My Favorite Met...

[Farmer Ted]

I'd like to know what kind of sandwich Thor was putting together when the Captain made his rounds. He looks like a chicken parm kinda guy. Extra marinara. In any case, Thor's won me over, especially when he pitches at home. Never expected that.

[Edgy MD]

The thing about Grandy is that he had to be Wright while Wright was away. Go-to guy in interviews, hosting terminally ill kids on trips to the dugout, posing on the field with 9/11 families, grinning like a dope through shitty endorsements for Koon's Toyota, assigning which veterans have to buy suits for which rookies ... .

Face o' the Franchise is a tough enough cross to carry when you're a lifetime Met. When you're just a free agent passing through and trying to keep your game together in your mid-30s so fans don't turn on you and put up SUCK threads on the internet, it's got to be a real pain in the ass. To be that guy when you'd really rather be the surly fuck off I'm working here guy.

Wright blessed my marriage, which needed blessing, so it would be unseemly to put him anywhere but #1 on my heart throb list. Coming throbs include d'Arnaud, Grandy, Flores, and of course Hairboy, who's always having fun and seems surprised on a nightly basis that he and his buds get to watch the game from the dugout. Lagares is a total pig with the sunflower seeds, but that's cool.

Nieuwenhuis still whiffs too much but I'm all in with a good redemption story, and fans were awful too him early in the year. Hoping that Parnell's redemption is next.

And come on... Bartolo just playing catch with himself on the mound, even as he waits for a guy who just hit a homer to round the bases. That's astounding. It's like he's Charlie Brown out there just waiting for the rest of the gang to show up. He's a zen master, and I have no doubt that line drives find gloves more frequently when he's pitching because he's mastered the art of mindfulness.

[ashie62]

I'll ride with David and Conforto.