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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. 18 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. 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

I took the A's. Because they've got pitching and because they're a wild card.

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. 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 5 4 3 2 1

The early birds definitely didn't get the worm this time. Nope and nope.

MFS62 wrote: In honor of? Why? Later Because we're one year closer to the end of his contract. BTW, his 2014 season was remarkably similar to his 2013 season, numbers-wise -- although I'd suppose that his Mets numbers, accumulated in a tougher hitting environment, are more valuable. Grandy's also the 36th Met to hit at least 20 HR's in a season, thus meriting a quiz in his honor. It's a forum tradition. We did it for Hairston and Byrd and Duda, and it wouldn't be fair to exclude Grandy. And you won't need to bone up on ol' Charlie Smith for this one.

Or scotch-tape one of these to the floor just outside the Rotunda entrance.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: bmfc1 wrote: The manager starts Abreu and plans on taking him out mid-game to get an ovation. He's had a wonderful career but I don't give a flying frig about him. The Mets reluctantly made a team museum, won't make a Seaver statue, and refused to have a ceremony honoring the 40th anniversary of the NL Champs but for Abreu they have a sense of history. Because it don't cost the Mets as much money to take out Abreu mid-game as it would to honor the '73 Mets or to commission a statue. Though they could probably get a good deal on a scaled down Seaver statue.

bmfc1 wrote: The manager starts Abreu and plans on taking him out mid-game to get an ovation. He's had a wonderful career but I don't give a flying frig about him. The Mets reluctantly made a team museum, won't make a Seaver statue, and refused to have a ceremony honoring the 40th anniversary of the NL Champs but for Abreu they have a sense of history. Because it don't cost the Mets as much money to take out Abreu mid-game as it would to honor the '73 Mets or to commission a statue.

Why are the Mets giving away a bobblehead of my junior high school shop teacher in a Mets uniform?

Quiz in Honor of Curtis Granderson - Coming Soon - Watch for details....

metsmarathon wrote: rick reed? Yeah. Rick Reed's 1998 K/BB is the 88th best all-time. Matt Harvey's K/BB rate of last season is 49th best all-time.

HahnSolo wrote: Ceetar wrote: Twins offer, Hughes turn it down. btw, unreported, at least to me, until I looked it up.. the previous leader in K/BB was a Met. guess who? Saberhagen? I looked up the all-time single season K/BB ratio rates. There are three Mets seasons in the top 100 -- the guy who used to hold the record until Phil Hughes's season (he's now ranked #2), and two others (ranked #49 and #88).

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Discussion then followed that Jeter should be a unanimous selection to the Hall of Fame. Having recovered from the shock of baseball talk on ESPN radio, I switched stations. If you hadda bet, would you bet on his unanimous selection? Breaking Seaver's % vote record?

Me too. Remember the number in the circle early version? [fimg=555:3c5bqtzu]https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzCXoFVcsy_WCU2DPCyjweLKpSqz8inMJiw1QlBMyhZN9Rs5N6PA[/fimg:3c5bqtzu] [fimg=844:3c5bqtzu]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHjP1chJYqM/TGhFtHCpEkI/AAAAAAAAAGA/TTVtQo9ybRc/s1600/Houston+Astros+1200.jpg[/fimg:3c5bqtzu]

That Young for McHugh swap suddenly ain't even half the trade it used to be.

I was discussing McHugh today with a friend of mine, how he's having a breakout season and was barely memorable as a Met. But I still overlooked him.

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Mets� Matt Harvey spotted at Yankee Stadium for Derek Jeter�s final home game [fimg=755]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1953328.1411694724!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/harvey.jpg[/fimg] Remember that thread JCL started giving odds on the likelihood of each Met eventually signing with the MFY's? Well, I'd bet anything that Harvey's already been fitted for his MFY uniform. He probably poses in it in the privacy of his own home, and it's just a matter of time before Harvey absent-mindedly wears it out in public, or even to a Mets game. Four rows behind the MFY dugout.

George Brett used the Marv Throneberry model bat and Brett was a better player than Jeter.

Zvon wrote: See, I don't understand this twitter business. How can Twitter hijack a hashtag, and why would they? What does "twitter hijacks it" even mean. They pulled the plug on it? http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-start-imametsfanbecause-hashtag-twitter-hijacks-it-1.9384020 I wonder who won the tickets. That's the story I wanna hear. I'm no twitter hound, but I think that "hijacking a hashtag" is similar to "hijacking a thread", i.e., to take it in a different direction than originally intended.

http://nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d6/d9/dH/dJ/169HJ_3.MP3 Pick it up at about the 1:50 mark.

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Vic Sage wrote: Well according to the Supreme Court, corporate entities ARE people. I'm waiting for the Supreme Court to rule that people are corporations so I can deduct everything under the sun.

Edgy MD wrote: You sure seem to be taking it seriously enough. The unfunny and cowardly and the impotent use the internet to pile on. What else is new? Pile on to what .... snarky humor directed at a corporate entity? Are you equating this with the cyber bullying and abuse of a specific individual ... a person?

Ceetar wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'm reading. I'm not seeing them all negative. Added some myself. Most are a little of both. There are plenty of casual Mets fans that follow @mets but aren't part of "#MetsTwitter" so to speak. So they'll respond genuinely and not troll. But those articles tabulating and over-representing the snarky tweets has encouraged others to make snarky and negative comments. That's precisely how hashtags generally work. But that's just noise. Almost all of social media is just noise and a poor representative of anything really. (This goes for the Mets, or for hashtags about fraking, or climate change, or popular domestic violence (both NFL and non-NFL edition) cases..) It's a cacophony of squeaky wheels and the normal wheels just rolling along thinking "Oh, yeah, I like the Mets. Why? Oh, because my first memories are of watching the '86 series with my family and missing Danger Mouse cause the Astro's game went way long" and not noticing the squeaks. You take this so seriously. We know that there are real true blue Mets fans out there. Why, they even show up at Mets games. All 2,500 of them.