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  1. batmagadanleadoff
    I'm rooting for what's best for both Jake and the Mets and hoping that there's a lot of overlap there in the Venn. But no one really knows what's gonna happen and the range of possibilities are vast, from hes done as of now all the way to enshrinement in Cooperstown.
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    Edgy MD wrote: What do you think about trying to remake Jacob deGrom as a closer? I'm trying to fighte out your top post. Convert Jake to a closer mainly to help the Mets, or mainly to get Jake into the Hall?
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    They wanna retire his Mets number because he's in the HOF. That makes about as much sense as retiring Carter's Mets number because of what Willie Stargell did with the Pirates.
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    Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm afraid the answer is to hope that he opts out and then move on. Former 49ers Hall of Fame Head Coach Bill Walsh would famously and coldly trade away his stars right at the end of their peaks, even when it appeared that they still had something left in their tanks. He'd rather do that then to wait another year or two when the bottom inevitably fell out, like it does for everyone, and their trade value crashed. The baseball analogy would be trading "last piece of the puzzle" (groan) Gary Carter after the '86 season rather then keeping him for three more seasons when he killed the Mets. (but burnished his case for uni retirement with two crappy seasons and one season from Hell). Thank god for those crappy seasons. If Carter stayed for yet another two years, through 1991, and had yet another two crappy Mets seasons, his uni would've already been long retired and hed have a statue in front of the stadium. The worse he got, the more revered he got.
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    =Centerfield post_id=89707 time=1650381357 user_id=65] Yall people are crazy. Pay the man a billion dollars and watch him win Cy Youngs into his 40s.
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    Just for the record, I'm not necessarily advocating for retiring Strawberry's Mets number. But he's a gazillionmillionbillion times more deserving of that honor than Carter.
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    Every Tom, Dick and Nick gets to wear Strawberry's old uniform number. But Gary Carter, who as a Met, had one all star caliber season, one excellent season, two crappy seasons, and one sheer rot of a putrified vomit in your own mouth inducing season, his fucking number has been in mothballs for 20 years and will probably be retired soon. And when you get down to it and really dig in to the analysis, and break it down, the case for retiring Carter's Mets number is what he did with the Expos and that by pure luck and serendipity and having not a thing to do with skill or talent -- that Carter's Mets teammates were, collectively better than, say, John Olerud's Mets teammates. Or R.A. Dickey's. Because that's the argument: he's a Hall of Famer and he has a WS ring with the Mets. I guess it pays off to kiss the ass of the media.
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    "Most important person in baseball history"? That's the narrative that's been developing about Jackie Robinson over the last 20 or so years. In fact, one of the most important people in all of American history, not just baseball history, or sports in general
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    Cincinnati's Hunter Greene breaks Jacob deGrom's record by throwing 39 pitches 100MPH or faster in the same game. Jake threw 33 last year in one game.
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    There's an article in The Athletic about Gabe Kapler deciding to ditch baseball's traditional "unwritten" rules. Basically, his teams are gonna do whatever the fuck they wanna do, no matter how many runs ahead they are. Good for him. It's about time somebody openly took this stance. Personally, I loathed these unwritten rules since I was in grade school. When the trailing team stipulates to concede the game to my team, that's when my team won't try to steal any more bases or attempt bunt hits.
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    Willets Point wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=88934 time=1649606957 user_id=68] The internet does everything a newspaper does better. I would disagree with this. There are things that newspapers do better (specifically, news), and its best that they focus on those things instead of wasting trees on publishing data when computers can handle that stuff by design. I mean, even the Baseball Encyclopedia was compiled on a computer and basically printed out. Once it became practical to share that data online, it outlived its usefulness.
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    [FIMG=444]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50354378937_b4219c1655.jpg[/FIMG]
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    Edgy MD wrote: The Mets have announced that Nancy Seaver is expected to be in attendance for the ceremonial introduction of the statue.... I figured that. What are the odds she throws some good shade at the prior Mets owners?
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    Thank you. And the Tommy Davis Experience is undeniably groovy. Forgot this one, too. [FIMG=555]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49669844193_031f02bee6_c.jpg[/FIMG]
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    Lefty Specialist wrote: Alonso making the case for DH'ing more often. Pete should always DH if Dom is also starting. Shouldn't even be an issue.
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    So why bother having newspapers at all? The internet does everything a newspaper does better. To tell you ths truth, we're probably trending towards a newspaper-less world.
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    =G-Fafif post_id=88600 time=1649362815 user_id=55] Smith now places 6th in games played as a Met (not counting pitchers) to never start on Opening Day.
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    =G-Fafif post_id=88513 time=1649295708 user_id=55] Brent Strom keeps it comin', via the Athletic (paywall)....
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    Willets Point wrote: Willets Point wrote: 1982 to 1990 saw nine consecutive seasons with a different World Series champ. Which basically coincided with the last time the Yankees had a championship drought lasting more than a decade. That's either 1981-1987 or 1982 -1988-- seven straight seasons. The Dodgers won it all in both 1981 and 1988. Yep! I can actually count, but thank you for condescension. 1978 to 1987: 10 seasons, 10 different champions 1. 1978 - Yankees 2. 1979 - Pirates 3. 1980 - Phillies 4. 1981 - Dodgers 5. 1982 - Cardinals 6. 1983 - Orioles 7. 1984 - Tigers 8. 1985 - Royals 9. 1986 - Mets 10. 1987 - Twins 1982 to 1990: 9 seasons, 9 different champions 1. 1982 - Cardinals 2. 1983 - Orioles 3. 1984 - Tigers 4. 1985 - Royals 5. 1986 - Mets 6. 1987 - Twins 7. 1988 - Dodgers 8. 1989 - A's 9. 1990 - Reds You will notice that the Dodgers appear only one time in each of these lists. Yes. But I wasn't condescending. Apologies for any confusion. I'm sorry that you took it that way.
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    I forgot to include in my post, that that the Mets will be the 5th NL playoff seed, I predict. I can't just go back and edit my original predict the Mets post to fill that in because apparently, that would be a bad thing, for reasons that I don't have a clue as to why that is. Maybe the mods might wanna disable the edit post function so some people here don't go bananas whenever someone edits a post. Or whenever someone thinks someone's about to edit a post before it even happens. Which almost always, it doesn't even happen.
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    Willets Point wrote: 1982 to 1990 saw nine consecutive seasons with a different World Series champ. Which basically coincided with the last time the Yankees had a championship drought lasting more than a decade. That's either 1981-1987 or 1982 -1988-- seven straight seasons. The Dodgers won it all in both 1981 and 1988.
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    Thanks.
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    I've got the Mets finishing in 2nd place with an 88-74 record and going all the way, winning the WS in six games. I dont really believe that but I like to go contrarian, even against my own beliefs. It'll happen because baseball's the last sport you'd want there to be expanded playoffs in because with all the luck in baseball, games played between two good teams are crapshoots and everybody's getting into the postseason this year. Jeez, the last eight seasons produced eight different champs. I bet that streak is a record. It'll also happen because Jake deGrom will be as well rested as any pitcher out there and in peak form come October. Alsonso smashes 40 round trippers. This team will hit.
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    Each active MLB franchise's last WS title: Braves - 2021 Dodgers - 2020 Nats - 2019 Red Sox - 2018 Astros - 2017 Cubs - 2016 Royals - 2015 Giants - 2014 Cardinals - 2011 Yankees - 2009 Phillies - 2008 White Sox - 2005 Marlins - 2003 Angels - 2002 DiamondBacks - 2001 Rays - 1998* - None - *Inaugural season as Tampa Bay Devil Rays Blue Jays - 1993 Rockies - 1993* None *Inaugural season Twins - 1991 Reds - 1990 A's - 1989 Mets - 1986 Tigers - 1984 Orioles - 1983 Pirates - 1979 Mariners - 1977* - None *Inaugural season Padres - 1969* None - *Inaugural season Brewers - 1969* None - *Inaugural season as Seattle Pilots Rangers - 1961* None - *Inaugural season as new Washington Senators Guardians - 1948 as Cleveland Indians
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    A heartfelt appreciation of Tommy Davis's 1967 Mets season and Tommy Davis's 1967 Mets card http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2022/04/06/my-gateway-met/here. Great piece. I can read your stuff (and Jason's) about major leaguers that played for the Mets before I was old enough to be paying attention all day long. Give me five or 10 paragraphs on, say, Carl Willey, and I'm totally there. Also reminded me of this one, which I had forgotten when I posted a few posts earlier: [FIMG=444]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51987937710_5f8d7e77b5_z.jpg[/FIMG]
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