Benjamin Grimm

Yes. His Marlins contract runs through 2017, and the Rockies are still on the hook for paying most of his 2017 salary. The Mets will have Jose for the major-league minimum.

I guess we missed this, but earlier this season Terry Collins passed Bobby Valentine to become the all-time leader in losses by a Mets manager: Terry Collins 488 Bobby Valentine 467 Joe Torre 420 Davey Johnson 417 Casey Stengel 404 Gil Hodges 309 Yogi Berra 296 Dallas Green 283 Willie Randolph 253 Wes Westrum 237 Jerry Manuel 213 Art Howe 186 Bud Harrelson 129 George Bamberger 127 Jeff Torborg 115 Joe Frazier 106 Frank Howard 64 Roy McMillan 27 Salty Parker 7 Mike Cubbage 4 Terry has now managed 963 Mets games. Only Davey Johnson and Bobby Valentine have managed more. If Terry makes it 41 games into the 2017 season he'll take sole possession of first place. Davey Johnson 1,012 Bobby Valentine 1,003 Terry Collins 963 Joe Torre 709 Gil Hodges 649 Yogi Berra 588 Casey Stengel 582 Willie Randolph 555 Dallas Green 512 Jerry Manuel 417 Wes Westrum 380 Art Howe 323 Bud Harrelson 274 George Bamberger 208 Joe Frazier 207 Jeff Torborg 200 Frank Howard 116 Roy McMillan 53 Salty Parker 11 Mike Cubbage 7 Jeurys Familia has moved into fifth place on the Mets all-time saves list. If he saves four of the Mets final nine games this season he will claim fourth place all to himself. (And he'll help the Mets postseason hopes by quite a bit!) 1. John Franco 276 2. Armando Benitez 160 3. Jesse Orosco 107 4. Billy Wagner 101 5. Jeurys Familia 98 6. Tug McGraw 85 7. Roger McDowell 84 8. Francisco Rodriguez 83 9. Neil Allen 69 10. Skip Lockwood 65 11. Braden Looper 57 12. Randy Myers 56

I know that I never want to see Doug Sisk in a game ever again.

As a reminder, the Cards are in Chicago today, so it will be a gay dame with a 2:20PM ET start. Leake vs. Arrieta. Again, SF plays obscenely late (10:40PM ET). You know something? It's much easier to find pictures of Cubs fans than of Padres fans. Rooting hard for the Cubs today. Hoping to have reason to root hard against them in two weeks.

If the Mets manage to fight their way to the World Series, it will be their most improbable pennant. Even more than 1973.

Edgy MD wrote: The real problem I had was Terry going to the guys he had taxed over the previous four days, and not giving the Hendus and the Robleses a chance at their own inning or two, instead of having to bail out the gassed front-liners. I know. What are the chances that we can get eight innings out of Ynoa tonight? Pretty unlikely, I'm sure, but it certainly would be a big help.

e-mail from the Mets wrote: The following potential 2016 Postseason games at Citi Field will be included in this presale: 2016 National League Wild Card 2016 NLDS Home Game 1 2016 NLDS Home Game 2 2016 NLDS Home Game 3 There's virtually no chance that there will be a third home game for the Mets in the NLDS. The only possible way is if the Mets win the NL East and finish with a better record that the NL West winner as well. If the Mets do make it to the NLCS as the wild card team, Home Games 1 and 2 will be played at Citi Field on Monday and Tuesday, October 10 and 11. The Wild Card game would be on a Wednesday. If any of the games fell on a weekend I'd take a shot at getting tickets, but I can't realistically get to Citi Field for a weekday night game, so I'll pass. (Not that I would have been likely to get tickets anyway.)

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What really sucks about that is we're stuck with the Philadelphia announcers for 7 of the last 10 games.

Is it time to try to coax Craig Swan out of retirement?

Bruce sits yet again. I like Rivera playing each day. Hurry back, Wilmer. When is that last time Jay Bruce played? He's actually been playing fairly often, appearing in more games than not:

I don't know about musically, but I think she has plenty of otherwise.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Cast your vote! Bumping this to the current page.

I'll feel much better about 2017 if Cespedes is part of the team. The Mets can go cheap at second base next year (letting Walker walk) and they'll save another $12 million if Bruce gets cut loose. I'd like them to use that money to get a yes from Cespedes.

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Only if his catcher's name is Steve Canyon.

Or, some insurance runs would be nice.

It's not like THAT'S never happened before.

Zvon wrote: I never really thought he was sexy or good looking. He looks like an over-sized dim witted pixie to me. I never got it either but what do I know?

It's over in Denver and the Cardinals have lost. At least we can be assured that today won't be the total disaster that yesterday was.

Yeah! And so is botulism!

He's become one of my favorite 2016 Mets.

The Post does a nice job of explaining what would happen: If the Mets are in a three-way tie for the two wild card spots … The three teams choose or receive A, B and C designations, determined by the tiebreakers enumerated above. It is assumed the Cardinals and Mets, owning the head-to-head edge over the Giants, would choose the designations that give them two chances to make the postseason. In that case, on Monday, Oct. 3, the Cardinals (team A) would host the Mets (team in the first game. The winner of the game advances to the playoffs as the host team in the Wild Card Game. On Tuesday, Oct. 4, the loser of that game would travel to face the Giants (team C) in San Francisco. The winner of that game earns the second wild card and becomes the road team in the Wild Card Game the following day. So here’s the most dramatic scenario that conceivably awaits the Mets: They close the regular season on Oct. 2 in Philadelphia, and it results in a three-way wild-card tie. They play in St. Louis on Oct. 3 — and lose. They play in San Francisco on Oct. 4 — and win. They play in St. Louis again on Oct. 5 for the Wild Card game. I'm assuming that the October 3 and 4 games would be officially regular season games, which means that the Mets (or Giants or Cardinals) could potentially have a 164-game season.