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Kong76 wrote: Sorry I missed youse guys (the overindulged kid and shlumpy rude dude too) but I really was not doing so hot this morning. Thought it best not to be around 150 people on folding chairs for five hours. You were missed, even if your potential germs weren't. Hope you're feeling better.
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metirish wrote: Yeah, nothing against Carlin, great for him for making it ....wasn't he a studio gofer for WFAN before SNY? Not directly before, but now I want to tell him to go home and get his shine box.
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Bobby O got my MVP vote last year...which looked really strange next to all the votes for Buster Posey. Brief encounter with Carlin indicates there's a mensch in there somewhere. Too bad he hides under the bombast.
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Edgy MD wrote: Alomar? Give that man a... Actually, there were no prizes for correct trivia answers. Just enhanced or deflated self-esteem.
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metirish wrote: Foget filling in for Ojeda, I want him sitting next to him. Run those two during the game and show the play-by-play in a little box.
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And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes To...
G-Fafif replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk
Unpopularity for gratuitous Dickey-trashing, off-kilter Mike-appraising aside, I'm not sure what makes Davidoff worthy of an award, unless it's just one of those buddy-buddy, whose-turn-is-it? types of things. -
Bobby V would have to dazzle and Terry C would have to fizzle for Mustachioed Lazarus to rise again given how badly things went in Boston, but it would be fun to have him around, even in the studio. He was radiant on ESPN, I thought.
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The "pinstripers" question was bizarre and Appel handled it well by mostly ignoring it (perhaps by not understanding it exactly, either). I found "what's OPS?" revealing to the extent that it indicates a baseball research group doesn't necessarily equal mind-numbing sabermetric-intensive talk; four of the five presentations weren't statistical in nature. But OPS is pretty mainstream in 2013, I think. Agreed on quality of Gennaro's hypothesis -- he's trying to find out and admits he doesn't quite know. Last guy was a little dry and got cut short, but the content, on how sportswriters frame certain star players, was worthwhile. Though I only SABR'd in 2010 and this was my first winter meeting, I attended this chapter's book groups in the early 2000s. Its membership skewed old then. Lot of familiar faces a dozen years later, skewing even older. No wonder they loved Kid Precocious.
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Pedro F! Bobby V! It's like a modicum of 2002!
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It's been picked up, I believe, because also in it is a Reduce Reuse Recycle bookmark with the chasing arrows logo that wasn't around in 1978 -- and the bookmark has a Copyright 1998 message, to boot. But still. On the raffle prize table was the infamous We Won Today by Kathryn Parker -- 1976 girl Mets fan/journalist -- which I would've grabbed had I not eBay'd it four years ago.
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CPF flag flown by JCL and myself. Worthwhile day, especially T.J. Quinn on PEDs and Marty Appel on MFYs. Mets sort of a ghostly presence in the overall program of a SABR chapter devoted to New York baseball, though I'm happy to report The Happiest Recap found a receptive audience of otherwise unserved fellow travelers. (Order your copy today!) One uberprecocious kid (TROUT Angels jersey over RAUUUUUL MFY shirt, topped by orange Marlins cap) was overindulged to the point of my wanting to box his ears a little, but that probably says something about me and children. My two raffle prizes were this: (albeit with cover missing and original PR review copy note still inside from 1978) and this: (co-authored by 1981 Mets wife(y) Nancy Marshall, who was about to divorce hubby Mike; Bobbie had already given up on Jim). Nice folks all around, even the overindulged kid. Bitter cold this morning. Less so when program was over. Highly recommended for January 2014.
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Ed Bressoud lives.
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Made 1962 Topps history, per MGIM. Bouchee certainly was not the best of the 1962 Mets, appearing in only 60 games and batting just .161. But his card is historic, marking the first time the Mets full uniform appeared in a Topps set. Since the team was new , Topps relied heavily on its �big head, no hat� shots for Mets that year. Only two players, who appeared in a later series, are shown wearing the beautiful Mets uniform. Don Zimmer, who lasted just 14 games, is wearing his Mets cap. But Bouchee has the only card showing a whole uniform.
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Edgy MD wrote: Nice. Rest in peace, Ed. I hope the afterlife is more comforting than retirement seems to have been. Eddie helped Ben Grimm squeak by me on the road to a championship. http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/1900/f18_t1911.shtml Uh, ain't that Eddie Bressoud?
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Ed becomes the eighth of 14 Mets who played in the very first game in franchise history to hit the showers, as it were. If they had a tontine over who gets the bottle of brandy, the surviving Mets from April 11, 1962, angling to fill the role of Colonel Potter are Felix Mantilla, Roger Craig, Hobie Landrith, Jim Marshall, Frank Thomas and Don Zimmer.
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Perpetually disgruntled 1962 Mets first baseman Ed Bouchee, the pride of Spokane, Wash., passed away Wednesday at 79 years old. From We Played The Game, the 1994 oral history that recorded the thoughts of various major league ballplayers who played in "baseball's greatest era," 1947-1964: Casey Stengel shouldn't have been managing that team. He was worthless. Worthless! How could he play Gil Hodges, a one-legged first baseman you had to shoot up with Novocaine, just because he had a name in the New York area and would draw people? How can you play a cripple? I was the guy that shouldve been playing first base. I resented the portrayal of the 1962 Mets as a comedy act. But it was a circus. I don't really think there were good things about being on that Mets team. I'm not even sure the Mets fans were as great as they were cracked up to be. I just remember they liked to boo.
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White Sox bringing back Seaver-era uniforms this year!
G-Fafif replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk
Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Mets should totally do something like that. Giant caricatures of Seaver and Strawberry and Hernandez and Piazza roaming around the ballpark. They tried something similar, by having giant caricatures of Chris Young and Mike Pelfrey pitch every fifth day parts of the last couple of years. It didn't stir much excitement. -
Wish You Were Here: Continuing Careers of Ex Mets - 2013
G-Fafif replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk
Willie Mays, special assistant to the president of the San Francisco Giants, returned to New York recently, revealed 1973 Mets were better than 1973 A's. -
Had a fine weekday afternoon game against the Reds in mid-May, another in early August at San Francisco. Never felt like the reason we sucked.
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Per Heyman report, btw.
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The Mets sign a major league pitcher. Wonders cease, presses stopped.
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Sat in Left Field Landing one afternoon in July 2011 when Scott reached it. Quite a poke up there. First impression was him befuddled under a rain of fly balls in April 2011 in a horrendous doubleheader sweep at the hands of Colorado, as the Terry Collins era unraveled early. Thought he'd be useless. Probably as wrong as I'd been on any Met, based on first impression, since Jose Valentin. He finished up his Met career in style in Miami last October 3, yet when given the cue by his co-host that "The Mets should give Scott Hairston two years, right? He had a good year, right?" Bobby Ojeda didn't bite, pointing out (quite rightly, I thought), that when your team loses 88 games, there's no rush to re-sign anybody. Lousy OBP. Great SLG.
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bmfc1 wrote: Anti-Semite Delmon Young: yet another reason to despise the Phillies. To be fair, I'm a virulent anti-Philite.
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Take that, Brian Wilson!
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Your 2013 All Star Game starring Citi Field Thread
G-Fafif replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in New York Mets Talk
These prices are exorbitant, no matter who sets them. Kudos to a reporter who isn't jaded enough to accept them at face value.
