Memories of Wilmer Flores

[G-Fafif]

That at least one of those cards might reappear when the Mets next play the Diamondbacks is both something to hotly anticipate and not a little sad.

[Centerfield]

I remember he helped me cheat once in the great parody challenge. I drew his name, didn't have much of an idea, but was plenty mad at the Wilpons. So I wrote (to the tune of the Flintstones):



Wilpons! Fuck the Wilpons!

They're the worst owners in history!

Lying, cheating scumbags

They'll do anything but spend money!



Or something like that. And at the end, I ended with:



Wilmer!



To satisfy my Wilmer Flores content. I lost.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Another travesty of a CPF poll that was.

[Edgy MD]

If Wilmer isn't up there with Met royalty, he sure gets to hang around with some legendary vassals.



WHERE WIlLMER WRANKS



HITS

35. Steve Henderson 516

36. Jeff Kent 510

37. Dave Kingman 509

38. Doug Flynn 500

39. Ruben Tejada 493

=#FF8000]40. Wilmer Flores 488

41. Curtis Granderson 484

42. Bobby Bonilla 481

43. Ron Hunt 474

44. Gregg Jefferies 472

45. Lenny Dykstra 469



DOUBLES

31. Ruben Tejada 99

T32. Jeff Kent 98

T32. Bobby Bonilla 98

T34. Hubie Brooks 96

T34. Gregg Jefferies 96

=#FF8000]T34. Wilmer Flores 96

37. Wally Backman 95

38. George Foster 94

39. Wayne Garrett 93

40. Cliff Floyd 92

41. Bernard Gilkey 90



HOMERS

24. Michael Conforto 76

25. Rusty Staub 75

26. Yoenis Cespedes 74

27. Ron Swoboda 69

T28. Lee Mazzilli 68

=#FF8000]T28. Wilmer Flores 68

T28. Ike Davis 68

31. Jeff Kent 67

32. John Olerud 63

33. Daniel Murphy 62

34. Jim Hickman 60



GAMES BY POSITION

FIRST BASE: 117 (22nd)

SECOND BASE: 82 (38th)

THIRD BASE: 128 (18th)

SHORTSTOP: 164 (17th)

[Edgy MD]

Red hot Wilmer Flores Trivia: Who was the first "Wilmer" to play for the Mets?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Vinegar Bend Mizell

[Edgy MD]

Of course.



I would imagine there's a good chance he was the first Wilmer in Congress, too.

[batmagadanleadoff]

That at least one of those cards might reappear when the Mets next play the Diamondbacks is both something to hotly anticipate and not a little sad.

If you're referring to those baseball card threads I do in connection with current Mets opponents -- not likely. First of all, I'd post cards of Mets in DBack unis, so that rules out those cards (above). But mainly, I hate doing the DBacks, probably more so than any other team. They've only been around for 20 years, so the only cards you'd see are the modern ones, which I don't like anywhere near as much as the cards from the first two decades of the Mets existence. And I hate the Dbacks uniforms. Every one of them. They're garish, cartoonish and childish. So there's that.



But speaking of custom Wilmer Flores cards, check these out -- http://metsfantasycards.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-wilmer-flores-collection.htmlhttp://metsfantasycards.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-wilmer-flores-collection.html --

from our old friend Zvon, who, apparently, fired up his old blog again. He's been awol here for the entire history of this new version of the CPF.

[G-Fafif]

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That at least one of those cards might reappear when the Mets next play the Diamondbacks is both something to hotly anticipate and not a little sad.