NY Mets Twitter Takes

[Benjamin Grimm]

Apparently NOT all Mets fans can agree. I'd say no too.

[Centerfield]

What would constitute statue criteria?



Mike played 8 seasons with the Mets. Career OPS of .915. His lowest OPS in any single season was .778. 2003 was the only year he missed significant time. Five time All-Star (should have been 6). Hall of Famer.



I'm not saying this is enough. Asking where the line is.

[metirish]

No doubt , I guess for me it's like where would it stop , what about Keith? Wright?

[Centerfield]

No to Keith. Probably no to Wright.



For me, it's probably something closer to what the criteria used to be for Mets retired numbers. I would say:



1. No-brainer to have his number retired

2. Hall of Famer

3. Clearly associated with the Mets over any other team



Seaver fits this bill. Piazza no, because of the significant time with the Dodgers. Beltran no, again because he moved around so much. Wright no, he won't make the Hall of Fame.



Jacob deGrom might one day meet this criteria, but he also doesn't feel like a statue guy to me.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think Wright has the best case, but it's not strong enough.



Maybe Pete Alonso, if he comes back and gets to 400 homers as a Met.



Maybe Francisco Lindor, if he can lead the team to two or three championships this decade.



But for now, I'd stop at Seaver.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

For a long time, Seaver was the only deserving of a retired number. Then achieveing a retired number became easier, so they had to separate Seaver again. If you start giving out statues to everyone we'd need another way to honor Seaver, which would be to exhume him and bury him in the parking lot underneath a gigantic orange and blue tombstone

[metirish]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: For a long time, Seaver was the only deserving of a retired number. Then achieveing a retired number became easier, so they had to separate Seaver again. If you start giving out statues to everyone we'd need another way to honor Seaver, which would be to exhume him and bury him in the parking lot underneath a gigantic orange and blue tombstone

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[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: For a long time, Seaver was the only deserving of a retired number. Then achieveing a retired number became easier, so they had to separate Seaver again. If you start giving out statues to everyone we'd need another way to honor Seaver, which would be to exhume him and bury him in the parking lot underneath a gigantic orange and blue tombstone

And speaking of exhumations, there were so many rumblings this afternoon at Gary Carter's gravesite that they hadda exhume his dead body to figure out what the hell was happening. And when they did, Carter said that he deserved a Citi Field statue next. He was inducted into the HOF before Piazza and he won a World Series with the Mets. Not Piazza. Also, Carter was the last piece to the puzzle. And he had two good seasons with the Mets.

[Edgy MD]

Time can help decide what makes for appropriate statuary. If the presence is already casting a shadow across the decades, as the kids who watched him themselves grow up and make big decisions in the world, then that would probably get it done.



I wouldn't complain, but if it were up to me, I'd say no. The guy was a MAGA jerk to me on Twitter.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The next statue should be of Marv Throneberry. How Marvelous!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Put a statue of Mookie jumping away from Bob Stanley's wild pitch right where the Shea batter's box used to be.

[Edgy MD]

This is something all baseball fans can agree on. Tom Seaver's number deserves the correct font on his statue at Citi Field.



Sign the petition!

[Benjamin Grimm]

And if you do, Elon Musk will give you $4.1 million!

[metirish]

Ok

[Edgy MD]

Lawyers for good causes are the worst.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That was a pretty funny article that made the Mets case pretty perceptively. Great line about Cohen and hedge funds.

[metirish]

Cry more

[G-Fafif]

"Yeah, Rusty, Grant is the worst."

[Bob Alpacadaca]

That Staub-for-Lolich trade is still mind-boggling.

[metirish]

Haha

[metirish]

https://twitter.com/RussellTOB/status/1877383135056277936

[batmagadanleadoff]

I find it somewhat disturbing that Steve Cohen's interactions with David Stearns are described as "interferences".



Is that credible? Who is Russ O'Brien, if I may ask?

[metirish]

I've followed him for years in Twitter, he's just a fan... With some bad takes

[batmagadanleadoff]

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I've followed him for years in Twitter, he's just a fan... With some bad takes

[metirish]

https://twitter.com/RussellTOB/status/1880323499266551900

Russ is mad

[Benjamin Grimm]

As in angry? Or as in insane?

[MFS62]

"Pete Alonso is flushed down the toilet. What a double standard."

Was that intentional?

American Standard is a manufacturer of bathroom fixtures.

If it was, kudos.

If it wasn't, I still found it funny.

Later

[metirish]

[kcmets]

[bLOCKQUOTE]I have never insulted anyone. I simply describe them, accurately.[/bLOCKQUOTE]

How's the air up there high atop Mount MFS, btw?



Re: HR's, it does seem like it's been warning-track powah the

last week or so. Are they using the new fangled bats or the old

ones? That was big news some short time ago and seems now no

one is talking about them.