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Maybe now, the Marlins will bring back their old Home Run statue. [FIMG=633]https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsportshub.cbsistatic.com%2Fi%2Fr%2F2017%2F08%2F12%2Fa13db04f-4b24-45fa-b0d6-a8fd49dd0a53%2Fthumbnail%2F1200x675%2Fbe72ba7f8cbf2c7bb6a698892799fdf4%2Fmarlins-home-run-sculpture-marlins-park.jpg&psig=AOvVaw0xHMg_-nCpvavu74gSP6ax&ust=1646155508968000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=2ahUKEwjjlZCk9aL2AhUNL1kFHRq8CzYQ3YkBegQIABAL[/FIMG] And the unis they wore before Jeter took over. [FIMG=555]https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.spokesman.com%2Fphotos%2F2013%2F06%2F11%2Fspt_11_stanton.jpg&psig=AOvVaw1tmVoEabaEpd5iXwIaMsd9&ust=1646155653095000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=2ahUKEwjr--zo9aL2AhU0KFkFHVVzBNoQ3YkBegQIABAL[/FIMG]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm thinking that we'll be lucky if the season starts by June 1. So how is deGrom supposed to make the Hall of Fame? At this rate, he won't, even if he continues to pitch like a Hall of Famer. Late debut. 60% of a season lost to Covid. Half of another season lost to injury. Even when he's tip-top healthy, it's a minor miracle whenever he pitches into the 7th inning of a game. And now this.

Edgy MD wrote: We were shocked to find these players from brand new teams we'd never heard of in our packs. We'd never heard the term "Mariner," and read the word as "Ma-REEN-er." Me too. I guess I'd never heard of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner when the Mariners debuted.

Three major leaguers who turned down an invite to appear on that show were Barry Bonds, Ryne Sandberg and Nolan Ryan.

The Simpsons' softball episode “Homer at the Bat” is turning thirty, a good opportunity for then-Dodger but eternal Met Darryl Strawberry to reflect on his participation among Mr. Burns's beloved ringers. Strawberry has some of the best lines — not to mention the biggest part — among the major-league guest stars. His first scene, his introduction to Homer, was once voted by The Toronto Star as the “greatest conversation of all-time involving the word ‘yes.'” Homer: You're Darryl Strawberry. Strawberry: Yes. Homer: You play right field. Strawberry: Yes. Homer: I play right field, too. Strawberry: So? Homer: Well, are you better than me? Strawberry: Well, I never met you … but … yes. Most scouts would agree that Strawberry had a slight edge over Homer. He was the National League rookie of the year with the New York Mets in 1983, led the league in home runs and slugging in 1988 and was among the youngest players ever to 200 career home runs. By the time he visited “The Simpsons” for his voiceover, Strawberry was en route to his eighth consecutive All-Star Game, his first as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers. As if Strawberry's talent wasn't enough to crack the lineup for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, he also emerged as the Babe Ruth of butt-kissers — the Sultan of Smooch. Whenever he was around Mr. Burns, Strawberry was such a sycophant that he made Mr. Smithers look like a rebel. In the best gag — the crying — Strawberry says nothing at all. He trots out to his right field spot and gets ready to play defense. But Bart and Lisa, annoyed that Strawberry has taken their father's spot, began to taunt him with the classic sing-song chant of Daaaar-ryl, Daaaar-ryl. The joke concludes with a sorrowful Strawberry lifting a left hand to wipe away the tear. Because the scene was added without Strawberry knowing, Jean jokes on the commentary that it was “by far the most unfair thing we've ever done to a guest star.” No hard feelings, Strawberry said: “It amazes me how big that show still is, and it's such an honor to be a part of.” The (paywalled) article in The Athletic collects reminiscences from each of the major leaguers who visited Springfield. The quotes, the author explains, go back a dozen or more years, but that's repeats for ya. https://theathletic.com/3136278/2022/02/19/homer-at-the-bat-turns-30-a-collection-of-memories-from-all-nine-all-stars-in-the-simpsons-classic/https://theathletic.com/3136278/2022/02/19/homer-at-the-bat-turns-30-a-collection-of-memories-from-all-nine-all-stars-in-the-simpsons-classic/ WAPO also marks the 30th anniversary of Homer at the Bat: ‘Homer at the Bat' at 30: The landmark ‘Simpsons' episode that pushed the show's boundaries Wade Boggs, Steve Sax and others recall how the series handled a squad of celebrities for the first time Excerpt: “Homer at the Bat,” which featured the voices of nine active major leaguers and made its debut Feb. 20, 1992, was more than a quirky one-off in celebrity stunt casting. The 17th episode of Season 3 emboldened the minds behind “The Simpsons” to push the boundaries of what an animated half-hour series could do and show. And from a ratings standpoint, it was a bellwether for the surging show: “Homer at the Bat” marked the first time that a new “Simpsons” episode beat an original episode of “The Cosby Show,” long an NBC juggernaut; on that prime-time Thursday night, “Simpsons” softball also topped CBS's Winter Olympics coverage from Albertville, France. “It was a huge deal” for the then-upstart Fox network, says “Simpsons” executive producer and showrunner Al Jean. “That was a changing of the guard in television.” Soon the show was asking itself, “What can't we do?” recalls David Silverman, who had recently been named the show's supervising director. Celebrities wanted to guest-star on “our little cartoon show.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/02/19/homer-at-the-bat-simpsons-baseball/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/02/19/homer-at-the-bat-simpsons-baseball/

Bill Clinton's first term roughly corresponds with peak Simpsons. Back then, I watched The Simpsons religiously and sincerely believed that it might've been the best TV show ever. This was, of course, just before the cable TV show trend that gave us The Sopranos, Mad Men and several others series that would revolutionize TV shows. But by 1998 or 1999, I had given up entirely on The Simpsons., which became a shell of its former self, thanks to a stunningly rapid defection of top creative talent. I haven't watched a single episode since. But that baseball themed episode was peak Simpsons.

Edgy MD wrote: A worthwhile point to make. I think the answer is that he feels a tad defensive. Perhaps Collins believed that Harvey opened the door by testifying (i.e., going public and on the record). BTW, Harvey was granted immunity for his testimony.

=stevejrogers post_id=85891 time=1644961734 user_id=57] It might be orange and blue colored glasses but I think Doc's downfall was more due to the pitches and innings logged on his arm, much more than losing battles to his addictions.

Shouldn't the winning entries be held higher than the runner-ups? You know, like the way the Olympic Gold Medal winner's platform is higher than the Silver Medal winner's, which in turn is higher than the Bronze Medal winner's platform. [FIMG=444]https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageio.forbes.com%2Fspecials-images%2Fimageserve%2F61c694d1752bc5fc1d90a841%2F0x0.jpg%3Fformat%3Djpg%26crop%3D2076%2C3112%2Cx0%2Cy38%2Csafe%26fit%3Dcrop&psig=AOvVaw0e03HrpZiQc2eOJyHTWP1j&ust=1644968630845000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=2ahUKEwiOvcTor4D2AhWbGVkFHUZOCWMQ3YkBegQIABAL[/FIMG] This is more of a statement, even though I phrased it as a question.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I think there's a lot of potential in the quick-service restaurant industry. Thinking classic Jack in the Box/Arthur Treacher type stuff. I thought of doing McDonald's inspired cards for 2021 before I did the Meet the Mets cards. But my ideas were so elaborate that in the end, I put the McD project on the back burner because I didn't feel like investing all the time I thought would be needed to pull that one off the way I wanted to do it. Is that what you had in mind, something like that?

Edgy MD wrote: Chance Sisco: DFA'd so Noah Syndergaard could return and pitch two innings to audition for other teams. I like your style of thinking. Can you tighten this up, though? Can you cut this down to like three or two words? Edgy MD wrote: Carlos Carrasco apparently pitched with a bone fragment in his elbow. This has lotsa potential. Is this true? I don't remember. Pete Alonso: Piss Missile Pete, dragging his God given bat around even in the field We already did the Piss Missile. But thanks. What else ya got? Thomas Szapucki - Annually testing the limits of his insurance coverage. Great stuff. But we did Szapucki. Maybe I can use this idea on one of our missing players. Or maybe update Szapucki's card. Check our list for missing players who need a phrase at the top of this thread. Edgy MD wrote: Trevor Williams: Future coach. This one also has potential. Good stuff. Lefty Specialist wrote: Jack Reed: Not the Senator from Rhode Island. Yes. But if I'm going political, I'm going snarkier, nastier. And if GOP'ers don't like what I'd do, fuck 'em anyways. Luis Rojas: On the hot seat Yes, but we alrady did Rojas. Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I personally think Typewriter Chewing Gum needs to get to work on their 2022 series Got any ideas?

We here at Typewriter Chewing Gum are going through baseball burnout. Or baseball apathy. Whatever we don't care what with the GOP about two days away from burning books and then burning black people, too. And we just can't finish our furshlugginer 2021 total Mets team set. We're stuck on these 2021 Mets: Jonathan Villar, Drew Smith, Tylor Megill, J.D. Davis, Carlos Carrasco, Trevor Williams, Jake Reed and Chance Sisco. What we need is copy. So send us your suggestions, consistent with already existing 2021 Mets cards. We'll accept uplifting copy, too -- if it's any good. Give us some text, some catchphrase, some slogan, something to write. If we like whatchoo got, we'll use it. And claim exclusive rights to whatever you send us that we end up using. Youse get nothing for your efforts other than bragging rights. But no legal rights. And a prize. Maybe a card from the Typewriter back catalog. Thanks. [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51353500796_c6adb4c4ac_h.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51325474942_72e98ec1ea_h.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51331461494_5775b73dfc_h.jpg[/FIMG]

The Hot Corner wrote: The Hot Corner wrote: My best friend said (paraphrasing) he had no sympathy for multimillionaires arguing with billionaires over how to divide up the fan's money, then charging the fans ever increasing prices to subsidize their greed. So F--- Them! I don't need them. This sentiment resonates with most of the others. Yes, but how is that different from any of the other team sports? Not that different other than maybe baseball seems to have more frequent and longer work stoppages than do the other professional team sports. It is not like my friends follow the NBA or NHL either. They follow the NFL and golf, that's about it. Well, you have the Panthers. Maybe they'd follow MLB if there was only a local home team to follow.

I can if I wanted to. But where the hell is Stevie "Wonder" Hendu?

The Hot Corner wrote: My best friend said (paraphrasing) he had no sympathy for multimillionaires arguing with billionaires over how to divide up the fan's money, then charging the fans ever increasing prices to subsidize their greed. So F--- Them! I don't need them. This sentiment resonates with most of the others. Yes, but how is that different from any of the other team sports?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: He was one of the nine players who were in the first all-black starting lineup in baseball history. Pirates announcer Greg Brown introduced a team that made major history when it started the first all-minority lineup on Sept. 1, 1971, against the Philadelphia Phillies at Three Rivers Stadium with a lineup of Rennie Stennett, Gene Clines, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Manny Sanguillen, Dave Cash, Al Oliver, Jackie Hernandez and Dock Ellis. Not just any lineup, either, but one with several HoF and All Stars. That's an impressive group right there. Well, the '71 Pirates themselves were World Champs. They also had Bob Robertson (32 HR's) who wasn't In that historic starting lineup, Bob being a white guy and all. Richie Hebner was their regular third baseman.

=nymr83 post_id=85244 time=1643346483 user_id=54] Unpopular opinion here: David Wright is not a Hall of Famer.

His best years were his first three, all with the Pirates. And he was quite good, then. I played the 1971 Strat-O-Matic baseball set for years and years and years and I liked playing Clines over Al Oliver, the Pirates regular cener-fielder. Pound for pound (rate-wise), Clines was better. Also, paved the way (sort of) for Rusty Staub to finally reclaim his beloved #10 uniform number after the Mets traded Duffy Dyer to the Pirates to get Clines following the '74 season, making #10 available. Clines's '75 card is the memorable one. Yowza! [FIMG=333]https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2F00%2Fs%2FMTYwMFgxMDE5%2Fz%2FDloAAOSwU8BhYKhP%2F%24_12.JPG&psig=AOvVaw3a7wYSgS-03twbCOEJGzbR&ust=1643416871814000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAoQ3YkBahcKEwiAkb6Jm9P1AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA[/FIMG]

Maybe they're gonna enact a rule during these ongoing negotiations that the team with the most past Cy Young Awards on its active roster gets an automatic pass into the playoffs.

Lefty Specialist wrote: But somebody will overpay for his past production and get burned for it. As long as it's not me, personally.

Frayed Knot wrote: But, oddly, this is one of the NFL's great strengths, that fans will attend, and particularly watch, games involving teams that aren't theirs and which they know very few of the players. It's like the most common answer for why Joe NFL-Fan is watching a particular game is: 'Duh ... Because it's on TV!' Why not? It's the most dumbed down sport in the history of the world and even before the history of the world. Football is like that card game the baseball players played in Bang the Drum Slowly. No one knows nothing and everybody makes believe they're experts. Nobody, and I mean nobody has a fucking clue as to what's going on. Each play is a microcosm of a military operation that's a top classified secret. You watch the QB throw the ball downfield on TV and then suddenly the camera cuts downfield to where the ball is about to meet the intended receiver. But while the pass play is developing, you have no idea what the play is, what routes the receivers are running, what the coverage is, why the receiver got open - blown coverage?, outran or outfaked the defender? - Maybe the play was a mistake. A lucky blunder. Who the fuck knows? Nobody, until the experts explain it to you. Was that receiver a decoy? Was he supposed to block. Was the intended receiver the second option? The third? Maybe, just maybe, you'll get all of this info a week after the game when someone decides to break the play down and explain it to you from an end zone angle replay -- the kind of replay that the coaches use to study the game. Because even the head coaches, the coaches that designed the fucking play and then called it during the game don't know for sure what happened until after they review the end zone film frame by frame, constantly clicking the pause and then play and then rewind and then play again like 20 times until they themselves get it figured out. My favorite is when the fans start bragging about their favorite team's all-pro left guard, as if they ever watch what the left guard does in real time while the play is unfolding. As if they can even tell what a left guard is supposed to be doing which they can't because they don't even know what the play is and what the left guard's even supposed to be doing. All these fans do, including me, if they're diligent fans, is read a lot and then read a lot more about their left guard and then take a leap of faith and decide which writer or writers are credible and trustworthy enough to repeat their opinions about your terrific left guard. It's a wonder than anyone even watches this sport.

The two sides will probably never come to an agreement and so there'll never be any more Major League Baseball again, ever.

Oh, never mind. The tiebreaker! I thought you were writing that Olerud played the Mercury game. Instead, you were adjusting my 161 out of 162 to 162 out of 163. I should've read your post all the way through instead of stopping at the first sentence before responding. So my post should've read: In 1999, John Olerud appeared in all but one of the Mets regular season games. The one regular season game that Olerud missed in 1999? The Mercury Mets game.

Doc and Darryl are #3 and #5 in career Mets WAR. https://www.metshotcorner.com/2016/mets-all-time-top-10-by-war/https://www.metshotcorner.com/2016/mets-all-time-top-10-by-war/ Keith and Piazza, both who have numbers retired, are 12 and 13. Carter's 45th, behind Saberhagen, Backman, Nimmo and Lagares. .But at least he singlehandedly delivered a WS title to the .Mets, all by himself. With the 6th best WAR of any '86 Met. He put the Mets over the top.A team that won 108 regular season games and clinched their division by the 4th of July. The '86 Mets didn't win the WS; Gary Carter and the Mets won that WS, with the rest of the Mets playing The Pips to Carter's Gladys Knight-like star-billing. It's those intangibles. Carter worked in mysterious ways.