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Zvon wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Keith in a Met uniform looks great in any setting. But double-check your space-time continuum on that mock '85 Fleer. Cause of the "C"? �Si!

Here's the Tommy Davis "M" on some other '72 Boyhood cards. I did a quick skim of the '72 set and unless I missed a card, I believe that the Tommy Davis "M" is the only occurrence of that style "M" on '72 IA cards. The Davis card pictured above is an actual Topps card, not a DIY. Other sideways '72 IA cards are of Bobby Murcer, Gene Michael, Luis Aparacio, Ron Bryant, Ken Boswell, Bill Melton, John Ellis and Ken Singleton. Keith in a Met uniform looks great in any setting. But double-check your space-time continuum on that mock '85 Fleer.

Zvon wrote: That's some card! Amazin'! Agee's last Met card as an active player! I predict that your mock '72 IA will make the cyber rounds, and in time, some blogger will pick it up and then complain that Topps doctored up a Agee's '72 Mets IA card and then recycled it as his '73 Astro card.

Edgy MD wrote: I like that these are mostly written off the same template .. "I did deserve to get beaned after I waltzed around the bases on that homerun and if Terry Collins didn't insist on that Pirate pitcher plunking me, I would've asked Matt Harvey himself to deck me with his fast ball from 20 feet away. Bud Selig is the greatest commissioner in the history of baseball. I have been treated very well. And fed very well".

Zvon wrote: Oh yea, the Agee card. I need to find a sideways '72 in action border. It's even got the first four letters of Agee's first name.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I don't know if the Mets should've topped the contract Texas ended up paying. But the Mets dropped out of the bidding almost immediately. Who knows? If the Mets offfered A-Rod a fair market value contract early on, maybe Texas never submits an offer. A-Rod did everything but formally announce his preference to play for the Mets. Here's another good question: Do you think that in hindsight, the Mets should've traded Amos Otis for Joe Foy? Or do you think somebody should've drowned Hitler before he reached puberty?

I don't know if the Mets should've topped the contract Texas ended up paying. But the Mets dropped out of the bidding almost immediately. Who knows? If the Mets offfered A-Rod a fair market value contract early on, maybe Texas never submits an offer. A-Rod did everything but formally announce his preference to play for the Mets.

Plus the Mets were set for life with Rey Fraudonez at short. Why spring for the best shortstop of that generation when you could instead bombard the fan base with constant Orwellian Metspeak designed to delude them into thinking that Rey was better? Cause, you know, he makes it up, and then some, with his glove.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings Mets playoff odds go up a tenth of one percent despite loss. Odds now at 1.3%. At this rate, if they keep on losing, they should eventually clinch the NL East. Stand pat, eff. Or hold a Springtime for Hitler night.

Josh Satan, Daniel Murphy to play third for Mets while David Wright is on DL Excerpt: Josh Satan was the starting third baseman his freshman and junior years at Cal. It�s his natural position, and the nature of his game, and on Sunday, with a righthander on the mound and David Wright out with a right hamstring strain, Satan was back there � for now. "All that practice at third paid off", said Satan. "I stuck around St. Petersburg, and then Port St. Lucie, fielding all those grounders at the hot corner because I saw it was a time for a change. I thought about killing Kennedys, but the interesting ones are all gone. So instead, I did what was right for the team. Not that I had anything to do with Wright's injury, of course. I'm still a bit raw at third, so if I mess up a play, have some courtesy and show some restraint". http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-insider-mets-sweat-hot-corner-satin-murphy-article-1.1417531

Now it's just piling on. http://gothamist.com/2013/08/05/video_muscular_mets_fan_cant_open_a.php

Schaefer must be blind to rate stats because Gee over Harvey doesn't compute, even with Gee pitching six more innings. Must've been Gee's extra fifth July start over Harvey's four that gave Gee the opportunity to outscore Harvelous.

That photo is a news staple. It's odd, but refreshingly so, to see it in all of it's glorious Shea and Mets colors. I've come across a few excellent DIY baseball card sites in putting together those threads of baseball cards of one-time Mets in the uniform of the Mets' present opponent. Bob Lemke does good work. http://boblemke.blogspot.com/ Here's some of Lemke's work on the Dook. Bobw (a different Bob - not Bob Lemke) not only makes custom Topps cards, but he also prints them, and sends them out to the players depicted in hopes of getting them returned with an autograph. According to BobW, many players are so impressed with his work that they request additional copies of the cards in question for their personal collections. He even offers his cards for sale to the general public. BobW operates out of Brooklyn and, I believe, is a Mets fan. Here's his re-creation of many of the 1962 Mets cards: A Jay Hook set: Joe Moock: The dickallenhof blog is a DIY card site devoted to everything Dick Richie Allen. But there's a fair amount of Met content, like the complete set of faux 1974 Topps All-Star Cards, including this one:

Nice work. But in correcting one Staub snafu, you created another. Thank you. I'm afraid to ask what I did to Rusty. So far I see no changes in my personal timeline. Staub and Agee could not have appeared together on a 1971 card as teammates in any uniform because they were teammates in 1972 only, as Mets. The restored Mets unis wouldn't work on a 1973 card because by then, Agee was an Astro -- thus the reason why Topps went to the trouble to depict Agee and his teammates as Astros in the first place. (Not that Topps wasn't above issuing a stale card of a player on his former team). Your restored image of Staub and Agee (and Harrelson) in their proper Mets uniforms, would logically work only on a 1972 sideways "In Action" card, and even then, we'd have to assume that the mock Agee '72 IA was a high number late series card, to account for the fact that a 1972 photograph was used on a 1972 card. Sideways 1972 In Action: Topps 1972 High card #755, Jim Fregosi - from 1972 source photograph 1972 Topps Joe Morgan, traded to Reds after the '71 season. 1972 Topps Jose Cardenal, traded to Cubs after the '71 season. 1972 Topps Andy Kosco, traded to Angels after the '71 season.

G-Fafif wrote: I have been informed by Twitter sources that the 5 of Diamonds is Mr. Met pitching.

1.2% and fading. http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings

Notebook: Parnell still out By Matt Ehalt | ESPNNewYork.com excerpt: Collins does not expect to use Pedro Feliciano, who has worked back-to-back days since returning. Feliciano has thrown 1 1/3 combined innings in the two games, tossing one inning on Saturday, but the veteran hadn't pitched in the majors in 34 months before returning Friday. "I want to be very careful that I don't overdo it right now," Collins said. "I thought when I used him yesterday for the inning -- get him Sunday, and Monday being off, get him a couple of days of rest. He's been throwing a lot but not back-to-backs. Don't want to go three straight." http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/74567/notebook-parnell-still-out

Notebook: Parnell still out By Matt Ehalt | ESPNNewYork.com excerpt: NEW YORK -- Mets closer Bobby Parnell is unavailable for the fifth straight day as he continues to deal with a sore neck. Parnell has not improved much the past few days, according to manager Terry Collins. "He feels better but not enough to pitch him, for sure, today," Collins said. Parnell last pitched against Miami on July 30. He's taken medication and will be re-examined Monday. The team will have a better idea of whether it needs to place Parnell on the disabled list after that examination. With Parnell out, David Aardsma served as the closer on Friday night, but he blew the save, and then served up the game-winning homer on Saturday. Collins said Sunday he isn't sure who he would use to close Sunday if the Mets are in position to take two of three from the Royals. http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/74567/notebook-parnell-still-out

Centerfield wrote: I think they will wear the snow whites with the drop shadow. Good point. I''ve edited the poll to add two more options.

G-Fafif wrote: .. interesting that [bill James,] a guy known for having been disregarded by the establishment didn't hesitate to disregard someone else who'd experienced that kind of shunning. This is the point that lingered with me the longest after reading the piece on Gimbel. I was also surprised by James's reaction.

Watch the video from the SNY broadcast at link below, include mockery from Keith and Gary. http://www.sportsgrid.com/mlb/extremely-jacked-baseball-fan-cannot-open-water-bottle-is-being-filmed/ I suppose when you set foot in a baseball stadium you forgo your right to privacy. But holding the camera on a guy and cutting back to him 3 times? There actually ended up being around 30 seconds of on-air programming dedicated to breaking this guys balls, which, based on what we know about the side effects of performance enhancing drugs�you get the point. Remind me never to stand up at a Mets game, ever.

Saber Rattler In search of Mike Gimbel, the Moneyball revolution's forgotten man Lengthy Grantland piece on sabermetrician Mike Gimbel, the eccentric college drop-out and self taught rocket scientist who once had a tryout with the NY Mets. Gimbel was Moneyball before Moneyball. As Dan Duquette's secret weapon in Montreal during the 1990's, never earning more than $25,000 a year, Gimbel helped assemble one of the most awesome collections of talent in modern baseball history. Gimbel is credited as the man who scammed Tommy Lasorda out of Pedro Martinez. excerpts: I had come to listen to a paper being presented by Mike Gimbel. In the 1990s, Gimbel put together a nice side career advising major league teams on player transactions. He had a day job working for the New York City water department, and in his free time he sat in front of his computer, inputted stats, and came up with what he believed was a unified theory of player value. He talked his way into a part-time gig evaluating talent for Dan Duquette, soon to become the general manager of the Montreal Expos.... Local papers described him as crazy, arrogant, a "homeless computer geek," an eccentric stats hobbyist. He was ridiculed for his unkempt beard, his yellow teeth, and the heavy coat he wore despite the Florida heat. #hottake from the March 20, 1997, Patriot Ledger: "It turns out the notion of George Costanza being the assistant GM of the New York Yankees on TV's 'Seinfeld' is not so far-fetched. The Boston Red Sox have their own offbeat character making decisions in the front office, only he's not supposed to be funny, and he looks more like Kramer." From [Gimbel's] 1994 book: "The 'Lords of Baseball' are killing the game by protecting the big market teams from so-called 'socialistic' methods. It's ridiculous to term the needed reforms 'socialist' since we are talking about multi-millionaire owners even in the case of the very smallest of the small-market teams. All that's involved is making a modest effort at creating a level playing field for all the franchises. Without this level playing field why would a fan continue to have loyalty to our beautiful game? Instead it seems that the 'Lords of Baseball' are more interested in protecting the profits of a few wealthy investors than in providing quality competitive baseball at all 28 Major League stadiums."