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Good late ‘90s times with Subway Series heroes Mlicki & Franco. https://youtu.be/DSpeWismKZwhttps://youtu.be/DSpeWismKZw https://youtu.be/kZfNgQvIb3ghttps://youtu.be/kZfNgQvIb3g

Would-be Met-Lovin' Big Shot: Perry Gershon, running to replace major league a-hole Congressman Lee Zeldin out east. Check out his color scheme and note his hat as you scroll down. https://www.perrygershon.com/https://www.perrygershon.com/ Fundraising email for the candidate from certified MLBS John Leguizamo features both gents in proper NY headgear. https://www.perrygershon.com/2020/06/20/note-john-leguizamo/https://www.perrygershon.com/2020/06/20/note-john-leguizamo/

60 games. 40 vs division. 20 vs counterpart other league division. Six Subway Series.

Spring Training, if you will, starts July 3. Players report no later than July 1.

Not mentioned by Britton, but as great a Gary Cohen call as there was, from June 11, 2005: Fastball driven in the air toward right-centerfield…chasing back is Finley…on the track, reaches out…CAN'T GET IT! Kicks it away! It's rolling toward the corner! Anderson around second! He's on his way to third! Finley's tracked it down! Anderson is being…WAVED AROUND! He's comin' to the plate…the relay throw…he slides…SAFE! It's an inside-the-park-home run! And it ties the game! Marlon Anderson with an inside-the-park home run…he is shaken up…Jose Molina arguing the call, Mike Scioscia out as well, but Marlon Anderson has tied the game at two and two with an inside-the-park home run. Finley tried to field it on the warning track, kicked it toward the corner, and Anderson came all the way around ahead of the relay throw by Adam Kennedy…Anderson still down on his knees as Mike Herbst and Willie Randolph look after him, but with his FIRST home run as a New York MET, Marlon Anderson has tied the game, and as he gets to his feet, he gets a ROUSING ovation from the crowd at Shea Stadium!

An episode from 2019. You read that right. https://youtu.be/jW9xHOyVLughttps://youtu.be/jW9xHOyVLug

Mike McCormick, the first National League Cy Young winner (in 1967, when the award was split in two), 81. Was, for years, the youngest-living New York Giant. Suffered from Parkinson's.

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SNY replaying 2000 NLDS vs SFG this week, starting tonight at 7:30. Thursday 10 PM MLBN showing a Game Four 2000 NLCS vs STL (the one with all the doubles wherein Shea shook like never before).

Jeff makes like Republica and swears, “Baby, we're ready to go.” https://nypost.com/2020/06/11/jeff-wilpon-four-or-five-suitors-interested-in-buying-mets/https://nypost.com/2020/06/11/jeff-wilpon-four-or-five-suitors-interested-in-buying-mets/ “The team will have some kind of transaction, I can't tell you exactly what it's going to be and how it's going to look,” Wilpon told the UJA-Federation of New York, a Jewish philanthropic organization, according to Bleacher Report. “But we're working toward a transaction and there's four or five suitors that are out there to do something with and [there's] a bunch of philanthropic planning and family planning that my dad and my uncle want to do, and that's totally fine.”

Whither https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/06/what-will-happen-to-the-incredible-memorabilia-at-foleys.htmlFoley's balls?

http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2020/06/11/a-stud-with-no-name/Memories of Claudell Washington.

Denard Span has announced his retirement.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Large/Baseball/85/85-23441RepFr.jpg> In a way he was an early-day Richard Hidalgo. Short-term Met with an impressive home-run feat. Hidalgo crossed my mind, too. Those unrumored power hitter pickups are always a boost to morale. As evidenced by Claudell getting a 1981 Mets card, it seemed he'd stick around, at least until Ted Turner swooped in.

Lonnie Wheeler, co-author to the stars, notably with Mike Piazza on Long Shot. “In his sixties,” according to his obit. https://www.wvxu.org/post/lonnie-wheeler-cincinnati-sportswriter-and-author-has-died#stream/0https://www.wvxu.org/post/lonnie-wheeler-cincinnati-sportswriter-and-author-has-died#stream/0

Claudell Washington, who hit three homers in one game for the Mets forty years ago this month, has died at 65.

Ryan O'Rourke, who pitched a few innings for the 2019 Mets, has announced his retirement via tweet.