Mets Retire Another Number!

[Ceetar]

my only point was the breaks and length of a football are extreme, even compared to baseball. Claiming you watch football but baseball games are too long is just nonsense. How long does golf take to watch? I'm tired of the narrative always being "waah, baseball was better in my day" It wasn't. Give me a 1972 game and a 2019 game and I'm taking 2019 every time. It's not the length of game that's keeping Koosman from watching, even if he wants to tell himself, and us, that.

[nymr83]

my only point was the breaks and length of a football are extreme, even compared to baseball. Claiming you watch football but baseball games are too long is just nonsense. How long does golf take to watch? I'm tired of the narrative always being "waah, baseball was better in my day" It wasn't. Give me a 1972 game and a 2019 game and I'm taking 2019 every time. It's not the length of game that's keeping Koosman from watching, even if he wants to tell himself, and us, that.

Oh I don't believe Koosman at all.



But the NFL's breaks are fine - because there is a fantasy team to check, and survivor pool, and your draftkings team, and RedZone and... it hardly feels like a break when the Jets go to commercial (a break from the misery of the Jets perhaps). Some of these distractions exist in baseball too, but not to the same degree, because of the length of the season each NFL game day just feels more intense.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Can't think of any other rookie card where both players on the card have had their uniform numbers retired.



Can youse?



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[Edgy MD]

I can't. But you get 3,007 hits, 502 stolen bases, and 975 strikeouts off of this one.



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[seawolf17]

UL Washington played in parts of eleven seasons, and Mickey Klutts batted 1.000 in 1978. So there's that.

[batmagadanleadoff]

UL Washington played in parts of eleven seasons, and Mickey Klutts batted 1.000 in 1978. So there's that.

I collected that '78 set in real time. I loved that set. I had stopped collecting for a few years, losing interest in baseball cards and believing that I had outgrown the hobby. But I fell in love with that '78 set: I loved the simple card design, the photography - and the card stock was as thick as it ever was among cards that were produced while I was a fan. I was sucked back in. I collected that set the old school way - by buying them in packs at my local candy stores and other stores that sold baseball cards.



And I never completed that set. I fell one card short. The one card I never pulled was the card you just displayed , above - the rookie card with the two future Hall-of-Famers.

[seawolf17]

I'm finishing off the 74-79 run right now. 76 is done, and I've got a few dozen 75s and 77s left, mostly stars. I'm missing four 79s (Nolan Ryan, Bill Robinson, Pete Rose, and Sixto Lezcano) and just one 78 (George Brett). Just started on the 74s so I've got like 450 still to go.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Can't think of any other rookie card where [CROSSOUT]both [/CROSSOUT] ALL players on the card have had their uniform numbers retired. Can youse? [FIMG=444]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1yVUpt8QML._AC_SL1500_.jpg[/FIMG]

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I can't. But you get 3,007 hits, 502 stolen bases, and 975 strikeouts off of this one. [FIMG=500]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RbIAAOSwjgtf727r/s-l400.jpg[/FIMG]

Who d'ya think was the most promising rookie on that card, coming out of the gate? You could make the case for Berenguer, with his legendary, though uncontrollable triple digit fast-ball that he had in his youth.

[seawolf17]

Berenguer was hardly a young buck by that point, having already spent parts of three seasons in the bigs. And he wasn't even the best pitcher in the system at that point. Hubie was obviously a prospect, but wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire (although he did have a Jefferies-esque end to the 1980 season). But Mookie was the offensive star for the 1980 Tides.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Ihe org saw Mookie coming, moving mazzilli.

[Edgy MD]

But Mookie was the offensive star for the 1980 Tides.

I'm on Team Backman on that question. Four years younger and already on-basing like maniac.



Funky Fact: The team lead in homers was was shared by three players with five apiece. These included Butch Benton and José Moreno, whose respective slugging percentage of .404 and .403 were the only one on the team over .400.



Benton's next big league homer, of course, wil be his first.



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[nymr83]

Edgy MD wrote: I can't. But you get 3,007 hits, 502 stolen bases, and 975 strikeouts off of this one. [FIMG=500]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RbIAAOSwjgtf727r/s-l400.jpg[/FIMG] Who d'ya think was the most promising rookie on that card, coming out of the gate? You could make the case for Berenguer, with his legendary, though uncontrollable triple digit fast-ball that he had in his youth.

Mookie looks like he just woke up in that picture "uhh hey guys, is it photo time? shit."