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Its pretty much PCA, to a much larger, almost Ryan-esque extent today

And he’s not even the Kevin Brown I use as an example of “yeah, we really don’t give a fuck” “crack research” by, well really anyone presented with a question, but the example was a major market sports radio station! At least THAT Kevin Brown netted us Charlie O’Brien, as opposed to the future MFY bust who a caller thought was the ex-MLB Met!

LOL! To be fair future HOF who was just a couple of years removed from his most recent CY winning caliber season, and still has stuff left in the tank, Or a serviceable back of a rotation guy, a few years removed from his one-year-wonder campaign who is literally on his last legs of his career Not exactly a Sophie’s Choice scenario ;)

Last 83 starting pitcher? Please tell me it wasn’t Swanie!?

Edgy, are you controlling my ChatGPT Bot!? ”Yeah. 😂🤷🏻‍♂️ Which is honestly kind of criminal considering what that team was. A 96–43 championship club featuring Gooden, Dykstra, and a pile of future major leaguers, and nobody thought, “Hey, somebody should write this story.” At least you can win the bar argument with confidence: “I checked. There isn’t a book. I looked.” 🍻⚾️ And if somebody produces a dusty 1984 Lynchburg self-published tome from their uncle’s attic, I’ll happily eat crow. 😎”

Was Shawn Abner in the McReynolds trade?

Speaking of which, Ronnie must have been acquired by then. Though Darling44 debuts in ‘84

Another piece of the Carter trade, Floyd Youmans

3 NLCS performer? For some reason Herm Winningham (ring with ‘90 Reds) is coming to mind

Terry Blocker for the guy traded to the Braves

No doubt the future Good Doctor of Strikeouts

Orel Hershiser gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame https://youtu.be/HduzFWh51KU?is=beUj9DueKIXby6rf

Actually it was IraMets. Maybe they were one and the same? 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://grandcentralmets.com/forums/topic/79712-new-york-mets-internet-hall-of-fame-rules-and-ballot/ There was a Reds Listserv (old school email list) Hall who I swiped all the language from But the Wrestling Observer Hall really did help get my ambitiousness going with a wider, just at the start of social media apps being a thing at the time, scope of it all.

Premature. As if discussion of road trips and home stands of a sportsball team you follow a little more than half a year out was any more, or less pointless than other posts around any discussion group of internet strangers ;) FWIW, still chuckle when I see a decades long running (mid-1990s) pro-wrestling (there is a point) hall of fame created by the operator of a longer running pro-wrestling newsletter (since…I think early 1980s and legit news, not promotional storylines (I mean more like why the storyline is happening, and what probably is the outcome of it backstage (ie winner of the big match will have a title match in a few months))) and website consistently get praised as the “One True Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame” despite no physical address, or physical thing handed to inductees, or an actual ceremony. Essentially praised because of his industry connections have kept fellow legit pro-wrestling journalists, people who have worked in the industry, subscribers to his newsletter as part of the voting base, and similar rules to the BBWAA voting for the baseball Hall (including how long until someone first goes on the ballot, and how long they stay on for without an induction) Well, that actually did inspire my attempt at a Mets HOF in the mid/late aughts, and I did have connections to highfalutin Met internet personalities (Influencers years before that was a term) at the time, with potential off line (I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows another guy) connections as well. Anyway, that WHOLE PROJECT got scrapped when Mags went off the rails here, well on where the CPF was back then, with treatises on all the various “who are the voters,” “”who is watching the watchers,” “why should anyone actually care about this endeavor,” “is anyone working this with you,” etc He did have some legit points about though, hence why I thought it was a bit too ambitious to complete the launch So that does make me amused when I think of that “esteemed” online only pro-wrestling hall still plugging away, as well as various other “our hall of fames” that I see blogs, vlogs, podcasts, etc for any team or whatnot that pop up every now and then.

John Buc(canneers, arrrggghhhh matey)k played in Pittsburgh!?

Oh, Butch METZgers. Though was he here when the Mets had NOB of unis?

Would have. He died back in 2022 Clip Edgy shared is ten years old.

How about an outside the box one, Denton True Young?

Fergie Jenkins?

Also they are pursing the 1984 All Star Game program, which all four were selected for.…which reminds be I need to put that, and a ton of other ASG programs through the 1970s-early 2010s in eBay and Facebook marketplace…

Justin Verlander now officially a lock for the Baseball HOF Class of ‘31

Justin Verlander now officially a lock for the Baseball HOF Class of ‘31

Just realized the On The Road travelogue forum was gone when I posted last night about potentially snapping pics of how the Vegas A’s park construction is coming along! I’ll give someone a heads up to move the thread when its re-integrated. BTW, according to the livestream cam, right now they are just starting assembling the roof.

Spending July 4-7th in Vegas, at a resort near the stadium. So I should get some nifty pics of the construction https://ballparkexperience.athletics.com/

The book does position him as an ultimate Texan icon. So it was ambivalent in terms of his time in both NYC and Anaheim