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deGrom 4.0 Duda 1.5 Wright 1.5 Granderson 1.5 Lagares 1.5

New York elects to remain active.

Long may he wave, and I don't mean at sliders outside the strike zone.

Ashie62 wrote: WOR should have hired Greg... Morning drive is still open.

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Wow!! ALL KINDS of love to G-FAFIF on the radio today. Way to go! Thanks! Write about 1966 Met Lou Klimchock, you never know who'll take notice. https://mobile.twitter.com/lfklimchock/status/488159227345522689

Such a fucking great game.

CYOUNG IS THE ONLY YOUNG WHO PLAYED. SPECIFY ANYWAY. Box. Campbell 2.0 CYoung 1.5 Murphy 1.0 d'Arnaud 1.0 Tejada 1.0 Nieuwenhuis 1.0 Torres 1.0 Mejia 1.0 Black 0.5

Juan Lagares, stirred by faint but palpable disconnect, enjoys a breakout game Friday night. "Ain't nobody trading me -- kapesh?" he told reporters following his three-hit performance versus the Marlins.

Wright 3.0 Wheeler 2.5 Duda 1.5 Lagares 1.0 Tejada 1.0 Nieuwenhuis 1.0

Colon 3.0 Wright 0.5

Centerfield wrote: Astros 7, Mets 1 http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=1869 Mets were going for the three game sweep (Seaver, Matlack, Koosman) but Jerry couldn't hold up his end of the bargain. Why this game? The wife of CPF poster Centerfield born on this date! My first game, too. HBT Mrs. CF!

Mets � Willets Point wrote: So after doing all that research, did you contact Baseball Prospectus? Yes, I did; the author says he plans to update the story.

Gee 4.0 d'Arnaud 2.5 Duda 0.5 Murphy 0.5 Mejia 0.5 Nieuwenhuis 0.5 Black 0.5 Wright 0.5 Abreu 0.5

Veryzer's passing means 1984 is the only pre-1990 Mets team that hasn't lost at least one member. Post-1989, 1997 (Cory Lidle) and 2006 (Jose Lima, Geremi Gonzalez) are the only teams whose complete roster remains intact.

Was relatively fixated on Tom Veryzer's hot start his one Met May. Was sorry to lose him so quickly then, very sorry he leaves us altogether now.

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deGrom 3.5 Granderson 1.5 Murphy 1.5 Wright 1.5 EYoung 1.0 Duda 1.0

BUT WAIT! From Roger Angell's April 1980 piece, "Sunshine Semester," in the New Yorker, Frank Cashen is quoted as such: "Now there's going to be a Mets way of doing things," he said. Knew I wasn't imagining it.

Tracked down what I was thinking of: May 1981, "A Team Grows In Queens" (I like the title I assigned it in memory better) by Geoffrey Stokes. Passage of note: Cashen had given minor league director Chris Kager the scope he'd previously been denied, and when the 100-odd Met farmhands arrived at the Payson complex for spring training, each would be handed a descendant of the original "Baltimore Catechism," a manual Cashen and Dalton had developed with the Orioles. Starting this spring, every player at every level in the Met system would know exactly what to do in each of 40-odd defensive "situations." These detailed instructions are any fan's browsing delight, but they may also spare Met fans the agony of watching an enemy runner sneak into scoring position on a bungled cutoff play. I take it that manual was sort of the defensive equivalent of the hitting regimen the current regime has mentioned a time or three. I wonder if it ever gained traction. For all we know it's been in place for 34 seasons...though based on recent rundown situations, probably not.

Ceetar wrote: second result in for "the Met way" (use the quotes) http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2012/04/14/project-met-way/ As I am not an official representative of Sterling Mets LLC, I'd say my random use of Met Way shouldn't be held against the author.

Somewhere in this very room from whence I type is an issue of Inside Sports with an article entitled "A Team Grows In Flushing" that expresses the sentiment that from now on (now being April 1981) there will be a Mets way of doing things...though I can't confirm "the Met Way" was uttered exactly.

Daniel Murphy: All-Star Without (Weekly) Borders. Must have his hot streaks from Saturday to Tuesday.

Schaefer PotW Awards to date: 13 Different Mets who have won them: 8 Total won by Mets' lone All-Star: 0 The system works!

Mystery writer A R Kennedy notes Lily, one of the main characters in her ongoing Nathan Miccoli series, is "a big Mets fan" and that "key scenes" occur at Citi Field.

Matsuzaka 2.0 Granderson 1.5 Wright 1.5 Tejada 1.5 Lagares 1.0 d'Arnaud 1.0 Torres 1.0 Campbell 0.5