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Mets offense looking like it did last night.

Max Meyer has good numbers.

I fully understand that there was sentiment driving the retirement of 14 and 37. My point is that this type of sentiment is precisely what should be disregarded when retiring numbers. Being heartbroken over losing NL baseball then seeing your childhood hero back in town is a terrible reason to retire a number. Being a legendary manager for a different team then giving a new team “identity” is silly. There are no rules for retiring numbers. But if you want the honor to mean something, and not be ridiculed like the Rays retiring Boggs number, you have to set the criteria first, then apply them objectively. There is no set of objective criteria that would justify Stengel or Hodges. And that’s why I say the Mets botched the number retirements from the beginning. I didn’t realize it was the Wilpons that decided to retire Koosman. If so then they set the wheels in motion for further diluting the honor to the point it is now. I mean Willie Mays? What are we even doing. And with each undeserving honoree, it’s used as justification to bring the bar even lower. “Well if you’re going to retire 14, you have to retire 24”. ”if 24 is retired, you have to retire 8” Lenny Dykstra is a world champion and has more WAR with the Mets than Carter. Retire 4. There’s no championship in 86 without Sid. Retire 50. Did we forget who the WS MVP was? Tell Soto to get a new number.

Way too much of this type of game this season.

We’re so fucking stupid.

Challenge! It’s the 9 inning.

I’ve seen two baserunners. Both were immediately eliminated. I’ve been watching since the second inning.

This offense is putrid.

I will never understand pulling a starter who is cruising like Perez.

0.00 ERA for Tong. I’ve seen enough. We have our new ace.

We’re back to April offense the last few days.

This team can’t hit.

I don’t think any manager’s number should be retired. But if you work under the assumption that this is a thing, you certainly don’t retire the number of a guy who managed four years and made the postseason once. The thing about retired numbers is if you have to explain/justify it to future generations then you probably shouldn’t be retiring that number. No one will ever question Seaver no matter how much time passes.

I think you would find it difficult to propose a standard for retiring numbers that: 1. When applied, would justify the retirement of Stengel and Hodges' numbers. 2. When applied, would not lead to the justification of number retirement for people clearly not deserving of number retirement. I would love to see your proposal for such a standard.

If Gary were alive today and had an ounce of humility and self awareness, he would have been the first to tell you he doesn’t deserve to have his number retired. Unfortunately Gary had neither, and probably would have said “yeah it would be GREAT to have my number retired” or something like that. is he already in the Mets HOF? If so that’s plenty.

Tobias Myers gets the start for us. opposed by Eury Perez.

Despite the seeming resurgence we’ve had recently, the Mets remain last in MLB in OPS

You figure 12 weeks until Holmes is back. If you can get 8 good Senga starts it would go a long way.

I missed this whole game. What a big balls performance by the bullpen.

The Mets have butchered retired numbers from day 1. Cohen had a chance to make it right but instead just made it worse. Retiring a manager’s number is ridiculous. We did it twice. And neither of them are our winningest manager. Retiring Mays devalues all retired numbers. Retiring 8 for Carter would be as dumb as retiring 4 for Lenny.

Peterson vs Cavalli. losing 3 of 4 to the Nationals would undo the progress of last week. Today is a big game.

Not that it ended up mattering. But why are we pushing Kimbrel to two innings in a two run game?

This team is not for real.

The Mets gave away 4 runs tonight. The culprits are Taylor, Semien and Torrens. Awful.

I mean I don’t know why Tyrone Taylor is just sitting there looking at Morabito.