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The Pirates and Cards, to name two, transplanted statuary when they built their current ballparks.

The lone Met home runs of both Ty Kelly and Travis Blankenhorn, hit five years apart, each occurred at PNC Park, and I can't say there's a particularly good reason for remembering that.

That http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2021/07/19/get-it-right-the-next-time-thats-the-main-thing/weirdo game in Pittsburgh that may have been Taijuan Walker's worst moment as a Met (when he brushes a ball not quite out of play and gripes with the ump as Buc after Buc scores) was Blankenhorn's best. Travis blasted a three-run homer that catapulted the Mets back into the fray setting up an unlikely Sunday afternoon triumph. My autospell always refuses to believe I don't mean to discuss Mrs. Blankenship from Mad Men when I, in fact, am delving into Mr. Blankenhorn.

Luis can do it all…except sell his own jersey. [media=youtube]iCzz9DL8MbY[/media]

A surprising new team has emerged in the Carlos Correa sweepstakes — or maybe not so surprising, considering the amount of money the New York Mets already have spent this offseason. Yes, Steve Cohen might be at again. Cohen's Mets are showing interest in Correa, according to sources familiar with the team's thinking. Correa, 28, likely would play third base for the Mets, alongside his fellow native of Puerto Rico, shortstop Francisco Lindor. “I'd say there's some smoke,” one Mets person said. “I'm not sure how big the fire is, though.” Mets general manager Billy Eppler declined comment. While a full-blown pursuit of Correa might feel like a stretch, given the size of Correa's expected payday and the expenditures already lavished out by the Mets this winter, Cohen has already expanded the parameters of what it is possible for an owner to spend. https://theathletic.com/4000022/2022/12/13/mets-free-agent-news-carlos-correa/https://theathletic.com/4000022/2022/12/13/mets-free-agent-news-carlos-correa/

That Sunday game in L.A. in which Buck had only Adonis to close and Adonis closed, never mind that he had to quell the heart of the Dodger order. It was the game that certified the Mets as one of the bona fide title contenders.

Curt Simmons, the last surviving member of the Whiz Kids,93. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/sports/baseball/curt-simmons-dead.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/sports/baseball/curt-simmons-dead.html

Edgy MD wrote: Was this past mission the one that launched you to the Moon? Next year.

It's the 25th anniversary of the night in 1997 that Todd Hundley led a parade of major leaguers out of Chris Kattan's closet on Saturday Night Live, and the Ringer tells the sketch's oral history, featuring remembrances from Todd Zeile, Gregg Jefferies and Cliff Floyd. Jefferies: During rehearsals it was easy, but then all of a sudden that red light comes on and it's like, holy cow, it's legit. In New York we would do commercials, so I was lucky with that. But that was the first time I did anything like that. When I first got to New York, I think I was 19, they wanted me to host Saturday Night Live. And I said, there's no way. I turned that down. I was terrified with that. Floyd: I think maybe I took a drama class, just to pass some class in high school, but nothing to the extent of reading a card and actually having a camera on you and trying to act out and remember one part: “Hey, you got any food? Where's the food?” Whatever I said. It felt like the script was a page long where there was only four words, and I was sweating my ass off trying to remember when to do it and how to do it. I was just saying to myself, “If I can't memorize this, I mean, good luck.” https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/12/13/23506851/saturday-night-live-baseball-dreams-come-true-sketch-oral-historyhttps://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/12/13/23506851/saturday-night-live-baseball-dreams-come-true-sketch-oral-history

[FIMG=555]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52559835431_4d076a6d28_h.jpg[/FIMG] Dave West fonts are quality fonts.

I liked that he figured out how to work with Nido (and Mazeika) on the fly after clearly not being on the same page with them and admitting he should have stepped up in that regard sooner post-lockout, when he built rapport with only light-hitting James McCann. No pitcher seemed to jump off the mound faster after he believed he'd achieved an inning-ending strikeout, even when the umpire called strike three a ball. Wasn't as clutch as I built him up to be in my mind, but two blah starts that effectively kicked away the division and guaranteed playoff elimination do not a solid season unmake, or words to that effect.

Picture this!

From the News: Harrelson no longer has those memories. And his family and friends no longer try to remind him of his past. He'll always be the player who hit an RBI double in Game 2 of the 1969 NLCS to help send the Mets to the World Series. He'll always be the guy who got in a fight with Pete Rose and sparked a benches-clearing brawl during the 1973 NLCS. Harrelson will always be the person who helped bring professional baseball to Long Island, a particular point of pride for him. The California native made Hauppauge his home after his playing days were over and was influential in making the Long Island Ducks a reality. “Now we visit his reality,” Battaglia said. “He no longer is able to be with us and ours. We don't have a shared reality anymore. So we only guess at what he's feeling.” Harrelson may not be able to speak or make decisions or even live independently anymore, but the one thing he can still do is grip a baseball. Underneath the devastating disease, he's still a ballplayer. https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-bud-harrelson-alzheimers-shamsky-20221210-boukuha2onfazfyowly5jtfpru-story.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-bud-harrelson-alzheimers-shamsky-20221210-boukuha2onfazfyowly5jtfpru-story.html

Good headline (bottom) becomes better headline (top).

Trevor Williams was the Luis Guillorme of the pitching staff.

Brandon from Wyoming embraces New York. Way to be, elder statesMet.

We can stop harboring uniform-based disdain for ex-Brave Kenley Jansen.

Another mood-wrecker.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: He went to a division rival of the Cubs, his former team. Yes. That was the meaning.

There goes the big name catcher to a division rival. Five years.