My Favorite Met...

[Centerfield]

...is Jacob deGrom. I came to realize this last night watching the post-game interview. If you could cast someone to be the anti-Harvey, I it would be him. Genuinely humble. Genuinely seems excited for his teammates and not just because it gets him off the hook. He had a few bumps in the road this year and I saw that he was visibly upset, so despite the laid back demeanor there is definitely some fire there. Great player. No douchebag factor at all.

I like Conforto a lot. Obviously there is David Wright. But I heart Jacob deGrom.

[Ceetar]

Duda is mine probably, although Granderson cracks me up.

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[Edgy MD]

deGrom really seems to be having fun with his teammates. Even on his pitching days, when he's supposed to be surly and detached, he seems engaged. In fact, he's a great model for Harvey, who was in the celebratory scrum after his team got him off that huge hook two days ago, even if he did still seem like he just swallowed a lemon.

[Lefty Specialist]

I loved his sheepish grin to Kelly Johnson after Johnson hit the home run to bail him out.

I have a feeling Conforto will be a fave very soon. Does nothing but hit.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: deGrom really seems to be having fun with his teammates. Even on his pitching days, when he's supposed to be surly and detached, he seems engaged. In fact, he's a great model for Harvey, who was in the celebratory scrum after his team got him off that huge hook two days ago, even if he did still seem like he just swallowed a lemon.

I mean, it's easy to be ecstatic right now. But Harvey DID insist on being with the team last year. It was partially selfish driven by the desire to not be forgotten, but plenty of series went by without really talking about him. He wanted to be part of the team, not so much the center of the media's attention.

[TransMonk]

I couldn't name a favorite right now. I love them all.

This is slowly becoming my favorite all-time Mets team. Great games and story lines all through this year.

[RealityChuck]

I've been a fan of DeGrom since he came up. Maybe it's the hair. I do know that when I had a chance to go to my first Mets game in over 30s, I waited until he pitched (not well, but he didn't get the loss).

And it's hard not to love Wilmer Flores. Who among us didn't shed tears for the Mets?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I want to make out with Erik Goedell

[Fman99]

Everyone in my family has a favorite Met. Fwife is a Flores fan after he had his teary moment. Fgirl is a Duda fan and Fboy vacillates between deGrom and David Wright.

Me? I'm a Cespedes guy.

[dgwphotography]

What Monk said. I love all of them, except Matt Harvey.

[Edgy MD]

I'm riding with the Bandit.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

My son likes Duda, mostly because his best friend has the same last name.

I'm fond of Colon, because he's a role model to overweight men in their forties.

[Guest themetfairy]

There's so much to love - it's hard to pick one favorite.

Wright really has grown into his role as Captain, and how can you not love how hard he worked just to be here?

deGrom - what's not to love?

Flores - I think it was cooby who said that you just want to hug the stuffing out of him.

Matz - Long Island boy makes good with the glove and the bat.

Conforto - Adopted in spring training, thriving in the pennant race

It's like picking one's favorite child - I love them all.

[Ceetar]

Harvey's got the swagger and arrogance.

Uribe's a hoot.

d'Arnaud's got a quiet fire going on back there.

Murphy's the steady presence, workhorse guy.

Niese's nose ties back to Beltran.

Thor (and d'Arnaud) tie back to Dickey.


reasons to like so many of them.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Hard to pick, but I'd hug the stuffing out of Flores if given the chance.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Thor (and d'Arnaud) tie back to Dickey.

Speaking of Dickey, here's a Throwback Thursday thread: The Dickey-to-Toronto Trade

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Thor (and d'Arnaud) tie back to Dickey. Speaking of Dickey, here's a Throwback Thursday thread: The Dickey-to-Toronto Trade

Funny. My memory is that I was heavy-hearted about losing Dickey, but ultimately accepting that it was the best time to trade him. And yet I seem quite hostile to the trade here.

Just reminds me that I'm not an asshole, but I play one on the internet.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Loving Wilmer, but I want to keep his stuffing intact. So, no hugs.

[Guest themetfairy]

I told y'all that I'd make you love me!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Count me as a fan of Wilmer too. Going into this season I was worried that he was going to be booed, the scapegoat for another disappointing season. Thankfully, no part of that scenario has come to pass. I hope Wilmer sticks around for a long while.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Thor (and d'Arnaud) tie back to Dickey. Speaking of Dickey, here's a Throwback Thursday thread: The Dickey-to-Toronto Trade

What ever happened to Swan Song H?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't know, but I love how he predicted that Daniel Murphy would run off and marry Ruben Tejada! If he knew then what we know now...

[MFS62]

We like them all, love many of them.
But as I posted a few weeks ago, Wilmer is more than that. He is beloved.
He will become the Edgardo Alfonzo of this generation.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

This talk of favorites reminds me that Bucket and I were talking a couple weeks ago about this current Yanx team and wondering if there are ANY players on the current team that the fans like.

McCann? -- Eh. He was getting trashed a year ago although probably less so now that he's having a better year. But I've noticed that YLDBs tend to not like low-BA guys despite high walk & power ability. Plus he's fat & bald & aging & shaky defensively and is signed through 2019

Teixeira? -- Again a better season takes some of the heat off. But this guy was public enemy #1 last year and is a bit of a cranky a-hole. But at least he's old & expensive.

Drew? -- Need we even discuss him? He sucked last year for them, so this year he was re-signed so as to re-suck.

Gregorious -- Is likely slowly becoming popular after a very rough start both offensively & defensively.

Headley? -- I suspect they barely care enough about him to form an opinion one way or the other.

Ellsbury? -- Too injured, not good enough to justify the contract, and will forever have the smell of Boston on him.

Beltran? -- I doubt he's hated by many, but they're getting him in his dotage baseball-wise.

And do I even need to bring up the DH?

Sabathia?, Pineda?, Eovaldi?: Fat, old, injured, pine-tar, erratic (and now also injured).
Maybe Tanaka has some good will but I suspect they're on tippy-toes with him, not dis-liking him but also afraid to fall in love for fear of getting burned.


So that leaves, who exactly, Gardner & Bettances (although, really, how much can you love a set-up man?) because they're home-grown and don't suck, and now probably this new kid Bird although he wasn't even up yet when we had this conversation and he's blocked by Teixeira at the only position he can play until Trump is running for his second term (or for his life depending on how things go).



And now this all comes amid last night's attendance reportedly being the lowest ever in YSIII history and the lowest home game since like 2004 -- and this is during a September pennant race!!
Not that 30K as your lowest (reported even if not actual) attendance is bad but it's certainly not what they're used to or budgeted for.

[Ceetar]

they're losing about 2200 a game off last year. (I'm sure some of those are still attending baseball in NY though)

[MFS62]

YLDBs are the classic front runners, as their declining attendance might indicate.
So, their favorite might just be that DH guy, who is having a very good year. After all, he may have been the best shortstop in the history of that team. He just never was given a chance to prove it.*

Now, back to the Mets ...

Later

* = a day without a direct or indirect shot at Jeter is like a day without sunshine.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

After watching Bartolo Colon during his last few appearances how can you not like him. He looks more like an out of shape softball player than a major leaguer, but somehow he gets the job done. Then there is the behind the back flip to first base for an out the other night, his willingness to pitch out of the bullpen between starts to help out an over taxed bullpen, and of course the hitting. His at bats may not be pretty, but they a pretty effective. He just looks like he is having fun playing the game.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He Tastes Better When You Say Hyoo-Rees is my boy, of course. And I do enjoy me some ebullient, floppy-haired Dutch Boy action. But, really, I bathe in Colon.

[Lefty Specialist]

I love when Colon stands on the mound, playfully tossing the ball up in the air and catching it, like a man who doesn't have a care in the world. He's seen it all and done it all. This is just gravy. (Mmmmmmm.......gravy)

He's the exact opposite of Drew Storen, who, to quote Ferris Bueller, "If you shoved a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Srsly, we like Doodoo, Nieuwy and Wright best. deGrom is my favorite of the starters. And Goedell, what about this guy? He's had like 1 bad outing all year and that was just before he went to the DL.

I used to love Grandy when he first arrived with Detroit then my opinion of him took a beating w/ the MFYs and the poor 1st year here. But he's won his way back and I'll give him Tom Terrific's highest praise -- he's a Pro's Pro.