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Come on Wags, 2 outs, no post HR jitters like this guy The fellow who replaced you in Houston

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Lima wore it this year. Right! I tried to block Lima's apperances this year out of my mind...

Just noticed that #17 has not been issued as of yet this season, last to have it was Dae Sung Koo last year... I know Mex made some comments, but I assume they were in jest as he has been working with the Mets off-and-on for a while now and seen a bunch of players suit up in his #17 And #8 has been kept out of circulation since Desi Relaford in 2001 #8 actually is listed for roving Catching Instructor Gary Carter but that generally never has stopped big clubs from doubling up for instructors and special Spring Training Instructors Hmmmm. Big Anniversary tribute on August 19th... Hmmmm... Like I said, this is just idle speculation on my part

See the fellow in your post avatar. Yeah nothing we can do, just being sentimental I guess

smg58 wrote: OK, Piazza owns Pedro like he owned Clemens. If we face the Padres again in October, we need to keep that in mind. Pedro isn't as pyschotic as Roid-ger but he can send messages, hell he SENT a message to Mikey all the way back in 1998! http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=5796

The Mets will be wearing these during the weekend set against the Rockies. Not sure for the whole series or just for the Saturday celebration Also available for sale are a Reyes, Martinez, Delgado, Lo Duca (grrrr) and Beltran uni As it looks, the correct styles are all there: Pullover, 25 anniversary patch, name was on a nameplate not stitched into the uni, ect Unlike the last time the Mets did the 86 throwback in July 15th of 2002: No sign of a patch and I'm pretty sure the names were stitched rather than nameplated, so it looked more like a 1988 tribute! Trying to remeber the other throwback days the Mets have done. JD, I know you are more a numbers guy, but is there a repository for dates and the unis they were tributing? I know they had a 1962 retro right at the start of the craze (1992) against the Reds and caught some flack for the lettering being off or something IIRC Also I know in 1999 the Marlins did one flashing back to Miami's minor league days in 1969 and the Mets suited up in 1969 Road Greys and the Mets have taken part in a number of Negro League tributes both at home and on the road, usually as the New York Cuban Giants Anyway, I should be there for the Saturday game, camera will be brought and clicking away!

Awww, for old times sakes

="Edgy DC"]="cooby"]="seawolf17"]="seawolf17"] Lastings: Hey, Dave! Who's the old guy? This is a very cute picture and caption Dave looks about 13 years old. Yeah, it looks very much like one of those staged "first meetings" pictures

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I just received the following e-mail: ]Good afternoon: About 10-15 years ago I seem to recall watching a NY Mets VHS video which contained a song with all of the names of the Mets who had played 3rd base up to that time. It sounded like a Terry Cashman song, but I've yet to be able to locate it again. Any ideas? Thanks for the help. Anybody remember this? It vaguely rings a bell for me. Yup. Its on the original version of the "An Amazin' Era" video. Sadly I presume its out of print and the only versions I've found at local libraries is an updated version released in 1989 (although the copyright still says 1986) The second version omits this song (there may have been a couple other songs I'm not sure) which I don't think had an official title, probably just "89 Guys On Third For The Mets" or some thing Also the second version has highlights from the 86 postseason, a small bit on the 87-88 regular season. There is an unintentionally funny error in the 87 sequence because the narrator mentions injuries to the pitching staff "including Cone" So if you didn't know who David Cone was you'd be "Uh, wha?" Anyway, since the copyright date on both videos says 1986 and same run time, its pot luck in terms of which one you get

MFS62 wrote:Steve, I interpret those comments to mean that he doesn't think Mike's numbers stack up to HOF credentials, especially if he played another position. LaterOh of course, but if we are going to go by that, only OFers, Mike Schmidt, George Brett, Lou Gehrig and maybe Johnny Bench are left in the Hall

This actually falls under "So, you think you are a sportswriter playing a TV/Radio commentator!"From ESPN's Cold Pizza, Skip Bayless interjected this beaut in a conversation about which team's cap Piazza would wear in Cooperstown:]"I don't think Piazza deserves to be in the HOF. If he wasn't a catcher, we wouldn't even be having this discussion."HAHAHAHA!!!Basically Skipper makes the rather overated argument about Piazza's horrible catching ablilty which, as always, is based on his bad throwing arm. Like thats the only way you can judge a catcher's ability! Not to mention how overated SBs are to begin with, but thats another story!

Elster88 wrote: Oh and by the way that entire article is bullshit, since it's entirely based upon the premise that the Mets would've paid the same amount that Texas did. If they had signed ARod it would've been for a lot less. Not to mention that that was....oh....five years ago. It's time for another game of "I have no idea what to write about so let's bash ARod." Yup. I put this up because its a departure from Matthews' stance that the non-tender is the worse "transaction" in Met history (personally I'll put the Vlad Gurerrero mess over it) Also the factors surrounding what the Mets could and could not do are unknown. Hampton probably would still have been gone and we'd still have the opportunity to draft Wright. Who is to say Reyes would be able to play 2nd in the minors rather than learning on the fly when the Mets signed Matsui ect... And of course given what has happened the last two plus years, whos to say ARod would have the same relationship with Met fans that he currently has with Yankee fan. Though the one caveat of course is no Jeter factor, but still Met fans are just as harsh to the player they see underperforming (see Beltran, Carlos 2005) Hell, if ARod and Buck clashed horribly in Arlington, I'd hate to think of the combo of ARod and Bobby V! You have a known sulky diva who wants to be loved by everyone and a manager than will say whatever is on his mind. Great possiblity that either Valentine or ARod would be gone by mid-season, and Met fans would want the World Series appearing manager over a sulking, over paid super star. Thats the problem with alot of declarations of "Worse move ever made" usually the opinion maker doesn't take every aspect into account and just blindly makes a black-and-white generalization based soley on an agrument that everything else will remain constant.

Wally Matthews finally stops chirping on how bad of a deal it was that the Mets failed to go after Pay-Rod ] Wallace Matthews Phillips did Mets a favor Finally, Mets fans have a reason to thank Steve Phillips. The 2006 NL East-leading, possibly World Series-bound New York Mets, generally believed to be an Omar Minaya production, could not possibly be the team they are today if not for a move Minaya's predecessor, twice-removed, decided not to make nearly six years ago. That was when Phillips, invoking the infamous "24-and-1" tag, declined to make an offer to Alex Rodriguez. The ostensible reason was A-Rod's "selfishness," as embodied in agent Scott Boras' alleged demands for a private jet, his own office and a merchandising tent on the premises at Shea that would deal exclusively in All Things Alex. And oh, yeah, there was that business of money, as in $25 million a year for 10 long years. Whatever the real reasons, Phillips took the bullet for his employer and said no thanks. Rodriguez went to Texas when Tom Hicks agreed to give him $252 million for a decade of service. Now A-Rod suffers in the Bronx as the hapless target of spoiled Yankees fans for whom he can do no right. Meanwhile, everyone in Flushing continues to reap the benefits of the move Phillips chose not to make. Since 2000, the Mets have signed Tom Glavine, Pedro Martinez, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Billy Wagner, Jose Reyes and, as of yesterday, David Wright. Phillips got canned, but he still gets to play GM nightly on a TV show. Plus, he gets to continue ragging on A-Rod from the safety of a studio. Can you imagine how different this might have turned out had Phillips marched into Fred Wilpon's office two months after the Mets were overwhelmed by the Yankees in the 2000 World Series and convinced his boss to sign A-Rod? Wilpon's wallet would have tightened up like A-Rod with men on base had he committed to 10 years at $25 million per. Consequently, no Glavine, no Pedro, neither of the Carloses and no Wagner. As for Reyes and Wright? Well, because each of them plays a position also played by A-Rod, at least one, if not both of them, probably would be playing elsewhere. Yesterday's announcement that the Mets had signed Wright to a six-year, $55-million contract extension, three days after tying up Reyes for four years at approximately $5.8 million per, means that if you like this team the way it is, you're in luck. The multiyear deals given to Wright and Reyes, as well as Martinez (four years, $53 million), Beltran (seven years, $119 million), Delgado (four years, $52 million) and Wagner (four years, $43 million) guarantees the core of this team will be together through the 2009 season, barring a salary dump at a future trading deadline. It also means that the Mets have committed about $345 million for six key players. When you consider that if not for the want of a merchandising tent, three-quarters of that money could have gone to A-Rod, you say a prayer of thanks that a visionary such as Steve Phillips stopped to impart his wisdom in Flushing, however briefly. Meanwhile, it is Minaya who is taking the bows. So what if he panicked at the deadline, giving away Xavier Nady, his everyday rightfielder, for a 41-year-old reliever and a kid pitcher who looks like damaged goods? In the past three days, he recovered nicely. Before last night's 8-1 blowout of the Phillies at Shea, a game in which Reyes earned his dough with a fourth-inning grand slam and Wright did OK with an RBI double, the GM was all smiles as he announced Wright's deal. "If you're a fan today," Minaya said, "you can buy a lot of David Wright and Jose Reyes jerseys and know they're going to be here for a long time." Minaya opened negotiations with Wright's agents last week but had the misfortune of closing the deal just moments after Wright made a spectacular diving stop on a hot grounder in the ninth inning that would have tied Saturday's game. "I think that play cost me a couple of million," Minaya said with a laugh. It is not Minaya's money, of course, but Wilpon's, and he was careful to thank his boss for providing the means with which to build what so far shapes up as the best Mets team in 20 years. The man he really should have thanked was Phillips. He may not have known what he was doing, but he did it well.

A 4th one should be added in a combo of 40 Met wins and 2nd place team losses!

="Edgy DC"]Official locker room celebration? You're losing me, Steve. The official caps that the Mets wore when they clinched the 1999 and 2000 Wild Card slots and the 2000 NL Championship

Nymr83 wrote: the yankees seem to have jerseys and hats in every color and its annoying...especially the blue ones (Mets0 and the red ones (Red Sox), how could a "fan' ever wear those? Worse than that, how about the variations, ie PINSTRIPED HATS, some sort of jagged edge design, ect. Again, this crap is for gang colors and women. Two demos that probably would have a hard time naming Nick Green and Aaron Guile let alone second tier players like Melky Cabrera and Kyle Farnsworth! Essentially the Yellow Yankee hats are there for Latin Kings to represent the Yankees. Pure example of what I mean, saw someone in a Pirate hat once, I said "Hey Pirates look good this year" (this was a few years back, when Benson and crew looked like they were going to turn a corner) the guy gave a standard "Yeah huh..." Probably wouldn't know who Kris Benson was if he and Anna were doing it right in front of him! So why buy something with a P or a Pirates secondary logo on it when you can buy the interlocking NYs

="Willets Point"] You are a bad man Willets = Get jiggy with that jug...

ScarletKnight41 wrote: A Cranepooler was telling me just this morning how Sports Authority was selling MFYs caps that were Blue and Orange. Granted, our colors are better than theirs. But they should just have the class to live with what they're stuck with. Oooooooh! Thats another rant of mine! Lets just say I believe that if it isn't something worn in an official game or an official locker room celebration then it should not be worn by a true FAN! Reason for crap like that though, is strictly A) Gang colors and for the female persuasion (no offense Coob and SK) to wear a shirt or hat that "fits" their particular look of the day. In other words MFY the strict Navy Blue cap with the Interlocking WHITE NY with the MLB logo on that back. And if you want to honor America, there are those available with the flag stiched in on THE SIDE! Ditto with the Mets: Either strict blue with the orange NY, later with the orange button on top. That one-and-done white top cap with a blue brim, the all black cap and the black with blue brim! THATS IT! Various Spring Training caps and special ASG, WS and American Flag versions aside, those 5 caps are the ONLY caps ever worn by the New York Met franchise for over 44 years now and the ONLY caps fans SHOULD WEAR! Or at least I would wear anyway =

Edgy DC wrote: Have I told you how much I hate "replica" Yankee t-shirts --- but especially "authentic-looking" jerseys, that have the fave player's name on the back, rendering it actually less than authentic? I think I have. Haven't I? Well, I hate that. Yup. Heard great radio rants about it "Oh, thank you for letting me know who #2 on the Yankees is, I'd never know that its Jeter" Actually, whats worse is someone taking a real authentic jersey with a number, and putting their name or something on it. Geez wiz! I mean really, its quite disrespectfull when you think about it. Like if you see someone in a 41 vintage Met jersey you think "Yeah, Tom Seaver" and you see on that back it says "Grabowski" or something. Its more alarming for a Yankee jersey because they have No Name...Of Course (sorry, had to say it that way) Perfect example, I saw someone with a 7 Yankee jersey, but he had his name on the back! I went up to him and said "If you put ANY name on that jersey, it should only be MANTLE!" The guy looked at me and said that it was his name, and he wears 7 in softball games. I didn't want to respond. But those Yankee-pinstriped faux-jerseys with the Names on back are disgusting, then again, thats probably why it seems that the majority people I see with them on are causual fans, or fans there just to be "seen" and think "Boy I'm wearing player X's jersey, I'm a real fan!" No, you just spent 20-30 bucks on a glorified batting practice shirt! (you know, the Tee-shirts, though I've heard them (both Mets and Yankees) being called "Jerseys" for some reason)

"At least tried" is the key word. Seeing what the big deal was. I can see that Hell look at cards from that era, half the players looked stoned or high or something. Maybe it was the lighting of the cards or something, but its something that was very prevelant during those years Even Tim Teufel here looks like he's been on a binge

July 24-26 vs. CHC Rotblatt Never received, lost the first game, lost the series July 28-30 @ ATL Vic Sage Got it, Braves are swept August 1-3 @ FLA TheOldMole Never received by Mole, a EEE was put up and we lost the first game, and the series August 4-6 vs. PHI 86-Dreamer Lost the first game, still won the series though Sat was dicey August 8-10 vs. SD duan Seeing a disturbing trend. Duan, you up for this?

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Who is MK's misguided friend?

Elster88 wrote: Which is, of course, not moving at all, but funny. Heh, has there been ANY Yankee championship accomplished since clinching the 1996 AL East Division that hasn't been treated as a great "Human Interest Story" especially with a Torre connection?

seawolf17 wrote: ="Willets Point"]I just grumpy hearing that the Yankees pitching sucks, hearing that they have several catastrophic injuries The injury thing is the one that bothers the ever-living fuck out of me this season. (And I think I've mentioned it here before.) Hey MFY Fan... SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT THE INJURIES. EVERY team has injuries, and just because you lost two outfielders -- and replaced one of them with a former All-Star for basically nothing -- doesn't make you any fucking worse off than any other team. Has Jeter been hurt? Giambi? Unit? A-Rod? Mussina? Damon? Wang? Rivera? Torre been sick and missed a bunch of games? I didn't fucking think so. So STFU. Excellent point. If the Sox weren't the Sox, or if they've been trailing the whole year, you'd be hearing the same stuff that you hear about the Mets. Pretty much, yeah we got the division locked up, but how are are we going to go in the playoffs with our pitching in the state its in?