Familia’s Farewell

[G-Fafif]

Nice Instagram message to the fans from former closer and imminent free agent Jay R. Eese F'Meelia.

[MFS62]

Class way to leave.

Never knew about that tattoo.



Later

[Edgy MD]

Riding the A on an October day

Reading the Post next to a transit cop

In the midst of the free agent list

And when I reached Familia, I made a stop



Now I'm sad to say, it's Closing Day

Come post-season, the Mets won't play

There'll be new relievers when the Spring comes round

And Jeurys will be pitching in another town

[smg58]

He never regained his best form during his second tenure here. But in a season where the absence of class grated on me even more than the absence of wins, this was very welcome. Good luck Jeurys, wherever you wind up.

[Frayed Knot]

He tattooed his heart?!?

[Edgy MD]

Probably explains a lot about the performance falloff.

[nymr83]

Nice of him.



Does anyone really ever like relievers? they're like Field Goal Kickers - they only have to miss one for the fanbase to turn on them.

[Edgy MD]

I like relievers.



I think they tend to be poorly served coming and going by their niche in the baseball ecosphere, and relatedly, as noted, they tend to make convenient targets for the zeitgeist, and this tends to elicit the worst from their personalities.



But I like 'em.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Few of them become popular though. Mariano Rivera is a notable exception, but that's because Yankee fans like people who electrocute dogs in their swimming pools.

[nymr83]

Trevor Hoffman was popular I think? and John Franco - as much for baseball as for being a local who was prominently involved with local charities and the FDNY

[G-Fafif]

Being a “character” who doesn't blow too many leads will make a reliever beloved or at least recalled fondly. Everybody else who rises to bullpen prominence struggles to be tolerated.

[Edgy MD]

Also worth noting that the rising whale gets the harpoon. If you want to be liked as a reliever, you would do well to stay out of that closer's role.



There's also a whole lot of uglier shit mixed up in reliever hate.

[MFS62]

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Trevor Hoffman was popular I think? and John Franco - as much for baseball as for being a local who was prominently involved with local charities and the FDNY

[Lefty Specialist]

'The rising whale gets the harpoon.'



I am so totally stealing that.