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=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=88640 time=1649377486 user_id=119] I like Marte so far. Let's see if he steals second.

Mighty Max getting a nice welcome back before he does what he'll do tomorrow!

Stengel's number was officially mothballed 9/2/1965 as he retired following his hip injury. It takes until 8/8/70 for the Yankees to do the honors, though all talk about Met trolling aside, possibly they wanted to get #7 retired before other numbers. Quick Google-Fu suggests though that it was his first time in Yankee Stadium (I guess aside from Mayor's Trophy games) since his firing. So that goes towards an “in part trolling” theory.

The Franchise That Shall Not Be Named is also set to honor Gil. Haven't seen official word that #14 will be officially mothballed yet, and they also have a HOFer commemorative bobble on their SGA slate this year. I really hope the Hall doesn't go the route of no logo on Gil's plaque. He's in as the first baseman for the Boys of Summer era Brooklyn Dodgers. Why WOULDN'T he have a stylized B on his plaque's cap? Mention the Amazin's of 1969 in the plaque text, sure, but from the overall baseball standpoint, he's more known as a Brooklyn Dodger.

Certainly is a big restaurant with an island bar space with a back private party room on the property is readily available for a new tenant!

Technically Ewing, Cronin, Kelley, Gordon and Tinker are in as players. For some reason O'Neil is in as an all-encompassing exec/pioneer.

Frayed Knot wrote:

I'm more saddened that he allowed his daughter to be seduced by The Dark Side!

Some chryon writer at WPIX news had Mookie Wilson on the mind! Pop Culture Pros Group | I don’t remember a guy named Jet Fuel Prices... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM I don’t remember a guy named Jet Fuel Prices Spike playing for the Mets. A long time too. Pop Culture Pros Group | I don’t remember a guy named Jet Fuel Prices... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM I don’t remember a guy named Jet Fuel Prices Spike playing for the Mets. A long time too.

Meanwhile, the next Wrigley Field statue is apparently chilling in Ferguson Jenkins' garage! https://twitter.com/fergieajenkins/status/1496640363263627265?s=21https://twitter.com/fergieajenkins/status/1496640363263627265?s=21 On a more Metly note, on a recent Instagram post, Lunchbucket did spot preparations being made in a spot across from The Apple at Citi Field.

=G-Fafif post_id=86091 time=1645473846 user_id=55] Upper Deck wast he title sponsor at Shea in 1992 and 1993. Equitable had it through at least 1990.

When did Upper Deck enter the picture? They were the all encompassing sponsor for a few years in the early-mid 1990s. Complete with neat 8x10 stadium giveaway collectables. Hey BatMags, certainly a size Typewriter cards should look into…well, if we end up HAVING the event as scheduled!

Edgy MD wrote: Thirdly, to the extent that it is looked at as no big deal, it's a closed book from 37 years ago. I'm trying to considering what a reporter's role is when it is current information he discovers on his beat. As for "no big deal," the choices made by that team left behind a lot of human wreckage. It still does. It is, in fact it is the human wreckage of a young man's fatal fentanyl overdose that has Harvey in court in the first place. I'm not looking for Harvey's head on a platter here, but yeah, I don't know that a reporter is doing his or her job if he or she sits on that story. And as (mostly) a fan of Adam Rubin's work, I'd like the conversation to go beyond "I'll say this and stop." I agree, but a point I was trying to make in the word salad was the notion of how at least cocaine and marijuana are seen as on the level of alcohol in terms of “acceptable” recreational drugs. Hell weed is legal in quite a few states now. Which, and while I agree with FK it could have been told to Rubin in confidence, with an agreement not to discuss it, probably leads situations like “I don't think this guy is handling his high well at all” to be sat on until legal and/or horrific personal consequences start to arise.

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=85888 time=1644960617 user_id=119] Had he reported about it at the time, getting it out there might have forced changes that saved Harvey's career. I don't know of drug use contributed to his arm and chest issues, but they sure aren't good for you. Seems odd that reporters will go to the mat to beat the truth out of people about if Lindor and McNeill were really looking at a raccoon when they were obviously fighting, but not about something like this.

Edgy MD wrote: Well, there's a middle ground between ignore and "jump at the first whisper of an issue," and that's pursuing the facts and reporting responsibly. Whatever the Mets source gave him was probably officially off the record, but it's still information you can follow up on. I am certainly sympathetic to the idea that it's a "private matter," but when it's a public figure and you have information about an illegalmatter that is affecting his public performance of a job people have an investment in, that can change. I don't know at what point it changes, but presumably, there's something like an authoritative journalistic playbook that clarifies that. Anyhow, it's certainly something I'm curious about. Fair enough that illegal recreational drugs like coke, meth, weed, heroin, etc should carry more weight when hearing “there's a problem here” than alcohol. But at the same time, as far as anyone knows, Lenny, Doc and Darryl were the only members of the 1986 Mets that could not handle the highs of substance abuse, or keep things off of the law's radar. So that year's team copious drug use is still looked at in “no big deal” veins, including wondering if it's the ticket for current rosters to get over the hump! Never mind this summer the Mets are supposed to retiring the number of a guy they got dirt cheap from a division rival due to his love of cocaine, despite never once, that we know of, entering rehab or at least acknowledging that it was a crippling “habit” and his life has been improved since not using it as regularly as he did during his playing days. There certainly is a mass pop culture trend, well it's been in place since music artists of the 1930s to make less hard rec drugs like coke and weed be on the same level as alcohol when it comes to how serious addictions of them that aren't destructive to the user and/or others should be taken, I mean look at how many states now legalize weed. So IDK, the point still stands that it was more along the lines of a “has the line (no pun intended) been crossed yet where this has to be exposed by someone in my beat reporter position” than something happening with graver, and more legal consequences.

Edgy MD wrote: Is it the reporter's role to sit on such information or to pursue and report? I realize it's not his gig anymore, but I'm not sure "I'll say this and then stop" works. On the Devil's Advocate side, it probably is a “behind closed doors” until it becomes a legal issue or a flunked MLB drug test issue. Once it becomes a bigger story than say one fucked up night and miscommunications then it's no longer a case of “well, he's barely handling it, but it seems he's handling his high.” So I can see why journalists covering the team saw it more of a private matter than something you'd see Deadspin or TMZ jump at the first whisper of an issue.

- Players say no way Jose*. *Not sure if this part happened yet, but my guess is it will. ESPN has reported that we have in fact entered this stage. *sigh*

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: David Green. He was the Nicaraguan outfielder compared to Willie Mays with a better am, Andre Dawson with more speed, etc when he was on the way up. Key figure in the trade for not one but two Hall of Famers when he went from the Brewers system to the Cardinals' for Ted Simmons and Rollie Fingers. There he played an important part in Mets history: the Cardinals needed to make room for him in the outfield, so they traded Keith Hernandez and put George Hendrick at 1st. All that and then he drank himself into obscurity. Also was added to replace an injured Jack Clark for the Red Birds 1987 postseason run.

=nymr83 post_id=85261 time=1643388979 user_id=54] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=85245 time=1643348845 user_id=68] =nymr83 post_id=85244 time=1643346483 user_id=54] Unpopular opinion here: David Wright is not a Hall of Famer.

=kcmets post_id=84826 time=1642611129 user_id=53] Writing in Jethro Tull next time I get a say so. Put all the cheaters in and let's be done with it. Pete Rose's speech and a few of the others will be be priceless humor-wise.

Surface level Google search is coming up empty when it comes to anything of a current relationship with Sutter and the Cubs. No pieces on a frosty relationship like Piazza and the Dodgers, but conversely no images or articles of him back at Wrigley for any kind of ceremony, or any Cub alumni related function. Hmmmm

Before 2020 there were rumblings about the potential of a Smith number retirement. Maybe Sutter going in as a RedBird made things moot about retiring #42 in his honor.

Rollie Fingers

Wade Boggs

The most recent one before, we assume anyway, Gil joins the group Roy Halladay Blue Jays/Phillies