All-Purpose 2006 Where Have You Gone... Former Mets Thread

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

"putting he and Straw"--the grammar is also a little bit off.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Justin Huber, trying to stick on a team full of funny guys.

Andy Tomberlin, bringing his swing to Birmingham.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]Backman hung up, wondering how much longer the blacklist will continue. His reputation has been irreparably damaged ever since the Diamondbacks, who hired the former second baseman to be their manager in 2004, discovered they were inheriting not just Backman's fiery leadership skills, but his damaged past, as well. Turned out that Backman had been arrested for drunken driving in 2000, pleaded guilty to a harassment charge involving a female friend of the family and was tarnished by allegations of spousal abuse made by his ex-wife.

I'd say his penchant for campaigning for jobs through the media then slamming those who don't select him isn't helping either. He evidently was let go by the White Sox after he let it be known he was rooting against the retention of those above him in the food chain.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Meanwhile, the Mets and the Hagerstown Suns have announced that Frank Cacciatore will manage the Suns in 2006. He might have done well to wait until the Mets had officially filled all their slots before slamming them.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

If Frank's nickname isn't "Chicken", it ought to be.

[MFS62]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: If Frank's nickname isn't "Chicken", it ought to be.

I'll hazzard a guess to say you just might not be the first person to think of that.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Meanwhile, Wally's old partner Raffy Santana gobbles up one of Wally's old jobs.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

My company used to have front-row seats behind first base when Santana was a 1B coach for the Wilmington Blue Rocks (and Carlos Beltran was their CF).

Santana was very funny. He could be real chatty and nice with fans but when he was busy or didn't wanna sign he'd pretend he couldn't understand English.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

MFS62 wrote: ="Yancy Street Gang"]If Frank's nickname isn't "Chicken", it ought to be. I'll hazzard a guess to say you just might not be the first person to think of that. Later

Exactly my point.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It seems to me that good reporting shoould include contacting the alleging victim of the domestic violence rap. He'd probably get a "no comment," but if Backman's contention is that it's merely a "messy divorce" that has hiim "blacklisted," he should check out the other side of that.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kazuhisa Ishii, sticking it to the Golden Eagles.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Blaine Beatty, coaching the nearby Frederick Keys.

Mackey Sasser, luring athletes to him with the power of his name... and chin.

Lenny Dykstra, who was investigated by John Dowd and came close to getting seriously sanctioned by MLB for his gambling ties, will be the debut host of "'Celebrity Poker Night" for hollywoodpoker.com.

As a bad role model, Lenny is something of a five-tool player, isn't he?

No real story, but Dan Wheeler has also re-signed with Houston.

[seawolf17]

Danny Graves, back to Vietnam.



(Yes, that is allegedly Danny Graves.)

edit: front shot...

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's the kind of stuff that makes this thread great.

This sentence doesn't read quite right.

]The pitcher, accompanied by his mother and wife, Andrea, is visiting as part of a goodwill tour sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

[seawolf17]

No, that's right. He married his mother, Andrea.

(Obviously, I'm kidding.)

[Farmer Ted]

Graves looks not only overweight but, dare I say, like a woman playing the part of Danny Graves. You sure this isn't his sister promoting the new women's softball league?

[Guest cooby]

He never was much of a looker. But yuck.

[seawolf17]

I first saw the photo under the headline "No, This Is Not A Picture of Chastity Bono."

[Guest Edgy DC]

The white studs are nothing new. But I guess the button down Reds didn't play that and he had to remove them during games.



But he couldn't let his his holes grow closed, goodness, and so wore them during workouts.



Those words tatooed on his arm are the names of his kids and step-kid.

I think he's had a lot of up-and-down weight changes in his career.

[Guest cooby]

Someone's slept with him? (shudder)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Andrea and Danny Graves are a great story. She was friends with his older sister (seven years older) and he was the dorky little brother who blushed and stammered every time she came over.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Cut that, I misremembered. She was the older sister of one of his friends. And he was the dorky friend of the dorky little brother, who blushed and stammered every time he came over.

[Guest Edgy DC]

J.C. Martin, Hall of Famer.

[Guest sharpie]

Stormy got hisself an owie

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2297329

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kazuhisa Ishii, returning to the Swallows.

[metirish]

This may have been posted and talked aobut while I was away but I can't find the 'Rico' thread, anyway I was reading Steve Rushin in 'SI' and he's writing about how guns are a part of sports culture now...something like that anyway....this was the second paragraph...

] The day after Christmas former major league pitcher Jeff Reardon allegedly robbed a jewelry store in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., after passing a note to a clerk that said he had a gun. (Police never found one.)

Holy shit ,what happened to Jeff?,any follow up on this?

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

metirish wrote: This may have been posted and talked aobut while I was away but I can't find the 'Rico' thread, anyway I was reading Steve Rushin in 'SI' and he's writing about how guns are a part of sports culture now...something like that anyway....this was the second paragraph... ] The day after Christmas former major league pitcher Jeff Reardon allegedly robbed a jewelry store in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., after passing a note to a clerk that said he had a gun. (Police never found one.) Holy shit ,what happened to Jeff?,any follow up on this?

This was moved to its own thread do the the national media attention it got.

Reardon's son died recently (drug problems) and Reardon had some health issues, apparantly mixed alittle too much medication for that along with depression medication and went a little crazy one day.

Yeah he robbed a jewerly store with just a note. Just cash and was found later that day, I think at a nearby deli

National spotlight led to Reardon getting the second most hits in one day (he may have passed Mitchell on the day the cat story hit ESPN.com) on the UMDB

This is from the site:

Jeff Reardon was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on December 26, 2005, December 27, 2005, December 28, 2005, December 29, 2005, December 31, 2005, January 1, 2006, January 3, 2006, January 5, 2006, and January 6, 2006.

Still currently the most popular over the last 30 day period over there

[metirish]

Thanks for the info, sad story, I hope he comes through it ok..

[Guest Edgy DC]

As I understand the story, it actually wasn't later that day, as much as later that hour. I got the impression he wasn't cornered or anything, but realized he had gone nuts, and walked up to a guard and fessed up.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

mlbaseballtalk wrote: National spotlight led to Reardon getting the second most hits in one day (he may have passed Mitchell on the day the cat story hit ESPN.com) on the UMDB This is from the site: Jeff Reardon was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on December 26, 2005, December 27, 2005, December 28, 2005, December 29, 2005, December 31, 2005, January 1, 2006, January 3, 2006, January 5, 2006, and January 6, 2006. Still currently the most popular over the last 30 day period over there

He more than doubled Mitchell's previous one-day record. Reardon's jewelry store hit caused him to soar from 309th place all-time to somewhere in the 50's.