Jump to content
Grand Central Mets
  • Create Account

stevejrogers

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,281

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

 Content Type 

Profiles

News

New York Mets Videos

2026 New York Mets Top Prospects Ranking

New York Mets Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

The New York Mets Players Project

2026 New York Mets Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by stevejrogers

  1. stevejrogers
    That actually is why the committees got overhauled! https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1719157-baseball-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-2013-complete-highlights-and-reaction
  2. stevejrogers
    https://bsky.app/profile/christinakahrl.bsky.social/post/3m7gseygtwk2a Bay Area reporter, I probably just read too much into her use of the word “domestic” and assumed both the car washing and eventual motorcycle excuses were covers for a darker story.
  3. stevejrogers
    It's funny to me that this trade isn't cited in any list of worst Mets trades of all time. Trading a future Hall of Famer for a washed up Carlos Baerga has to be up there. I think part of it is because it was so well received at the time, and it took us a while for us to realize how bad the trade was. Though in fairness, we should have known right away. Kent hit 29 HRS the year after the trade and never looked back. Stayed productive until almost 40 Baerga was washed up at 27. Craziness. True, but Alfonzo’s emergence, though at third not his usual second, did take the sting out of it. FWIW, I saw a journalist on BlueSky/Facebook remind followers of the domestic abuse injury that the “truck washing incident” was a cover story for. While I think that was as a Giant, not a Met, there is for sure more of a “bullet dodged” feeling with him that also overrides a ****** ass return for trading him.
  4. stevejrogers
    Yeah, I guess after reading, or listening to the audiobook, of Daybreak At Chavez Ravine, a bio on Fernando that really put forward a case of him being a “Johnny Appleseed” like figure for Latin America, and specifically the Mexican market as being enough to put him in, I thought there must be some groundswell of support from the “its the hall of FAME (ie notoriety should be as equal of a reason for induction as overall counting statistics)” and intangibles crowd. Then you had the Dodgers officially putting #34 in mothballs, which I took as a similar “GET WITH THE PROGRAM COOPERSTOWN” as with the number retirement ceremonies for Phil Rizzuto, Ron Santo and Dick Allen. Though obviously, sadly now it was pretty much “give him the Jim Gilliam treatment while he is completely able to fully take part in, and appreciate the honor, instead of AFTER his passing.”
  5. stevejrogers
    Kent got in with 14 votes Delgado was next with 9, Mattingly and Murphy tied with 6, and the other four had fewer than 5 votes.
  6. stevejrogers
    https://www.fmsfranchise.com/mcfaddens-restaurant-franchise/ Looks like they had 17 at their peak.
  7. stevejrogers
    That was the allure of McFaddens, until it became tourist trap for sports bar loving fanboys. I can't imagine a brand of tourism that includes McFadden's. "We have come all the way from Topeka! From Glascow! From Seoul! But our time in New York will be for naught if we don't see McFadden's!" Confusing it with McSorley’s? FWIW, the Citi Field location was part of a sports bar expansion effort that included Philly, Pittsburgh, Nashville, etc. All, except for Pittsburgh shuttered around the time the original, by Grand Central in midtown Manhattan, abruptly closed. Tourist Trap was more along the lines of “oh, its a sports bar trying to be an “authentic Irish Tavern/Gastropub,” and its walking distance from the sports and performance venue arena(s)” Not necessarily in terms of the branding being “must go to this famous noted restaurant/club/bar/etc when in town.”
  8. stevejrogers
    Just be glad a huge guitar structure, like the one in South Florida, isn’t in the plans! BTW, at night laser light beams shoot up to create a illuminated, elongated neck
  9. stevejrogers
    That was the allure of McFaddens, until it became tourist trap for sports bar loving fanboys.
  10. stevejrogers
    Daryl Boston?
  11. stevejrogers
    Cespedes?
  12. stevejrogers
    Jose Bautista?
  13. stevejrogers
    The load times are making me think of this:
  14. stevejrogers
    One way to find out would be to sign up with our old handles and see how quickly someone chimes in with, "Are you the same ******* who used to post on MOFO back around the turn of the century?" Worked for me!
  15. stevejrogers
    https://metsrefugees.com/ I don’t recognize any names. Unless they all have new handles. Doing some digging, looks like its more of a splinter from an old ESPN forum section, I was “outed” as being the SJR from the MoFo, and there are a couple of MoFoites over there. So that was where my bad assumption was from *shrug* It is very active for a nice old school alternative to modern day social media platform “groups” “sub forums of the platform” and “hashtags to follow” Though I like places like Discord for that real old school feel, while on a device app platform
  16. stevejrogers
    Sandy Alomar Jr
  17. stevejrogers
    Gene Woodling?
  18. stevejrogers
    Bret Saberhagen?
  19. stevejrogers
    https://metsrefugees.com/
  20. stevejrogers
    Oddly I do know of one other Met one that is about as active as this one. Also a refugee of the old MoFo of yore. I would like to know more please MetsRefugees
  21. stevejrogers
    Yeah, but no one is clamoring that Lee’s boyhood home be kept as a shrine and tourist attraction museum!
  22. stevejrogers
    FYI the only posthumous induction since the 2010 relaunch was Al Jackson getting the achievement award in 2021 (passed away in 2019) Others Casey Stengel 1981, died 1975 Joan Payson 1981, died 1975 Gil Hodges 1982, died 1972 George Weiss 1982, died 1972 Johnny Murphy 1983, died 1970 Tommie Agee 2002, died 2001
  23. stevejrogers
    Oddly I do know of one other Met one that is about as active as this one. Also a refugee of the old MoFo of yore.
  24. stevejrogers
    Dude, someone is just tired of your ****. How is this different than blocking trolls on X, Truth Social, BlueSky, etc?
  25. stevejrogers
    Take it to the Red Light Forum then. Edgardo Alfonzo How is blocking someone you’d rather not see on your internet device screen, anywhere (here, other social media platforms, etc) a form of discrimination and bigotry?
×
×
  • Create New...