Memories of Carlos Beltran

[Guest attgig]

nice graphic on amazin ave:


http://www.amazinavenue.com/2011/7/28/2300327/embiggen-instead-of-putting-together-my-2000-worder-on-the-glory-that

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mercy sakes!

Met Survivors of Brutal Head-to-head Outfield Collisions:

Hahn
Theodore
Mazzilli
Norman
Cameron
Beltran

[Gwreck]

Not that he died or anything, but the collision was the last play of Cameron's Mets career so I don't know if he goes with the "survivors."

[Gwreck]

Ceetar wrote: tedquarters.net has a bunch of clips up.

They are:
8/22/06, the walk-off homer against the Cardinals

and two that I had forgotten about:

June 11, 2008, walk-off homer against the Diamondbacks in the 13th inning
September 8, 2006, robs JD Drew of what would have been a back-to-back homer.

[Guest attgig]

Mercy sakes! Met Survivors of Brutal Head-to-head Outfield Collisions: Hahn Theodore Mazzilli Norman Cameron Beltran

I believe wilson & dykstra had a horrible head to head collision in left center.

[seawolf17]

Mercy sakes! Met Survivors of Brutal Head-to-head Outfield Collisions: Hahn Theodore Mazzilli Norman Cameron Beltran I believe wilson & dykstra had a horrible head to head collision in left center.

No, that was... Mookie and Terry Blocker? John Christensen and Terry Blocker? For some reason, I remember Blocker being involved.

[Frayed Knot]

Mercy sakes! Met Survivors of Brutal Head-to-head Outfield Collisions: Hahn Theodore Mazzilli Norman Cameron Beltran I believe wilson & dykstra had a horrible head to head collision in left center.

Face-to-Face even.

[Guest attgig]

Mercy sakes! Met Survivors of Brutal Head-to-head Outfield Collisions: Hahn Theodore Mazzilli Norman Cameron Beltran I believe wilson & dykstra had a horrible head to head collision in left center. No, that was... Mookie and Terry Blocker? John Christensen and Terry Blocker? For some reason, I remember Blocker being involved.

the one i'm thinking of is definitely mookie and dykstra. they went face to face (as fk pointed out), and i remember after they collided, one of them raised their glove to tell everyone else they made the catch. later on, I remember mookie having a bandaid on his eyebrow because i think it was dykstra's teeth that opened a cut there.

[metsmarathon]

Edgy DC wrote: The best season out of a Met is Gooden '85. The more time passes, the more I realize how hard it would be hard for a batter (or pitcher) to achieve it's equivelant. But yeah.

fangraphs has it as 9.0 WAR. david wright's '07 they have at 8.9.

bbref on the other hand, has it at 11.7 WAR. only 19 times has a batter topped that mark - a list comprised of the names ruth, hornsby, bonds, mantle, yaz, gehrig, morgan, cobb, and williams.
bbref also has it as the 5th best year since 1900, and 3rd best since 1920. only carlton'72 and gibson'68 were better.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Edgy DC wrote: The best season out of a Met is Gooden '85. The more time passes, the more I realize how hard it would be hard for a batter (or pitcher) to achieve it's equivelant. But yeah.

Whoops, I meant best season from a position player.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Beltran was one of the best players to play for the Mets. He played hard (he was just so damn smooth that it didn't look like it) and was never fully embraced by many of the Mets fan base. I'll miss him, but it was time for the Mets to move him and get what they could. I wish him well.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I had this prepared in case Carlos won the Schaefer POTM in July, which he nearly did. I guess I'll use it here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wonderful.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That's nice you got the sig on there

[Willets Point]

Mercy sakes! Met Survivors of Brutal Head-to-head Outfield Collisions: Hahn Theodore Mazzilli Norman Cameron Beltran I believe wilson & dykstra had a horrible head to head collision in left center. No, that was... Mookie and Terry Blocker? John Christensen and Terry Blocker? For some reason, I remember Blocker being involved. the one i'm thinking of is definitely mookie and dykstra. they went face to face (as fk pointed out), and i remember after they collided, one of them raised their glove to tell everyone else they made the catch. later on, I remember mookie having a bandaid on his eyebrow because i think it was dykstra's teeth that opened a cut there.

Eww...I don't want to think about what may have been on Dyktra's teeth.

The Mookie-Lenny collision occurred during Doc Gooden's first start after cocaine rehab in 1987.

[Guest themetfairy]

Mercy sakes! Met Survivors of Brutal Head-to-head Outfield Collisions: Hahn Theodore Mazzilli Norman Cameron Beltran I believe wilson & dykstra had a horrible head to head collision in left center. No, that was... Mookie and Terry Blocker? John Christensen and Terry Blocker? For some reason, I remember Blocker being involved. the one i'm thinking of is definitely mookie and dykstra. they went face to face (as fk pointed out), and i remember after they collided, one of them raised their glove to tell everyone else they made the catch. later on, I remember mookie having a bandaid on his eyebrow because i think it was dykstra's teeth that opened a cut there. Eww...I don't want to think about what may have been on Dyktra's teeth. The Mookie-Lenny collision occurred during Doc Gooden's first start after cocaine rehab in 1987.

D-Dad and I were there for that - I remember the two of them twirling around, and Dykstra lifting the glove to show that he still had the ball.

[Gwreck]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I had this prepared in case Carlos won the Schaefer POTM in July, which he nearly did. I guess I'll use it here.

That's quite nice. I really miss him already.