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Everybody lost last night, so nobody gained.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ashie62 wrote: From UMDB Berra, Lawrence Peter (Yogi) May 12, 1925 89 years, 365 days "89 years, 365 days" <------------ Programming glitch alert! Oh well. It'll resolve itself tomorrow. .... and reappear in a coupl'a weeks on Jim Marshall's birthday.

Mets will start batting pitcher eighth on regular basis Adam Rubin, ESPNNewYork.com CHICAGO -- Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon exclusively has batted his pitcher eighth this season. New York Mets manager Terry Collins is not there yet, but the frequency that Collins places his pitcher in the No. 8 slot in the lineup is about to increase. Noah Syndergaard makes his major league debut as the No. 8 hitter Tuesday at Wrigley Field. It marks only the second time this season the pitcher has batted eighth for the Mets. Jacob deGrom hit there on April 8, in the second game of the season. Collins said he is now more amenable to the pitcher regularly hitting eighth because he has now committed to Daniel Murphy moving from No. 5 to No. 3 in the batting order. A position player batting ninth potentially gives Murphy more opportunities to drive in runs in his new slot. Collins said he would be unlikely to bat the pitcher eighth when the Mets are facing a lefty and the Mets pitcher bats lefty. That's why Collins nixed having deGrom bat eighth against southpaw Jon Lester in Monday's series opener. Collins said he strongly considered batting the pitcher eighth with regularity early in the season, but he did not want to tinker too much once the Mets started reeling off 11 straight wins. "During our winning streak, the bottom of our lineup carried us for quite a while," Collins said. "And that was with the pitcher hitting ninth. And I wasn't about to disrupt that." http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/102742/mets-will-start-batting-pitcher-eighth-regularly

A Mets fan presents Yogi and his wife Carmen with a hand-made Mets skyline logo rug, circa 1973.

Ashie62 wrote: From UMDB Berra, Lawrence Peter (Yogi) May 12, 1925 89 years, 365 days "89 years, 365 days" <------------ Programming glitch alert!

Roy McMillan, who replaced Yogi as Mets manager, and who naturally inherited Yogi's office, stands in front of Yogi's Bruce Stark caricature.

With birthdays just a week apart, two of today's oldest living Mets shared a birthday cake in 1972.

[fimg=555]http://www.seriessub.com/series/episodes/5179.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=222]https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/espn-grantland/img/grantland-logo@2x.png[/fimg] Journey Into Mystery: It�s Finally Time for Syndergaard vs. Bryant, and Lots of Superhero Metaphors, and Really Exciting Baseball, So Get Pumped Tonight, a giant man who people call Thor will attempt to save New York from a runaway genetics experiment who operates under the rule of the deposed mastermind of an evil, world-conquering empire and his bespectacled, snake-wielding henchman. Mets pitching phenom Noah Syndergaard will stand his ground against Cubs hitting phenom Kris Bryant on a cool, breezy evening at Wrigley Field, one of America�s great landmarks, with the power of Syndergaard�s arm brought to bear against the power of Bryant�s bat (or sword, if we�re keeping the metaphor going). Syndergaard, with his effortless but prodigious strength, will battle Bryant, with his smile handsome but menacing, like the bad guy in a teen romantic comedy, and his eyes glowing blue as if he were chosen by the Prophets to battle the Kosst Amojan. Mankind is on a slow but inexorable path toward all popular culture being part of the Marvel Universe.1 What was once the province of comic books and movie theaters has come for network TV, in the form of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Everwood,2 and more. And now, baseball features Thor battling other superheroes. At this point, we know Bryant well � the inconceivable raw power, the psychic plate discipline, the fact that the amount of swing-and-miss in his offensive game makes him resemble Adam Dunn as well as a deity of the trade winds. And the bat�s not all: Bryant is a good all-around athlete with a plus arm and plenty of baseball savvy. This is the same process of discovery and praising-with-faint-damnation that we went through in discovering the full extent of The Mighty Giancarlo Stanton�s greatness, but while it took years with Stanton, it took only a few weeks with Bryant. Whenever a new life-form evolves, however, nature will eventually bring around a new kind of predator to hunt it. Syndergaard might not be a perfect analogue for Bryant�s quality, but he�s a similar kind of player. At 6-foot-6, 240 pounds, he looks like what we�d get if Boeing made human beings. Like Bryant, Syndergaard took a huge leap forward in his draft year, and the Blue Jays took him 38th overall when he was just 17 years old.3 Unlike Bryant, who stepped into the professional game nearly fully formed and destined for stardom from the start, Syndergaard needed some time to develop. He never put up the kind of gaudy minor league numbers that Bryant did because, among other reasons, he pitched the past season and change at Triple-A Las Vegas, a place where the air is so hot and thin it�s like playing baseball on Mercury. But over the course of six minor league seasons, Syndergaard grew larger and more imposing, like a pile of unfolded laundry. In his current form, Syndergaard can throw a 93-to-97 mph fastball well into the later innings, and because velocity for velocity�s sake isn�t enough in the big leagues, he can also drop a solid changeup and a menacing curveball on anyone who�s sitting too intently on the heater. He�s the size of an SUV, with a Scandinavian last name and this kind of hammer to wield; you can see why they call him �Thor.� That Syndergaard has arrived in the major leagues at the age of 22 is the latest testament to the Mets� ability to scout, draft, and develop power arms in recent years. The franchise has been completely unable to get out of its own way in plenty of other areas, but at this moment, the Mets have more pitchers than they can use. In the past few years, they�ve fleeced the Blue Jays for Syndergaard and the Giants for Zack Wheeler, and they�ve gotten Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom to outperform their draft profiles by tremendous amounts. Next year, those four pitchers could form a playoff rotation; this year and last, they gave the Mets enviable depth that meant that when Harvey got hurt, they could bring up deGrom, and when Wheeler got hurt, they could go back to Dillon Gee, and when Gee got hurt, they could finally bring up Syndergaard. Nowadays, no team makes it through a season with only five starting pitchers, so building up that kind of potential and quality is not only necessary, but extremely difficult. If the Mets are going to ride their incredible April wave all the way to the postseason, though, that�s exactly what they�re going to need to keep doing. Because while the single combat metaphor was convenient for this superhero battle gag, Syndergaard will have to contend with more than just Bryant on Tuesday night and beyond. He�ll have to face Anthony Rizzo, and Jorge Soler, and lots of other potent bats on lots of other teams. The only thing that can defeat a superhero is another superhero. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-noah-syndergaard-kris-bryant-mets-cubs-prospects/

themetfairy wrote: 991 - Kevin Plawecki Nine Mets were on the 25 man roster without ever getting into an actual Mets game. These nine --Jim Bibby, Randy Bobb, Billy Cotton, Gerry Moses, Terrell Hansen, Mac Suzuki, Justin Speier, Anderson Garcia and Ruddy Lugo, are technically, not considered Mets. But if they were, then Kevin Plawecki would be the 1,000th Met. [fimg=555]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkGV4ZK2QoCmO8-mU__3N8L42pKPcy6tR0gxiMkbJsufZZ5YKIZg[/fimg]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: [fimg=664]http://25.media.tumblr.com/64faea0d3fa1c6bd02846ef7a91f6fea/tumblr_mm3r8skF5S1qgcarzo2_1280.jpg[/fimg] That's a mock up of the Wrigley board, I suspect. Those side ad slots are going to to be filled with nice Cubs Charities ads, I suspect. Those side panels are part of the electronic display screen. I think that during play, the scoreboard is ad-free. Ads are shown on those side panels, if ever, in between innings. Wanna compare the right field scoreboards?

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Swapped out a screwy Tommy Davis card featuring conflicting team name and uni for a more conventional looking one. Davis might hold the Topps record for appearing on screwy looking cards.

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Every former Met plays a role in our team�s history. It�s great to celebrate the Wrights and Harveys. But someone has to remember the Rojases. Well said!

seawolf17 wrote: Several interlopers on the multi-player cards (Gorman Thomas, Dave Dowling, Phil Norton) -- but everyone else has a bona fide Metly connection, even if I THOUGHT WE ALL AGREED NEVER TO MENTION MEL ROJAS AGAIN. The extras on the multi-player cards don't count as interlopers because, for the most part, they're there by necessity. Without including Dowling, for example. I wouldn't have been able to post a Connors card. [fimg=213]http://images.checkoutmycards.com/original/9f47e74a-d1a4-41c4-8174-99b2b1a9f1e0.jpg[/fimg] It's not a perfect rule. Gorman Thomas doesn't have to be in the OP because there are numerous solo Kingman Cub cards. But the rule's good enough. Besides, I identified just one interloper, so that alone should rule out anyone appearing on a multi-player card. [fimg=213]http://images.checkoutmycards.com/original/9aebea4d-6d03-4161-8980-1ba6d0fa2b21.jpg[/fimg] I've also included coaches, to spice up this feature. Fittingly, I started the trend with the Cubs. You might say that this is my Cubs collage of coaches. So who's the interloper? Opinions might vary, but I'd say it's Phantom Met Randy Bobb, who made the 25 man roster, and suited up for the Mets, and sat in their dugout, and hoped to get in a game. But because he never did, Bobb's not considered a Met. I'd quibble with that historical interpretation. But that's for another day. Butterball Bobb, including the tarp, Clendenon Field, and a newly discovered fence entranceway.

Ronny Cedeno.