2025 Mets in Retirement Thread

[stevejrogers]

Pat Mahomes’ father-in-law was admitted into hospice care

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/patrick-mahomes-grandfather-is-in-hospice-says-mom-randi-mahomes/

[Channel9]

Sorry to call you out on a technicality but Pat Mahome’s mother’s father has no connection to the Mets.

15 yards, loss of down.

[stevejrogers]

Sorry to call you out on a technicality but Pat Mahome’s mother’s father has no connection to the Mets.

15 yards, loss of down.

 

KC Chief QB’s maternal Grandfather = Ex-99-00 Met reliever’s father-in-law.

[Channel9]

Exactly.

MATERNAL. It’s the paternal side that has the Mets connection.

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[stevejrogers]

Exactly.

MATERNAL. It’s the paternal side that has the Mets connection.

You have no more reviews available.

 

If he wasn’t a such a noted figure in baseball/NYC baseball history, I’d wager Bobby Valentine’s father-in-law’s passing would have been noted in the 2016 version of this thread!

[Channel9]

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[Edgy MD]

I just met the late Tom Sturdivant's grandson Tommy in a Facebook Beastie Boys group.

[Frayed Knot]

I just met the late Tom Sturdivant's grandson Tommy in a Facebook Beastie Boys group.

 

I'll take 'Sentences Never Typed Before Ever' for $600', Ken.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You'd lose! I include that phrase when filling out Christmas cards every year.

[MFS62]

I just met the late Tom Sturdivant's grandson Tommy in a Facebook Beastie Boys group.

In the No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn video, one of the Beastie Boys is wearing a Mets cap.

Has that been noted on the CPF before?

I don't want to turn this into yet another music thread, so please move it to an appropriate "Mets fans in strange places" or whatever we call that thread.

Later

[stevejrogers]

Billy Wagner will be the latest ex-Met to get a number retired by a franchise that isn’t the Mets this August in Houston.

Part of a weekend celebration for his Cooperstown induction, and I believe a yet to be announced Astro Hall of Fame 2025 Class.

[Edgy MD]

Billy Wagner becomes just the third player to enter the Hall of Fame without ever starting a game.

[Gwreck]

Billy Wagner becomes just the third player to enter the Hall of Fame without ever starting a game.

 

The others are Trevor Hoffman, and, umm, Lee Smith?

[Bob Alpacadaca]

Was wondering if it was Rivera.

[Edgy MD]

Hoffman is one, but not Smith.

[stevejrogers]

Bruce Sutter.

I remember this because Warner Wolf on ESPN NY radio gave as reasoning for Joba Chamberlain being inserted into the rotation right away when he eventually debuted was that to that point no one had gone into Cooperstown that wasn’t a starting pitcher “first”

Obviously way to declarative to be true as how would he know how all of the dozens of HOF pitchers were used in their MLB debuts and first few appearances. But silly to use as a determining factor, even if it’s more of a “rarity” than “none at all,” to how a highly touted prospect should be used when they hit the majors.

Anyway, that was before Bruce Sutter made that argument “moot” and all!

[Edgy MD]

That is some weird Boys from Brazil logic by Warner Wolf, there.

Sutter (though I didn't mean to trigger a quiz) is correct. While many great relievers came up through the minors as starters, and often began their big-league careers as starters, Sutter was basically a reliever all along, starting only two minor-league games.

John Franco is eligible to join this club. He was a starter all though a very pedestrian minor league career, right up to AAA, but he debuted in the big leagues in relief, and was instantly successful.