stevejrogers

Lefty Specialist wrote: Well, forget about getting rid of the anthem- it'll never happen. It's too ingrained. I just think it should be played by the organist (or tape of the organist) and let the fans sing if they want to. You don't need a different minor celebrity/amateur opera singer/local barbershop quartet to sing it every game, which is where the bloopers come in. I also think military flyovers of sporting events should be banned, but that's just me. I know the MFY are hated for their traditions, but they do have it right with frequently trotting out a recording and a video montage of MFY Fan Robert Merrill for anthem performing duties.

=ashie62 post_id=143030 time=1702727972 user_id=90] I'd prefer to hear Fman sing and play Squeeze Box before the game

Seaver traded his Sox on June 29th Carlton signed with Chicago on August 12th

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I am too. I thought they had closed that loophole. Considering Bobby Bonilla Day has been an annual meme to troll Met fans with for well over a decade now, yeah I thought the more extreme versions of the practice going forward would have been curtailed a bit.

But…ummm…I can't seem to find any evidence of rumors of an addiction to alcohol ruining his career.

Oh, Lance Johnson

=Cowtipper post_id=142642 time=1702266638 user_id=166] Number 4 is neither Swoboda or Allen. It might have been an outfielder who had one big year in New York.

There are too many to chose from in #5! LOL

I'm torn between Neil Allen and Ron Swoboda for #4? But I've never heard Swoboda had drinking issues.

5 is Pat Zachary

Oh good, now knee jerk “it's not my money” stans and those pissed that Cohen isn't acting like 1980s George Steinbrenner have hope for a reverse Correa!

=metirish post_id=142566 time=1702154843 user_id=72] It's absolutely nuts , glad it's not the Mets in for that

a prospect that will amount to nothing because most Yankee prospects do This moron realizes that a 1980s “one that got away” for the MFYs actually made the baseball HOF this past summer? Actually you can apply “most…prospects do” to every franchise. But it is easier to wait out a Boras client's contract year than it is to fork over a recently replenished farm's trade bait pieces in the hopes that the benefit of a fire sale can turn into a Mike Piazza, who, IIRC, did not actually file for free agency!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Bob Gibson!

5 is Mike Vail

5 is Tommie Davis

=Cowtipper post_id=142223 time=1701735099 user_id=166] I see where you're going, but we're not quite there. Note 'Omaha' and 'coaching' in the poem. The individual might or might not have been from Omaha and he might or might not have coached for New York.

The traded for a restauranteur and being seen across town hints for the current #4 point towards Ken Singleton, but he was far from being the first big bat the Mets' farm ever produced.

Results of the Contemporary Baseball Era Managers/Executives/Umpires Ballot (12 votes needed for election): Jim Leyland (15 votes, 93.8%); Lou Piniella (11 votes, 68.8%); Bill White (10 votes, 62.5%); Cito Gaston, Davey Johnson, Ed Montague, Hank Peters and Joe West each received less than five votes.

Lou as an "Of Course Not!"??? Help me, Rhonda. Give me a rational basis for this firm opinion of mine. You're on your own there! WS winner with the Reds Managed the Mariners during their most successful era, not saying much but it is what it is, including the record setting 2001. Went to the postseason back-to-back years with the Cubs. Tampa wasn't a total disaster, even though it's his lone sub .500 stop If anything his Yankee tenure is akin to Torre's Mets days. It's over .500 due to the talent on the MFY roster of the late 1980s, but it is in the sense that nothing suggested what he'd be once he left.

Leyland with 15 votes is the only one who gets in

Edgy MD wrote: Three appears to be John Stearns, but I didn't know Denver was known for its misery. I thought it was known for its funky airport terminal design. I have a feeling the author was referring to various Denver Bronco/John Elway related defeats over the years

Surname has to be Alomar

Gary Carter

The "Tourists Will Go To the Games" argument is specious. E.g., I'm a Jets fan (sigh). I'm hoping to go to LV this November when the Jets play the Raiders. I'll travel to see the Mets but I doubt that I would go to a summer series in LV. Maybe the ballpark will be enclosed but you have to step into the 110-degree temperature at some point. FWIW, transients/tourists might be more annoying there than Tampa/Miami have ever been. I was down there for the Giants game vs the Raiders, and watched it from a heated outdoor pool amphitheater that was connected to a Freemont Street resort's sports book. The game was set to start after a game ended, rather than deferring to a home team's fanbase. And it stayed in a couple of side screens while the Eagles vs Cowboys 4pm start took over the main big screen. Yeah the Cowboys are “America's Team” and probably consider the entire Southwest as their primary territory, and the game was against the top two NFC East teams while the Raiders had just made a coaching change, and the Giants are plain awful. But still, one would have thought that you are in the city of an NFL team, they get preferential treatment on establishments' bigger screens. Oh well. Vegas bars and the like do push the idea that they are Raider Nation friendly though with window/wall decals, signs and the like.