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That was Jonah Tong, at the Mets holiday party for kids today, in his elf costume, no less (Clay Holmes was Santa; Nolan McLean and Brandon Sproat also dressed up and helped out). Jonah is 22. One wonders how many cool things he’s done in his entire life that being a Met ranks merely among them. In any case, this quote was the first contemporary Met tidbit to make me smile in weeks, maybe months.
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Ty’s Tigers tenure, which yielded no MLB appearances, predated his initial Mets’ Cockiness. He was released in the summer of 2024, but didn’t land with another organization and was signed anew before the season was out. Technically two terms, but in practicality he never left.
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The other Young, à la the other Torres ten years ago, was Alex. Danny was kind of dependable before getting hurt. So it goes for Met relievers.
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After three relief appearances in each of the past two seasons, Ty Adcock is taking his talents to San Diego. My strongest memory of Ty is likely to be whatever Fman makes of Adcock.
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Cedric the Ray next year. Cedric the Disaster the last two months of this past year.
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Tim Harkness, who gave us The Tim Harkness Game in 1963, has died at age 87 https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196306260.shtml
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The well-regarded reliever acquired by the Mets only to inspire cynicism that every reliever we get sucks gained a new avatar in Helsley, who moves on to Baltimore. A few years ago, I was in a stream of sports consciousness conversation when somebody overheard ne mention Joe Pisarcik, and interjected, "Man, that guy was garbage." I don't care for that epithet, yet there's a good chance that will be more or less my reaction the next time I overhear the name Ryan Helsley. Man, that guy sucked.
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Nice Soto-centric counterpoint from Deesha Thosar, from just after the season. https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/how-juan-soto-impacted-teams-chemistry-his-first-season-mets
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Mike Puma reports Lindor and McNeil got into it after a loss in Philly in June, and that Lindor and Soto didn’t much warm to each other in the course of the year. Post subscription required for the whole thing, but that’s basically the crux.
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I appreciate your reading and taking it to heart. The Joe Musgrove Game, identifiable as it is (if for the wrong reasons), rose up the rankings for its infamy. Three years later, the business with the ear may be the only widely memorable element of that series from a Met perspective. The most recent Dodger series laid more non-competitive eggs than any postseason series the Mets have ever played. Given that the story coming out of 2024 was “wow, it was great we were in it” versus “can you believe we lost the NLCS?” — incredibly little wound-licking in real time — I really had nowhere to put them than at the bottom. One stomping would be noteworthy. Getting stomped three times in the first four games en route to a six-game loss sapped the juice out of the lot of them. Had I not written each of them individually directly after each game, I probably would have scrunched them together in one quickie paragraph.
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The full feature is here.
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Unintentional double post
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That was Nimmo to Gelbs ahead of the Phillies series that closed out the 2024 home slate, the finale of which was won in great part on Brandon’s Bob Seger home run (against the wind) off Zack Wheeler. A real culmination of his Met career to that point moment. Anybody else yelling at us to get our asses in the seats wouldn’t have carried the moral authority Brandon’s entreaty did. He’d been here long enough and knew what we guys wanted.
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Three “aye” votes here.
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Bart Shirley, a Met for 6 games in 1967, died on Tuesday in Corpus Christi, Tex., at age 85.
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Edwin Diaz is NL Reliever of the Year and second-team All-MLB. Juan Soto is first-team. Soto 3rd, Lindor 10th, Alonso 11th in MVP voting.
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Two fifth-place NL Rookie of the Year votes for Nolan McLean this year, who remains eligible for the award next year. Perhaps he will join Gregg Jefferies in receiving ROY support in two seasons.
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I met a few members of her family during the holiday season in 2022 at a Mets-themed event. They were quite excited to be bringing her a team logo ornament for her tree.
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Lorinda de Roulet, who owned the Mets after her mother Joan Payson died in 1975 and before selling to the group headed by Nelson Doubleday n 1980, has died at 95. https://newyorkmets.medium.com/rip-lorinda-linda-payson-de-roulet-8e902ae859c1
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Helluva night in the moment.
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Larry Burright, Met infielder in 1963 and 1964 (he came over from the Dodgers along with Tim Harkness for Bob L. Miller), has died at 88, passing away October 14 in Roseville, Ill. Singled to lead off the 1963 season at the Polo Grounds, though the Mets were already down, 2-0, in the bottom of the first, en route to losing, 7-0, and going 51-111. Larry’s final MLB game was Shea Stadium’s second. Became the Mets’ 12th-ever third baseman amid the franchise’s only 13-12 victory, in May of ’63. Never played the position in the bigs again.
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Sandy Sr. deserved a few spiritual Schaefer points for his defense of one of his players amid the madness of the John Maine no-hit bid ruined by Paul Hoover on September 29, 2007. From Mike Puma in the Post: https://nypost.com/2007/09/30/pulling-no-punches-2/
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Sandy Alomar, Sr., who played from the Mets in 1967, coached for them four decades later, and saw two sons suit up for his old team, passed away today in Salinas, Puerto Rico, just shy of his 82nd birthday. https://noticel.com/deportes/20251013/fallece-santos-alomar-padre-de-los-hermanos-roberto-y-sandy/
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Yet we never made a play for Jimmy Key.
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There are as many living 1962 Mets as there are living New York Baseball Giants.
