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=G-Fafif post_id=8454 time=1556463923 user_id=55] Jerry Blevins is now a Brave.

Familia's back! Please clap. Hanhold, who we hardly knew, returns to Syracuse.

The player to be named later for Wilmer Font is Neraldo Catalina, 18, going to the Rays for Wednesday night's starting pitcher. Catalina is a righty, signed last year out of the Dominican, and has yet to pitch in a professional game. Will turn 19 next month. Is not clear if he is related to the Fucking Catalina Wine Mixer.

L.J. Mazzilli is a Long Island Duck.

Before the NBA became truly big time, the old Garden would host doubleheaders, with two out-of-town teams composing half of the bill. But baseball seems to be alone in presenting what we think of as doubleheaders.

There were a couple of the makeup variety last year. What's extinct is the scheduled single-admission twi-night doubleheader.

The Giants have picked up Aaron Altherr from the Phillies on waivers. Altherr made the final out of the 2016 Wild Card clinching game, lining out to a diving Michael Conforto in left.

Wilson back to IL with recurring left elbow soreness, Hanhold up. Familia expected to re-emerge tomorrow.

Rojas-SS Anderson-3B Castro-2B Walker-1B Cooper-RF Alfaro-C Ramirez-LF Berti-CF Alcantara-SP

McNeil LF J.D. Davis 3B Canó 2B Alonso 1B Conforto RF Rosario SS Nimmo CF Nido C deGrom RHP

Alonso's so strong he hits ‘em outta parks that ain't even there no more.

More likely: Jeff Wilpon is a motivational genius or the Marlins suck beyond belief?

Best home first inning in 40 years. They scored nine in the first in San Fran in 1988.

MFYs have seen Td'A play third and second and catch. They're gonna be triply psyched out.

Mets up 8-0, still batting in the first. Jeff Wilpon for MVP.

The Dodgers have sent Travis d'Arnaud to the Rays for whatever they've got gathering dust.

The airplane race was disappeared after 9/11.

I haven't been to a game this season yet, which is as long as I've gone without going since 2004. This doesn't make the proposition any more exciting.

What a season debut!

Matz goes on IL, Smith returns.

Matlack cover date indicates issue hit newsstands just as Mets were landing back in NY after losing Game Seven in Oakland.

Jose pulls off the capless look with aplomb. He grabs the final vote here.

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1078. Wilmer Font

Gonna go with cover over event in this case, despite CF's suggesting that anything that says Mets Win World Series is automatically awesome (which it is). Of course a magazine that features the Mets winning the World Series is not only special but rare, but the presentation is a touch underwhelming. I admire the specificity of capturing the aftermath of the big blow, but the excitement and enormity of this powerhouse team capturing the championship that nearly eluded them doesn't feel best summed up by Ray Knight high-fiving the batboy, Rich Gedman's dismay notwithstanding. Had the Red Sox put the Series away in five, they planned to feature the Lakers and Jack Nicholson as their cover subjects (for the NBA preview) and isolate the World Series result above the flag. Maybe they weren't prepared for the turn of events. I thought RIP CITY was a fantastic cover, hitting the mark in the moment as SI would, a la the Best Infield Ever treatment seven years before. The 2006 Mets were the 1986 Mets, Jr., at that stage and their surge was all about those five guys. "Captain Red Ass" was a daring choice for a coverline as well, prudish country that we are.