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Pedro Gomez, who covered baseball for ESPN, 58. https://www.espnfrontrow.com/2021/02/remembering-espn-sportscenter-reporter-pedro-gomez/https://www.espnfrontrow.com/2021/02/remembering-espn-sportscenter-reporter-pedro-gomez/

https://nypost.com/2021/02/07/mets-thought-they-had-reached-a-deal-with-trevor-bauer/https://nypost.com/2021/02/07/mets-thought-they-had-reached-a-deal-with-trevor-bauer/ Was Bauer's agent disingenuous or did the Dodgers simply outwork the Mets at the last minute? Queen Latifah is AGENT DISINGENUOUS ...coming up after the Super Bowl on CBS

“All right, H.B. If you'll play ball with me, I'll play ball with you.” —Darrin Stephens (Dick Sargent), “The Phrase is Familiar,” Bewitched, January 15,1970 (S. 6, E. 17) — as soon as he spouts this cliché (per Endora's spell), Darrin and the client to whom he's speaking are suddenly wearing Mets uniforms. Darrin's is No. 9, with the MLB patch from the 1969 season, à la J.C. Martin.

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, and Griffey too, but it's a Mets excursion. http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/1999/1213/231893.htmlSo close.

As long as they don't have to pay him a junior mint.

Hot numbers in the winter league yielded reheated interest for Juan's services in the Southern California market. Few new memories for Juan's semi-recidivist 2020 Mets return. Got doubled off as a pinch-runner. Caught three fly balls after staying/coming in for defense and of course wore one egregiously wrong number (87) before being assigned something closer to his 12 (15). Gosh, considering the man played three innings total, that's a lot of memories, or more of a concrete nature than the previous 15, Brian Dozier, generated. Baseball-Reference pegs Juan's eight-season career WAR at 12.4, indicating a bWAR love of defense. They gave him 0.1 for his three 2020 innings. By comparison, Ed Kranepool, in 18 seasons, posted a career bWAR of 4.3, as if 1,418 hits and forum-naming inspiration isn't analytically sound. Either way, good luck to Anaheim Juan, who approaches the American League two hits shy of 500. May it go better than it did for San Diego Juan.

Elvis Andrus traded from Rangers to A's for Khris Davis (prospects involved).

Resolution soon, reportedly by noon. Davidoff and Sherman: The Mets have put Trevor Bauer on the clock. The Post has learned that the Mets set a noon deadline Eastern time Friday for Bauer, the free-agent starting pitcher, to take or leave their offer that totals between $100 million and $110 million over three years. The package features opt-outs for Bauer after both 2021 and 2022. The proposal pays Bauer high salaries for the first two years — about $40 million each season — with a drop for 2023. With the Mets concerned that the Southern California native Bauer prefers the Dodgers, the other team in the mix for the reigning NL Cy Young winner, they felt compelled to press the right-hander for the decision one way or the other. https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/mets-set-deadline-for-trevor-bauer-decision-after-making-huge-offer/https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/mets-set-deadline-for-trevor-bauer-decision-after-making-huge-offer/

Bobby Jones (not the other Bobby Jones) always tried to conduct himself professionally, setting a good example for all you kids out there. He was also someone who kept his emotions in check on the mound. “That's something my dad instilled within me,” Jones said. “You never show your opponent that you're beat or you're beating them. You can have that fire inside. Just don't show that. People used to say they couldn't tell if I was up 10-0 or down 10-0. Against Atlanta, I gave up eight runs in the first inning, kicked a container of bubble gum in the air and it hit me in the face with the TV camera right there,” Jones said. It embarrassed me. I said that's not who I am and I've gotta be better than that. Kids are watching. I don't want them to see that.” New SABR Bio by Mark Simon: https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bobby-jones-2/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bobby-jones-2/

On the Metrospective podcast, Tim Britton of the Athletic describes knowing a Mickey situation existed pretty much from the start of Callaway's Met tenure (“whispers”) and that it was clear as 2018 progressed. His thought process about not having reported it indicates not really wanting to pursue the story — he rationalizes he reported on his being a bad manager and calling for his firing, therefore he was steering toward the merited conclusion independent of Callaway's creepiness. He gives a good explanation of why a reporter might not want go to an editor to complain about the creepiness: if you (presumably one of the harassed women) don't want to accept a manager's invitation to “get beers,” maybe you shouldn't be on this beat...and covering a Major League Baseball team is a plum assignment. The subject comes up around the 6:00 mark and goes for about eight minutes. (Available on other pod platforms if you don't subscribe to the Athletic.) https://theathletic.com/podcast/38-the-metrospective/?episode=136https://theathletic.com/podcast/38-the-metrospective/?episode=136

Felix Hernandez signs with the Orioles.

Kolten Wong signs with Milwaukee.

=ashie62 post_id=55365 time=1612360497 user_id=90] Art Howe was a Washington bench coach 2007-2008.

Wayne Terwilliger, who had been the oldest surviving New York Giant, 95 (leaving the living NYG roster at 11). The man managed past the age of 80. https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/mlb/texas-rangers/article248910134.htmlhttps://www.star-telegram.com/sports/mlb/texas-rangers/article248910134.html

Helluva thread from WaPo's Chelsea Janes.

Longtime reliever and 1979 world champion Grant Jackson, 78, per his Pirate teammate Omar Moreno.

But so impressed were Alderson and Fred Wilpon, the Mets' owner, after a lunch meeting with Callaway that they canceled a second round of interviews to concentrate on him. “The thing I want to emphasize is we weren't only looking for a manager, we were looking for a leader,” Alderson said. “There seemed to be a real consistency between Mickey's approach and our approach and what he was looking for in the way of managing, and what we were looking for in the way of a leader in the clubhouse. “That's a visceral reaction, not one that you can put down on a checklist, but to me that said everything.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/sports/baseball/mickey-callaway-mets-manager.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/sports/baseball/mickey-callaway-mets-manager.html

The Mets issue statements:

As if sucking at managing wasn't enough.

Not many Mets have been title characters in their own https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745726/West Wing episode.

Meanwhile, Joc Pederson signs with the Cubs.

Nolan Arenado heading for St. Louis.

We did life together for years... What a perfect Murph quote.

https://twitter.com/smatz88/status/1354932972529577987?s=21https://twitter.com/smatz88/status/1354932972529577987?s=21

Speak of the Monarch...