Apropos of Nothing - vBaseball

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Only seven 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers are still alive. Six of the seven were pitchers. The surviving seven are:

Bob Borkowski
Roger Craig
Carl Erskine
Sandy Koufax
Tom Lasorda
Don Newcombe
Ed Roebuck


Four of the surviving seven (Craig, Koufax, Lasorda and Roebuck) made their major league debuts in '55. Koufax, then 19, was still a teen-ager.

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Over the past three seasons, no Mets pitcher has won more games - 43 - than Bartolo Colon.

Edited September 19, 2016 by Guest

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Let's make this one a quiz question. Eight times in MLB history, a player hit extra inning game tying and game winning HR's in the same game, including Curtis Granderson a few days ago. One player did it against the Mets. Who?

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[Guest cooby]

Larry jones

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cooby wrote: Larry jones

Wrong player. Right team.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Andruw? (no idea really, just going with Braves clue)

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d'Kong76 wrote: Andruw? (no idea really, just going with Braves clue)

No. I'll post the answer in about five or ten minutes.

[Ceetar]

Brian Johnson

[Edgy MD]

Brian Jordan

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The answer is Ralph Garr, who, on May 17, 1971 tied the game in the bottom of the 10th with a HR off of Tom Seaver after Donn Clendenon gave the Mets a one-run lead with a HR of his own in the top of that frame. Garr then won the game two innings later with a solo HR off of Ron Taylor.


http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL197105170.shtml

I'll bet that Chief Knock-A-Homa was quite pleased at the end of that game.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Someone should start a Mets trivia archive thread so when the conversation
goes stale at one's next cocktail party you can whip out your phone and perk
things up a bit.

(I can barely 'see' Lasorda in that image. Koufax and Craig just look like very
young images of themselves but I don't really see Tommy.)

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d'Kong76 wrote: Someone should start a Mets trivia archive thread so when the conversation goes stale at one's next cocktail party you can whip out your phone and perk things up a bit. (I can barely 'see' Lasorda in that image. Koufax and Craig just look like very young images of themselves but I don't really see Tommy.)

You mean the image quality is so-so or that you see it but to your eyes it doesn't resemble Lasorda?

[Guest d'Kong76]

Just from a recognizable thing and my eyes, I don't remember seeing a lot of
old pictures of him so maybe that part of it.
[fimg=450:1y9seok2]http://baseballhall.org/sites/default/files/styles/header_image_1800_w/public/Lasorda%20Tom%202600-68WTa_HS__NBL.jpg?itok=f2mxlm2n[/fimg:1y9seok2]
He kinda looks like ceetar, actually. haha

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Twenty-two New York Giants remain with us, including the two who became New York Mets -- Willie Mays and Eddie Bressoud. The other surviving big fellas:

Foster Castleman
Joe Margoneri
Joe Amalfitano
Bill White
Red Schoendienst
Al Worthington
Ron Samford
Johnny Antonelli
Jackie Brandt
Ozzie Virgil Call Your Sister
Gil Coan
Harvey Gentry
Wayner Terwilliger
Pete Burnside
Daryl Spencer
Windy McCall
Billy Gardner
Ray Crone
Roy Wright
Mike McCormick

Three major league managers (Gardner, Schoendienst, Amalfitano), one Cy Young winner (McCormick), one who would have won one had it been invented (Antonelli), a league president (White), and two immortalized in The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book.

Of course a ballplayer with a name like this is never going to amount to anything. If you have a name like an orthodontist, you're going to play like an orthodontist. I mean, where's the chance for a colorful nickname here? Foster "Night Train" Castleman? Foster "Big Daddy" Castleman? Not on your life.

Everybody remembers Wayne Terwilliger. But nobody can remember exactly why. Wayne was the perfect utility man. He couldn't hit his hat size, but he could field every position. He wouldn't help you out very much, but he wouldn't embarrass you either. He had a good disposition, was always sober, and liked to pitch batting practice -- in other words, a manager's dream. He also looked like a utility man -- he had a utility man's face, a utility man's build, and a utility man's outlook on life. And certainly no one could argue the fact that he had a utility man's name. He always looked to me like the sort of guy you might send for to unplug a drain in a large apartment house.

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d'Kong76 wrote: [fimg=450]http://baseballhall.org/sites/default/files/styles/header_image_1800_w/public/Lasorda%20Tom%202600-68WTa_HS__NBL.jpg?itok=f2mxlm2n[/fimg]

That's the actual B&W photo that was colorized on Lasorda's baseball card.

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G-Fafif wrote: Twenty-two New York Giants remain with us, including the two who became New York Mets -- Willie Mays and Eddie Bressoud.

Antonelli came close to becoming a Met.

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batmagadanleadoff wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Twenty-two New York Giants remain with us, including the two who became New York Mets -- Willie Mays and Eddie Bressoud. Antonelli came close to becoming a Met.

That's right. Must've broken Mrs. Payson's heart.

Didn't realize until just having looked it up that Johnny managed in the Met system (or chain, as Topps liked to say) for seven seasons.

[MFS62]

Not only do I remember Wayne Terwilliger, but I remember that his nickname was "Twig".
Later

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In Mets "thank you, fans" video, TC is wearing his Spring Training jersey. Kelly Johnson's alone in wearing the blue alternate top. Jon Niese is in a t-shirt and appears happy.

I may be going out on a limb, but I'm guessing they may have shot those parts many months -- as many as 12 -- ago.

Reyes specifically expresses joy over being back in NY. Familia closes it out...but David puts a capper on it, with his unbiased assessment re Mets fans and their status versus other of the world's fans. He got the biggest cheer yesterday.

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You're always there every pitch of every game. Thank you #Mets fans for an amazin' 2016 regular season at Citi Field. #LGM

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Mets fans who first entered High School this school season most likely never saw the Mets play a game live at Shea Stadium. For them, 1990's players, like Todd Hundley and Butch Huskey are part of the ancient history that occurred before they were even born.

Time is flying.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Major League caps will have little New Era logos on the side starting next season. I don't like this.

[TransMonk]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Major League caps will have little New Era logos on the side starting next season. I don't like this.

BOO!!!!!![/bigpurple]

[Ceetar]

Don't the uniforms have Majestic on them? not much different.

[Guest d'Kong76]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Mets fans who first entered High School this school season most likely never saw the Mets play a game live at Shea Stadium. For them, 1990's players, like Todd Hundley and Butch Huskey are part of the ancient history that occurred before they were even born. Time is flying.

Thanks, like my bout with mid-life crisis needs online stimuli of a Met-ly nature!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Ceetar wrote: Don't the uniforms have Majestic on them? not much different.

They do. And the socks have a logo and the undershirts have a logo and obviously the shoes. Uniwatch noted the caps were probably the last piece of the uniform that didn't have a logo. Still don't like them.

[Fman99]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Mets fans who first entered High School this school season most likely never saw the Mets play a game live at Shea Stadium. For them, 1990's players, like Todd Hundley and Butch Huskey are part of the ancient history that occurred before they were even born. Time is flying.

We made sure Fboy got in a game at Shea, age 3, so that he could someday be the oldest living Met fan to have attended a game at Shea. Not just any game, either.

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Fman99 wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Mets fans who first entered High School this school season most likely never saw the Mets play a game live at Shea Stadium. For them, 1990's players, like Todd Hundley and Butch Huskey are part of the ancient history that occurred before they were even born. Time is flying. We made sure Fboy got in a game at Shea, age 3, so that he could someday be the oldest living Met fan to have attended a game at Shea. Not just any game, either.

George Vecsey schlepped his infant daughter (who grew up to be a sportswriter herself) to the Polo Grounds in 1963 so she could say she'd been there.

[TransMonk]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Major League caps will have little New Era logos on the side starting next season. I don't like this.

It seems as if this may actually start in the postseason:

http://www.mlbshop.com/catalog/product/Mens_New_York_Mets_New_Era_Royal_2016_Postseason_Side_Patch_59FIFTY_Fitted_Hat

[fimg=350]http://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_2594000/altimages/ff_2594156alt3_full.jpg&w=600[/fimg]

[Zvon]

TransMonk wrote: Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Major League caps will have little New Era logos on the side starting next season. I don't like this. BOO!!!!!![/bigpurple]

I very much third (& 4th) this. The side of a cap is reserved space for special events.

MLB logo is on the very back, a good place for it. They could put it above that and, although I still wouldn't like it, it wouldn't stop me from buying one. That shit should be inside the cap as far as I'm concerned. If the post season hats still have those on the side I will pass, just as a form of protest. If everyone did that they would re-think it post haste!

I have last years World Series cap. It's not like folks in the supermarket are going to run up to see which year it says. I'm covered until we see a cap that says WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS. Now if they stick that Little Era logo shit on the side of that hat I'm still going to want to protest, but I also will really want that cap. Bastages. They always get ya in the end.

Could this be the prelude of a slow change towards ads on unis?

[Guest d'Kong76]

Zvon wrote: Could this be the prelude of a slow change towards ads on unis?

They'll be like NASCAR wearin' billboards by 2030.