, Let's Fact Check”.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Wow is that guy annoying. (Not Willie -- the other guy). Plus, Breuer talks to Wlllie as if Willie were senile.

[Edgy MD]

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Jim kind of smushed together the trade and the following season, and Willie's nickname isn't “Say Hey, Let's Fact Check”.

[G-Fafif]

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Wow is that guy annoying. (Not Willie -- the other guy). Plus, Breuer talks to Wlllie as if Willie were senile.

[Guest 41Forever]

Terry Collins reconnecting with his Michigan roots and visiting a state college in a couple weeks.



https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Former-Mets-manager-to-visit-SVSU-in-October-14465937.phphttps://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Former-Mets-manager-to-visit-SVSU-in-October-14465937.php

[G-Fafif]

The main guy the Mets sent to the Susquehanna Hat Co. is at Citi Field this weekend.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Wow... what has Hubie been up to?

[Edgy MD]

That was a great callup day in 1980 — I think Wally Backman was a day off in getting the callup, but he and Mookie debuted on the second, and Brooks on the fourth.



The Mets were still awful, but at least it felt like they were awful with the lights on. Mookie and Hubie instantly became regulars, but the Mets strangely wasted almost three years trying to convince themselves that Brian Giles was their secondbaseman of the future, while Backman fumed, riding the Tidewater shuttle for three seasons.

[G-Fafif]

Howie with Skip Lockwood...



https://youtu.be/B_-DAMDkKRwhttps://youtu.be/B_-DAMDkKRw

[G-Fafif]

On Facebook, it's Howie and Hubie...

30K views · 674 reactions | Two time All-Star, Hubie Brooks discusses...

WWW.FACEBOOK.COM

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Two time All-Star, Hubie Brooks discusses his friendship with Mookie Wilson, the moment he found out he had been traded for Gary Carter and much more.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Yeah Hubie isn't much of an interview.

[G-Fafif]

Gettin' Huskey wit' Howie.



https://youtu.be/ErPGCw4gteghttps://youtu.be/ErPGCw4gteg

[G-Fafif]

Howie rolls with Tank.



http://youtu.be/zGgZUl5E4Achttp://youtu.be/zGgZUl5E4Ac

[MFS62]

Gavin Cecchini is alive, and is running from the flames in Australia:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7838747/New-York-Mets-baseball-star-Gavin-Cecchini-moved-Australia-flees-country-bushfires.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7838747/New-York-Mets-baseball-star-Gavin-Cecchini-moved-Australia-flees-country-bushfires.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490



Later

[Edgy MD]

Well, Cecchini isn't in retirement, but he is the second Met minor league free agent this offseason to flee the Australian Legue after Jeremy Vasquez took off from Aukland following the sudden death of teammate (roommate?) Ryan Costello.