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Scapegoating starts early, as Nats fired pitching coach Derek Lilliquist yesterday.

Both Newsday and News back pages could have appeared in 1994's The Paper as examples of what a movie thinks a tabloid back page looks like.

Post's hed told the story best. Newsday, as usual, is indirect. News's pun was secondary to historic performance.

The Daily News was quite the stickler for "goodby". June 1, 1987: The News breaks the story that the Mets were about to sign Tom (no photo available). June 6 he's in uniform for the first time since 1983, posing on the dugout steps with Doc Gooden, who returned to action to cheers the night before. Both of them were smiling. Less than three months later, Dick Young dropped dead.

=nymr83 post_id=8962 time=1556827716 user_id=54] =G-Fafif post_id=8950 time=1556822596 user_id=55] Trying to figure out how to distribute the other four Schaefer points.

He was home in Connecticut thinking his career was colluded into retirement. The Mets didn't sign him until early June.

Seaver stuck with the big club throughout his two-week June comeback attempt, so there would have been no detour to Florida.

Noah becomes the seventh Met starter to win a 1-0 game while driving in the only run. The others were Jerry Koosman and Don Cardwell in the doubleheader of legend in 1969; Buzz Capra in 1972; Ray Sadecki in 1974; Nino Espinosa in 1977; and Zack Wheeler in 2018. Kooz, Ray, Nino and Noah all completed their shutouts. Only Syndergaard, you may have heard, homered.

Trying to figure out how to distribute the other four Schaefer points.

=41Forever post_id=8916 time=1556817922 user_id=69] =bmfc1 post_id=8915 time=1556817431 user_id=73] =G-Fafif post_id=8907 time=1556815466 user_id=55] Nimmo kinda sucks right now, doesn't he?

With Zack Wheeler's long ball Tuesday night, Mets pitching staffs of the 2010s have now outhomered the Mets pitching staffs of all other Metsian decades. 1962-1969: 7 1970-1979: 9 1980-1989: 14 1990-1999: 13 2000-2009: 3 2010-2019: 15 That's 61 home runs in all, matching Roger Maris in 1961 and every Met going in 1980. Learn more about the decennial phenomenon (and enjoy a modest oral history thereof) http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/04/24/power-pitchers-of-the-2010s-a-modest-oral-history/here. Syndergaard's second of the season and sixth of his career raises the 2010s total to 16 and the lifetime power pile to 62. Eat your heart out, the late Roger Maris.

DH is for suckers.

In the inset, evidence of the Lee Mazzilli cover from the Sunday News Magazine, June 10, 1979, yielded by a Google search that led to (subscription-only) newspapers.com. http://i64.tinypic.com/2cqegs1.jpghttp://i64.tinypic.com/2cqegs1.jpg

Nimmo kinda sucks right now, doesn't he?

=seawolf17 post_id=8903 time=1556813932 user_id=91] At a quick glance, April 2019 appears to be the first full month without a new Met since July 2014.

I like that Seaver and Carter are both cocked and loaded. I also like that Seaver in the New York Sports cover is wearing a jersey he'll never wear in actual competition, as the home racing stripes debuted on his back 4/5/1983. Cooperative of him to pose. Carlos looks happier to be here. Such a handsome man, yet seems to get dropped in the middle of some wanting covers. I've always loved that New York Mag cover. Great story, too, in which Joe Klein refers to the prospective Mets-Red Sox clash as a Subway Series of the Soul. Hard to believe the 1986 Mets didn't nab a cover of this nature in their hometown's weekly until September. Felt overdue by then. Feels timeless now.

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When in doubt, Seaver. It never occurred to me, when I bought this magazine as a kid and later when I decided I had to have it again and plucked it off eBay, that he was fielding and not pitching. That makes this a little different from other Tom in Action shots, thus making it more appealing. I'd love to love Pedro and Carlos getting all that TSN attention, but as with the New York cover earlier, geez, those Spring Training togs are dreadful. "Go inside and change into your actual Mets uniforms." Ah, Gary, cooperating with the photographer as always. "Goodby" looks like Nicholas Nickelby, and that doesn't rhyme with goodbye.

These catchers may only produce in spurts, but boy are their stories marketed well.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Netflix series based on this novel coming. 36 2-hour episodes per season They keep recommending it to me just because I watched that Omir Santos documentary, "A Short, Compact Swing".

If Templeton's lift is kept waitin', it ain't elevatin'.

That's some slow reading right there.

Chad ochoseis wrote: I'll go with Ramos. I don't know jack about the subtleties of catching, but the odds of DeGrom, Syndergaard, Wheeler, and Familia all crapping out at once randomly are slim, and the catcher is the one common thread. And he's been killing us with his bat. And he's slow even by catcher's standards. This thought has been festering in me since Opening Day, when something seemed a little off about deGrom. Jake's next start, caught by Nido, was as good as any he's ever had. Then he was saddled with d'Arnaud before going back to Ramos and nothing's been right since. We already know Noah needs to be handled with care, and I don't know that Ramos is the guy for him, either. The guy's been around, so this is probably projecting, but I sort of wish every starter could have his own personal catcher of choice. The torpidity of Ramos on the basepaths is amazing. He'll get his base hits when he's locked in, but every ground ball feels like a double play, even with nobody on in front of him.

Agree these are all terrific covers. I really want to love the Pedro treatment, and I do from a graphic standpoint, but man, that 2005 Spring Training get-up is unfortunate. Then again, it does represent the Mets' attempt to make themselves over (again) during that period when being the Mets was never enough for them. I'd never seen this Sunday News magazine cover (it's possible I did when it came out but I don't remember it). That is a great reflection of what they were coming off of as the new season was coming into focus. Teams defending titles always have to "put it behind us" in quest of next year, but this picture evokes the song first sung by former Spinners lead vocalist G.C. Cameron on the Cooley High soundtrack (and later made better-known by Boyz II Men): it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday. The 1969 achievement just hung over the 1970 season -- and the entire decade to follow -- like a friendly shadow. And you got all that as a bonus to your Dondi, your Blondie and your Gasoline Alley. My gosh, I loved the Sunday News, even when the magazine was long gone. The 1990-1991 strike that temporarily eliminated that part of my weekly routine felt like such a void. I didn't give up on the print edition until a couple of years ago because I so loved the ritual. Tug and Danny's bullpen cart almost looks like it has flipped its bill up the way ballplayers would do when they wanted to be wacky. Definitely adds to its cachet (though throughout this, I've had a hard time squaring a weekly newspaper in the context of magazines -- I'm glad these images are part of the sweep of history we're considering, but in my mind, The Sporting News isn't a magazine). Whatever one's thoughts are on the racing stripes, they always looked good in pitching action shots at Shea like the one that graces SI. After seeing so many of them in the Derby, I'm becoming convinced they were partly responsible for lowering Doc's ERA by a couple of tenths of a point. With respect for each, I have to go with Darling. It's a classic look all around.

I learned from the Athletic's Tim Britton that the Reds have never had a Cy Young winner, which makes sense if you stop to think about it, but still. Closest to hardware? No. 41 in strike-sundered 1981.