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What is that? Where did that come from? And what is the root or history or etymology of that beautiful, beautiful thing? It looks like an image of a real pack of cards instead of an image of an image.

=nymr83 post_id=52381 time=1608176825 user_id=54] The point of having all of Cohen's Cash ....

Last we checked on these things, Typewriter Chewing Gum's most valuable card is Jacob deGrom's 2014 base set rookie card. 2014 Mets total team set -- Code Name: Welcome to Kiner's Korner. I'm Ralph Korner". [FIMG=400]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50729908238_26db0f067c_o.png[/FIMG]

More proof that I'm going crazy. First Purdue and Lindnor. Then McAnn. And now this. Edgy MD wrote: Rube Walker Lockett. So I thought of correcting Edgy's string but decided to let it go. Then I thought of a clever way to correct the string -- and so I was about to post "Gene Walter Lockett", my clever way of correcting the msitake (I could've sworn that FAFIF also posted a Lockett string) but then thought to double-check everything with Lockett's first name. Good thing I did. It's Walker, not Walter. I'm going senile. [FIMG=555]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50295391976_c7e30421ab_b.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50283239792_66ae5d692e_h.jpg[/FIMG]

Charlie Neal (Atlanta Black Crackers) and George Altman (Kansas City Monarchs) played in the Negro Leagues.

Dock Ellis Valentine Jay Bruce Boisclair

The way rosters are managed today, what with relief pitching usage up and complete games being extreme rarities, there's no room on a roster today for an early 80s style pinch hitting Rusty Staub.

Frayed Knot wrote: As I suspected was most likely, timing was the major factor in the McCann signing. We had "great conversations" [with Realmuto's agents] Alderson said on Monday's Zoom call to introduce new GM Jared Porter ... “more than anything else, this was a timing issue for us,'' “We have a number of needs. We can afford to wait to fill some of them. We can't afford to wait to fill all of them.” https://nypost.com/2020/12/14/this-is-what-derailed-mets-pursuit-of-j-t-realmuto/https://nypost.com/2020/12/14/this-is-what-derailed-mets-pursuit-of-j-t-realmuto/ The Mets say "timing" but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So Maybe Realmuto's camp could, just the same, complain about "timing" and the Mets not coming around to Realmuto's number. Or maybe this negotiation had nothing to do with "timing" and everything to do with the Cohen Mets wanting to make a statement and establish that they're not simply going to pay everybody's "ransom" even though they could easily do so. We might never really know why the Mets signed McCann instead of Realmuto. Grain of salt on this press release.

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Edgy MD wrote: I'm lining up for the 2021 Dr. Pepper set. 2021 is here today. [FIMG=444]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50719936657_de0ddb824a_o.png[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50719850576_96c2243582_o.png[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50719936647_9ebdd1bbbb_o.png[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50719113193_3384a55217_o.png[/FIMG]

Cleveland's Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Team Name Excerpt: Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist, three people familiar with the decision said Sunday. The move follows a decision by the Washington Football Team of the N.F.L. in July to stop using a name long considered a racial slur, and is part of a larger national conversation about race that magnified this year amid protests of systemic racism and police violence. Cleveland could announce its plans as soon as this week, according to the three people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. It is not immediately clear what Cleveland's exact steps will be beyond dropping the Indians name. The transition to a new name https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/sports/baseball/cleveland-indians-baseball-name-change.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/sports/baseball/cleveland-indians-baseball-name-change.html

Doesn't work for me. When I saw that cover, the first thing I thought was "that picture 's from the wrong year".

Gets high marks. Was part of the Bosox org when it won three WS's and part of the Cubs WS title org. Argued hard for the Red Sox to acquire Justin Turner after the Mets non-tendered him in 2013. Said to be an excellent talent evaluator and knows SABRmetrics.. Took me like 300 keystrokes and 10 minutes on my dumb phone to get this message out. How do people type on these things?

=nymr83 post_id=52118 time=1607831026 user_id=54] my emphasis is on YOU DON'T KNOW THAT REALMUTO WAS EVEN WILLONG TO COME HERE

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Will you please stop spelling McCann incorrectly. He's not a shoe salesman This is all part of my early onset of dementia. McAnn. Lindnor. Perdue, I used to be a spelling bee champ. I dunno what's going on anymore.

=nymr83 post_id=52114 time=1607827704 user_id=54] I'll judge the Mets off season by hiw it looks as a whole, not by one guy whose motivations we cant know.

Frayed Knot wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=52073 time=1607795065 user_id=68] What am I missing here? That Steve Cohen just saved himself an amount of money that he probably makes in interest in two days alone without having to get out of bed? Maybe that they talked to Realmuto and didn't get a good vibe, or that he told them he didn't want to play in NYC, or that he wanted a seven-year deal making this one look like the smarter of the two, or that they were afraid if they waited too long for Plan A to come through they might lose out on Plan A and Plan B. Or maybe they just plain fucked up and we can spend the next four seasons referring to McCann as Fakemuto.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Todd Zeile has said that Realmuto will cost $100 million more than McCann but that he's not $100 million better than McCann. This just begs many more questions, the main one being -- if Realmuto's not $100M better than McAnn, then why will he cost $100M more than McAnn? And tell Todd Zeile I said he was no fucking John Olerud.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=52072 time=1607794963 user_id=68] Great. We just got a catcher who OPS+'ed under 100 for the first five years of his career, barely cracked 100 in his sixth season, and OPS+'ed 144 in the lunatic 2020 season of the coronavirus. I'm so excited. (Not). Is Fred Wilpon still running things?

Great. We just got a catcher who OPS+'ed under 100 for the first five years of his career, barely cracked 100 in his sixth season, and OPS+'ed 144 in the lunatic 2020 season of the coronavirus. I'm so excited. (Not). Is Fred Wilpon still running things?

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This is the second best FA catcher? A guy with a career OPS under .700 and inconsistent power numbers? I'm unimpressed. Everybody saying that he's the second-best catcher available neglects to note that it ain't a win-place-show point-getting race. I mean, Ramos was the consensus "second-best" last time around. We don't get points for "meaningful signings;" we get runs created and prevented by whomever is in the lineup. Realmuto is, even after a career "year" from McCann, considered by those who know-- and idiots like me who cite cherry- picked stats like gospel--- to be head and shoulders above McCann, a pretty-okay platoon catcher before last year (unless you guys see something different in his plate approach, a la Murphy in 2015-16). McCann seems like someone you settle for, not someone you approach. If he's asking for four years-- keeping in mind that he's just about a year older than Realmuto-- that seems a TOUGH swallow. I'm not sure the who-else-we-can-afford fangames make it easier to swallow. McAnn might be the second best catcher, but that doesn't even begin to tell the story because the gap between Realmuto and whoever the next best catcher is is enormous. This reminds me of when I played in a Strat-O-Matic league based on the 1985 season. I'm sure that I once told this story on this forum but I'll tell it again because it involves Gary Carter, 1985's best catcher and the best 1985 comp to J.T. Realmuto ---the parallels to the Realmuto/McAnn catcher FA dynamic are strong. So I played in a draft Strat-o-Matic league based on the NL 1985 season with three other friends, all knowledgeable baseball fans who knew their way around a Strat-o-Matic set. As a memory refresher, 1985 was the year of the all-Missouri World Series. The Mets were great but the Cards -- Jack Clark and seven lead-off hitters, were even better. Darryl Strawberry, rate-wise, had the best season of his career but missed about a month and half of the season with injuries. Dwight Gooden was legendary, producing one of the best pitching seasons in modern baseball history. 1985 was Carter's first and best season as a Met. Anyways, before our draft, we all wrote down our preferred draft pick if we lucked out and had the overall first pick, to be shared after the draft. I was the one who lucked out and got to pick first overall. And with the first pick, I drafted Gary Carter. Not Doc. Not Ozzie Smith who had his career year in '85. Not Willie McGee, of the .353 batting average and undeserving MVP award. Not Pedro Guerrero, 1985's best NL hitter. I picked Carter because he was the best catcher and the next best catcher wasn't even close to Carter. The gap between Carter and the next best catcher, probably Mike Scioscia, was huge. Scioscia had a good BA and OBP but very little power. And he could not stop the running game, crucial in an all-star draft league. Carter was not even close to being the best hitter of '85 and in fact, I generally batted him 7th in my lineups. But I had to have him because there was no other catcher who came close to Carter's performance. After the draft, when everyone else turned over their cards to reveal who they would've drafted had they picked first, everybody's card came up Carter. And that's the story of Realmuto/McAnn.

Where was this thread hiding? Didn't see it when I posted this morning. Dick ("Richie") ("Don't call me 'Richie'") Allen, seven time all-star, 1972 AL MVP and deserving Hall of Famer, 78. [FIMG=333]https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/chicago-white-sox-dick-allen-june-12-1972-sports-illustrated-cover.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71aAcR2a8BL._AC_SY679_.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91QW0RW%2BGEL._AC_SY550_.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=355]https://jasoncards.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/allen_071670_jet.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://sportscollectorsdigest.com/.image/t_share/MTc2MjgyMTc5NDc3OTA2NjIy/5-sportingnewscover.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/f70AAOSwc-tY7N3L/s-l400.jpg[/FIMG]

Report: NL teams told to plan for no DH in 2021 Excerpt: For weeks, baseball front offices have had to try to put together offseason plans without knowing whether half the league's teams will play with a designated hitter in 2021. Adding a DH to the NL is something that has made sense from a competitive standpoint for a long time, is something the players have wanted for a long time, and is something the owners also want. So, naturally, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is saying “don't count on it.” According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, teams were sent a memo by the league office last week telling them to operate under the assumption there will not be a DH in the National League in 2021. https://www.brewcrewball.com/2020/12/7/22159973/report-nl-teams-told-to-plan-for-no-dh-in-2021https://www.brewcrewball.com/2020/12/7/22159973/report-nl-teams-told-to-plan-for-no-dh-in-2021

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