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Frayed Knot wrote: Only a handful seem to be not yet publicly announced. Sunday, April 5 Cards???@CubsJon Lester Monday, April 6 Jays@YanxMasahiro TanakaTwinsPhil Hughes@TigersDavid PriceRockiesKyle Kendrick@BrewersKyle LohseRed SoxClay Buchholz@PhilliesCole HamelsOrioles@RaysChris ArcherMetsBartolo Colon@NationalsMax ScherzerBravesJulio Teheran@MarlinsHenderson AlvarezWhite SoxJeff Samardzija@RoyalsYordano VenturaAngels@MarinersFelix HernandezPiratesFrancisco Liriano@RedsPadresJames Shields@DodgersClayton KershawIndiansCorey Kluber@AstrosDallas KeuchelRangersYovani Gallardo@AthleticsSonny GrayGiantsMadison Bumgarner@DBacks What? No team logos?

dgwphotography wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Almost all of those logos suck -- at least at the size I'm seeing 'em on my computer. For reference, the Mets logo is one inch high on my screen; the DBacks logo is seven eighths of an inch high. Most of them just don't scale well at that size range. I like the Marlins logo the best, at that size. It's simple, yet it effectively invokes the vibrant and colorful culture of the host city of Miami and the team nickname, in one fluid modern design. But even so, some of the design element is still lost. When enlarged a little bit, you can see that the smaller version atop this thread looks flatter than it's supposed to. [fimg=133]http://everitas.univmiami.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Marlins-Logo-2-374x347.jpg[/fimg] The guy tries to do something nice, that no one asked him to do, just so we can add a little color to the KTE's or the IGT's, and you have to act like a petulant asshole. That's the post that got under your skin a little bit?

Almost all of those logos suck -- at least at the size I'm seeing 'em on my computer. For reference, the Mets logo is one inch high on my screen; the DBacks logo is seven eighths of an inch high. Most of them just don't scale well at that size range. I like the Marlins logo the best, at that size. It's simple, yet it effectively invokes the vibrant and colorful culture of the host city of Miami and the team nickname, in one fluid modern design. But even so, some of the design element is still lost. When enlarged a little bit, you can see that the smaller version atop this thread looks flatter than it's supposed to. [fimg=133]http://everitas.univmiami.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Marlins-Logo-2-374x347.jpg[/fimg]

That's so cool. I never knew there were so many baseball logos. I'm gonna put all of 'em on my kitchen wall. I can't wait. Wanna come over and see 'em when I'm done? We can play Candyland after.

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: A big part of the thinking is to better concentrate better hitters. The leadoff hitter ... His primary job, obviously, is to get on base....\ Everybody's job is to get on base (a/k/a "do not make an out"). Yes, well, I chose the word obviously for a reason. I'm not sure when Lags graduated to become an established leadoff hitter, much less a conventional one. Seemed like a lot of folks thought him a dubious candidate a month or two ago. Good point. Me, I'm not necessarily saying that Lagares is the Mets ideal leadoffer. What I am saying, or what I did said write but then waffled on but only a tiny little bit to account for Wright and Duda moving up, is that the idea of Lags being a combo leadoff hitter/9th hitter is hard to reconcile.

ac batmagadanleadoff wrote: Am I missing something? I did miss something. Lagares the conventional leadoff hitter might get his PA's cut by a lot if he's suddenly slotted 9th, but everybody else moves up one slot. So Wright and Duda and all of the other bruisers in the Mets Big Blue Lumber Company Machine get more PA's and take up some of the slack of the conventional leadoff hitter's reduced PA's. So this idea is not as wacky as I first imagined. How much less wacky? Beats me, but less.

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Edgy MD wrote: A big part of the thinking is to better concentrate better hitters. The leadoff hitter ... His primary job, obviously, is to get on base....\ Everybody's job is to get on base (a/k/a "do not make an out"). Essentially. That's your offense. The guy that bats leadoff and the guy that bats seventh have the exact same job on offense. Don't make an out. The guy that bats seventh bats seventh because he's not as good at his job as the leadoff guy. Any manager that creates a specific spot in the lineup for someone to purposely make an out should be strangled on site. I digressed a little. [fimg=333]http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/NY_DN0620-thumb.jpg[/fimg] Cry me a river. Willie thought he was Earl Weaver. And as you can see, MLB has been falling over itself to hire him again. Good riddance. If everybody gets on base, if everybody doesn't ever make an out, well ... you can see where that's going. If your leadoff guy is good at getting on base, good at not making outs, it's counterproductive to bat him ninth. And he'd still immediately precede the #2 hitter, who's now a #1 hitter in the shifted lineup. 100+ less PA's, to me, outweighs everything else. This, to me, is fundamentally different than simply swapping the eight guy and the pitcher.

G-Fafif wrote: MFS62 wrote: Tell us something about Steve Dillon Steve's last game was Shea's first night game. Dillon also appears on the first Topps card to be photographed at Shea Stadium, even if Steve himself was shot at the Polo Grounds.

Whenever this pitcher batting eighth thing comes up, I always have to think harder than I usually do just to remind myself what the payoff's supposed to be. That's because I probably dismissed this strategy in the past and haven't thought about it much, since. The payoff, as I now recall, is supposed to increase the odds of your number three hitter coming up with the bases loaded, or more RBI opps, in general, for the guys atop the order. This might make some sense when the manager swaps the pitcher with the number eight hitter. Even then, I wonder if the payoff is meaningful, instead of negligible or even counterproductive. On rare occasions, the pitcher is a better hitter than one of the position players and so the batting order pitcher switcheroo is warranted on that basis alone. But I don't recall a manager demoting his leadoff hitter to the last spot in the lineup in pursuit of that payoff. To me, that's absolute lunacy. Am I missing something?

Yeah, but if Collins intended to bat Lagares at the top of a conventional lineup, than Lagares's PA's are being reduced by a whole lot.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Me-from-a-month-ago wouldn't believe I'm about to say this, but... whither JohnnyLags? I kinda want to get him more plate appearances. Take a deep breath. It's March.

themetfairy wrote: I don't know that I'd call him douchy. Douchiness implies a mean-spiritedness, and so far I haven't witnessed any of that from him. He is cocky as hell. Harvey's a major douchebag. There's no doubt about that. Not that I wouldn't be doing most of the exact same things he's doing if I were him, other than that Qualcomm fiasco. And people would call me a douchebag.

Ashie62 wrote: Michael Edwin Fyhrie (born December 9, 1969 in Long Beach, California) is a former professional baseball player who played 5 seasons for the New York Mets, Anaheim Angels, Chicago Cubs, and Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball. He also pitched one season in Japan for the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2003. The following year, he played for the Hyundai Unicorns in Korea where he sported a 16-6 record with a sub-3.00 E.R.A. Currently, Fyhrie plays baseball for the SoCal MSBL (Men's Senior Baseball League) Whales You coulda just posted the wikipedia link and saved yourself all that copying and pasting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Fyhrie In the spirit of this thread, why dont'cha just post a wikipedia link to every Mets name that appears here?

Edgy MD wrote: And... GO! Somebody take a flier on Filer. Tom Filer.

Edgy MD wrote: Mike Fyhrie me. How do you even pronounce that? Fyhrie rhymes with "theory". It's tougher to spell than to say, I'd say. I got video of this guy. Try and find a picture of Fyhrie in a Mets uniform. I dare you.

Mike Bruhert was married to Gil Hodges's daughter and was as tall as your average NBA small forward. And unless he's dead, he's still as tall as your average NBA small forward.

I think Wright's back. He sez he's back and Wright cannot tell a lie. All-star.

G-Fafif wrote: Tom Seaver returns to face the Mets for the first time.... Right around this time, Andy Warhol was immersed in his silkscreen portrait series of sports stars, which included this piece featuring recently arrived Red, Tom Seaver. Warhol's Seaver, along with his only other known baseball themed artworks (a Maris and a Rose) go on exhibit at the Cincinnatti Art Museum next week.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: It's on. Which means that the Wilpons aren't interested enough in acquiring the cart for display in their stadium. Unless they want the cart but don't wanna pay for it. Even though whatever the cart ultimately sells for is lunch money to the owners. Or they believe that they can get it at auction for less than it was offered to them. Personally, this issue of the owners apparent disinterest or ambivalence in acquiring the cart doesn't stoke my passions much, one way or the other. But I couldn't pass up the opportunity to comment on their indifference to the Mets history. I'm surprised that Sotheby's would incorrectly date the cart to 1967. If true, the cart would've appeared in the 1969 WS. I doubt that any team was using that cap style cart in '67.

It's on. Which means that the Wilpons aren't interested enough in acquiring the cart for display in their stadium. Unless they want the cart but don't wanna pay for it. Even though whatever the cart ultimately sells for is lunch money to the owners. Or they believe that they can get it at auction for less than it was offered to them. [fimg=1000]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7611/16885641076_f399889bdc_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=1000]https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8696/16885641066_278f11253f_o.jpg[/fimg] http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-YORK-METS-BULLPEN-CART-EM-CIRCA-EM-1967-Mets-Bullpen-Car-/181688322437?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4d77c985 My guess is that the Mets first used a baseball cap bullpen cart in 1971, because that style cart first appeared in a World Series in '71.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: [fimg=566]http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTQ2OFgxMTAx/z/yQkAAOSwZjJU-MJ7/$_57.JPG[/fimg] With the passage of time, those uniforms look even sillier.

seawolf17 wrote: I definitely remember that pin set. I have multiple copies of the Mr. Met, including one peering at me right now over my monitor. (I have Wright, Reyes, and maybe two or three others somewhere too.) [fimg=1255]http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/OTA1WDE2MDA=/z/2-YAAOSwqu9VBg9k/$_57.JPG[/fimg] [fimg=666]http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTQ2OFgxMTAx/z/yQkAAOSwZjJU-MJ7/$_57.JPG[/fimg]

MFS62 wrote: Minnie Minoso was old enough (IIRC he made his comeback with KC), but I don't think his Chisox ever played in Brooklyn. Hawk Taylor. Later During the Royals' existence, the only team Minoso ever played for was the White Sox. I had left out Taylor the Hawk. I didn't bother checking him out when I saw his name come up on the '69 Royals roster because Hawk was 17 years old in '57 and also, I remembered Hawk's '61 Topps rookie star card (shown above) and figured, incorrectly, that he wouldnt have been around in '57, four years before his rookie star card. He was, and appeared in seven games, one of them at Ebbets --his second MLB game ever.