Benjamin Grimm

His daughter married George Jefferson's son.

I wonder if he'll make that last start. He has his 20 wins, and he threw 128 pitches today. I wouldn't be surprised if Terry sat him. (Or at least pulled him after five innings.)

Dickey now has the 12th-best season strikeout total in Mets history: 1. 1971 Tom Seaver 289 2. 1970 Tom Seaver 283 3. 1984 Dwight Gooden 276 4. 1985 Dwight Gooden 268 5. 1973 Tom Seaver 251 6. 1972 Tom Seaver 249 7. 1975 Tom Seaver 243 8. 1991 David Cone 241 9. 1976 Tom Seaver 235 10. 1990 David Cone 233 11. 1990 Dwight Gooden 223 12. 2012 R. A. Dickey 222

Frayed Knot wrote: You never forget your first time. Mine was Tom Seaver, last game of the 1971 season.

Box score Dickey 4 Wright 3 Murphy 2 Parnell 1

This doesn't seem to be going according to plan. At least R.A. still has a start coming against the lowly Marlins.

A team with better hopes for 2013 would have a different bird-in-hand/bird-in-bush perspective than a team further away from contention. The Mets, for example, would be foolish to trade a young studly outfielder (if they had one) for a 38-year-old pitcher, even one who was a Cy Young candidate. But a team with a few young studly outfielders that feels like they were a pitcher away from making the 2012 playoffs could very well see things differently.

I hope he stays too. My point was only that it would be better to trade Dickey than Harvey, even if Dickey brings back less.

That sounds like a plan!

Dickey's 2013 will be more valuable to another team (a team more likely to contend than the Mets are) than it will be to the Mets. If you trade him, you're selling high. Harvey is more likely to contribute to a contending Mets team, if not in 2014 than in 2016 or 2017. (Let's hope it doesn't take that long.) Even if you can get more for Harvey, and you probably can, he's someone you'll need to replace down the road. Harvey's 2015 is more likely to be better than Dickey's 2015.

Voting for the first two games of the current Pittsburgh series will close on Friday morning. Schaefer POTG 9/25/12 - Pirates 10, Mets 6 Schaefer POTG 9/26/12 - Mets 6, Pirates 0 SCHAEFER METS PLAYER OF THE WEEK Week ending April 14: Jon Niese, 6.63 points. Week ending April 21: Mike Pelfrey, 7.85 points. Week ending April 28: Lucas Duda, 8.00 points. Week ending May 5: Johan Santana, 5.71 points. Week ending May 12: David Wright, 8.95 points. Week ending May 19: David Wright, 6.76 points. Week ending May 26: David Wright, 6.66 points. Week ending June 2: R. A. Dickey, 10.51 points. Week ending June 9: Scott Hairston, 6.35 points. Week ending June 16: R. A. Dickey, 5.67 points. Week ending June 23: Chris Young, 6.81 points. Week ending June 30: Johan Santana, 7.03 points. Week ending July 7: David Wright, 7.65 points. Week ending July 14: Ruben Tejada, 3.42 points. Week ending July 21: David Wright, 7.10 points. Week ending July 28: Ike Davis, 9.24 points. Week ending August 4: R. A. Dickey, 7.73 points. Week ending August 11: R. A. Dickey, 5.07 points. Week ending August 18: Jon Niese, 9.42 points. Week ending August 25: R. A. Dickey, 8.84 points. Week ending September 1: Ike Davis, 9.65 points. Week ending September 8: Jason Bay, 4.85 points. Week ending September 15: Daniel Murphy, 7.24 points. Week ending September 22: R. A. Dickey, 8.04 points.

Davis 5.5 Lewis 0.5 Mejia 2.5 Thole 0.5 Wright 1

Hefner 5 Tejada 2 Torres 0.75 Murphy 0.75 Wright 0.75 Hairston 0.75

Yeah, he's been having back problems.

Strange how they sometimes include the players' first names and sometimes don't. It doesn't seem to be for space considerations: NORM CASH and AL KALINE don't have a whole lot of letters between them.

You're right; this is my first card that's not from the 1970s. I think the card that this was based on was from 1966, but I'm not certain of that.

Hampson 1 Tejada 1.5 Turner 1.5 Wright 2.5

I was looking through some old Mets yearbooks that I have, and I found this oddity. How is it that nobody's ever noticed it before?

Isn't it up to Ike to decide how observant he wants to be? I'm sure if he asked out for religious reasons Terry would let him sit.

I don't even remember last year's final home game. I'm still stuck on the final home games from 2007 and 2008.