2016 Mets Miscellany

[Ceetar]

For random mets pictures, jibber-jabber, oddities and other stuff that doesn't really merit it's own thread

random Google created gif from some cellphone pictures.

[Centerfield]

This is Rinku Singh. Prospect in the Pirates organization and subject of the Disney movie. I'm hoping that the Mets get him, and through some double switch, are forced to bat him in the middle of the lineup.

So that when you see the "Due up" screen, it will say:

Duda
Wright
Singh

[Frayed Knot]

After which Spike Owen and Derrick Lee follow.

[RealityChuck]

This is Rinku Singh. Prospect in the Pirates organization and subject of the Disney movie. I'm hoping that the Mets get him, and through some double switch, are forced to bat him in the middle of the lineup. So that when you see the "Due up" screen, it will say: Duda Wright Singh

You're Sikh.

[Centerfield]

This is why I can't get anything done at work. I think of random combinations of Mets "Due Up" combos

Due Up:
Hu
Ishii
d'Arnaud

[Centerfield]

MFY fan that lives in my building this morning:

"I don't know what's wrong with Cashman. Look at the Mets. Coming off a World Series, they go out spend and sign a star player in his prime. We'll get him when he's 35 and washed up. We can give him Beltran's uniform."

[MFS62]

Centerfield wrote: MFY fan that lives in my building this morning: "I don't know what's wrong with Cashman. Look at the Mets. Coming off a World Series, they go out spend and sign a star player in his prime. We'll get him when he's 35 and washed up. We can give him Beltran's uniform."

I would just look at that person, and smile.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Keith gets the coldest of burns, and Mookie loves every second of it.

https://amp.twimg.com/v/7d17caa0-da44-45eb-b62c-531b4b5b3083

[Zvon]

That's hilarious.

[Frayed Knot]

But if she knows him via 'Seinfeld' how can she NOT know that he was a baseball player?
Does she think that he was an actor around whom they concocted a two-part show where he played someone who used to be a baseball player that the entire cast just happened to love? Not a very Seinfeldian plot for someone who's supposedly attuned to the show.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: But if she knows him via 'Seinfeld' how can she NOT know that he was a baseball player?

I believe she is yanking his chain.

Speaking of yanked chains, some Mets or Seinfeld fan wrote to "Ask Amy."

[Edgy MD]

Dilson Herrera and his baby brother. Mini-Me.

[Fman99]

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Fman99 wrote:

Only after he drops his first F-bomb!

[Edgy MD]

Mini-Me Merged with Metphemera.

[Guest cooby classic]

THis is a confusing thread. It's very good though, both parts...

[MFS62]

Mets – Willets Point wrote:

He's adorable.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Fun fact about bullpen coach Ricky Bones!

He gave up a home run in 1993 to Mickey Tettleton that smashed the hood of [Phil Garner's] Camarro. When Bones returned to the dugout, Phil Garner called him down to the clubhouse tunnel and there he was waiting with a crowbar around the corner that turned into the locker room. Garner had to be restrained by several Brewers and later retreated to the players-only parking lot where he used the crowbar to destroy Bones’ Scwhinn bicycle he rode to the park each day.

http://diamondhoggers.com/2014/02/07/hideous-ballplayer-week-nothing-bonus-about-ricky-bones/

WtF would Garner even have a crowbar in the locker room?

[Benjamin Grimm]

For just such an occasion, I guess.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: WtF would Garner even have a crowbar in the locker room?

The reporters would have asked him, but were afraid to pry.
(Yes, pun intended)
Later

[Edgy MD]

Garner continued managing the Brewers for six+ more years after that!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That's such an incredible story I can barely believe it. Funny too that the writer makes Bones the villain.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That's such an incredible story I can barely believe it.

Me too. They're asking us to believe there was a time when ballplayers actually drove Camaros or rode Schwinns.

Funny too that the writer makes Bones the villain.

He also misspells Camaro [Camarro] and calls Bones an "affluent Spanish speaker". I mean it's nice that he's rich and all but we're left to wonder if he's also a fluent affluent Spanish speaker.

[Ceetar]

on why Yo came back.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I want a Yo Knows Beisbol shirt NOW!!!

[Zvon]

Who do you think these Mets are in this photo? What year do you think it was?
My guess is Ron Hunt and Johnny Lewis, 1965.

Info provided with the photo may have claimed it was Buddy H.
It definitely said the photo was from the 1969 NLCS.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Who do you think these Mets are in this photo? What year do you think it was? My guess is Ron Hunt and Johnny Lewis, 1965. Info provided with the photo may have claimed it was Buddy H. It definitely said the photo was from the 1969 NLCS.

The infielder looks like Ron Hunt to me. The picture can't be from 1969. 1967 would be the latest possible date. Braves 1969 road uniform below:

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[fimg=333]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zhztgl0PC3c/T_by5rIpCWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/6a0yAgmKtvg/s1600/1970+Topps+Hank+Aaron+PSA+5.jpg[/fimg]

If the infielder is Ron Hunt, then the picture's from 1966, the Braves first year in Atlanta (see Hank's helmet). Hunt wasn't a Met in '67.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The infielder looks like Ron Hunt to me. The picture can't be from 1969. 1967 would be the latest possible date. If the infielder is Ron Hunt, then the picture's from 1966, the Braves first year in Atlanta (see Hank's helmet). Hunt wasn't a Met in '67.

'66 was their first year in Atlanta!? Excellent work and thank you batmags.

From that angle it certainly looks like him. And Lewis was there in '66. The color of the OF wall says pre '67, that's for sure. Thanks.

That is a very kool photo. I'm thinking '67t horizontal.

[Centerfield]

Overheard in Port St. Lucie:

Wow d'Arnaud really struggled with his throwing last year. We gotta get that kid working with Piazza.