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Quiet year for the Hicksville Hacker, but he'll be continuing it in the Arizona Fall League.

He conceived a great April and his wife gave birth over the next four months. Caught Harvey very well.

The man who definitively answered one-third of the infamous question, "What outfield?" with production, professionalism and panache. More or less won that makeup game in Colorado by his lonesome on both sides of the ball.

"Beast of Byrd 'n' other ex-Phillies"?

Wheeler 3.5 Byrd 1.5 Brown 0.5 Flores 0.5 d'Arnaud 0.5 Torres 0.5

Game that proves life goes on, already in progress. Scoreless middle of second.

dgwphotography wrote: This is just wrong on so many levels... To be fair, he was trying to go incognito.

The strangest part is that Mike Francesa had a scoop.

Meet the Mets isn't just a song -- it's a horse! Running at Saratoga of late, I hear (and not all that swiftly).

themetfairy wrote: Hawk has been married since 1997 but has a son who's playing college basketball already At first I couldn't figure out how Niese could be old enough to have a son who's playing college BBall.... Mrs. Hawkins refers to LaTroy as "Hawk". The Nieses kept their noses out of this show.

The current Mets Insider airing intermittently over the next two weeks on SNY is Wifeypalooza. Interviews with Missuses Hefner, Hawkins, Rice, Atchison and Murphy. Highlights: --The wifey corps was like Murphette's "other bridesmaids" what with the way they did some necessary thing to her wedding dress. Where the hell were her real bridesmaids? Hittin' on Justin Turner? --You're never without a babysitter, claims La Hef. --Both Mrs. Murph and Mrs. Rice played college softball so they know just what it's like out there on the diamond. --Dramatic music swelled when the Atchisons discussed their daughter being born with forearms that weren't quite as long as they were supposed to be and the Hefners raised funds for Oklahoma after the tornadoes. --Hawk has been married since 1997 but has a son who's playing college basketball already (wasn't clear whether the lad is a prodigy or he didn't wait for wedlock to achieve paternity the way he waited to be in the majors to marry the present Mrs. H.) --They all pose happily for Wifey team pictures but you know the hair and fingernails fly when the camera is put away. (Ugly stereotype -- perhaps they're all really the best of friends, though my own wifey wondered "If they're as close as they say, how come they weren't all interviewed together?") Not seen on TV: Yesterday when Mr. & Mrs. Met and their handlers made the pregame rounds on field level, the regular folks of all ages cleared them a path and squealed with delight. They have supplanted Jerry Seinfeld's airport cart people as Our Royalty.

Gimme Schatzeder?

Unser Cover of the Night?

Jumpin' Jack Hamilton?

d'Arnaud 2.0 Gee 1.5 Torres 0.5 Rice 0.5

I watched from Promenade. I watched Omar Quintanilla leap for a line drive that was probably 20 feet over his head. I watch him leap full out for balls that are multiple Quintanillas above his person all the time. He will strain something before he catches something.

Davis 1.5 Harvey 1.0 Rice 0.5 Atchison 0.5

Edgy MD wrote: Attention is the new cocaine.* *Me, plagiarizing from John Cougar Lunchbucket. Was it ever confirmed whether R.A. Dickey tested positive for attention?

This is like that State Farm commercial and like a good neighbor, Studious Metsimus is there.

962. Daisuke Matsuzaka The Mets are now a thousand players short of the year of their birth.

Young 2.0 Byrd 1.0 Flores 1.0 Lagares 0.5 Quintanilla 0.5 Matsuzaka 0.5 Aardsma 0.5

Eric Young, Jr. � LF Daniel Murphy � 2B Marlon Byrd � RF Ike Davis � 1B Wilmer Flores � 3B Juan Lagares � CF Travis d�Arnaud � C Omar Quintanilla � SS Daisuke Matsuzaka � RHP That's a lotta letters at the bottom of the lineup.

Last year when batmags thoughtfully posted the Brewer-Mets, every one of them seemed like an ex-Brewer who happened to have been a Met. This crew, though logically I was aware that they had all motored to or from Detroit, just struck me as "really?". Perhaps a function of general unawareness of what the Tigers are up to most years. Or maybe this is all denial centered around Rusty and Laxton for Lolich and Baldwin.

I'll just go ahead and say what everybody is thinking regarding probably 80% of these guys: He was a Tiger?

If you're a fan of Bill Webb's work and haven't been to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria since 2010, you'll want to visit soon. Seriously cool as Mets thing there, reported on here.