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I know where they got this guy from, but reflexively all I could do when it was over was ask aloud, "Where did they get this guy from?" Somehow "the free agent market after a fairly successful American League career" doesn't seem an adequate answer. Davis and Torres piling on runs with second and third with two out would have been nice, too, I heard myself say in the innings when they didn't. Damn this failure to be perfect.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: G-Fafif wrote: METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 5/12/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Jose Reyes 1,300 3. DAVID WRIGHT [crossout]1,292[/crossout] 1,293 I'm betting that you'll be happy to learn that Wright has one more hit than you gave him credit for. David Wright is on pace to break Kranepool's franchise career hit record on Thursday, August 30, 2012, at Philadelphia. But if he keeps on playing and hitting at a .400 clip, he'll pass Eddie by the All-Star Break. David Wright is so hot he gets extra hits in my sleep. Happy he has the extra hit. Horrified it fell by the wayside by my reckoning somewhere between April 5 and now.

Life is like a Box of base hits. You never know how many David is going to get. Wright 4.0 Dickey 3.0 Murphy 1.0 Duda 0.5 Nickeas 0.5 Torres 0.5 Baxter 0.5

The battle-hardened veteran pinch-hitter Mike Baxter Mets maintain their playoff status through the 33-game season.

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 5/12/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Jose Reyes 1,300 3. DAVID WRIGHT [crossout]1,292[/crossout] 1,293 Plus four perfectly good hits by Reyes that do him no good in this thread.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: On the Tweetwaves, "David Wright" and "MVP" trending in New York. How's #jitteryoverreactontoeverylatestthing doing?

Sole possession of the second Wild Card spot on the line for the Closer Frank Francisco Mets today.

Baxter 2.5 Wright 2.0 Santana 1.5 Nieuwenhuis 1.0 Davis 1.0 Nickeas 1.0 Ramirez 0.5 Byrdak 0.5

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 5/11/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Jose Reyes 1,300 3. DAVID WRIGHT [crossout]1,288[/crossout] 1,289

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Without seeking them out, I've run across 2-3 sets of rumors over the last 24 hours regarding the Phils potentially being in "sell mode." A few days ago, I ran across evidence that the Phils are in "suck mode".

And Let's Go Mets! Let's see what this new place has. Fewer evident sacks of Soilmaster, one presumes.

Cedeno's return = Rottino's au revoir.

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Can't decide whether this is poetic geographical justice for a career that bloomed one province over or one more slap in the face to Expos fans everywhere. Probably the former.

Players would sometimes be loaned out to other affiliates without actually being traded or sent to the organization in question. Ron Washington, for example, played for Tidewater when it was the Mets without becoming Met property. Bob Gallagher in 1975 drifted to a non-Tide AAA club without ever leaving the Mets. That might be what's up there.

Craig Anderson (W) and Craig Anderson (W) appeared in box scores fifty years ago tomorrow (or the morning after tomorrow). George Vecsey catches up with one of the players he covered. On May 12, 1962, Craig Anderson won both ends of a doubleheader in relief for the expansion team called the Mets. He had every reason to think maybe he and the Mets were going to be all right. Instead, Anderson never won another game in the major leagues, losing 19 straight decisions over three seasons. By doing so, Anderson became a legendary Met from the early years, along with Marv Throneberry and Choo-Choo Coleman and of course Casey Stengel. Fifty years is a perfect time for gauging this franchise, built on hope and dreams and irrationality and humor -- the veritable human condition, one could say. Those first weird days flavor everything fans feel about these current Amazing Mets, who are somehow over .500 under their pepper-pot manager Terry Collins. Norman Craig Anderson, epic Met, born in Washington, D.C., now 73, follows the Mets from Dunnellon, Fla., where he is an occasional substitute teacher, to keep his head young. He does not mind recalling the hopes that rose when he actually won both ends of a doubleheader. Anderson, a solid 6-2, 205-pound righty, was a college boy from Lehigh who had quite a decent debut with the Cardinals in 1961, as teams prepared to give players to the new teams in Houston and New York. In spring training of 1962, Stengel told the world the Mets could be contenders. Anderson looked around at Rich Ashburn and Gil Hodges and Roger Craig and figured, well, why not? As every Met fan knows, the Mets promptly lost [9] straight games at the start of 1962, but then actually came back to win a game here and there.. �Nowadays they never schedule a doubleheader, but they had a doubleheader scheduled for Saturday,� Anderson recalled. Read the whole thing, Mets fans. It's wonderful.

Two things jump out at me (besides the Marlins hosting a Saturday afternoon game which is pretty rare, let alone on Fox): 1) McCarver is doing a game that isn't the one going to most of the country. 2) Tampa is deprived of the Mets so it can watch two non-division teams based on it being an American League market. One of the failings of Interleague play has been the non-rivalry between the Marlins and Rays, though it isn't all that surprising given that neither market has ever been particularly fired up about its own team. And the Tampa Bay market and the South Florida market might as well be in separate states (though Jacksonville and Fort Myers, also cordoned off from other Florida markets by psyche). Still...show the Mets in Tampa-St. Pete if you don't have a compelling reason not to. Casey's legions would have appreciated it.

Superb as always, 'wreck. Reyes coming around a bit, per Rubin: In his past 10 starts, Reyes has a .400 on-base percentage and four steals in five attempts. For the season, the ex-Met still is hitting a paltry .233 with a .321 OBP and eight steals.

I like Throneberry's place as the humble-beginnings floor for all "Greatest Met" discussions. (I like it so much I think I'll copy it seven years ago.) When ESPN first released this, they announced they were doing a reader poll to determine No. 50. Did they just give up because it's so much funnier to say "we could only find 49"?

The Starting Shortstop Justin Turner Mets indeed solidified their 31-game second Wild Card while moving to within a half-game of Washington and Atlanta for a share of first place/first Wild Card. Man, the flight to Miami must have been caliente.

Davis 2.5 Torres 2.0 Turner 1.5 Gee 1.5 Wright 1.5 Acosta 0.5 Nieuwehuis 0.5

Team 10.0

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 5/9/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Jose Reyes 1,300 3. DAVID WRIGHT [crossout]1,285[/crossout] 1,286

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: And then there's Murph! Lee...SIT! Murph is gonna get you, Clifford.

Ceetar wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Rollins SS Pierre LF Victorino CF Pence RF Polanco 3B Mayberry 1B Schneider C Galvis 2B Lee P if ours is a "B" what's this? D-? We have two of the better 2009 Mets. They have Brian Schneider.