Met Le Grande

[Guest Edgy DC]

If you're like me (and God help you if you are), you spend an inordinate amount of your time wondering which future Met will get the coveted title of Met # 1000. You think about in your sleep, during your commute, during periods of heightened physical activity, and during long hours in your sensory deprivation chamber.

If you're like me.

So I decided to stop just wondering and dig at the question. The truth is: chances are that Met #1000 isn't in the system yet. He or she is toiling for somebody else or is an amateur with no clue of the historic title that awaits.

But not everybody is in the clubhouse, so I looked through the system, sorting the players by highest level they've achieved and birthdays and such. Of course, they're all moving up at different rates, but it's got to be at least a little bit illustrative to look at the current placement of those in the competition for this profund honor.

Currently looking ahead:

Projected Met #	Player	Status
896	Brad Emaus	40-Man Roster
897	Scott Hairston	40-Man Roster
898	D.J. Carrasco	40-Man Roster
899	Taylor Buchholz	40-Man Roster
900	Pedro Beato	40-Man Roster
925	John Lujan	Binghamton Roster
950	Brad Holt	St. Lucie Roster
975	Chris Hilliard	Brooklyn Roster
1000	Brandon Sage	Savannah Roster

So that's the way it shakes out. The expected (never gonna happen in a million years) 1000th Met will be Savannah lefthanded reliever Brandon Sage. Brandon isn't a bad Gnat, going 3-6 with a 3.07 ERA and seven saves in 2010. He struck out 49 batters in 58 2/3 innings and walked only 12. Like Tommie Agee, Cleon Jones, and many other stars, he played his boyhood ball in Mobile, Alabama. He hunts deer with a bow and arruh (nickname: "Hunterman") and he was awesome in 2009 for Brooklyn. Describing his impressions of Brooklyn, he said "�There are a lot more buildings.�

Met number 1000, ladies and gents.

[metirish]

This is gold.....I need to think about my 1000th Met.

[ashie62]

People have time for this?

[Theoldmole]

Edgy does it so we don't have to.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's gonna be a broken down dispirited Derek Jeter.

[Willets Point]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's gonna be a broken down dispirited Derek Jeter.

I was so going to make the same comment.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ashie62 wrote: People have time for this?

Well, I was in the neighborhood... .

Ouch.

[Fman99]

This thread is the Met equivalent of popping one off into a napkin. Nicely done.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

This thread is like weaving and embroidering a napkin, then popping off into it.

[Willets Point]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: This thread is like weaving and embroidering a napkin, then popping off into it.

Post of the day.

[G-Fafif]

People have time for this?

You ask that on this board?

Crane Pool Forum: Where people have time for this.