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themetfairy wrote: Kong76 wrote: The Sat or Sun in that stupid weekend between the conference playoff finals and super bowl? Which weekend is that? Jan 29th and 30th.

Kong76 wrote: Straw's in March is fine with me ... anyone up for a January Virgil's meeting too? The Sat or Sun in that stupid weekend between the conference playoff finals and super bowl? Mmmmmmm. I'm good for that.

Sounds like a plan.

Bucket, I'd also give a local card or comic book shop a try. Sure you'd have a better shot at pawning off a box full of Superman Issue 75 from 1992* than you'd would with that lot, but hey it is still worth a shot when it comes to unloading unwanted and overproduced collections. *The legendary Death Of Superman issue. DC overproduced the darn thing and so many speculators bought it, thinking that it's value would skyrocket. It didn't, and never mind the fact that the issue can be found in quite a number of trade paperbacks that have come out through the years which I'd wouldn't be shocked if the latter had something to do with comics from the 1990s being worth far less than their predecessors from previous decades. Well, that and overproduction and over saturation of variant covers and the same sort of gimmicky crap that did in baseball cards at the same time.

metsguyinmichigan wrote: And Ian O'Connor cries himself to sleep. Nah, he and others (Kay, Heyman, Matthews, etc)already have the "yet another bad thing for Mets" and Mets must pull off something big" narratives in place. As if they thought the Mets were going to go after Lee or were going to make big splashes this offseason, when it was pretty much understood that the Mets were cutting payroll this offseason.

http://projectchildren.org/ Though, they should send you a box set rather than just one CD =

Last three tour guy did it over a span of 12 seasons, only 3 of them he was not a coach with the big club Greg Pavlick 1985-1986, 1988-1991, 1994-1996 Another technically should be considered a three tour of duty guy, but he was reinstated the next season after being fired mid-way through a season, so the media guide lists him as having one continuous tour. Tom Robson 1997-2000, 2002 Not much to say hint wise about the last one, but he has been a lifer in the Met organization for over 20 years and served for one season each with two different skippers. Bobby Floyd 2001, 2004

In a predictable article on the necessity to have Cap'n Cocky collect his 3,000th hit in MFYwear, Ben Shpigel takes a modest shot at one of the indelible milestones achieved in black, blue and orange: ...baseball history is littered with outstanding players who were essentially in the wrong uniform when they joined exclusive company � Wade Boggs (3,000th hit, Tampa Bay), Randy Johnson (300th win, San Francisco), Gary Sheffield (500th home run, Mets). My mission is not defend Sheffield's Metropolitan honor (it wasn't a big deal, but it was a perfectly fine thing when he hit it) but to wonder what uniform would have been essentially "right"? Sheff is a guy I don't particularly identify as a member of any franchise. He played his most games and years with the Marlins, but couldn't have been dumped much faster by Huizenga once he went about dismantling the 1997 champions, so I feel no real sentiment/equity for Gary in teal. Sheff wasn't a superstar in Milwaukee (a malingerer and proud of it, actually). He established himself in San Diego but didn't last two seasons there. Everywhere else among Dodgers, Braves, MFYs and Tigers was Mercenary City. Really, given the Doc connection and the rumors that always swirled about him coming here, the Mets were as good a 500th home run site for Sheffield as anywhere else. Meh, I just take it as going after the latest "milestone" coming from someone in a uniform worn for either just a couple of seasons or part of one. Not really being specific to where the player should have gotten it in. The first two mentioned, while not the vagabonds that Sheffield was could be debated in terms of what the right team they should have obtained the milestones (or cap in Cooperstown for that matter). Probably more so Red Sox with Boggs and Diamondbacks for Johnson, but you can make a decent case for MFY for Boggs and Mariners for The Unit.

No to Yogi.

Hints Last three tour guy did it over a span of 12 seasons, only 3 of them he was not a coach with the big club Another technically should be considered a three tour of duty guy, but he was reinstated the next season after being fired mid-way through a season, so the media guide lists him as having one continuous tour. Not much to say hint wise about the last one, but he has been a lifer in the Met organization for over 20 years and served for one season each with two different skippers.

Kong76 wrote: I just had a Sportschannel blazer flashback ... someone hold me. Ah yes, simpler times. When Charles Dolan's empire consisted of just a wannabe local ESPN outlet out of Long Island. How bad was Buddy on the mike? They also made Rusty Staub a player-coach that year as well.

Dallas was only a big league skipper and pitcher for the Mets.

Correct Frank Howard 1982-1984, 1994-1996 (ELBYT, Edgy) Sheriff Robinson (the first two tour of duty guy) 1964-1967, 1972 (G-Fafif) Randy Niemann 1997-1999, 2001-2002, 2009-2010 (G-Fafif) And one of the two 3 timers) Bud Harrelson 1982, 1985-1990 (Edgy) WRONG Joe Pignatano (Kase) Al Jackson (Edgy) Mike Cubbage (Ashie, and not reading my notes about Cubbage and McMillian)

Putting the cart a bit in front of the horse, but if Mookie Wilson does join Terry Collins' staff, he will be the 8th Met coach with more than 1 coaching tenure. Name the other 7. Note 1) Roy McMillian and Mike Cubbage do not count as they were only interim skippers whom went back to their regular positions when Joe Frazier and Jeff Torborg made out their respective staffs the following seasons. Note 2) Two of the 7 have made 3 separate tenures as Met coaches.

G-Fafif wrote: My buddies were mocking me for filling my top 60 list with Mets, so I had to pause the countdown and include these non-Mets of note: You handled it with aplomb, but your buddies have no soul. This rather Seaver heavy list reminds me of something I saw a huge Beatle fan FB friend do when presented with one of those "Pick Your Favorite 5" lists questions. The question, pick your 5 favorite bands that AREN'T the Beatles. His answers: Wings Plastic Ono Band Traveling Wilburys Quarrymen (I think) and the obscurest one for the win, The Dirty Mac. John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (I think that was the lineup off hand) performed as a "one off" super group on the Stones' Rock And Roll Circus television program.

American Pie. I believe McLean actually owns the trademark to the phrase or something, because he wound up with a credit!

Johnny Damon if he grew his beard back but kept his MFY/Tigers hair length?

Edgy DC wrote: The only feel I got from San Diego's Gaslamp district was a Disney one. Oh, speaking of which, Disney Land is pretty much down the street from Angels Stadium in Anaheim.

HahnSolo wrote: Convention Center is right there too. I'm supposed to be heading out there in January. Looking forward to it. I was out there this past summer for ComicCon. Friggin epic, pretty much like the Super Bowl for pop culture. The Convention Center is just massive. Beats the Javits Center here in NYC, heh I guess its places like it that really got Bloomberg wanting that Jets West Side Stadium/Convention Center so badly. It is one of those type of places that could contain something like 4-5 different events at the same time as I got the impression of ComicCon that you could literally spend the entire day in just one specific section of the Center, or even the floors themselves it was that massive of a space. Thing I love about Petco when I was out there back in July, the Padres were away in Pittsburgh playing a Wednesday afternoon game and I strolled around the exterior of the ballpark. I get to the park behind the outfield which is open year round and they invite San Diego-ians to come chill with their pets there (Petco, pets, you get the idea). Anyway, I see that on the outfield wall they were broadcasting the game from PNC! So you can chill and watch the Padres AT Petco literally all 162 games if you wanted to (as well as afford all 81 home games and all that time of course). In terms of building a faux Wrigleyville or doing it Gaslamp style? Didn't the Gaslamp district already exist at one point, erode and get rebuilt with the help of getting things like Petco and the Convention Center there? In other words it got rebuilt rather than the WP project is basically from scratch? And yeah, Wrigleyville, like the area around Fenway in Boston just grew organically over the decades, especially with them being the last of the "true" neighborhood ballparks (No, Death Star III in the South Bronx doesn't really count. Or it counts as much as you want to count Flushing/Corona as being a neighborhood for Citi). And comparatively speaking, Gaslamp vs. Wrigleyville, Gaslamp had a mid-town Manhattan feel. Not Times Square-esque, but it just had that sense of upper scale establishments, you had some name brand restaurants, shops and hotels. While Wrigleyville spoke more to a Village like scene is probably a good way of describing it. It wasn't part of the mid-town area, it was off on its own little part of Chicago and while there is a McDonalds across the street from Wrigley and several of the establishments are well known tourist traps by now, it seems more of a "just bubbling under the mainstream" kind of vibe there. If I'm making much sense but that is what I got from being in Chicago. Well, the bottom line though is that the Mets and NYC do want this to turn into a Gaslamp district setting with the name brand hotels, restaurants, etc.

Centerfield wrote: I was at that game!

BAM! Defense rests your honor. If the 8 can be shown, The Kid is at the backstop throne! (ducks rotten vegetables)

So did former Giant Harry Carson, but he did put his pride aside and accepted when the Pro Football Hall finally put him in. Leo Durocher also did the same thing, though his family went against his wishes and accepted it posthumously.

HahnSolo wrote: No Berman, please. What, you don't want to hear "And now stepping up to the plate is David "If loving you is wrong, then I don't want to be" Wright. Or Jose "Can you see" Reyes turned a nice double play there. Or "Nice catch behind the back stop by Josh "Hey mister Thole man count up the bananas!" Or "And that's another fine inning for Jon "All we are saying is give Niese a chance"

metsmarathon wrote: gold gloves are very much an offensive award. See Ratty Palmeroid, who played a total of 28 games at first one year and won a gold glove!

http://www.baseball-reference.com/ Awesome sauce!