Mets by the Parent's Occupation

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jesus Santana, retired electrician, with his son.

[metirish]

Ron Davis, retired MLB pitcher with son Ike, also a retired MLB player

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bob Parnell, Fire Chief, Salisbury, N.C.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Retired ballplayer. Snort.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Retired ballplayer. Snort.

Speaking of retired ballplaying parents, Cecil Fielder thinks Prince could be a Met.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Meet Jeff and Annette Niese. They've been married for 28 years and have 5 kids, including Jonathon (2nd oldest).

Jeff is a maintenance technician over at Defiance College and also serves on the Defiance County Fish & Game board of directors.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Do we have profile photos of them? We need to determine the source of the Niese Nose.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

RA Dickey's mysterious father, Harry L. Dickey, appears to have been employed by a bible company. He divorced Leslie Bowers Dickey when RA was 7.

R.A. was largely raised by a maternal grandmother and her husband, R.G. Bowers.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mike Pelfrey also had an AWOL dad, one Jim Pelfrey, but benefitted from the generous guidance of stepfather Stan Madden, who Big Mike came to call Dad. No photo evicence found.

I'm closer to the age of these guys' parents than to theirs.

[Guest attgig]

Jose Reyes with his dad: Jose Manuel.

He owns a 'roadside family bodega' called 'Colmado Reyes' - which apparently, is like a 7-11 but smaller.

His dad also played pickup baseball, and encouraged Reyes to learn how to bat from both sides of the plate, and made sure the speedster was fed well as he was growing up when the elder realized his son was a special athelete.

[Vic Sage]

would his dad not have fed him if Jose wasn't a special athlete?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Is anyone else playing this game?

Angel Pagan Sr. passed away in 2005. He was "all about baseball" but couldn't fly to the US to see his son play following a stroke and other health issues.

"Me and my father, we were really close. He never saw me play professional baseball. He couldn't because he was sick and couldn't fly. After he died, I bent on my knees and I promised to him and God that I would do my best, that I'd give my everything so I could make my father proud. Even though he's not here, I know he's watching me. I dedicated the victory [a 2-home run game on his birthday, his 1st 2 pro HRs] to him and his glory, and first of all God. I always wanted him to watch me because he was all about baseball. He was a sick man � diabetes."

[Guest Edgy DC]

Dillon Gee's father is a Fort Worth firefighter who got half the town at the The Ballpark in Arlington to see Dillon's last start.

Daniel Murphy's father is Tom Murphy. Try and find a picture of a guy named Tom Murphy on the internet. Go ahead, I dare ya.

Anyhow, while Tom's picture may elude you, it might help you to know that as a dad, he can be kind of ungenerous.

"He's got basically one tool, hitting, and everything else is average," said his father, Tom Murphy. "The way he runs, throws, plays defense - average. His glove was always a little shaky, but that bat worked."

"When he got drafted," said Tom Murphy, "I thought, 'Go do that for three or four years in the minors, then go back to school for your degree and get a real job."

How about you go find a real job, Dad? I'm gonna be a Met.