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SNY promo is touting next game as "Brandon Nimmo and the Mets" taking on the Rockies. Wasn't expecting that.

Nimmo LF Cabrera 2B Frazier 3B Flores 1B Conforto CF Mesoraco C Bautista RF deGrom P Rosario SS Bruce a late scratch for hip soreness.

Asdrubal drops to fifth, behind Albies, Baez, Gennett and Joe Panik, who was out for quite a while with an injury. But he's still the only Met appearing among the leaders at any position.

Fman99 wrote: Turned the game off, down 3-1 in the ninth and showing their usual zero heart, and because dinner was just getting put on the table. Had you stayed tuned, it might have gone something like this.

cooby wrote: I can't believe these two are the winners I've had that feeling about other elections.

The climb up the stairway to heaven has only one logical destination: all the way to the top. Either way, the Cult of Mullin prevails.

In the TV movie, The Prince of Central Park, aired on CBS, June 17, 1977, T.J. Hargrave as J.J. -- a kid who, with his sister, runs away from home to escape an abusive foster mother -- wears a plastic Mets batting helmet both in the film and on the cover of the video release. No doubt, given the date, he was extra shaken up by the instability in the Mets family that week.

1,057. Chris Beck

Wilmer says hello, Ty says bye.

So bad that the 2018 Mets are the third club in franchise history to fall from at least ten games over .500 to at least three games under .500 in the same season, joining the 1991 Mets and 2010 Mets in this particular lane of infamy. The 2018 Mets raced high above .500 sooner and plunged uncomfortably beneath it sooner than their unfortunately descending predecessors. That's what 15-28 will do immediately after you've started 12-2. Honorable (?) mention to the 1971 and 1976 Mets who turned similar spikes into precipitous in-season drops. In their cases, the final record didn't suffer nearly so much. Details here. Update: The 2018 Mets are the first Mets to have risen to at least Ten Games Over .500 and fall to at least Nine Games Under .500 later that same season.

The Mets provide the opposition for the Dodgers in the May 2, 1964, episode of The Joey Bishop Show, a parallel universe version of The Dick Van Dyke Show if you've never seen it (except less warm and charming). The title of the episode is "Joey and the L.A. Dodgers," the premise being there's an exhibition game between the two teams, and Joey Bishop as Joey Barnes needs a guest on his variety series, since Tony Bennett took ill, and Joey did a stage show in Las Vegas with six of the world champs during the offseason...well, there ya go. Since they're in town, arrangements are made and they'll be over to the studio shortly after the game ends this afternoon. Except the Mets and Dodgers take their exhibition game (I don't know why it had to be an exhibition; the series is based in New York) through the 26th inning. According to the radio voice of Vin Scully, as Joey listens anxiously with time of the essence, Casey Stengel is sending up his final pinch-hitter Duke Snider. Snider whacks one deep to center, and it's about to go out, but Willie Davis makes a sensational catch. Fortunately, Joey's manager Larry Corbett (Corbett Monica) does a rain dance in Joey's apartment and Vin reports rain breaks out "at the ballpark" prior to the 27th inning. Appearing on the show within a show: Don Drysdale (he sings "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"), Ron Perranoski (he finishes it because Drysdale once again can't go all the way), Moose Skowron, future Met manager Frank Howard and the two Davises: Willie and future Met Tommy. The big number is the sextet and Joey doing a reworking of "High Hopes," that recounts how the Dodgers "embarrassed Maris" and "handled Mantle" in the World Series. Since the show is, as mentioned, New York-situated, it's great that the audience cheers the team that swept the MFYs. Shea was two weeks old when this episode aired but it is not mentioned by name. Also, Snider had been sold to the Giants prior to Opening Day, but that's showbiz.

Instinctively, I think of this as Donn Clendenon Day.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My idea is actually to revisit a handful of big scandals and black eyes but tell them though the perspective of a fan. As an added bonus I will hire Greg W Prince to write it for me I'm prepared to blurb at least, sight unseen. More than a 'by the numbers' recounting of all that's gone wrong across nearly six decades of foibles, flops and futility, Springer has found the sweet spot between lovable losers and nefarious nebishes and given us the whys and wherefores of what keeps holding the Mets back -- and what keeps Mets fans coming back for more, regardless of the latest thing to go Amazin'ly wrong.

Why yes, Chris Beck will wear No. 61.

Thread title refers to somebody else the Mets can't score on.

Martino with a nice job attempting to explain the best part of the video, Hallion's repeated use of the phrase, "Our ass is in the jackpot now!" https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/the-viral-terry-collins-video-actually-teaches-us-a-lot-of-inside-stuff-about-baseball/281072818

I like the way Terry Collins expressed himself.

Not the nickname of yore I would have thought to have trotted out at this time. (Ray's a sweetheart in real life.)

Conforto CF Frazier 3B Nimmo LF Cabrera 2B and not DL Bruce RF Mesoraco C Smith 1B and not AAA Rosario SS Wheeler

Only five players have played as Mets fifteen (or more) years after they first played as Mets. Their story -- as well as those of three who came close to qualifying for Club Quinceañera -- is here.

Nice story here by James Wagner in the Times regarding how announcers (broadcast and PA) deal with pronunciations. Howie Rose quoted within. Nothing about Jay-uh-reese, however.

Brandon lookin' so good in '76 that he could have been cast in Dazed & Confused.

Asdrubal is the only Met to show up among NL position leaders, currently placing 4th in the 2B race, well off the pace of the top three keystoners to date, Albies, Baez and Gennett.

Notes from the just completed mostly futile homestand (but with an inspiring finish): Conforto is alone in sixth place with 29. Cabrera has tied Murphy for eighth place with 27. Frazier has forged a four-way tie for 31st, alongside Turner, Barajas and Sheffield, with 5. Also, Frazier is the third ex-MFY with multiple Subway Series HRs for the Mets, joining Granderson and the aforementioned Sheffield.

And then there were seven, pending Cabrera's capacity to be carried along with a hamstring issue.