Johnny Lunchbucket

Agree flickr sucks now. But so does google photos. It's a total action shot

I uploaded the fuckin thing to flickr but impossible to share using my phone/the flickr app. I'll deal with is in 15 minutes when I get back to the desktop

Yeah I need to fix this but for some reason I can't. Does anyone have a cool photo sharing site? Flickr sucks, google doesn't give me jpgs I can link to

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It's obviously that guy in the Braves hat, who looks like a releif pitcher to me. I gonna damage my score further by guessing Mike (not Giancarlo) Stanton

at least the champagne of beers

Had the guys paint over Dwight Gooden's signature on an new bar. Under his watch, departing ballplayers were regularly trashed. Personally responsible for bad baseball leadership choices including Harazin, Torbog, Omar (twice), Howe and Jeff. Never stopped believing his enthusiasm for baseball made him an expert.

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Done deal. Owners approve as does hizzoner https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1322240607046275073https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1322240607046275073

I also was't aware that only 1 advances. So if you have a clear favorite, it might be in your best interest not to vote for more than one?

I'm not freaked out by DiBlasio. The city does have rights and being cavalier this stuff is the kinda thing that can screw cities over.

Mutts to Sell Mets is pretty funny. Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I literally LOLed at the MUTTS headline That's my favorite headline. I may have to put aside aesthetics for that cover. OE -- I see that that cover lost a vote. Someone voted for it and then took it back. It looked like my votes all disappeared, but I put em back

I literally LOLed at the MUTTS headline

Edgy MD wrote: A Valentine book would probably come with at least some small advance, and make the leave of absence at least a little bit more workable. Heck I could the Valentine book on Zoom interviews. My other imagined project involves visiting 30 MLB stadiums with fans in them

Edgy MD wrote: I still think there's a killer Johnny Lunchbucket/Bobby Valentine collaboration simmering on back burner somewhere. Wow, I love that idea! I also am burning with an idea for a different baseball book, the first one I've had that might actually sell. But doing that properly would require that I take a leave from my job for a year and for the coronavirus to be cured, so maybe this Valentine idea isn't so bad in the meantime. It's actually a great idea. For now I'm off the Wright memoirs and onto the Peter Frampton memoirs, just released!

The White Sox are always making unconventional managerial moves from Ozzie Guillen to Jerry Manuel to Robin Ventura. That's one odd practice I associate them with.

Nothing on Jaerock Lee. And there's a whole bit where he talks about the importance of only standing behind brands he believes in--the equity stake in VitaminWater which turned into million$ when it was bought by Coca-Cola--his version of sticking it to The Man was being sure his brothers snuck him Vitamin Water to drink instead of sponsor Gatorade during the ASG HR hitting contest. David Wright is also an early investor in Beyond Meat, he reveals, giving me an opening to try and interview him for work. He wants us to believe btw that being named "captain" of the NL ASG HR contest team was a career highlight he took seriously-- seriously enough to name his buddy Michael Cuddyer to the squad ahead of whatshisname from the Braves. I can barely remember anything Cuddyer did for the Mets but he appears in a lot of highlights in Wright's memory.

So I finished this last night. David has kind words for everyone including Fred & Jeff whom he considers "family" and it occurred to me now that they're gone too his and their legacies will sorta meld together in some ways. I was kinda angry at Wright while I read this book, but it's not really his fault. He is what he is, guarded, a bright-sider, as optimistic, nice and hardworking as he appeared on the field and his story in a lot of ways is terribly sad--none of it got him the world series dream, he's damaged physically forever, and he had to go out in staged event that also didn't really work. That said it came off too often as him relaying the stories we already knew, reciting his own stats, etc. We did get some behind-the-scenes stuff in how he kept some secrets even from the Mets as to his condition, and he revealed a son was due to him & Molly this month. And how his best buddy was Dave Racianello. I guess I knew that a little. DiComo stays out of the action as co-author but reveals in the acknowledgments he did some 40 interviews mostly with old coaches and teammates and stuff which helped Wright to remember the things he remembers.

I was gonna say his perfrormance this season doesn't exactly mark him for sodapop stardom

Holy mackeral--that's why Turner departed? I barely stayed awake till the end, grateful (I guess) the 9th went quickly, and the dumbest baseball season ever is over. I'll miss it too.

There's some hilarious and thoughtful stuff in that thread including a "Tiny Dancer" chorus I can't believe I wrote and have no memory of. Also, David Wright in his boring book reminded me of the "lunchgate" incident of Spring Training 2015 referred to in the thread (he of course doesn't address Muffy's remarks). He wants to be clear-- he regrets his actions resulted in a player being humiliated publicly. He did not know Marc Carig was in the room and would basically livestream it. IOW, this like 99% of his book is only about things we know already. There's 1% where he describes meeting and then proposing to Wifey Molly. The other thing about ST 2015. The Mets played great in that preseason. It gave me CAHNfidence they were capable of having a good year and so when it (impobably) happened it wasn't a complete shock.

I don't wanna spoil the ending but "...not much actually changed after the Mets named me captain. I didn't act differently."

What a finish!

The double Buckner