The Wally Question (split from the Cora Question)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The other factor in Wally's favor is the idea he'd work for less than Bobby V, that may matter to the Mets.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Okay, now I want to kill myself a little.

[Centerfield]

I don't know that there's any ballplayer out there (except maybe white Sammy Sosa) who looks less like he did during his playing days than Wally Backman. Wally was a scrappy, fast little guy. Present-day Wally looks like he ate that guy.



Wally could be sitting next to me on a bus, wearing an '86 Backman jersey, and I would never think for a second that it was him.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ron Gardenhire


Ron Gardenhire:

[seawolf17]

Tim Teufel, on the other hand, hasn't changed a bit. So it's not just a 1980s-Mets-middle-infielders thing.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I know that I look a whole lot different than I did in 1986. More so than Wally.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yes, well, gamma rays.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Jerry Manuel of today is more recognizeable in his photos as a player of yesteryear than he is in photos as the remarakbly pale manager of the Pale Hose.

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I know that I look a whole lot different than I did in 1986. More so than Wally.

I'm probably nearly 3 feet taller than I was in '86.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ceetar wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I know that I look a whole lot different than I did in 1986. More so than Wally. I'm probably nearly 3 feet taller than I was in '86.

Close to four feet here.

(Those of you who haven't met me yet-- I'm roughly 9-and-1/2 feet tall.)

[Guest The Second Spitter]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ceetar wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I know that I look a whole lot different than I did in 1986. More so than Wally. I'm probably nearly 3 feet taller than I was in '86. Close to four feet here. (Those of you who haven't met me yet-- I'm roughly 9-and-1/2 feet tall.)

Pffffffft. Namor's 12ft-3.