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=Centerfield post_id=84548 time=1642101335 user_id=65] If the sentiment is that Keith deserves his number retired, why don't Doc and Darryl deserve similar? They had longer, and better Mets careers.

=G-Fafif post_id=84448 time=1642004593 user_id=55] Keith, I believe, would request the ever popular blank cap.

=kcmets post_id=84493 time=1642024596 user_id=53] Yeah, but, yay or nay on #17 being retired this season?

=roger_that post_id=84473 time=1642012865 user_id=128] I'm a big HoJo fan, and I was then even more so. This ire is about their lack of loyalty and sentimentality and recognition of what he'd done for the Mets in 1986. I think they should have kept him to play third when Hojo needed a rest, or was playing short, or when Keith needed a break, or when either of them was hurt, and as their primary pinchhitter against lefties. Sure, they would have been overpaying for productivity on the field, but not very much, and it would have done a lot for team spirit, cohesiveness, etc. They could have even made him a player-coach to ease the indignity of losing his starting job. But they chose not to. In retrospect, an error, I think.

Frayed Knot wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=84463 time=1642007523 user_id=68] When it comes to Knight's '86 season, you have to look at the splits.. Against lefties in '86, Knight was like Ted Williams. ... He was a lefty crushing monster that year. Fine, that makes him Scott Hairston

Frayed Knot wrote: - much better season in '86 (OPS+ = 115) but much of that was early (April was his best month, followed by May) and he finished 12th on the team in WAR. [***] So he was a very good Met for like two months plus a week (out of nearly two seasons and a half) and yet a sizable portion of NYM fans feel that his non-retention was When it comes to Knight's '86 season, you have to look at the splits. Otherwise you're missing the point. Against lefties in '86, Knight was like Ted Williams. If Knight could've played the entire season against nothing but lefties, he would've been the runaway MVP. He was a lefty crushing monster that year.

Jeez, this is such a landslide that maybe we could have that discussion about whether he even deserves to be in the Mets HOF.

There's a third option here: no on retirement but yes on the mothballs. I woudn't vote for that option, though. Put #8 back in rotation!

Youse know where I stand on this one. To me, the mere mention of retiring Carter's Mets number is so absurd, the case so meritless, that I regard it as lunatic talk.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: But a life-long association with the Mets. Don't know if that counts. My guess is yes.

=roger_that post_id=84441 time=1642003976 user_id=128] Much longer, slightly better, career as a Cardinal

So I was wondering, .... if Keith were to one day get the Cooperstown nod, and the HOF were to solely decide which cap would be on Keith's plaque ... which cap would it be?

Just the fact that his number's in limbo irks me to no end. He's the Derek Jeter of the Mets and I say that in the very worst ways imaginable.

=kcmets post_id=84407 time=1641945389 user_id=53] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=84405 time=1641944653 user_id=68]Me personally, if it was up to me, I wouldn't have even voted Carter into the Mets Hall of Fame, but I get the sense that this is a pointless argument to make with youse. Don't get me started on why some people thought Carter's Met uni was more deserving of retirement and more of a priority than Keith's.

This is fucking great news. It's the right thing. If the Mets retired Carter's number before Keith's, I woulda had a tantrum and gone all Elvis on my TV and shot it with an AR-15 or something. Me personally, if it was up to me, I wouldn't have even voted Carter into the Mets Hall of Fame, but I get the sense that this is a pointless argument to make with youse. Don't get me started on why some people thought Carter's Met uni was more deserving of retirement and more of a priority than Keith's. I'm still waiting for an even half-rational explanation of that one. Next stop for Keith --- Cooperstown.

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First Fanatics receives an exclusive license from MLB to produce baseball trading cards, beginning in 2025, thus ending Topps' 60+ year reign as the premiere baseball card distributor. Today, Fanatics buys out Topps for about half a billion bucks. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/fanatics-acquires-topps-trading-cards.htmlhttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/fanatics-acquires-topps-trading-cards.html I guess this means that we'll continue to see Topps Heritage releases, even when Fanatics takes over. They'll just be called Fanatics Heritage cards.

I hope the.Mets don't trade McNeil for Andrew Cuomo. .Marjorie Taylor-Greene is so much better. I'd love to have her on the team. Then, she could find out if Steve Cohen also has space lasers.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: So they're celebrating the 60th anniversary this year instead of the 60th season last year. The opposite of what they did for the 25th. (I don't remember what they did for the 50th.) They wore a 50th anniversary patch in 2012, commemorating their 50th year anniversary instead of their 50th season, which would have required a patch the year before, 2011. [FIMG=444]https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fresizer%2FOHWl6aVMkIY07dUm0Y56n1VyGgA%3D%2F415x561%2Ftop%2Farc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2FD7XYX7S6L3H45U2XZYZS3B2Z4Y.jpg&psig=AOvVaw0YoYfrmw3Sdt91B28E5-Iy&ust=1641151180516000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAoQ3YkBahcKEwiItaHcopH1AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA [/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.shopify.com%2Fs%2Ffiles%2F1%2F0330%2F9935%2F0060%2Fproducts%2Fnew-york-mets-50th-anniversary-patch_1024x1024.jpg%3Fv%3D1585068950&psig=AOvVaw1NT83HosvorqVUvvPZ93Dn&ust=1641150967856000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAoQ3YkBahcKEwiwyMOAo5H1AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA[/FIMG] Benjamin Grimm wrote: The last 60 years tell us that the Mets finish the season in first place ten percent of the time. Pretty horrific by any measure, but especially given the market the Mets play in. Thank eff 'n Jeff and their two first place finishes in like 30 years of running the team.

Not too many of those pairs (or trios) were Mets teammates. Hardly any, in fact. I thought there'd be more. deGrom and Mesoraco are the most recent Mets teammates who shared a birth date.

Jake deGrom was the most popular look-up on Baseball Reference in 2021. https://metsmerizedonline.com/2021/12/degrom-face-of-baseball-in-new-york-and-south-dakota.html/https://metsmerizedonline.com/2021/12/degrom-face-of-baseball-in-new-york-and-south-dakota.html/

What a shocker! Who saw this coming? /snark Like eff n jeff coulda snagged somebody like Showalter. Not even in their dreams.

I wonder if there's a list (a LOOOOONG list) of all the MLB draft picks ever available online. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/draft/baseball_draft.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-almanac.com/draft/baseball_draft.shtml http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/year/http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/year/ Thanks. This will keep me busy for the next few months. See you guys sometime in 2022!! Baseball Reference also has this info. I'm 100% certain because I've used it in the past. But I couldn't find it just now. All I could find was a historical list of 1st round draft picks.

I wonder if there's a list (a LOOOOONG list) of all the MLB draft picks ever available online. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/draft/baseball_draft.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-almanac.com/draft/baseball_draft.shtml http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/year/http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/year/

More Tacky or Less Tacky? Both. Looks like the Mets will no longer have the ugliest scoreboard in all of baseball. No. Make that ugliest scoreboards. And also make that in all of sports. But the new scoreboard doesn't fit the space, whose initial design wasn't made for the new and improved board, giving it sort of a jerry-rigged look. I've no doubt that the old Citi Field scoreboard drove Steve Cohen nuts. God, were those two fucking things hideous. But that's what happens when an idiot tyrant gets to design a major league baseball stadium. I'm hoping that moneybags Cohen eventually tears down the whole fucking thing and starts over from scratch.