Tell Elaine: Mets To Retire Keith's Number

[bmfc1]

https://www.mlb.com/mets/history/retired-numbershttps://www.mlb.com/mets/history/retired-numbers

[G-Fafif]

Well deserved.

[kcmets]

WOW!!

[ashie62]

Keith is an iconic Met and truly deserving.



In my only brush with him he made a grand entrance with a babe grand slam single game. Much gravitas.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This is fucking great news. It's the right thing. If the Mets retired Carter's number before Keith's, I woulda had a tantrum and gone all Elvis on my TV and shot it with an AR-15 or something.



Me personally, if it was up to me, I wouldn't have even voted Carter into the Mets Hall of Fame, but I get the sense that this is a pointless argument to make with youse. Don't get me started on why some people thought Carter's Met uni was more deserving of retirement and more of a priority than Keith's. I'm still waiting for an even half-rational explanation of that one.



Next stop for Keith --- Cooperstown.

[kcmets]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=84405 time=1641944653 user_id=68]Me personally, if it was up to me, I wouldn't have even voted Carter into the Mets Hall of Fame, but I get the sense that this is a pointless argument to make with youse. Don't get me started on why some people thought Carter's Met uni was more deserving of retirement and more of a priority than Keith's.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=kcmets post_id=84407 time=1641945389 user_id=53]
=batmagadanleadoff post_id=84405 time=1641944653 user_id=68]Me personally, if it was up to me, I wouldn't have even voted Carter into the Mets Hall of Fame, but I get the sense that this is a pointless argument to make with youse. Don't get me started on why some people thought Carter's Met uni was more deserving of retirement and more of a priority than Keith's.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Just the fact that his number's in limbo irks me to no end. He's the Derek Jeter of the Mets and I say that in the very worst ways imaginable.

[Edgy MD]

Oh, I hear ya.



We're talking about the herpes thing, right?

[kcmets]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=84408 time=1641945598 user_id=68]Name names? Don't start. Why don't you back to the football thread and tell us when the Super Bowl starts? Post something real helpful.

[kcmets]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/mets/2022/01/11/keith-hernandez-uniform-no-17-retired-ny-mets/9178079002/USAToday/NorthJersey.com Story

[seawolf17]

Absolutely thrilled for him, for us, for everyone. Brilliant.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Fantastic news! Well-earned tribute to a player who played a pivotal role in creating a new era for the team!



My mother and grandmother accidentally poked him in the stomach with a broomstick in a Jupiter Publix. True story.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

It was inevitable. I'm also glad 8 won't go with him. Qere it up to me I'd have retired 86 and be done with it

[G-Fafif]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Were it up to me I'd have retired 86 and be done with it

Never let it be said Jake Hager doesn't leave an impression.

[bmfc1]

[Frayed Knot]

I still don't love all this number retiring stuff, but it's not something I'm going to go to the mat over.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

https://www.sny.tv/articles/keith-hernandez-mets-number-retired-more-metshttps://www.sny.tv/articles/keith-hernandez-mets-number-retired-more-mets



Danny Abriano of SNY suggests what other Mets players could and should have their numbers retired: Wright, Carter, Beltran, and Gooden.

[Frayed Knot]

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=84428 time=1641994520 user_id=119]: Wright, Carter, Beltran, and Gooden.

[roger_that]

I think they should retire players' favorite foods from the clubhouse post-game spread, and leave the numbers alone.

[kcmets]

Wright - Yes

Carter No

Beltran - No

Gooden - Lord, No



Kranepool - Maybe

Kingman - Would Be Nice, But I Get It

[seawolf17]

[Edgy MD]

It's like the reporter whose first question to the World Series MVP is "Are you gonna repeat?!" the first question after a number retirement is "Who's gonna have their number retired next?!"



Bleh.

[batmagadanleadoff]

So I was wondering, .... if Keith were to one day get the Cooperstown nod, and the HOF were to solely decide which cap would be on Keith's plaque ... which cap would it be?

[roger_that]

Much longer, slightly better, career as a Cardinal

[Benjamin Grimm]

But a life-long association with the Mets. Don't know if that counts.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=roger_that post_id=84441 time=1642003976 user_id=128]
Much longer, slightly better, career as a Cardinal

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: But a life-long association with the Mets. Don't know if that counts.

My guess is yes.

[G-Fafif]

Keith, I believe, would request the ever popular blank cap.

[G-Fafif]

SNY plans to “go live” at 1:30 ET for Keith coverage, presumably regarding 17 being retired, though an hour of Keith feeding Hadji, doing the crossword and tending to household chores might also be interesting.