Murph hangs 'em up

[smg58]

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[G-Fafif]

We did life together for years...

What a perfect Murph quote.

[LWFS]

[snorts]

[MFS62]

Just another Brogna to me, which is why I put this in that thread.

Later

[Edgy MD]

“And so there was something to that that just allowed us to go out and express ourselves with our baseball.”

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Who doesn't love the Muffinman.



I'd have bent over backwards, probably, to justify his getting a gig with the 2021 club.

[Edgy MD]

What a great interview. Terrific how he totally copped to being maddening and to being Muffy.

[Lefty Specialist]

He could be ridiculous and sublime, often in the same inning. Getting his knee torn up twice probably shortened his career by a few years.



We'll always have October 2015, Murph.

[Frayed Knot]

I was just about to mention those ... because for a 13th round draft pick who had two major injuries just as his career was getting started, he got some good mileage out of himself.

Would have been nice had he not saved his two (overwhelmingly) best seasons for a division rival, but whatyagonnado?

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Deserves to be in the Mets Hall of Fame.



He would be the third Murphy in the Mets hall.

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[ashie62]

Warm regards for Muffy. Underappreciated.

[kcmets]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I kinda dismissed him as a homophobic jock and

didn't miss him when he departed metland. Too lazy to look up quotes.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He most definitely is a homophobic dumb jock, and he drove us nuts playing bad defense at five positions, and of course was the real villian in the maiming of Ruben Tejada, but he's a lovable homophobic jock butcher, and a total Met.

[Edgy MD]

He made some really sweet picks at first in his day. Creative plays, too.



It was, like peak-Jerry. Put the guy in left, watch him fail, and then refuse to put him in the infield, with the logic that a guy who screwed up in left could never handle a grounder, overlooking that he had been an infielder his whole life up until that point. And even when first became open, he played everybody else there first, before finally setlling on Muff and watching look more comfortable there than anywhere else, as he led the team in homers with, like, a dozen.



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[Centerfield]

That steal of third in Game 5. What a run he had. And a strange likeable guy.



I understand there was the gay comment. I hope he's educated himself since then. But probably not.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He pretty much made clear to Tracky that his mind is still made up

[LWFS]

Like, whether butchering stuff or making WTF genius plays, he always seemed to be working so damn hard. Like the anti-Beltran.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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[Edgy MD]

Yeah, that interviewing-the-umpire-thing was totally Muh.



I mean, if you just swung at a pitch, I understand asking the ump if it was a strike, or would have been if you hadn't swung. But if you took the pitch, the ump has already called where he saw it. What more can he be expected to tell you?