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Lugo to paternity leave, Dom returns.

Everybody good enough to play for the team buried in last place, step forward. Not so fast there, Strange-Gordon…

Four-game Series. Brooms have a way to go, mainly through Alcantra.

=Fman99 post_id=96573 time=1655604618 user_id=86] =G-Fafif post_id=61176 time=1618667351 user_id=55] I'm 37 Down in today's NYT puzzle.

Nice report from the Citi Field stands on what it was like to have Pride Night speak to you. It's a night that, for Mets teams prior, and even other teams this year, was lip service, a way to appease a certain section of the fan base but something that is more marketing than actual outreach and engagement with the LGBTQ+ community. But this year, it felt different. I went to Pride Night last year, as well, and while I thought they did a pretty good job last year, this year felt above and beyond. It felt celebratory and truly heartfelt, not just rainbow capitalism but an actual genuine attempt at connection with a community that has been ostracized by baseball many times before, and even by the Mets themselves. And while I can practically feel some people rolling their eyes at this—“oh, this sucker FELL for it?”—of course I realize this is good public relations and an easy win. But between the sale of Pride gear sending the proceeds to the Amazin' Mets Foundation, and the full embrace by the players when they very easily could've just said the bare minimum (or even less than the bare minimum), the players and personnel made it clear that they do actually care. https://www.amazinavenue.com/2022/6/18/23173585/mets-pride-night-mark-canha-taijuan-walker-daniel-murphy-giants-dodgers-rays-editorialhttps://www.amazinavenue.com/2022/6/18/23173585/mets-pride-night-mark-canha-taijuan-walker-daniel-murphy-giants-dodgers-rays-editorial

My personal point of contact Francisco has homered with two on, which is awesome customer service.

Wayne Randazzo is off this weekend. Bayside's Howie Rose is joined by Sheepshead Bay's Lee Mazzilli.

Tai thanks you, too.

I received this personal invitation from the Mets a little while ago... Have Lunch with Todd Zeile Tomorrow! ...though I'm guessing it's not all that personal, since it involves buying a ticket. Definitely not as 1-to-1 as pen-palling with Brian Ostrosser.

Hunter's roster victim, 40wise, is Gosuke Katoh, DFA'd

I knew his name, then and now. One of those players considered so obscure that he's (relatively) well-known for it.

Ostrosser subbed for Harrelson in '73, so I figured he was your guy.

Brian Ostrosser?

https://twitter.com/NYPost_Mets/status/1537883367890292736 [tweet] [/tweet]

Megill has a shoulder strain, 15-day IL, shut down for four weeks.

Megill to the IL with a right shoulder strain (shut down for four weeks). Medina up. Reed optioned; Hunter takes his place (additional move to clear 40-man space is coming).

The Mets have won their last four season series from the Marlins and seven of their last eight. The Miamians may be pests, but their nettlesomeness is overcome more often than not (two Game 162s from a long time ago notwithstanding).

Marte out of the lineup tonight, expects to back in there tomorrow.

The incomparable Steve Rushin visits with three kids of baseball legends, including Irene Hodges. Irene Hodges was 18 years old when she visited her father at his shop in New York City on a fall day in 1969. A raucous workplace celebration was underway. The firm managed by Irene's dad—the Mets—had just won the World Series. Irene and her 19-year-old brother, Gil Hodges Jr., braved the crossfire of champagne corks to get to their father's office, where the silent phone on Gil Hodges's desk drew the attention of their mother, Joan. “Gil,” Joan told her husband, “you should call your mother.” Gil's mother was at home, watching the celebration on TV in Indiana, where Hodges began his long journey to secular sainthood, first as a Marine in World War II, then as a beloved member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, then as a player for the original Los Angeles Dodgers and the original New York Mets, and finally as manager of those Amazin's. Gil thought for a moment and said: “That's a long-distance call. I think I should make that one at home.” Irene Hodges is now 71 and living again in the house where she grew up, in Flatbush, where she's caring for her 95-year-old mother. It's the same split-level to which Gil Hodges returned in the 1960s after managing the Mets, in the same borough where he played first base at Ebbets Field, 75 feet from Jackie Robinson, once upon a time. “He used to walk to the stores around here,” says Irene. “He was part of the church, part of the community, did the same things anyone else would do. He'd go to the butcher, go to the supermarket. People would shake his hand, put an arm around him and say, ‘Hey, Gil, how are you? Good luck tonight; we're rooting for you.' It was never intrusive, never threatening.” It was a 20-minute drive home from Shea Stadium on that crisp Thursday afternoon 53 years ago, and Irene is now thinking of the lost world it betokened—of long-distance calls, rotary-dial phones, World Series day games and baseball at the center of attention. All of it has long since passed from this world, as has her father, but that day in 1969 keeps his memory alive. “He had just won one of the biggest World Series in New York history,” Irene says of that phone call to her grandmother. “But that didn't change the essence of the man. He was still going to do the right thing.” In his moment of professional triumph, Gil Hodges called his mother from home. Says Irene: “That's the perfect story of who my father was.” https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/06/16/kids-of-summer-daily-coverhttps://www.si.com/mlb/2022/06/16/kids-of-summer-daily-cover

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=96117 time=1655343141 user_id=119] =G-Fafif post_id=96094 time=1655336448 user_id=55] =Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=96072 time=1655319374 user_id=119] While losing Amos Otis didn't hurt them in 1969, it would have been nice to have had him on the team in 1973.

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=96072 time=1655319374 user_id=119] While losing Amos Otis didn't hurt them in 1969, it would have been nice to have had him on the team in 1973.

Nimmo CF Marte RF Lindor SS Alonso 1B McNeil 2B Escobar DH Canha LF Guillorme 3B Mazeika C Lee down. Lopez up.