Johnny Lunchbucket

I imagine Kent is exactly like the guy we saw on SURVIVOR. He was extremely confident in himself and openly manipulative but didn't seem to be capable of fully processing how other people would interpret those qualities, so in his own mind, he was just doing the right thing. I actually think that's how most athletes have to be but could see even in a room full of them Kent's singlemindedness might rub them the wrong way, and easy to imagine the conflict he'd have with Bonds and his massive but fragile ego. I can't remember specifically why why fans see him as a dick. He was actually a pretty decent player and obviously had a long runway of getting better ahead of him when we tossed him overboard. But I wasn't paying rapt attention to the Mets in the Jeff Kent Era.

That's a totally believable Batman plot.

Fonz

=G-Fafif post_id=34482 time=1585746359 user_id=55] I always believed George Vass was anti-Met.

I felt like the first names on the backs of the jerseys humanized the 86 batboys and made them a part of the club. Nobody knows the first name of the batboys anymore. Mets used to issue numberless jerseys to the batboys. I always felt it was better than some clubs who'd dress them in "BB". I think that Yankees did that for a while. I'm not even sure what the Met bbs wear anymore

I'd fly it but at half-mast

We'll just have scientists apply a COVID-19 adjuster

I suspended 2020 Visions because they had become so popular here that we'd all catch coronavirus just reading and replying to them.

=seawolf17 post_id=34421 time=1585661009 user_id=91] Baseball Reference does uniform numbers by season, thankfully. It's buried down at the bottom among their random links.

Carlos Gomez wore 91 this year!

94

Johnny Lazar also wrecked in the final lap at Darlington, losing to Junior Johnson and Dick Trickle

82 It's just a stupid number. I don;t even think NASCAR has an 82

I wanna hear more about the Bashlors. Do they all have awful sleeve tattoos?

Duda! He's gonna be forgotten about like Howard Johnson

I was researching a list of http://www.mbtn.net/?p=3264All-Time Mets to Wear 34 when I sorta indifferently selected Blas Minor as #10. I didn't recall the circumstances of Minor's departure, but he was one of those journeymen middle relievers with OK stuff who'd gotten off to an inconsistent start and discarded earlyish in the year. He was traded for a Seattle minor leaguer called Randy Vickers, who later played a role in a tragic event I'd also forgotten about. Vickers was a passenger in a vehicle that teammate Tim Bishop was driving when it got a flat tire and Bishop was struck by a car (actually two cars, yikes) and killed while changing. It came out later Bishop had been drinking on the team bus prior to the wreck, and the Mets whacked the entire management at Cap City staff afterward. Does anyone remember this? Some of us might have discussed this in the earliest days of the MOFO. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/23/sports/a-death-in-the-minors-leads-mets-to-dismiss-3.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/23/sports/a-death-in-the-minors-leads-mets-to-dismiss-3.html

Excellent. I know I've seen a still pic at least of the 4 guys leaping on the field before.

Good thing we let Wheeler go to Philly

That thucths

Tony Fernandez for the block

Ramos

I see JayPay

Buy her season tix for chrissakes

Matlack and Frank Howard in Group C

Leiter in the Blue Jays hat edit: nevermind.