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In my mind, this fringy Met never escaped the Minors, even though he actually did play for the Mets. Above, he's standing at the Sadecki Spot years before it would be named for the versatile early '70's Met hurler.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: If you've got the time, The Man From Topps has more ex-Mets. If you've got the time, we've got the Bob. Miller Bob. It was Miller Time.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: His time with the Tribe was brief, and thus, Toppless. On his Met cards, (that's cards -- plural), he never wore the shirt he oughta have been wearing. bump It's Bob L. Miller, the '69 mid-season Indian.

G-Fafif wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: More scenery from the Sadecki spot, including a white house structure. If that's the structure I'm thinking of, it's been there since the Mets took over the joint, back in 1962. I remember the game when this Toppless fringe Met got his first major league hit. In front of the home crowd at Shea Stadium, he singled in his first ever at bat. It was either a grounder past the infielders or a line drive that first bounced in the deep part of the infield. I believe that structure and its out-of-the-frame twin are known as the Lute Barn(e)s.

Citi Field is soggy free. The seats are numbered accurately. The divider-less urinals flush OK. And the elevators don't get stuck in between levels.

more quotes not from the Mets: CBS Radio president Dan Mason said: �There is no bigger name in baseball than the Yankees, nor an organization so steeped in tradition.� The pact leaves the Mets station-less. On Tuesday, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon said, �Right now we�re still negotiating with several parties about what we�re going to do with our radio rights. The dog ate my homework.� http://nypost.com/2013/09/11/wfan-to-be-new-radio-home-of-the-yankees/

quote from the other side in heavy rotation: Yankees Managing General Partner Hal Steinbrenner, looking over his new broadcast digs, said, �The paramount consideration was how our fans would best be able to hear our games. Having the Yankees on WFAN(AM/FM) provides listeners in the New York metropolitan area and beyond with superior broadcast quality and vast territorial signal strength.� http://www.radioworld.com/article/yankees-steal-wfan-/221372 Yankee owner Hal Steinbrenner said WFAN's reach and power were too much to ignore. "The paramount consideration was how our fans would best be able to hear our games," Steinbrenner said. "Having the Yankees on WFAN-AM/FM provides listeners in the New York metropolitan area and beyond with superior broadcast quality and vast territorial signal strength." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323595004579069472634011200.html

Wright begins to run bases By Adam Rubin | ESPNNewYork.com NEW YORK -- David Wright ran the bases on Wednesday afternoon for the first time since he suffered a strained hamstring. Terry Collins said Wright would repeat that activity Thursday before further ramping up the running this weekend. Wright could be in a major league game by the middle of next week. http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/77552/wright-begins-to-run-bases?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

More scenery from the Sadecki spot, including a white house structure. If that's the structure I'm thinking of, it's been there since the Mets took over the joint, back in 1962. I remember the game when this Toppless fringe Met got his first major league hit. In front of the home crowd at Shea Stadium, he singled in his first ever at bat. It was either a grounder past the infielders or a line drive that first bounced in the deep part of the infield.

Met Hunter wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: This player might own the record for most appearances in a Met yearbook without ever getting his own Topps Mets card. Dave Schneck

batmagadanleadoff wrote: His time with the Tribe was brief, and thus, Toppless. On his Met cards, (that's cards -- plural), he never wore the shirt he oughta have been wearing. bump

themetfairy wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Another tough one, especially for the younger members of this forum, who might not have ever seen this ex Met hatless and in a Braves uniform. [youtube]aDHnUPofJjU[/youtube] Felix Millan

Zvon wrote: Jesus (Ass-ooose) Alou

If you've got the time, The Man From Topps has more ex-Mets.

This player might own the record for most appearances in a Met yearbook without ever getting his own Topps Mets card.

Toppless as a Met, this hurler threw his last major league pitch in a Met uniform. Above, the Man From Topps snapped him in the uniform of the new Washington Senators - a rare picture because the mystery pitcher was never Toppsed in a Senators uniform.

Edgy MD wrote: Well, the dawn of the blackies is from the Doubleday/Wilpon era ... Only techniclly.

Edgy MD wrote: ... invested their money and the future of the franchise in an elaborate con scheme .. which, as far as I'm concerned, they knew was shady, but looked the other way thinking they were special or protected and wouldn't get hurt.

Vic Sage wrote: Yes, he had a "career year" in `68 (by which i mean he hit .280 instead of .250) I'm not sticking up for Grote's bat but .280 in 1968, playing half your games in a park that was then murder on batting average is probably like hitting .310 -.320 normally. Just sayin'

Edgy MD wrote: Sticking generally to off-the-field stuff. 1. Capitulated on hats thing. 2. Got in bed with a pyriamid scheming tenant. 3. Not gotten out of bed with 1-877-kars-4-kids. ... These are Wilpon things. For example, the Wilpons got in bed with Madoff. The Mets won the pennant in 2000. See?

They mothballed those hideous black uniforms with the stupid drop shadows and the multi-colored eggplant hue interlocking NY on the stupid black cap with the neon electric blue brim. But not enough points awarded here to offset the penalty points for foisting those uniforms on the world in the first place.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/media/yankees-move-to-wfan-made-official-1.6054930 excerpt: The Yankees and CBS Radio made it official Wednesday, announcing that the team would move from WCBS to corporate sister station WFAN in 2014, effectively ending the Mets' 26-year run on the station. The deal, first reported by Newsday on Tuesday, is believed to cover 10 years at more than $15 million per season. Whaddya like better: eff n Jeff or Fred n Fredo?

Bobby Valentine reveals Mets� jealousy of Yankees in days after 9/11 attacks Former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine said Wednesday during a radio interview with WFAN that his Mets players were frustrated with the way the general public supposedly heralded the Yankees in the days and weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks. He said his players responded to community outreach projects while the Yankees were virtually nowhere to be found. Valentine said Wednesday on the 12th anniversary of the attacks that there was a sense of jealousy on the part of the Mets players in the days after the attacks because they felt like the Yankees were being credited for �bringing baseball back� even though it was the Mets players who reached out to New Yorkers by going to funerals and firehouses, he said. Valentine added that when his players were frustrated for supposedly being overlooked for their efforts, he told his team that it�s not about getting credit and instead should be about �doing the right thing.� �Let it be said that during the time from 9/11 to 9/21, the Yankees were (not around). You couldn�t find a Yankee on the streets of New York City. You couldn�t find a Yankee down at Ground Zero, talking to the guys who were working 24/7�Many of them didn�t live here, and so it wasn�t their fault. And many of them did not partake in all that, so there was some of that jealousy going around. Like, �Why are we so tired? Why are we wasted? Why have we been to the funerals and the firehouses, and the Yankees are getting all the credit for bringing baseball back?� And I said �This isn�t about credit, guys. This is about doing the right thing.�� The 63-year-old Valentine, who last served as the Boston Red Sox manager in 2012, is currently the athletic director at Sacred Heart University. He was with the Mets from 1996-02. The Yankees� Bernie Williams, Derek Jeter and Joe Torre as well as other current and now-former members of the organization visited rescue staging areas held at a New York hospital and other locations throughout the city four days after the attacks. Valentine said that Mike Piazza�s home run for the Mets in a game in New York against the Atlanta Braves 10 days after the attacks helped people �return to normalcy.� �We put on a good face. We tried to smile, we tried to laugh, we tried to be normal. But nothing could have set the tone more properly than Mike�s line drive over the left-field fence that I think really began to allow people to return to normalcy.� http://tracking.si.com/2013/09/11/bobby-valentine-mets-yankees-911-attacks-mlb/

Hatless on Crazy Hat Day Another tough one, especially for the younger members of this forum, who might not have ever seen this ex Met hatless and in a Braves uniform. aDHnUPofJjU