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  1. G-Fafif
    Today we have firsts! 046: 1977 -- Joe Torre's first game as a manager (and, technically, player-manager) 047: 1966 -- Dick Rusteck's first game as a pitcher (and he throws a shutout) 048: 1969 -- Mets' first double sweep of their ancestral tormentors (and first time two over .500) And as your alternates... 046: 2009 -- Murph homers...or does he? 047: 1985 -- Doc's in a jam...or is he? 048: 1982 -- Mets are on their way...but to where?
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    Howie with the play of the game when he suggested Cubs fans were at least learning how cold a World Series game can be.
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    Reyes 1.5 Murphy 1.0 Thole 0.5 Pridie 0.5 Hairston 0.5
  4. G-Fafif
    METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through 5/26/2011 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Cleon Jones 1,188 3. JOSE REYES 1,187 4. DAVID WRIGHT 1,182
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    Some thoughts on my friend, whom I already miss terribly.
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    R.A. Dickey vs. PH Zambrano, precip pending.
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    Beltran 2.5 Gee 2.0 Reyes 1.5 Tejada 1.5 Murphy 1.5 Thole 1.0
  8. G-Fafif
    METS ALL-TIME RUN LEADERS Through 5/25/2011 1. JOSE REYES 663 2. Darryl Strawberry 662 2. DAVID WRIGHT 662 Jose grabs this record and, uh, runs with it in the third at Wrigley.
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    METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through 5/25/2011 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Cleon Jones 1,188 3. JOSE REYES 1,185 4. DAVID WRIGHT 1,182 Watch out, Cleon!
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    KariAnn Gee, O KariAnn Gee RFK Stadium, sitting near me Nationals Park, but that's hardly the point, I suppose.
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    Carlos Beltran at No. 13, with 819, unlikely to catch Keith Hernandez (939) for twelfth before he departs. Next among active Mets on the franchise hits list: T-61. Angel Pagan 309 95. Daniel Murphy 209 T-108. Ike Davis 177 T-153. Jason Bay 112 T-168. Josh Thole 96 (tied with Willie Mays) T-220. Nick Evans 54 227. Ruben Tejada 51 So even with the Krane providing the relatively low ceiling, it's never easy to keep Mets around long enough to get up in Ed's rarefied air...which is why it will break my heart if the two players within hitting distance of Eddie doesn't get a shot at breaking the record.
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    Edgy DC wrote: Y'all are so Yankee-mindsetted. I'm hoping to retain them for the sake of victory, more than to pimp out the record book in the face of Yankee fans. Mets records for Mets records sake. And the winning -- that would be nice, too.
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    Wait, John Stearns didn't develop into another Johnny Bench?
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    batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ed Kranepool -- Teflon Eddie. I don't doubt he puppetmastered the Madoff debacle just to make sure Fred would have to let Jose go...just as he was mentally fracturing David's lower back. Who do you think whispered in Steve Phillips' ear to let Fonzie walk?
  15. G-Fafif
    With his fifth-inning infield single off Ryan Dempster in Chicago, Jose Reyes last night passed David Wright for third place on the all-time Mets hit list. He also moved within five hits of Cleon Jones in second place. METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through 5/24/2011 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Cleon Jones 1,188 3. JOSE REYES 1,183 4. DAVID WRIGHT 1,182 Jose had the advantage of David being on the Disabled List, which is where Jose sat when David passed Jose on September 3, 2009 with a single to right off Matt Herges at Colorado. David, incidentally, spotted Jose (first hit: June 10, 2003) a 113-hit lead before putting his first hit on the board on July 22, 2004. Breaks my heart to think they may not be going at it in the quest to pass Ed Kranepool and then to see who gets to 2,000 first.
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    If they play... Jose Reyes � SS Josh Thole � C Carlos Beltran � RF Jason Bay � LF Daniel Murphy � 1B Justin Turner � 3B Jason Pridie � CF Ruben Tejada � 2B Dillon Gee � RHP
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    LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Posnanski's no tourist. He loves leuves lurves louvres our Voltron. Every American League fan from somewhere else is a tourist when it comes to viewing the MFYs through the prism of NY.
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    batmagadanleadoff wrote: In the future, there will be flying cars. And it will cost $65 to park them at Citi Field.
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    I must admit I at first avoided the article because the idea of comparing them turned me off. Posnanski was being a tourist, I figured -- one of those tourists from an American League town who assumes the sun rises and sets on the MFYs. But he did a nice job stringing the two players together based on the tabloid treatment. And of course, blammo, Beltran came out looking good.
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    Reyes 1.0 Tejada 0.5 Murphy 0.5
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    LWFS: KTE'er of the big shoulders.
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    Some schmuck went and continued this series. 043: 1971 -- Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 (for the Mets) 044: 1999 -- Curt Schilling goes the distance (and pays for it) 045: 1998 -- Mike Piazza just shows up (and it's all good) Undercard: 043: 2005 -- Mister Koo's Wild Ride 044: 2000 -- Doubles and homers cut the Big Unit down to size 045: 1969 -- Four walks, a bunt, a grounder, a stolen bases is all you need.
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    John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I hope this embarrasses the guy at least. It surely does. I'm no Saul Katz.
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    Edgy DC wrote: G-Fafif wrote: One of the tidbits I learned (besides Fred being more mental than I would have suspected) was he hung around Shea in the late '70s with his pal Joe Torre while his other pal Joe Pignatano got Jeffy a BP catching job. It never occurred to me that Fred went to Mets games before owning the team. Also, those deep Brooklyn roots and great friendships didn't stop him from sanctioning the dismissals of the Joes a couple of years into his part-ownership. I don't really expect him to have more loyalty than necessary here, do you? He wasn't senior partner in this decision. Managers get fired and Torre had a longer tenure than most, and a longer tenure than virtually all who've lost as consistently as him. No, not really. I imagine the friendships Toobin wrote about (in this case and others) were more likely glorified acquaintanceships.
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    John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Here's the obligatory cheapass video: [youtube]NY0BAMgrucE[/youtube] Worth the entire fusillade of idiocy just for that. I don't suppose Jeffy has ever taken a good picture.
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