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Can the Blue Jays be any more useless? Just give us back our shortstop and go away.

Edgy MD wrote: Aces. Was it a modest re-write (where the writer could lie to himself that he wasn't really stealing from Ed) or a baldfaced copy-and-paste? It required an "As Told To" to be remotely ethical given the form in which it showed up. How does one decide to contribute to "MLB Nation" and not commit to it with enough gumption to write one's own material? Perhaps that site is the future of baseball, but if you don't send in your MLB Nation piece, I don't think your journalism career dissipates on the spot. I don't know anything about the perpetrator, but I wonder if this fellow is so green that he didn't think there was anything weird about it. A couple of years ago, I stumbled onto an MLB blog that had the EXACT same name as ours. I alerted Jason who was ready to bring down the hounds of holy hell on everyone from Bud Selig on down. Eventually we tracked down the other FAFIF, and it turned out to be a high school kid who said he read my book and thought "Gosh, what a great name for a blog." I guess he didn't read it that closely so as to ascertain the derivation of the book's name. Anyway, he was highly apologetic and changed it to Flushing something or other that was also already taken. I didn't have the energy by then to point out the idea is to come up with your own name. To bring this back to Marlon Byrd, since it's his thread, if he did indeed knowingly violate PED rules, it's not great but at least one can rationalize he was doing it to make a (handsome) living. I sincerely don't understand the attraction of plagiarism. Byrd or Bonds or whoever can already hit. Then he wants to hit better. If you write, what's the fun in having the writing done for you? If you're a reporter, what's the fun in not crediting your sources, in not saying, "look how hard I worked on this"?

Article with a kool lil factoid. http://www.themlbnation.com/2013/08/20/marlon-byrd/?noredirect=1# There's nothing cool about plagiarism. http://studiousmetsimus.blogspot.com/2013/08/marlon-byrd-could-do-what-no-met-has.html Wow. And the one I linked is gone baby gone. I had no idea. I think I found the article link thru FB. I wanted to check see if it was word for word. I imagine it was. A posse was rounded up and the offending site deleted the stolen article. The original remains a gem.

If a Braves pitcher is harboring an internal copy editor, then count me as a fan of that Braves pitcher.

Adam Rubin noted last night that Nimmo is batting a Williamsesque .406 in August, 26 for 64.

Justin Turner is such a goodwill ambassador that he should be allowed to park in front of the yellow stripe on the curb.

Niese 4.0 Satin 2.0 Lagares 1.0 Germen 0.5 Hawkins 0.5

I assume Lagares caught that question, as he catches everything else.

It's a Niese day for a Met winning. It's a Niese day to start again! AAZQaYKZMTI

Wheeler 2.5 Young 2.0 Byrd 1.5 Davis 1.5 Rice 1.0 Hawkins 0.5 Germen 0.5 Murphy 0.5

Article with a kool lil factoid. http://www.themlbnation.com/2013/08/20/marlon-byrd/?noredirect=1# There's nothing cool about plagiarism. http://studiousmetsimus.blogspot.com/2013/08/marlon-byrd-could-do-what-no-met-has.html

d'Lineup: 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 Zack Wheeler � RHP

I'm a little nervous about the dynasty pausing from its crumble lately.

Throwback Mets Pop Culture Sighting from Season One, Episode Six of The Odd Couple ("Oscar's Ulcer"), first aired October 29, 1970: Felix (enters restaurant, approaches Oscar): "You said you wanted your freedom. Freedom to you means either a hot tamale or a night baseball game. The Mets are out of town." Felix very much up on the recently defending world champs. H/T bmfc1, who recently appeared alongside a Mets coffee mug on this fine program. z1X2Az-oUkQ

Blog post in honor of quiz in honor of Marlon Byrd.

FWIW, in addition to not getting the last slugger two years in a row, if bml hadn't led off by mentioning Hairston, I'm guessing he wouldn't have occurred to me for another hundred Mets.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Memory lane, and last year's Hairston quiz. Same answers as this year, minus Byrd, natch. http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/18600/f1_t18633.shtml Everything not that old is new again!

The answer also once held a Mets record that plays, in a way, into the theme of this quiz.

It wasn't Burnitz. He (the final guy sought) did have something in common with Hairston in the context of this quiz.

Looked it up. Overlooked him last year, too.

I'm thinking Brian McRae was the OMG answer of 2012.

Rico Brogna.

John Olerud.