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Mike Leake. Menace to society and Mets hitters. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/29/mike-leake-pleads-guilty-to-lesser-charge-gets-30-hours-of-community-service-for-shirt-theft/ Who's that guy who pisses you off...on the Giants?

Lefty Specialist wrote: Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Did something bad happen at Curtis Granderson bobblehead night? Yup. Curtis Granderson was in the lineup. And they've doubled down with Curtis Granderson Poster Day on September 14 (probably not the ticket dept.'s idea), wherein the first 20,000 Curtis Granderson Posters thrown will be collected and disposed of by the Citi Field grounds crew.

"SUCK ON THIS FOR SHINJO!" Zeile allegedly dared Penny. And in the present day... Lagares-8 Granderson-9 Wright-5 Duda-3 d�Arnaud-2 den Dekker-7 Herrera-4 Flores-6 Niese-1

Effective storytelling and pretty good production for SNY, though the use of anachronistic footage and clips drives me crazy in documentaries like these. There's a picture of Doc from Spring Training 1993 passed off as 1984; an article from the Times in 1985 that was supposed to be from 1984; and Roger McDowell walking around with his 1987 road uniform on upside down in what is framed as 1986. Small stuff, and maybe not detectable to younger or less overly retentive viewers, but I find it sloppy. There was also a reference in the script to how "24 Mets were happy in 1986," but one, Doc, was fighting demons, et al. The implication is the Mets had a 25-man roster in 1986. As many of you will remember, the 24-man roster was the norm in 1986 and for several years to come, per the CBA. Maybe it would have taken too long to spit out an explanation or saying "23 Mets were happy" would have sounded weird. "Most Mets were happy, but one wasn't" would have sufficed. All of the above said, nice to see those montages of every hitter in creation (save maybe Chili Davis) succumbing to all that brilliance.

It is assumed the tickets VP was let go for lousy ticket sales, which positions the Mets as their usual punch line, but it hasn't been substantiated that was the case. It hasn't even been confirmed that it wasn't her idea to leave. It could be anything from philosophical differences on pricing to problems with Jeffy's Cheerios. I understand the Mets haven't exactly earned the benefit of anyone's doubt in off-field matters (and not too many in on-field matters), but I'm willing to wait for the discouraging details of what actually happened to leak out before LOL'ing at the Mets for this move.

The Binghamton media's got the Nimmo Fever. Nimmo earned Florida State League midseason All-Star honors while with St. Lucie before his promotion to Binghamton. Combined between the two levels, Nimmo this season has scored 97 runs, driven in 51 runs, hit 21 doubles, nine triples, 10 home runs and logged an on-base percentage of .396 to go along with a .429 slugging percentage. "We're very pleased with where Brandon is right now," DePodesta said in an email. "Since this is just his age 21 season, we're very happy that he has spent the second half of the season in AA and is already making the adjustments to succeed at that level. For a guy who didn't play with the amateur competition in somewhere like Florida or Southern California, he has been very quick to make adjustments at each and every level." Big things ahead Nimmo has just begun to tap into his power potential with added muscle this season on his 6-foot-3 frame. He has as many home runs this season as his previous seasons combined. B-Met manager Pedro Lopez has put Nimmo in the leadoff spot 41 times in 61 games, but he believes his future will include batting near the middle of the lineup. "I'm almost positive that's going to be his role whenever he gets to the big leagues," Lopez said. "... He's got some pop. He drive the ball to all fields." Now that he's no longer chasing big brother, Nimmo has has found other driving forces. "Now I'm chasing my personal dream of being a major-league baseball player," Nimmo said. "Once I got drafted it's all about leaving no regrets that I gave it everything that I had. I like to think that I'm not only making a name for myself, and I'm trying to uphold a reputation of my family — obviously I want the Nimmo name to be a well-known name and I want to honor my parents and my brother — but also just the fact that people hear Wyoming and they chuckle." Nimmo bristles at the idea that baseball does not count or is not played at the same level in Wyoming as in other parts of the country. "In Cheyenne, baseball continues to get bigger and bigger and kids dreams continue to get bigger and bigger," Lain said. "People follow him and not just in our program. People across the state follow Brandon." Mets fans all over the Northeast also follow Nimmo. On the road or at home, he does interviews and he stops to takes pictures and talk with folks who are eagerly awaiting his arrival in New York. Their expectations never seem to overwhelm him. He greets them all with a smile. Then again, it shouldn't be surprising considering Nimmo embraced his brother's mantle as the guy paving the way for an entire region of baseball players. "If anybody out there that's from where I am back in Wyoming — and I know that South Dakota is similar to that and North Dakota — if they have a dream that they want to be a professional baseball player, a major-league baseball player," Nimmo says, "I want to be one of those guys that broke through the barriers and said, 'If you work hard enough. If you make the sacrifices and have no regrets about what you do. You work as hard as you can, then dreams can come true.' "

It's an ESPN thing, which doesn't make it any less worthy than an MLB thing, but as true as it is -- Juan Lagares is the Defensive Player of a Generation -- it doesn't quite carry the same prestigious imprimatur as National League Rookie of the Month, an award Jacob deGrom earned that set Mets fans far and wide to asking, "What's that?" Reminds me baseball has two different well-recognized Comeback Player of the Year awards; in 2008, The Sporting News gave its love tap to Fernando Tatis, while MLB mistakenly snuggled with Brad Lidge. Nobody gives a damn about The Sporting News the way they used to, but they, of course, were right six years ago.

Herrera 2.5 Wright 1.5

983. Erik Goeddel

Post has story on Josh Edgin's injury, which includes a picture over a caption that reads "Josh Edgin". http://nypost.com/2014/08/31/elbow-hinders-mets-josh-edgin/ The picture is of Dana Eveland.

Goeddel first 62 since Elvin Ramirez. Rosario the first 68. Satin & Centeno hold steady at 13 & 36, respectively.

A six-way tie for 14th place was forged during the just-completed homestand among Anthony Recker, Travis d'Arnaud, Curtis Granderson, Chris Young, John Buck and Fernando Tatis, all of whom have hit 6 home runs as Mets at Citi Field. Marlon Byrd has 7 as a Met, 8 overall, after his home run in the wrong uniform Saturday night.

Recker 2.5 Gee 2.0 Flores 1.5 Herrera 1.0 Wright 1.0 Lagares 0.5 den Dekker 0.5 Nieuwenhuis 0.5 Eveland 0.5

Up to Binghamton for Eastern League playoffs.

The 7-2 loss to PHI should be dated August 30.

Herrera 1.0 den Dekker 0.5 Granderson 0.5 Eveland 0.5

Bartolo Colon is still a Met. Jerome Williams is apparently a Phillie. Put them together and you have Curtis Granderson Bobblehead Night for the first 20,000. Don't all rush the gates at once.

deGrom 4.5 Lagares 1.0 Campbell 1.0 d'Arnaud 1.0 den Dekker 0.5 Flores 0.5 Familia 0.5 Mejia 0.5 Wright 0.5

Streak officially at an end, the gap being 71 games from Taylor Teagarden to Dilson Herrera, sixth-longest in Mets history. All about it here.

The future is now-ish: Lagares, cf Granderson, rf Wright, 3B Duda, 1b D'Arnaud, c Den Dekker, lf Herrera, 2b Flores, ss deGrom, p Dilson Herrera will wear No. 2.

Probable Starting Second Basemen in this battle to avoid the basement, which Philadelphia holds by a half-game...though the Mets have been charging downward: PHI: Chase Utley (born 12.17.1978) NYM: Dilson Herrera (born 3.3.1994) Mets have the advantage on youth. Phillies retain an edge in sucking in general. Also, David Buchanan takes on Jacob deGrom in the pitching department.

Niese 2.5 Duda 0.5 Campbell 0.5 d'Arnaud 0.5 Torres 0.5

Tonight the streak reached 70. Tomorrow the streak likely ends. Murphy to DL, Herrera called up.

Wheeler 3.5 Flores 1.5 EYoung 0.5 Granderson 0.5 Lagares 0.5 Carlyle 0.5 Torres 0.5

With every chance to be September 1977 Dave Kingman. Or, better yet, 2008 Pudge Rodriguez.