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d'Kong76 wrote: Circuitous mumbo-jumbo. What does that mean?

d'Kong76 wrote: If, by "original", those are pre-season odds, then they're meaningless now. Before the playoffs started odds. And if those odds were set after season's end, I'd take those odds and bet the Wild Cards every single season.Wild cards have won five of the 19 wild-card era World Series, and lost five of them -- a showing extremely consistent with the idea that playoff baseball is a coin-flip. Yeah, lotta coin flipping in these crazy four series. I'm not going to discuss it further with someone who probably isn't even watching the games because he thinks he knows the outcomes before a pitch is thrown. You're the one who seems to know the outcome before a pitch is thrown, not me. I think that's my point: that I have no idea who's going to win -- because I think that every team, more or less, has the same chance to win.

d'Kong76 wrote: Stunning may be a little strong, but it's hardly a coin flip based on the odds below. And they won the first two in Thunderstick LAnd to boot, which was highly unlikely. Original odds to win the 2014 AL pennant Los Angeles Angels 2-1 Kansas City Royals 7-1 Original odds to win the 2014 World Series Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 Kansas City Royals 16-1 If, by "original", those are pre-season odds, then they're meaningless now. And if those odds were set after season's end, I'd take those odds and bet the Wild Cards every single season. Wild cards have won five of the 19 wild-card era World Series, and lost five of them -- a showing extremely consistent with the idea that playoff baseball is a coin-flip.

G-Fafif wrote: The success of ... Colon ... seems a testament to showing up every day. [fimg=172]http://www.ultimatemets.com/cards/BartoloColon1970.jpg[/fimg] Schaefer sez it's better to have played the game, even badly, than never to have played the game at all. Because Schaefer ignores bad outings, treating them no differently than a "did not play", and that's why Colon won this year's award. By exploiting Schaefer's inability to properly value rate stats, Colon was able to vulture the Pitcher of the Year award from the Mets best pitcher, Jacob deGrom, by simply pitching more often. This year, no Met pitcher was within a billion miles of deGrom, and it didn't matter that deGrom's season didn't start until May -- that's how much better deGrom was than the rest of the staff. Fail.

The Kansas City Royals look to complete a stunning sweep when they host the Los Angeles Angels in Game 3 of their best-of-five American League Division Series Stunning? It's three baseball games between good teams. It's practically a coin-flip.

Mets Card of the Week: 1968 Tom Seaver by Doug Parker � August 13, 2014 � 5 Comments [fimg=233]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1968-Seaver-regular-213x300.jpg[/fimg] Tom Seaver shared his 1967 Topps rookie card with Bill Denehy. Of course, Seaver won the Rookie of the Year award that season, earning himself the privilege of not just a stand-alone card in 1968, but also one numbered with the coveted divisor of 5 (45), and adorned with the all-star rookie trophy. In the portrait photograph selected for his 1968 card, Seaver looks impossibly young. His hat looks impossibly blue. And the sky looks only slightly less-impossibly blue. It is an impossibly beautiful and simple card. But if the scheming Seaver had had his way, the aquarian star-children of the day would have pulled something quite different from their first-series packs. You see, back in spring training of 1967, before he�d thrown a pitch in a big-league game, the sly rookie tried to pull a fast one on the Topps lensman, and posed in a follow-through motion as a left-handed pitcher. And as it happens, Topps initially chose a picture from this session for Seaver�s 1968 card, going so far as to run at least one proof sheet with this layout. He would have gotten away with it too, if not for some meddling proofreader who pointed out that Seaver was indeed a right-handed pitcher. There is only one known copy of this proof card extant, so all I can share is a degraded iPhone snap of a reproduction of a second-generation scan: [fimg=233]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1968-Seaver-219x300.jpg[/fimg] It turns out that Seaver wasn�t the only right-handed future Hall of Famer who tried to pull this stunt in 1968� Bob Gibson also appeared as a lefty on his initial proof card. Not sure if they were in cahoots, or if there was just something southpaw in the air that year� [fimg=233]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bob-Gibson.jpg[/fimg] http://mets360.com/?p=22707 The proof is in the proof sheet: second row, second card. [fimg=744]http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgallery/memberfoldersfh/jmoran19/uncutsheets/large/68series1c.bmp.jpg[/fimg]

Mets Card of the Week: 1968 Tom Seaver by Doug Parker � August 13, 2014 � 5 Comments [fimg=233]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1968-Seaver-regular-213x300.jpg[/fimg] Tom Seaver shared his 1967 Topps rookie card with Bill Denehy. Of course, Seaver won the Rookie of the Year award that season, earning himself the privilege of not just a stand-alone card in 1968, but also one numbered with the coveted divisor of 5 (45), and adorned with the all-star rookie trophy. In the portrait photograph selected for his 1968 card, Seaver looks impossibly young. His hat looks impossibly blue. And the sky looks only slightly less-impossibly blue. It is an impossibly beautiful and simple card. But if the scheming Seaver had had his way, the aquarian star-children of the day would have pulled something quite different from their first-series packs. You see, back in spring training of 1967, before he�d thrown a pitch in a big-league game, the sly rookie tried to pull a fast one on the Topps lensman, and posed in a follow-through motion as a left-handed pitcher. And as it happens, Topps initially chose a picture from this session for Seaver�s 1968 card, going so far as to run at least one proof sheet with this layout. He would have gotten away with it too, if not for some meddling proofreader who pointed out that Seaver was indeed a right-handed pitcher. There is only one known copy of this proof card extant, so all I can share is a degraded iPhone snap of a reproduction of a second-generation scan: [fimg=233]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1968-Seaver-219x300.jpg[/fimg] It turns out that Seaver wasn�t the only right-handed future Hall of Famer who tried to pull this stunt in 1968� Bob Gibson also appeared as a lefty on his initial proof card. Not sure if they were in cahoots, or if there was just something southpaw in the air that year� [fimg=233]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bob-Gibson.jpg[/fimg] http://mets360.com/?p=22707

Zvon wrote: [youtube]eX2ktVn5b-c[/youtube] That's Casey Kasem, RIP. Jim McAndrew- he shouldn't have posed as himself. That's was a dead give-away. Jim's too honest to pose as anybody else.

Who am I, posing as myself in this rare color photo (of myself) in a Padres uniform, the same style worn by Randy Jones when he lost to and then beat, former teammates of mine for the Cy Young award. And when you think of all the pitching talent the Mets were packing in their farm system when I was there, it's pretty amazin', amazin', amazin' that I'd be the one, me, myself! to give the franchise six years of major league service.

Quiz in Honor of Matt den Dekker - Coming Soon - Watch 4 details

And there they are. The 20 for not 20 Mets. Thank you for playing along.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The Glider? True New Yorker? Yep. Iconic Met? Yep. Timeless Met? You bet. Correct answer to this quiz? Nope. (But close). [fimg=300]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-acdqSrVR3Bo/Uvc_HnZIyvI/AAAAAAAAMVw/rseYCJ2SLcQ/s1600/1968+Mets+HR+Leaders-Z14.png[/fimg]

By hitting his 20th HR as a Met near season's end, Curtis Granderson was assured of finishing the season with more than 19 HR's. No, really. Do the math. 20 other Mets in franchise history hit more than 15 HR's in a season without ever reaching the 20 HR milestone. Name them. Edgy's Quiz-Taking Rules: One Met per post. You can't provide two consecutive guesses or picks. After submitting a Met, please wait until at least one other poster has submitted a Met before participating. 2 1

d'Kong76 wrote: Cleon?

I don't hate any of the division rivals. I'm supposed to blame them because the Mets can't finish in first more than once in 26 years? I know where to direct the loathing.

By hitting his 20th HR as a Met near season's end, Curtis Granderson was assured of finishing the season with more than 19 HR's. No, really. Do the math. 20 other Mets in franchise history hit more than 15 HR's in a season without ever reaching the 20 HR milestone. Name them. Edgy's Quiz-Taking Rules: One Met per post. You can't provide two consecutive guesses or picks. After submitting a Met, please wait until at least one other poster has submitted a Met before participating. 3 2 1 86-Dreamer wrote: Marvelous Marv Marvelous! And because I love that guy and it's my quiz, I'm giving Marv two cards.

d'Kong76 wrote: I'm getting dizzy, did someone try Carl Everett yet?

Edgy MD wrote: Ty Wig. About as bad a pick as Knight.

Edgy MD wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I think that the Marlins new stadium, uniforms, and total roster turnover erases their old douchebag image. They get a clean slate with their re-branding. Florida Marlins = dicks. Miami Marlins = cool. Yeah, I guess it could work that way, if I didn't think their stadium was garish, their uniforms clownish, and their roster turnover more of the same chump-and-dump. And a scoreboard like one oughtta be.

By hitting his 20th HR as a Met near season's end, Curtis Granderson was assured of finishing the season with more than 19 HR's. No, really. Do the math. 20 other Mets in franchise history hit more than 15 HR's in a season without ever reaching the 20 HR milestone. Name them. Edgy's Quiz-Taking Rules: One Met per post. You can't provide two consecutive guesses or picks. After submitting a Met, please wait until at least one other poster has submitted a Met before participating. 4 3 2 1

Edgy MD wrote: Rainy Knight. Woefully underqualified.

By hitting his 20th HR as a Met near season's end, Curtis Granderson was assured of finishing the season with more than 19 HR's. No, really. Do the math. 20 other Mets in franchise history hit more than 15 HR's in a season without ever reaching the 20 HR milestone. Name them. Edgy's Quiz-Taking Rules: One Met per post. You can't provide two consecutive guesses or picks. After submitting a Met, please wait until at least one other poster has submitted a Met before participating. 5 4 3 2 1

d'Kong76 wrote: That guy that lived on the boat! Derek Bell. You got me. I missed Bell. Even I suck at my own quiz.