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I'd bet my entire childhood collection of Charlie Brown books that Lunchbucket's lurking in the shadows here, waiting to finish off this quiz.

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Zvon wrote: I think you're amazingly fast with the cards batmags. Perhaps. But the mouth is quicker than the mouse.

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G-Fafif wrote: George Foster...nothing to do with David Wright that I can immediately think of. I can't keep up with you. Why don't you post some baseball cards? A little help?

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The Quiz in Honor of Marlon Byrd is like last year's quiz in honor of Scott Hairston. +1. Marlon Byrd is the 34th Met to hit at least 20 HR's in one season. Name the other 33. One guess per post. You may recall that in last year's version of this quiz, Vic Sage, incredulous over the final answer, threatened to blow Lunchbucket's head to smithereens, Smith & Wesson style. Or something like that. 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Mets barely .500 in Harvey starts By Adam Rubin | ESPNNewYork.com SAN DIEGO -- The Mets wasted another Matt Harvey start Sunday. And afterward, Terry Collins suggested the ace must be frustrated being stuck at nine wins on the season despite a 2.25 ERA. Harvey limited the San Diego Padres to two runs in six innings and actually was in line for the victory, but Pedro Feliciano ultimately served up a walk-off homer to Will Venable and the Mets lost, 4-3, at Petco Park. The Mets are now 13-12 in Harvey starts this season. �First and foremost, he�s a great teammate. And he understands his role,� Collins said. �And his role is to pitch as good as he can pitch. Is he frustrated? Of course he�s frustrated. He�s a human being. He�s a guy who wants to win. He goes out there and competes. He wants to win every game.� �That�s baseball,� Harvey said, while acknowledging: �It�s been happening quite a bit.� Harvey departed for pinch hitter Andrew Brown in the top of the seventh after Omar Quintanilla produced a two-out double. Brown delivered a go-ahead RBI double. Collins said Harvey would have returned to the mound for the bottom of the seventh had Quintanilla not got into scoring position in the top half as the tying run. Harvey said he perfectly understood getting pulled after six innings, but added: �Me, as a competitor, I don�t like getting taken out.� One byproduct of the early exit: Because Harvey threw only 86 pitches, Collins seemed to be strongly leaning toward the ace returning Friday on standard rest to face the Detroit Tigers. Essentially, the Mets would use Thursday�s team off-day to skip Jenrry Mejia�s turn. Collins said the team would not commit to that plan until they see how Harvey feels the day after this start. Harvey said his big regret was not fielding Venable�s chopper in what became a two-run fifth for the Padres. �A start like today I needed to go out and not give up runs like I did in the fifth inning,� Harvey said. �If I don�t do that, if I make that play in the fifth, we�re up 2-1 and maybe I�m still in the ballgame. Going seven, eight, nine inning innings is ideal.� Harvey did say he finally felt �back to normal� in the sixth inning Sunday, after his mechanics got out of whack at Dodger Stadium and the issue "drifting toward the plate" continued early in this start. As for working with Travis d�Arnaud for the first time since spring training, Harvey said: �It wasn�t like a completely new person popping in there. Obviously we were not quite on the same pages. You know, [after] 25 starts in with the same guy, I knew that going in. I thought he did a great job. It�s nice being able to throw that little fastball and know he can handle it very well. Overall, I thought it he did a great job.� Said d�Arnaud, contrasting catching Harvey on Sunday with spring training: �I feel like his composure is even higher. He just knows what he wants to do and he executes it.� http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/75736/mets-barely-500-in-frustrated-harveys-starts

Frayed Knot wrote: And if you were the Braves would you trade for Murphy with this on your farm? (#7 from the linked list) Tommy La Stella, 2B -- Hitting .355/.440/.476 in 49 games* between High-A and Double-A, mostly at the higher level. All he does is hit and hit and hit; career .302/.404/.494 hitter**. Scouting reports are muted due to questions about his defense, but the guy rakes and I think his glove is underrated. Excellent strike zone judgment too. * now .360/.445/.498 in 73 games ** now .327/.410/.499 It's like switching light bulbs with that franchise. One burns out and they pop another one right back in.

Daniel Murphy recently became the 27th Mets player to have 600 hits. Players with more than 600 Hits 1. David Wright 1552 2. Ed Kranepool 1418 3. Jos� Reyes 1300 4. Cleon Jones 1188 5. Edgardo Alfonzo 1136 6. Mookie Wilson 1112 7. Bud Harrelson 1029 8. Mike Piazza 1028 9. Darryl Strawberry 1025 10. Howard Johnson 997 11. Jerry Grote 994 12. Keith Hernandez 939 13. Carlos Beltran 878 14. Lee Mazzilli 796 15. Kevin McReynolds 791 16. Felix Millan 743 17. Rey Ord��ez 720 18. Rusty Staub 709 19. John Stearns 695 20. Wally Backman 670 21. Wayne Garrett 667 22. Hubie Brooks 640 23. Tommie Agee 632 24. Todd Hundley 612 25. Dave Magadan 610 26. Daniel Murphy 603 27. George Foster 602 And with his 603rd hit, Murphy enters the Mets all time top 10 hit leaders among Mets who never appeared in a World Series game for the Mets. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19360&p=506651#p506651

I wouldn't mind if he managed the Mets one day.

It's the prime of Craig Swan, going for his 4th Win in the first week of May. Pretty good pace for a pitcher on that team.