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  1. Gwreck
    He sure seems to be handled very gently this year.
  2. Gwreck
    Extra innings after a day off, and still no Devin Williams. Is he hurt?
  3. Gwreck
    What about…Juan Soto?
  4. Gwreck
    I couldn’t give the year with certainty but I definitely recall a David Wright 9th inning homer in Atlanta/blown save for Kimbrel. Maybe 2012?
  5. Gwreck
    Roster moves: AJ Minter and Jared Young activated from the IL. Nick Morabito and Jonathan Pintaro optioned to AAA Tyrone Taylor to IL. Infielder Eric Wagaman added to roster/called up from Syracuse.
  6. Gwreck
    2021: Mets scored 636 runs. 27th in MLB, (13th in NL). 2022: 772 runs. 3rd in MLB (3rd in NL). 2023: 717 runs. 20th in MLB (11th in NL). 2024: 768 runs 7th in MLB (5th in NL). 2025: 766 runs. 9th in MLB (6th in NL). The Mets have regularly ranked in the upper third of the league in runs scored., across those multiple hitting coaches.
  7. Gwreck
    This is one of those things that I can’t remember exactly how or when I learned it, but I’d bet it was one of those “behind the scenes” articles about the logistics of getting the team to playoff games, possibly around the time they did that travel at the end of 2024 from Milwaukee to the double-header in Atlanta, then back to Milwaukee.
  8. Gwreck
    This isn’t exactly my area of expertise but I understand generally that since aviation is so highly regulated and tracked that there’s a lot of easily accessible info out there. Also, I don’t think Delta keeps it a great secret that Flight No. 8883 is the Mets’ flight. (The Reds are Delta #8880).
  9. Gwreck
    The Reds didn't leave Cincinnati until late afternoon and landed at Kennedy 10 minutes ago (6:43 PM). Mets are scheduled to get in to LaGuardia at 9:47 PM.
  10. Gwreck
    They almost certainly weren’t. They carry a sewing machine, extra blank jerseys, and extra letters/numbers with them on the road. The idea that a number could be giving out “accidentally” is at least possible. That said, I don’t think numbers are generally given out without thought, and it makes sense that giving out 8 could have been a trial balloon.
  11. Gwreck
    That is on Mendoza. How does a batter not know going up that he has license to challenge if there are 2 left in the top of the 9th???
  12. Gwreck
    The Mets have 2 ABS challenges left. Wtf are we doing? Challenge that second strike.
  13. Gwreck
    It depends on how the word “established” is being used. It was Ben Grimm’s post that said Stengel had “a big part of establishing the Mets.” If “established” means “created” or “in existence” then the post is accurate: New York was awarded a National League franchise and the Metropolitan Baseball Club was created well before Stengel was hired, and he didn’t have a role in “establishing” the team. If “established” means “well-known” or “prominent” or “of or relating to a set standard,” then it’s a different analysis.
  14. Gwreck
    There is a lesson to be learned about overreaction in the face of tragedy. Hodges’ number was retired shortly after his sudden passing. With a little more hindsight, that might not have happened. The Mets were hardly the only team that have had such retirements: see, e.g., Jim Umbricht of the Astros; Jim Gilliam of the Dodgers.
  15. Gwreck
    If Tong is going to start games, it is a very head-scratching move that this roster transaction happened today. Sure, Kimbrel’s not good, but if today’s game goes into extras and the Mets are a pitcher short… Or is Tong going to be a reliever?
  16. Gwreck
    How, exactly? The club was long established before Stengel was ever hired. The credit there goes to Bill Shea and Joan Payson…not Stengel. The Mets were a laughingstock their first season. And their second. And their third. I guess Stengel helped sell tickets because he was a well-known figure and a good self-promoter?
  17. Gwreck
    Hodges absolutely was the winningest and most important* manager in club history when his number was retired. Was it premature to do so in 1973? Maybe. A totally different category than retiring Stengel’s number, which was dumb from day 1. The funny thing of course is that they did number retirements perfectly for the next 45 years! You got your number retired if you were elected to the HOF (primarily) for your Mets accomplishments. It was a special level of honor, easily distinguishable from the Mets HOF or any other random thing. They even handled the 24 thing well in my view: it’s not retired, but it was only given out selectively to players who earned it (eg Rickey). And then in 2019 the Wilpons screwed it all up by retiring Koosman’s number. (The retirement didn’t happen until 2021, but the flood of new retirements was a Wilpon initiative). Yes, Cohen should have done more to halt it but he didn’t start it. —- *A decent argument can be made that he’s still the most important manager in team history.
  18. Gwreck
    Not at all. The jerk here is Howie Rose, who unfortunately has developed a wee too bit of main character syndrome in recent years, thinking he presumes to speak for all Mets fans, whole also revealing himself as a not particularly savvy user of social media.
  19. Gwreck
    Howie presuming to speak for “most” Mets fans by reading Twitter…is embarrassing for everyone involved.
  20. Gwreck
    Morabito was drafted in 2022 and Ewing in 2023, under Eppler’s tenure. Both drafted out of high school. Benge was drafted in 2024 under Stearns’ tenure, out of college.
  21. Gwreck
    There are too many Francisco Lindor games overall, but there is one Francisco Lindor Subway Series Game of course. There are also a couple eponymous games from the postseason too.
  22. Gwreck
    Gary Cohen with the double “outta here” home run call for the first time since August 2019.
  23. Gwreck
    Cockfighting came up in 2008 when video emerged of then-Met Pedro Martinez at a cockfight in 2006. Mets stated they did not condone animal cruelty but noted that in some countries, such as the D.R., it is legal and part of the culture. https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3234767 As for Diaz, he gave a quote to a Puerto Rican newspaper suggesting that he thought it is legal in P.R. (which it is not).
  24. Gwreck
    Either bone, looking at 3 months before he’d pitch in an MLB game. Decent chance he’s done for the year.
  25. Gwreck
    Rare day game at the ballpark for me. AJ Hinch got ejected after the play at third which to my eyes was clearly one that should have been overturned. Of course arguing with the field umpires after a replay call might seem pointless, but all the umpires do a shift in the replace center during the season, and when it’s so clearly wrong, I can see some value in remaining the ump here that you expect better from him when it’s his turn there. Ewing’s homer was pretty. 7 more wins to go to reach .500 …
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