His 25 stolen bases broke Mookie Wilson's record for stolen bases by a Mets rookie.
I hadn't read anything about this as he neared the record.
Let's give the little guy a big hand.
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No. I saw that. I previous years we had a prediction thread including win- loss, and our guess for the first met to have the counting stats, first rbi, first sb, etc.
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If you include the familial continuity of franchises, Del Unser played for the Mets and the newly-born Washington Senators, later reborn as the Texas Rangers.
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Since the new speed- up rules started to shorten games, are games starting to take longer again?( seems like the last few months have seen a return to the longer games).
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Not just ticket holders.
According to ABC-TV it is Dolly Parton Day everywhere today because the date is 9-25. They must be trying to turn it into a "May the 4th Be With You" kind of thing.
I guess they had nothing else to report since the networks pulled out of pool coverage at the White House.
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