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G-Fafif College Ball

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Tony Fernandez, 57, in critical condition from a kidney disorder. Kidney stones were an issue during his 1993 Met tenure.


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Edgy MD FCL Mets

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USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2020/02/10/mlb-2020-former-gm-ed-lynch-decries-analytics-baseball/4712923002/interviews Ed Lynch, who's not happy about baseball's reliance on analytics. You read it and ... he's right in some places, but where he's wrong, he's pretty damn wrong.


“The game now is getting so heavily loaded with research and development. You got to remember you have to have boots on the ground, and I think maybe they overlook that. When you're dealing with human beings man, you can't go 100% science. You can't. They're human beings. They're unpredictable. You can't extrapolate their behavior and turn it into numbers. You just can't do it.



“Numbers don't measure what's in a guy's soul.''


USA Today's editors, meanwhile, commit enough errors to embarrass Frank Taveras.


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Yeah, weird piece.



Lynch was considered something of a cutting-edge hire as a GM in his day as he was the youngest GM in the game when the Cubs hired him. And though he speaks proudly of abusing himself for the game one of his notable GMing exploits was going after a high school coach who worked young Kerry Wood too hard.



Also as a GM (groomed for such a role by Joe McIlvaine) his record in Chicago was pretty dim: He spoke of "pitching, speed and defense" but wound up getting them a bunch of veteran role-players and trading away more than a few promising minor-leaguers.



That said I'd like it if the Mets hired him in Jessica Mendoza's role


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Roger Craig, who threw the first pitch in Mets history, turns 90 today, the fourth Met alive to have entered a tenth decade (Dave Hillman, Frank Thomas and Joe Pignatano are already there). Nick Diunte did a nice story on him when Roger was a lad of 89.



https://metsmerizedonline.com/2019/03/mmo-exclusive-roger-craig-impacted-two-new-york-baseball-dynasties.html/https://metsmerizedonline.com/2019/03/mmo-exclusive-roger-craig-impacted-two-new-york-baseball-dynasties.html/


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In total, five Mets players have lived to be 90. In addition to those above who are alive at the present time, there's Yogi Berra.



Hobie Landrith is about a month away from joining the club. (Born March 16, 1930.)


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Robin Ventura: SOTA (student over traditional age).



https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-robin-ventura-mets-world-series-college-degree-20200222-q763m3hisfbo5lo2fu3dkjulvq-story.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-robin-ventura-mets-world-series-college-degree-20200222-q763m3hisfbo5lo2fu3dkjulvq-story.html



Also, Doug Mientkiewicz has joined the ACC Network as an analyst.


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Hobie Landrith is picked fifth in the Living Mets Nonagenarian Draft, joining Messrs. Hillman, Pignatano, Thomas and Craig in the 90-and-up club.


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Everytime i read about Ahmaud Arbery, I read about one of his killers being named "Greg McMichael," and just for a second, I think he's the ex-Met.


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And when I think of Greg McMichael, I remember how Steve Phillips traded him away, then traded back for him, during the course of the very same season. Probably a short list of Mets on that list


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Yup. But Howie's producer is probably furloughed and one of his kids is running the show.



Lookit the giant monitor on Franco's exercise bike.


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iirc the Mlicki game was a sunny weekday afternoon, like a Tuesday, as baseball was sorta softpedaling the whole interleague thing.



I was in a cubicle alongside a hardheaded but funny MFY fan colleague from New Jersey. I hardly ever mention this guy but in his own way he was a big influence on my fandom for as I was discovering an online baseball community on the mofo, this guy had appointed himself a kind of enforcer at one of the early yankee fan sites. Our collective productivity was directly related to how much activity there was on the boards on any day and the Mlicki Game was a triumph for our relationship he never forgot.


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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

iirc the Mlicki game was a sunny weekday afternoon, like a Tuesday, as baseball was sorta softpedaling the whole interleague thing.


Mlicki was a Monday night, but the first Subway Series finale, which went ten searing innings, was a Wednesday afternoon.


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That's a shame. He could have had a real useful suber-subbing second half to his career. He just couldn't find his groove, and his personality was too big to find a home on anybody's bench.


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Jerry Blevins was released by the Giants in March when the world was otherwise preoccupied. Hasn't been picked up and doesn't seem to be actively seeking a post-LOOGY role.


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Joe Smith opted out of the season, positioning Ollie Perez and Daniel Murphy as the last of the Shea Mets.


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Anthony Swarzak has requested and received his unconditional release from the Phillies — a team Neil Walker has made.


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