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[Centerfield]

Due to complaints about the pace of play, Rob Manfred announces that all MLB teams will play football this year instead of baseball. To appease disappointed baseball fans, he says you can use his DeLorean to grab any player from your team's history. Construct our roster NOW!!!!



QB: We can go a few different directions here. We can go with our current 6'6" viking who throws 100 MPH. Alternatively, we can ride back to '99 and pick up Pat Mahomes. The 2018 NFL MVP got it from somewhere.



RB: Jose Reyes? Jay Payton? I'm guessing '99 Henderson would be too old.



FB: I'm thinking Benny Agbayani. I'm also thinking the '99 Mets would have been pretty good at football.



WR: We'll need a few. I think you start with Darryl Strawberry. Tommy Agee. I think Ryan Thompson actually played football.



TE: Big strong guy with soft hands. I'm looking at you Jim, our Monstrously Huge Batboy.



Offensive Line:



Defensive Line: Start building around Butch Huskey.



Linebackers: Yoenis Cespedes is basically a Mike Singletary clone.



Defensive Backs:



Safety:



FG Kicker: Armando Benitez. He'll make 35 out of 36. When he misses one in the playoffs we can bitch about how he misses them AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME.



Punter:

[A Boy Named Seo]

DJ Dozier, naturally.



Todd Pratt seems like he could be a defensive end or something.



Also steroid-pumped up Todd Hundley could be one of those middle-linebacker guys who wears too much eyeblack and looks like the Ultimate Warrior and you want him on your team but nowhere near your kids.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Also, any baseball football team without Butch Huskey is not going to win many baseball football games.

[Centerfield]

Butch is captain of my defensive line.



And duh. DJ Dozier. I suck at NFL GM-ing.

[Edgy MD]

Halfback has to be Dozier, yes.



The quarterback shortlist has to include Tim Tebow.



And save room in your defensive backfield for John Stearns.



Mookie returns the kickoffs. Coleman returns the punts.



Strawberry strikes me as more of a pass-swatting defensive end.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Linebackers: Stearns, Gsellman, Hansel Robles, Frank Francisco

Defensive Line: Ellis Valentine, Syndergaard, Skip Lockwood, Joe Orsulak



Secondary: Juan Lagares, Angel Pagan, Dykstra, Ceciliani



Kicker: Harrelson

Punter: Melvin Mora



Offensive line: Bartolo Colon, Bubba Trammel, Heath Bell, Rod Barajas

QB: Ron Darling, Brent Mayne (very Quarterbacky names)

RBs: Mazzilli, Marlon Byrd

FB: Kevin Mitchell

WRs: Endy Chavez, Strawberry

TE: Neiuenhuis

[kcmets]

Assuming he can still bend over, Mo Vaughn at center?

[Edgy MD]

Vince Coleman was also a punter and kicker with Florida A&M.



Backman never really stopped being a halfback. When he was in a rundown, he'd drop to one arm to pivot on when he had to turn around.

[Edgy MD]

Rod Kanehl was a top decathlete at a small college. He was an Olympic candidate but he had started his family young, so he had to turn pro as a baseballer to make some $$. He ran the 100 in 10.5, so he'd probably be a good addition to the wideout squad. He could highjump 6'2" so he also might be a good guy to carry the ball in goal-line situations.

[Frayed Knot]

Stearns was a Safety at U of Colorado and was known for breaking out old films for those who asked him about it ... and probably some who didn't ask as well.

And he once tackled Chief Nokahoma in Atlanta

[Frayed Knot]

... avi

Edited February 4, 2019 by Guest

[Fman99]

Jeff and/or Fred Wilpon should be the punter, based on their inability to spend the money to get the big splash players. That's a punt to me.

[Edgy MD]

NFL wide receiver Bradley Marquez played for the Kingston Mets back in 2012 and 2013. The Mets have still retained his rights across the intervening seasons, and hey, he is a free agent.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I feel like Tony Clark would make an awesome real-life NFL tight end.

[LWFS]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: I feel like Tony Clark would make an awesome real-life NFL tight end.

I was JUST about to chip that in.



I like your OL, JCL. Only on my blind side, I'd like to add 77 inches or so of clap-clap-clapclapclap VAL! PAS-CUCCI!



I think I prefer Mookie as a scatback/third-down specialist, a la Darren Sproles/pre-rapey Dave Leggett.



Carl Everett feels like a good safety, doesn't he?

[Edgy MD]

Good one on Tony Clark.



I see Brett Butler involved too. Whether he'd be a nickle back on defense or a third-down specialist out of the backfield, I'm not sure. One of those two.



Kingman is my other defensive end. And Jeff D'Amico is a guard.

[MFS62]

Frank Howard is playing somewhere on the offensive line for my team.

Later

[metsmarathon]

i'm thinking that being from texas, and having a cannon for an arm, thor might make for a decent qb. not sure how he is at reading the defenses, of course, but he can probably air it out with the best of them.

[A Boy Named Seo]

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i'm thinking that being from texas, and having a cannon for an arm, thor might make for a decent qb. not sure how he is at reading the defenses, of course, but he can probably air it out with the best of them.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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[Edgy MD]

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Frank Howard is playing somewhere on the offensive line for my team.

Later

[Centerfield]

This is getting out of control. No Tebow, no Frank Howard.



You must have appeared in at least 1 game as a NY Met. Minor leagues and coaching doesn't count.



It's like you guys have never done fake football/baseball before. Amateurs.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: ... have we not yet found a position for Willie Mays?

Any position he wants to play cuz he'll likely be better at it than anyone else no matter which one he chooses.



Somebody on the radio -- I forget who at this point -- was retelling a sequence from a past interview with Mays. He had asked Willie to recall when it was he first realized that he wasn't merely 'good' but a

significant cut above that. His answer was 'at 14', before going on to explain that, at that age, he was playing point guard for the HS basketball team, QB for the JV football team, and also playing with his

father and his country-ball semi-pro baseball buds on weekends.

Could you imagine playing sports, not just against HS kids when in Jr High, but also with and against Men at age 14? Shyeeet, I think that was the year I topped 100 pounds for the first time so even

if, by some odd chance, some 15 year olds had actually asked me to play I would have spent the time getting my ass kicked by them.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Frank Howard is playing somewhere on the offensive line for my team. Later If we're allowed coaches, bring on Jesse Owens for the split end position.

Oops, saw "team's history" and missed "player".

I might consider Dick Stuart for tight end, but he wouldn't have any catches.

Later

[Willets Point]

Rusty Staub has a football player's body.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, strong young man, too. He's a defensive tackle.