Met Fact and Opinion Relaunched

[seawolf17]

Opinion: Whoever marries the girl who was my best friend from high school will probably be a borderline major-leaguer someday.

Fact: Art Howe and Mo Vaughn both celebrate birthdays today.

[Guest Giant Squidlike Creature]

Bump!

[Guest *62]

Fact: Most MLB players "dress" left.

Opinion: Coke is better than Pepsi.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good play, but the format is that you open by giving an opinon on the last fact, then close by setting up somebody else's opinion with a fact of your own.

[MFS62]

Then I'll restart with Wolf's post.

Opinion: Mo Vaughn weighed a higher number of pounds than Art had hairs on his head.

Fact: Greg Jeffries won two consecutive Baseball America "Minor League Player of the Year" Awards.

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Opinion: He deserved them.

Fact: Newspapers reported in late 1964 that the Mets could have received Frank Howard had they been willing to part with Ron Hunt in a trade.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Opinion: If so, they perhaps could've done better by moving him, but they still did well by dealing him before the bloom was off his rose, moving him for (by far) their 1967 MVP, who was then flipped after one season for a top component of their 1969 championship. They probably shouldn't have regrets, even though Howard clearly outplayed Hunt in 1965 and 1966.

Fact: Baseball-reference.com lists Frank Howard's playing size at 6'7" and 255 pounds and lists one of his nicknames as "The Capital Punisher."

[MFS62]

Opinion: That weight must explain the large, brown, grassless spot in left field in RFK stadium where he played as a member of the expansion Senators. The rest of the outfield was nice and green.

Fact: Although Greg Jeffries was twice voted minor league player of the year as a shortstop, he never played that position in the majors.

Later

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

MFS62 wrote: Opinion: That weight must explain the large, brown, grassless spot in left field in RFK stadium where he played as a member of the expansion Senators. The rest of the outfield was nice and green.

Whenever I had such patches on my lawn, it was an indication of where the dog would like to pee. Are you suggesting that Frank Howard would urinate when he was out in left field? Boy, the game has changed! Now the players do their peeing in parking lots.

[seawolf17]

Opinion: Maybe if he peed in the field more often, Davey would have let him play shortstop.

Bonus Opinion: Mr. Thomas should stay in the "Questions For Frank Thomas" thread and ignore this one completely.


Speaking of large outfielders...

Fact: Rusty Staub's restaurant closed a few years ago.

[Guest sharpie]

Opinion: All of this Rusty love didn't translate into votes for my song parody.


Fact: Charles Johnson, Joe Randa and David Justice were briefly property of the Mets but never played for them.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Opinion: David Justice and Ray Knight and Joe DiMaggio all had wives more famous than than themselves. Kris Benson may or may not be in their company. (Stole that opinon from Bill James.)

Fact: Tim Burke got a (then) big contract and chose to put much of the douugh toward adopting and raising handicapped children. (That much stays in the realm of fact, right?)