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For all the times I appeared in a Mets yearbook, you'd figure that I'd get at least one Topps card in a Mets uniform. Here's a neat trick: Adding a consonant to the front of my first name spells the name of another Met. Who am I? (M)ike Hampton, in a Mets jersey that "The Franchise" might've pitched in. [fimg=322]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3791/13393401765_4dcae13ab7_o.jpg[/fimg] Yearbook Ike Custom Carded by Bob

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Zvon wrote: .... shit, i only voted for one Now its closed to me.:( Fixed. Vote for up to four songs.

YOU STILL HATE ME When I was brought up You were enraged Yeah, I was a scab But act your age We just lost a game Where I was not to blame But you still cursed my name �Cause you still hate me (you hate Rick Reed) You still hate me (you hate Rick Reed) I don�t know why you Would want to hide My new glove and shoes And cut my tie All those years ago My sick mom needed dough But you just can�t let go And you still hate me (you hate Rick Reed) You still hate me (you hate Rick Reed) Time after time I would pitch and be a winner You�re making sure No one sits by me at dinner In Game Three I pitched our winning game And at Shea, they cheer And chant my name Yes, it seemed so rude To Ex-Lax up my food What have I done to you? Oh you still hate me (you hate Rick Reed) You still hate me (you hate Rick Reed) Time after time You cut water to the shower I wouldn't mind But my hair was full of lather I�ve a schlubby look That people like And you�d like me too �Cept for the strike Yes, it seems so wrong To diss me for so long Guess I�ll just go on While you still hate me ((You hate Rick Reed) You still hate me (you hate Rick Reed) mfMC-0FQEno

Pick My Scab Got a guy here, he could be the key? A Poor Man's Maddux, but he's practic'ly free? He'd need a Porsche to hit 93 ?But he can perform mound surgery Baby, you can pick my scab ?If you need someone to toe the slab? Baby, you can pick my scab? And baby, he'll hurl true To a hitter, his "heat" looks good ?But they can't square up the wood ?Working those corners for a backwards K? He's got more Control than Janet J. Baby, you can pick my scab ?Yes, he'll step up on the slab? Put six innings on his tab ?And dude'll reward you BBs? Oh, please! Feh! Baby, you can pick my scab And I'm sure you'll find him fab? Makes umpires work their jab ?Who cares if he paid dues? Asked Lil' John what he thought of Reed? He said, "Baby, can't you see?? Sometimes it's not all about win-loss? Yes, there are some lines you do not cross." "Baby, you can pick this scab? Give that scruff a hasty grab ?Maybe stick him in a cab? And take Benny Ags, too." Yeep, yeep, yeep yeep, yeah ?Creep, creep, creep, creep, yeah ?Yeep, yeep, yeep yeep, yeah ?Creep creep, creep creep, yeah W7dkn1ZnIPk

Richie Hebner Wants Off This Club Bad/ Hebner Wasn�t Here To Make Friends (Sgt. Pepper�s Lonely Hearts Club Band/ With A Little Help From My Friends) It was closing in on op�ning day Joe Torre needed players to play Lenny Randle wasn�t getting it done They released him in the Florida sun And then they introduced to us A disinclined division foe Most reluctant Met we ever had Richie Hebner wants off this club bad He can�t believe the deal was made Richie Hebner wants off this club bad He�s dying to demand a trade Richie Hebner�s mumblin� Richie Hebner�s grumblin� Richie Hebner wants off this club bad He�s mis�rable to be here He�s certainly a pill A dreadful clubhouse influence Dispatch him far away from us Please ship him out of Shea Richie swore he couldn�t wait to go Couldn�t stand that time was moving slow Insists his uniform fit him all wrong On the Mets he just didn�t belong The feeling grew so mutual Toward this prima donna horse�s rear Who did so much to make a damned year sad Hor- se�s rear!!!... If you were sent from a team near the top To a club that was down on the floor � Would you do your best to help them improve Or just whine as you raced for the door? Yo, Richie Hebner wasn�t here to make friends No...not even with Steve Henderson Oh, don�t worry, he didn�t make friends How do you cope with the news you�ve been swapped? (�You mean me for that guy with the �fro?�) Did you have a clue you were gonna get shopped? (�In exchange for some dude named Nino?�) Yo, Richie Hebner wasn�t here to make friends Joe...McDonald had to owe him amends Oh, don�t worry, he didn�t make friends (Did you see how he snarled) That game when he flipped us the bird? (Like his face was all gnarled) I�d rather that Craig Swan played third Would someone join Rich for a quick round of hearts? (It appears his teammates have to blow) �Kid in the corner, let�s just play some cards.� (Rookie Alex Trevi�o said, �No.�) Yo, Richie Hebner wasn�t here to make friends Though...gravediggers should know from dead ends Oh, don�t worry, he didn�t make friends Did he irk Lee Mazzilli? (The Stallion would always stay cool) Was he really still a Phillie? (That wouldn�t fly with Kranepool) Yo, Richie Hebner wasn�t here to make friends Dove...for balls like he suffered the bends Oh, don�t worry, he didn�t make friends No, he didn�t try to be liked And at that, he was fine... He was fiiiiiine! XmkIYWuZ1-U

Beatle Song: When I'm Sixty Four GaR30o_YXx0 I'm George Theodore I may be wacky, wired and weird When I take the field Playing big league baseball was a childhood dream Look at me now, I'm on the team I can chase fly balls and I can hit I can run and score New York was for me, the fans adore me I'm George Theodore ______ I can pinch hit too Step aside Mister Mays I will bat for you _______ I could be handy playing left field When we've got no Jones I would take one in the eye without a blink Fans know I just look like I stink Im trancendental, mentally keen Ross showed me the floor. New York was for me, the fans adore me I'm George Theodore _______________ Many summers long ago I played before the age of Wright if you can believe Believe what you saw One man made us believe Frank Edwin McGraw _______________ Garr hit a rocket deep in the gap I ran like the wind I was gonna catch the ball that sunny day Don Hahn simply got in my way I'm kinda dorky, they me Stork And I'm six foot four New York was for me, the fans adore me I'm George Theodore Hi!

TAGGED TOGETHER Here come old Jeff Kent He come rounding third slowly He got Dodger eyeballs Trained on Paul LoDuca He got tagged down below his knee On relay throw from Jose Valentin Stay in the baseline Got to hold the baseball Tag another slider Into Paul LoDuca He say, �I�m out too, you tagged me. In the first game of the Wild Card series.� Tagged together, right now By Paul LoDee For bat production He got H-Growth hormone He got Stanozolol He got acne back and He got number of Kirk Radomski Spread drug use in the clubhouse Like a Typhoid Mary Use together, right now With Paul LoDee Grew up a Met fan Ate his Daddy�s pizza Out in Arizona He wore Gooden�s number He dates skanks and young baseball Annies Got to be discrete Because he�s married you see Both together right now with Paul LoDee Come together, yeah Come together, yeah Come together, yeah Come together, yeah Come together, yeah Come together, yeah Come together, yeah Come together, yeah [youtube:b6i4k42p]axb2sHpGwHQ[/youtube:b6i4k42p]

If I Needed Elster If I need a guy who's all glove You're the guy that I'd be thinking of An all-glove, no-bat someone If the HoJo dream's a dead end. Then I'll a try an Elster-HoJo blend A two-head, shorstop someone Yeah he's got some Sunday power But he hits two-twenty-six All his value's wrapped up in his glove Is your number two, fifteen, Or twenty-one? What does it mean to me? Just don't allow an earned run Ahhhh..., ahhh.... If you leave and sign elsewhere It best be somewhere with thin air, I think If you want a homerun Had your bat been like your defense Then it might not have been like this But you see you're tagged "no bat, good glove" Twenty-four homeruns in Texas Fame, success, and wealth and sex, I see And deep steroid suspicion Ahhhh..., ahhh.... jjm28jTZDw8

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For all the times I appeared in a Mets yearbook, you'd figure that I'd get at least one Topps card in a Mets uniform. Here's a neat trick: Adding a consonant to the front of my first name spells the name of another Met. Who am I?

Another Who Am I from The Department of Baseball card collectors of a certain age might think that I once played for the NY Mets. I didn't. Who am I?

Limping along here, I'll post the tournament thread early Monday. Anybody who hasn't entered the contest can still do so, provided they submit their parody before we go live with this furshlugginer contest. sharpie musta read my mind. There are only six entries, so far. But four will advance to the final round. The final round topic will be open. But with a coupl'a wrinkles or two thrown in, just for fun. [youtube:1dgphay0]uiOr5WoAJgg[/youtube:1dgphay0] [youtube:1dgphay0]GwgRzU8oc4Y[/youtube:1dgphay0]

Brian Phillips on rooting for the underdog in the NCAA tournament. Excerpt: Why root for an underdog? The desire to do so is ancient, of course � even older than the NCAA tournament.... Children, given a choice between two sports teams and no information, will almost always gravitate toward the one that�s winning. It�s only when you�ve seen a little more life that you start to pine for the upset. [***] I keep thinking about a famous thing Roger Angell wrote about the Mets, back when they were a new franchise totally overshadowed by the Yankees.3 [fn3-So, uh, nothing like today, then.] Angell�s passage makes a simple point in a lovely way, like a lot of the best sportswriting. He�s been listening to some New Yorkers criticize the Mets roster � a bunch of bums, not fit to set foot in Yankee Stadium � and he writes: I recognised the tone. It was knowing, cold, full of the contempt that the calculator feels for those who don�t play the odds. It was the voice of the Yankee fan. The Yankees have won the American League pennant twenty times in the past thirty years; they have been the world�s champion sixteen times in that period. Over the years, many of their followers have come to watch them with the stolidity, the smugness, and the arrogance of blue-chip stocks. These fans expect no less than perfection. They coolly accept the late-inning rally, the winning homer, as only their due. They are apt to take defeat with ill grace, and they treat their stars as though they were executives hired to protect their interests. During a slump or a losing streak, these capitalists are quick and shrill with their complaints: �They ought to do better than this, considering what they�re being paid!� Suddenly the Mets fans made sense to me. What we were witnessing was precisely the opposite of the kind of rooting that goes on across the river. This was the losing cheer, the gallant yell for a good try � antimatter to the sounds of Yankee Stadium. This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. There is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. Isn�t rooting for the underdog more a matter of whom you choose to identify with than anything else? A matter of with whom you elect to make common cause? After all, what Angell writes is not quite true, is it? There is not more Met than Yankee in the cold-eyed executives and capitalists Angell pulls into his metaphors � or if there were, they would never admit it. There�s not more Met than Yankee in most 9-year-olds, who still believe that they�re going to be the president and a karate star and an arctic explorer. I wrote before that rooting for underdogs requires an outlook. This is also a simple point, but I think that the outlook it requires involves the recognition that the world is not transparent to your desires � that privilege is not always a reflection of merit, that the game is often rigged, that what you deserve is seldom what you get. Most of us learn this at some point. Some people never learn it, and they have been Red Sox fans for going on 10 years now. What I�m saying is that sports, if you have any investment in it at all, is always a metaphor for something. You don�t root for underdogs if, because of innocence or its opposite, you see the game as a metaphor for the world as it ought to be. You start rooting for underdogs when you see the game as a metaphor for the world as it is. http://grantland.com/features/2014-ncaa-tournament-underdogs-dayton/

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Nothing's gonna change. People won't stop divulging secrets and writers don't wanna lose their sources. But wishful thinking.

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NY Mets Matt Harvey explains why he wants to stay with teammates, meets with Alderson about rehab and media rules BY Andy Martino PORT ST. LUCIE -- Tuesday in Metsland began when I asked Matt Harvey if he wanted to go on the record with his strong and rational case for why he should rehab from Tommy John surgery while around his teammates. Per the Basic Agreement, Harvey has the right to do his work away from the spring training facility, and wants to for compelling reasons; it is my opinion that he should be able to determine his own best interests, with the help of the training staff. This is not about Manhattan, and its lure of models, restaurants and clothing stores -- it�s about the pull of Flushing, Queens, teammates, and pitching for the Mets this season, which he is convinced he will do. In the morning, Harvey was under the impression that he was not allowed to grant one-on-one interviews (that perception shifted somewhat later in the day, but we�ll get to that), but he decided to talk anyway. Sitting at his locker, he said: �The biggest part is wanting to stay with the team. To learn the league. To learn Travis (d�Arnaud). To learn how to bond with the other starting pitchers, and the guys in the clubhouse, and the David Wrights who I plan on playing with.� And where does the front office stand on this? �I expressed that seven months in Port St. Lucie is a long time,� he said. �For me, I strongly felt that my best opportunity, and my motivation to come back quicker, stronger, work harder would be to be with the teammates. That�s kind of what I have always said. I have worked so hard to get to the big leagues and be with this team, it just felt like all of a sudden I was shooed to the back.� Why does he say that? �It�s just the fact that I have been not allowed to talk to anybody, and that every tweet or Instagram I send is, do not write,� Harvey said. �My locker -- me and (Jeremy Hefner, also rehabbing) was basically in a closet. I didn�t think that was right. I don�t know exactly who was in charge of the situation. [�That was a decision made by clubhouse personnel,� GM Sandy Alderson later told me]. �I have worked so hard to get to the point where I was, and all of a sudden I get hurt, and it�s �you�ve got to stay in Florida,�� Harvey said. ��You�ve got to disappear from New York, you�ve got to do this.� I took pride in living in New York, and being a New Yorker. I live there all year round. It�s a place I love being.� To be clear: This stuff was said in the morning. In a moment, you�ll see why that�s an important distinction. He continued, impassioned: �I love going to the ballpark every day. I love watching. I love being the first guy in the dugout when we have a home game, and giving guys high five every time they come off the field. I take pride in that. And with that, I think being a good teammate is part of being a leader, and that�s how I�d like to see myself.� About seven minutes into our conversation, Harvey and I noticed Mets PR man Jay Horwitz standing in front of us, glaring. �He�s alright, Jay,� Harvey said. �Jay, he�s alright.� �What?� I said to Horwitz. �I�ll talk to you later,� Horwitz said to me. �OK,� I said, but Horwitz did not move. �He�s good, Jay,� Harvey said again. �He�s good. If somebody at the top needs to talk, I�ll talk to him.� �You�re causing me some problems,� Horwitz said to me. �OK,� I said, then turned back to Harvey. �Are you writing something?� Horwitz said. �Can I --� �Jay,� Harvey said. �If somebody needs to talk to the Players� Association, I have a right to have him writing about me.� Not wanting to make the situation any more awkward for Harvey, I turned off my recorder and wrapped up the conversation. Hearing of the interview, Alderson sought out Harvey shortly thereafter. �I talked with him to provide clarification,� Alderson later told me, explaining that they discussed the rehab process, and whether there was a team-imposed rule against sharing his thoughts with the public. �My recommendation is to manage doing interviews in a way that doesn�t interfere with his day-to-day-activities,� Alderson said. So, is the team�s official position to discourage Harvey from conducting one-one-one interviews? Alderson said that his preference was for Harvey to speak only to a larger group in order to save time, but �It�s up to him to manage.� As for the more important issue of where Harvey will rehab, the GM said that his staff is still working on a plan, and will discuss it with Harvey and make a mutual decision, likely within a week or so. After his powwow with the GM, Harvey wanted to make sure I knew, and wrote, that he felt much better. Moments later, Horwitz announced that Harvey would address the entire media; it was only fair, he said, given that the pitcher had spoken to one outlet. Harvey donned a Mets cap, smiled, and repeated his case for rehab freedom to the larger group. His overall tone was much more measured, after what he called a �good conversation� with Alderson. Everyone seemed happier than in the morning. Got all that?

Edgy MD wrote: Well, sure, when you pack your bench with infielders some are going to play the outfield, and some might even have a facility for it. But the offense you lose when you send the likes of Miguel Cairo and Chris Woodward out there is real. Using middle infielders as all your backups is a bad strategy. It is the folly of a managerial class who were overwhelmingly versatile but punchless middle infielders. You elevate men who fill the role you sorta once filled and so redeem your own career. We're in agreement here. But compounding things is this pitch-count era that requires about half of the 25 man roster to be made up of relief pitchers.

Now he's using Topps Photography to sell 45" x 37" prints of Seaver at the Sadecki Spot. He operates out Russia, if that matters any. [fimg=655]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2836/13251803924_cb510a76bf_o.jpg[/fimg] http://www.ebay.com/itm/XV0131-Tom-Seaver-New-York-Mets-Classic-Baseball-Sport-HUGE-GIANT-Print-POSTER-/281278629390?pt=Art_Posters&hash=item417d83460e

Deadline extended to 3/21, high noon. Gimme some songs.

So nobody noticed that Megdal got access to a player? It's his new post Madoff-rant schtick: interviewing disgruntled ex-Mets.

Jeez, we'll never get McDonald's again. At this rate, not even Amway.

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