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Spotted behind dugout on SNY: Gwreck and TTC (The Traveling Companion).

Thank goodness Alex Cora whipped their sorry asses into shape.

Money quote: So the Mets will play with a far different 24-plus-one roster than the one then-GM Steve Phillips once described when discussing the organization's objection to signing Alex Rodriguez many years ago. I'd like to profess more faith than is explicit in this report, but Rubin is generally levelheaded in his analysis. This is pretty damning. But we won't know that Ollie totally sucks until he totally sucks. Which he probably to certainly will. But we won't know. Faith: The Ollie Version.

Either comforting or foreboding: Mets have never been swept a series at the BOB/Chase.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Ashie62 wrote: G-Fafif wrote: This thread title makes me think Big Pelf is going up against that nice lady from the old coffee commercials... ...and is probably losing. She looks like a whiney bitch You'd be closer by saying "whiny witch." That's Margaret Hamilton, who scared the snot out of many a kid as the Wicked Witch of the West. Which (or witch) I suppose the current Cora was trying to do in the clubhouse last night.

The kid from Long Island has broken out of his torpor in a big way, with a walk in his only plate appearance on July 16 after not getting on in his two previous games. The on-base percentage is still robust: .421 after a half-dozen games. They don't seem to let Cam play that much, or at least they aren't writing down everything he does.

Reyes SS Pagan RF Wright 3B Beltran CF Davis 1B Bay LF Barajas C Cora 2B Niese P VERSUS Young CF Ojeda SS Upton RF Montero C Reynolds 3B Ryal 1B Abreu 2B Gillespie LF Haren P

Edgy DC wrote: Does anybody want to bail him out and come up with that last? Yes, isn't anybody going to Bob for answers? Bail me out -- or something.

This thread title makes me think Big Pelf is going up against that nice lady from the old coffee commercials... ...and is probably losing.

Gwreck wrote: "...the most exciting day of my baseball career was he day I got traded to the Mets, because it was my childhood team growing up, and my second-favorite day was when I got traded away, partly because I didn't have such a good second year." Seeing as how he was traded to Colorado for Armando Reynoso the same day the Mets sent Rico Brogna to Philly for Toby Borland and Ricardo Jordan, I can honestly say Jerry DiPoto's second-favorite day of his baseball career was the highlight of my November 27, 1996.

Dickey 3.5 Thole 2.0 Pagan 2.0 Parnell 1.0 Reyes 0.5

He is, according to Adam Rubin. Tried and true '70s Mets fan, a fact that escaped me as I rued him in the '90s. The office of the interim general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks is decorated with New York Mets memorabilia. Well, more precisely, Tom Seaver memorabilia. Jerry DiPoto, who grew up in Toms River, N.J., and pitched as a reliever for the Mets in 1995 and �96, grew up a fan of the organization. He even named a son Jonah Seaver DiPoto after the Hall of Fame pitcher. DiPoto was named interim GM of the Diamondbacks this month, when Josh Byrnes was fired. "I've actually developed a little relationship in the years since, particularly toward the tail end of my years with the Mets," DiPoto said, referring to Seaver. "He wrote a letter to my son essentially giving him permission to wear the number 41 should he ever get to the big leagues and play for the Mets. So that hangs over my son�s bed, although he probably isn�t aware of the significance of number 41. Now he almost 14 years old. It�s something if you asked him to name the first baseball player that came to his mind, he might not say me. He might say Tom Seaver, because it�s been drilled into his head." It doesn't end with the Franchise. His favorite players -- aside, of course, from Seaver? �Lee Mazzilli, Steve Henderson, Buddy Harrelson,� DiPoto said. �There was a crew of Mets players that kind of stuck together for a while in the period shortly after free agency began that I certainly had an affinity for, and I still do.�

Edgy DC wrote: Good job on Neal. Were you mentally searching through Casey's kids? With Justin Turner emerging as the 141st third baseman in Mets history, I was reminded anew there were a lot of early Met infielders who did a rotation at third despite being thought of as second basemen or shortstops. Neal crossed my mind yesterday, today's hints drove him home.

Snakes in the grass: Young CF Johnson 2B Upton RF LaRoche 1B Reynolds 3B Drew SS Snyder C Parra LF Enright P

The awesome guy who did none of it for the Mets was Charlie Neal. I looked up the other guy out of curiosity so I won't reveal it, but will add the clue that you probably wouldn't think of him as a starter.

Reyes SS Pagan RF Wright 3B Beltran CF Davis 1B Bay LF Thole C Castillo 2B Dickey P

Deducing (if that's the right word) that the first of his kind guy is the Virgin Islands' own Joe Christopher.

The guy involved with the phantom Met is Doug Flynn, whom I had answered upthread, 2B & SS.

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Fman99 wrote: Seriously, she barely outlasted Gary Mathews Jr. What a sissy. Maybe she'll be back in eight years.

We now KTE far too well.

UnKnown Enemies Young cf Johnson 2b Upton rf Montero c LaRoche 1b Reynolds 3b Drew ss Parra lf Kennedy p

The 2001 edition consisted of true American heroes.