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    Lineups posted yet?
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    Marcus Thames stops playing, starts coaching MFY minor leaguers.
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    Prematurely archived! 4/1/2013 is still...too many days away!
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    "We got a 68, and I'm going to go back and study a little harder and hopefully get a 75 next year." --Craig Biggio
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    Larry Bearnarth pitched ten innings of relief in the first game of a doubleheader on June 9, 1964 (a.k.a. The Happiest Recap's Game No. 25), as the Mets beat the Cubs, 6-5 in twelve. In doing so, he set a record for longest Met relief outing, one that still stands today; nine days earlier, he pitched seven innings of relief against the Giants in the notorious 23-inning Memorial Day twinbill nightcap loss to the Giants. Tell me something about Dan Boitano.
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    Norm and Larry Sherry, brothers, formed the first all-Jewish battery in the majors, as Dodgers. We've done Jewish. So let's go Christensen...John, that is.
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    Relax. Rubin reports Justin Turner's got this one covered. A team insider said Justin Turner actually should get strong consideration as a platoon outfielder too, despite no experience out there. That could also allow the Mets to have both Brandon Hicks and Omar Quintanilla on the roster as infielders. I like that "a team insider" is necessary to dispense a juicy tidbit like this. You mean we can have BOTH Brandon Hicks and Omar Quintanilla? Don't toy with us, Mets. I mean, seriously, don't get our hopes up like that unless you mean it. (OTOH, Quintanilla and Hicks each logged time for playoff teams last year, so to use a phrase I heard Andy Martino proffer on Hot Stove last night, they're winning players.)
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    Rubin's reasoning, as cut and pasted by Real Dirty Mets Blog. Based on the comments section at ESPN, I take it these were in the comments before, for whatever reason, Rubin/ESPN removed them. While there is no smoking gun with Piazza related to performance-enhancing drugs, there are enough things swirling around to at least cause me to pause for one year: � Back acne that you do not see on players today, and which appeared to clear up as testing was instituted. � Reporting to camp significantly thinner for spring training (with yoga instructor in tow) as testing began. � Tearing the groin muscle off the bone � an injury suggesting he was bulked up beyond the norm. The full Chass, in other words.
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    Benjamin Grimm wrote: it can't hurt to give him a shot. Or so said baseball as it looked the other way in the late '90s to its ever-lasting detriment, according to Bob Costas.
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    John Delcos listed as not voting for Piazza, but Delcos says he did.
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    Three other Browns played 69 games for the Mets -- Leon ("Motor"), 64, 1976; Kevin ("Not That One"), 2, 1990; and Emil (who passed Luis Castillo on the basepaths in Washington one Saturday night), 3, 2009. It's all waiting for you, Andrew.
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    The 2012 thread is here. A survey of Mets Pop Culture in 2012 can be found here. And the first sighting of 2013? The Odd Couple marathon running on WLNY-TV (Channels 10/55) is certainly ripe with familiar glimpses, but one I hadn't connected before was the prop newspaper front page used in the pilot for Get Smart... ...is the very same one framed in Oscar's office at the New York Herald. I noticed it while Oscar, Murray and Leon from production were engaging in a pizza-eating contest (which Oscar shouldn't have been in, given his ulcer...per Felix).
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    These are outstanding articles and I appreciate having them in one place. Thanks for posting.
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    SABR 2013

    G-Fafif replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk

    I am rumored to be attending.
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    Enjoyed going behind the scenes with the umps despite the omnipresent Joe Torre needing to be on hand to sanctify their duties. Glad to know that the industry treats the World Series with reverence.
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    Culmination of a thread, here. Thanks for everybody's help.
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    From about a month ago, Jimmy Stewart, 73, Red "supersub" whose utility extended to his post-playing advance scouting, credited as a key in Cincinnati's dismantling of the Big Green Machine from Oakland in the 1990 World Series. His name, though, comes up most frequently on lists of best/worst trades ever, as he was included in the package Cincy sent to Houston to acquire Joe Morgan. "I loved playing for the Reds," he said. "Loved everything about 'em. Loved the way they ran things, right on down to the no facial hair. First class. Yessir, I hated leaving the Reds. We had a championship ballclub. I wish they (the Reds' brass) would have traded Darrel Chaney. I'd have been in a couple more World Series." The linked article from the Cincinnati Enquirer is really good. Gives a lot of insight about a name that should be more than a trivia answer.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Was he the one who rushed the prep school wunderkind to the big leagues, desperate to move some turnstiles, prefacing a career-destroying injury? No, that was Bob Short, who moved the team from D.C. The pitcher was David Clyde. Short to Corbett to Eddie Chiles to Dubya to Hicks to Ryan. Interesting lineage.
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    Brad Corbett, Texas Rangers owner at the dawn of free agency, 75. Employed Frank Lucchesi, Eddie Stanky, Connie Ryan and Billy Hunter as managers...in an eight-game span in 1977.
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    Josh Thole's "Screw you guys, I'm going to Canada" letter in the Post not nearly as gracious.
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    I'd also throw in those miserable orange batting practice jerseys as 2003 unattractiveness personified.
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    Was also the offseason of Mike Stanton and Rey Sanchez. The full effect of the goings (Valentine, Fonzie, Ordonez) and comings (MFY Stanton, useless Sanchez, Marlin Floyd, Brave Gl@v!ne, invisible Nakamura, Con Ed's own Art Howe) left me in as bad a place as I've ever been, Metwise, culminating in the night of May 9 when Jesse Orosco came on for the Padres with two out in bottom of the ninth and the Mets' tying run on third and I reveled in his strikeout of Roberto Alomar. I was rooting for Jesse to gain one more save at Shea and didn't care at all -- at all -- if the 2003 Mets were his victims. It wasn't even "I can't lose either way" rooting. Promotion of Jose Reyes and emergence of Jason Phillips began to draw me out of my funk, but I wasn't really back on board until May 18, 2004, when Cliff Floyd -- whose Fishiness and anti-Bobby Vness had faded -- beat Jason Isringhausen in approximately the same minute's span when Randy Johnson was perfect-gaming the Braves.
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    smg58 wrote: I don't think he ever pitched for us at the major league level, but Jason Vargas just got shipped to Anaheim; Kendrys Morales takes Interstate 5 all the way up to Seattle in return. Jason started what turned into one of the best games of the Willie Randolph era, though his participation in it only ensured there'd be a great deficit to overcome. Per Warner Wolf, if you had the Mets coming out on top with Jason Vargas and Ambiorix Burgos as your pitchers after spotting the Cubs a four-run lead AND not starting most of your regulars...you win!
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    To get a Kelly Shoppach, sometimes you have to give up a Pedro Beato.
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