Met Count of 2013

[Edgy MD]

I think we start at 941. Please correct me if'n' I'm wrong.

Welcome to the great struggle.

Met 941: John Buck, blowing the mayor's mind:



Met 942: Collin Cowgill, follows through on his seventh-inning grand slam:



Met 943: Marlon Byrd, greeted by his captain after beginning his career with an RBI single:



Met 944: Brandon Lyon poses for the new penny:



Met 945: Scott Atchison discusses what to expect during the third trimester:



Met 946: Scott Rice finishes the game with a perfect inning, his first big-league appearance after 13 seasons and 480 games in the minors:

[Gwreck]

941 is the correct starting point per last year's thread but I think you skipped 942.

[Edgy MD]

Fix't. Thanks.

Don't post after midnight, folks.

[metirish]

947

LaTroy Hawkins

[Gwreck]

Burke is 947
Hawkins is 948

[metirish]

Gwreck wrote: Burke is 947 Hawkins is 948

damn, I knew I was missing someone..

[Edgy MD]

You skipped a dude.

#947: Greg Burke stepping in the bucket as a matter of form.



#948: LaTroy Hawkins, coming to you right from the heart.

[Zvon]

I think we start at 941. Please correct me if'n' I'm wrong. Welcome to the great struggle. Met 941: John Buck, blowing the mayor's mind:

Hate to be a nitpickydicky but if you think thats Bloomy behind Bucky, you're wrong. Correct thyself!

[Edgy MD]

It was a funny.

[seawolf17]

Adding the new guys to my master list of Met baseball card autographs needs, I find we've already had one Marlon (Anderson), one Collin (McHugh), one Burke (Tim), one Byrd (Paul), and one Brandon (Knight), but a handful of Scotts and Johns.

[Benjamin Grimm]

A lot of animal-related names in the new batch: Byrd, Cowgill, Buck, Lyon, Hawkins, and Rice.

Okay, maybe "rice" isn't actually an animal.

[Edgy MD]

#949: Anthony Recker, trying to protect the dish, offering hope to a largely hopeless cause.



It really is hard to believe we could do better than Nickeas when it comes to handsome backup catchers, but a fact is a fact.

[Ceetar]

Correct me If I'm wrong, but that should be 950 for Recker right?

949 being Laffey



And that'll probably be it for a little while at least.

[Edgy MD]

Totally slept through my Laffey.

[Edgy MD]

#951 Juan Lagares, collects his first career hit.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

""um, don't stick that thing in my face."

[G-Fafif]

952. Shaun Marcum
953. Andrew Brown

[G-Fafif]

954. Rick Ankiel

[Edgy MD]

I don't remember him looking quite so dicky.



Kinda puts me in mind of an abusive trainer, and abusive gym coach, an abusive drill sergeant.

Image kinda fit with his 'roid violation, also.

Post-game shot, on the other hand, kinda suggests a punk Gil Hodges.

[Edgy MD]

Congratulations to #1 in your databases, but #955 in your chronologies, David Aardsma, shown celebrating his Yankee-liberation with wifey Aandrea.

[G-Fafif]

From way up the list, like fifth by my accounting, I saw someone wearing a LANDRITH 5 50th anniversary jersey today. Sure enough, per MBTN, Hobie was 5 in 1962. Could've been a relative. Could've been an Original diehard. Could've been some random Landrith.

Also saw a SHINJO 5 t-shirt come out of the closet.

And 20 innings of offensive torpor. Got to see that, too, on Rick Ankiel's last and David Aardsma's first.

[Edgy MD]

It was the Ankiel-Aardsma equinox.

I was listening to the radio. Did the TV booth even invoke the notion that Ankiel take the mound?

[Frayed Knot]

Record for most consecutive days putting multiple in-game posts in non-IGT threads? ... EdgyMD, Two

[Edgy MD]

Eh blah. Until I hear it from Elias, I'm calling bullshit.

And I'm transplanting the misposts.

[Edgy MD]

Met 956, starting with Roger Craig, is Carlos Torres, with a nice two-inning debut.

[G-Fafif]

957. Zack Wheeler
958. Eric Young, Jr.

[Edgy MD]

Getting off the pine is number nine fifty-nine, Gonzalez Germen, #71 on your scorecards.



Facing three-four-five in the Pirates lineup with the game on the line. No ideal debut scenario.

[Edgy MD]

Number nine-six-zero is the birthday hero. The Mets, unlike Neil Diamond, bring you Flores.

[Edgy MD]

Let 'em all go to Hell except Met 961!

[G-Fafif]

962. Daisuke Matsuzaka

The Mets are now a thousand players short of the year of their birth.