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Did Hodges make it under the wire for this question? Same can be said for Joe Torre when it comes to how far back over there these questions are from! Richie Ashburn Who cares? Hodges and Torre are correct answers whether "tbeAmazingMet" knew it at the time or didn't when he wrote that question.

Here's an offshoot: Three Mets pitchers pitched three pitch innings. Name them. BTW, with the newfangled furshlugginer rules, it's now possible to pitch a two-pitch inning. Here's how: in extra innings, the pitcher picks off the Manfred runner at second base for one out and retires the first two batters on a total of two pitches. Actually, now that I think of it, a pitcher could get all three outs on one pitch thanks to all of the new rules but this scenario, though technically possible, is extremely unlikely. Here's what has to happen: In extra innings, the pitcher picks off the stupid free runner on second base. Then he intentionally walks the first batter. Under the new rules, the pitcher can simply "call" for the intentional walk rater than throw four pitches out of the strike zone. Then with his first pitch of the inning, he induces a double play. Wait a minute. There's more! I just thought of this. He could retire the side without throwing a single pitch. He walks the second batter just like he walked the first batter and then picks him off, too! Or the runners could make outs getting caught stealing.

Let me check into this here thread again. It's been a while. The immaculate innings were pitched by Nolan Ryan and David Cone. I'm surprised that deGrom didn't do this during 2021-22, when he was about as unhittable as any pitcher ever was (when healthy). The two pitchers that spoiled Mets one-hitters were one-time Met himself, Ray Sadecki and John Curtis.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Murphy isn't as bad as I feared. But he's got a lot of work to do to be a smooth broadcast presence. No problem. It's a difficult gig at the beginning and I can name many broadcasters who I thought were awful initially, but improved vastly with more experience. Just to clarify that portion of my post quoted above (if anybody cares), I'm not saying that I think Murphy is presently an awful announcer. I have no idea. I haven't watched a single pitch of Mets ST baseball yet this year and haven't heard a single word of Murph's announcing so far. I was generalizing.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Murphy isn't as bad as I feared. But he's got a lot of work to do to be a smooth broadcast presence. No problem. It's a difficult gig at the beginning and I can name many broadcasters who I thought were awful initially, but improved vastly with more experience. I can see Murphy hanging around and then filling in the eventually vacated Keith Hernandez seat. Then after announcing Mets game for a decade or so, he'll get the call to have his Mets number retired. Then we'll hear the gripes and lunatic rantings from the same knuckleheads who think that Gary Carter deserves to have his Mets number retired, complaining about Murph's number retirement as if Carter's Mets career was 10 times better than Murph's even though it's obviously the other way around. When the Mets get around to retiring Carter's number, it'll mostly be for what he did as an Expo, even though everyone's in total denial about that. You know what? Who the fuck knows? Willie Mays's Mets number wasn't retired for solely what Mays did as a Met. So who the fuck knows? You know what? I don't know anymore. It's Steve Cohen's team and he can do whatever the hell he wants to do and retire anybody's number. Even Ariel Jurado's. There are no rules. It's a free for all and a rule-free zone.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: 1969-09-19 Jesse Hudson 1971-09-14 Frank Estrada 1971-09-15 Don Rose 1975-04-11 Mac Scarce 1977-04-13 Luis Alvarado 1977-09-29 Doc Medich 1987-07-25 Bob Gibson 1989-09-16 Manny Hernandez 1990-06-03 Dave Liddell 1993-09-29 Kenny Greer 1997-06-15 Kevin Morgan 1999-08-09 Dan Murray 2000-06-04 Ryan McGuire 2001-04-26 Brett Hinchliffe 2001-07-24 Gary Bennett 2004-10-03 Joe Hietpas 2007-04-30 Chan Ho Park 2007-07-27 Jon Adkins 2012-05-28 Jack Egbert 2012-08-08 Garrett Olson 2015-06-17 Akeel Morris 2017-05-07 Adam Wilk 2018-05-31 Scott Copeland 2019-08-04 Donnie Hart 2020-09-01 Ariel Jurado 2021-04-24 Stephen Tarpley 2021-07-09 Nick Tropeano 2021-07-29 Akeem Bostick 2022-08-16 R.J. Alvarez 2022-08-20 Sam Clay 2022-08-20 Rob Zastryzny 2022-08-21 Nate Fisher 2023-04-22 Edwin Uceta 2023-08-14 Tyson Miller Cool. You should have this list as its own section somewhere in your UMDB.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I have a feeling that we're going to see a real churn of players this year. Other than 1962, in which 45 players made their Mets debut, the most new Mets in a single season is 42, a record set in 2021. I have a hunch that that record is going to be challenged this year. Why not? That's the trend. The last three seasons are all in the top five of your list.

Good for him. That firing fucking stinks. Stearns is entitled to have his guy. But he didn't get his guy. Instead, the Cubs got Stearns's guy. And Stearns didn't even have the decency to fire Buck, himself. He delegated the firing to a dead underling walking. Carlos Mendoza? Really? Meanwhile, Buck got a new gig like four seconds after he was fired. (Just like Willie Randolph. Not!)

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All your gripes are spot on. But the baseball commish is the MLB owners' water boy, really. None of that dreadful stuff would've happened without at least, the owners' consent, if not their outright insistence. In other words, it was all inevitable and would've happened even if youse were the commissioners of baseball.

So will the Mets wear a death patch in honor of Mets Hall of Famer Bud Harrelson this season?

Wore Cy Young award winner R.A. Dickey's old number.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Was Willie Randolph a good manager? As a manager, he was a damn good second baseman. Boy did I fucking loathe and despise that fucking idiot as a manager. Please note all of the follow-up managerial positions he was up for ever since his Mets stint. Fucking idiot. Gah!

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: How about getting Ceetar back here so we can all argue again like the old days I'm up for arguing!

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The catcher on the "In Action" card is either Earl Williams or Hal King. The Braves logo patch is clearly visible on the catcher's left sleeve. I'm going with King. I think that photo was taken on a Saturday, which would be the game played on May 22, 1971. The reason I know this is because I know (or used to know) one of the kids in the first row leaning on the top of the Braves dugout. It's definitely not Sanguillen. The back of the card makes up for the paucity of abstract from #53, telling the story of the older version of this boy and his exploits in high school and college, where — WOW! — Bud played third base! If a lightweight like Bud was your thirdbaseman, San Francisco State, who was your shortstop?! Somewhere in my collection of Mets stuff, I have Harrelson's High School yearbook. Believe it or not, but Bud was also on the football team. Wide Receiver.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: We should totally sign Kershaw And trade for Greinke, too. Then the Mets could be the team where Hall of Fame bound pitchers go to decline and suck.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I wasn't aware until this latest news that Sports Illustrated had been reduced from a weekly to a monthly publication. When did that happen? 2020.

The Sports Illustrated Cover, a Faded Canvas That Once Defined Sports It used to be the most coveted real estate in sports journalism. But its power to set the agenda disappeared along with its elite photographers. Excerpt: [FIMG=266]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/24/multimedia/24SI-Cover-wgbj/24SI-Cover-wgbj-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp[/FIMG] Maybe it was the wordless image of the United States Olympic hockey team celebrating the “Miracle on Ice.” Perhaps it was the perfect frame of Dwight Clark making “The Catch” to send the San Francisco 49ers to the 1982 Super Bowl. Or it could have been the declaration that a 17-year-old LeBron James was “The Chosen One,” 20 months before he played in his first N.B.A. game. For sports fans of a certain age, the memory of running to the mailbox to see what was on the cover of the latest weekly issue of Sports Illustrated is indelible. For decades, the magazine's photographers, writers and editors held the power to anoint stars and deliver the definitive account of the biggest moments in sports, often with just a single photograph and a few words on the cover. It was the most powerful real estate in sports journalism. “When I was a kid and getting S.I., you didn't have that immediate 24-hour news cycle just hitting you over the head,” said Nate Gordon, a former picture editor at Sports Illustrated who is now the head of content at The Players' Tribune. “You would get that cover and you'd be like: ‘Man, this is what happened last week. That's so cool.'” To the extent any magazine had that power, it is severely diminished now. But the road has been particularly rough for Sports Illustrated, with its shrinking staff and reduced print frequency. Last week, most of the employees were either laid off or told their employment would be uncertain after 90 days, leaving the publication's future in flux. Sports Illustrated's power to define sports discourse faded long before 2024, however. A combination of factors like growth of sports across cable channels, the presence of more team-controlled media and the ascendancy of the internet had been steadily eroding the influence of the magazine and its cover for years. But it is hard to overstate the power it once had. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/business/media/sports-illustrated-covers.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/business/media/sports-illustrated-covers.html

Yes. And check out that Kellogg's card again. Bud's a "super star"!

[FIMG=300]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/PXcAAOSwAwFk3YHZ/s-l960.webp[/FIMG] That's a great Mets card, isn't it? And you know, any player chosen for the limited Kellogg's set can hardly be called "under the radar". By now, our man Bud has also landed on the covers of not one, but two national sports magazines. [FIMG=333]https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/print/10.5/14/break/images/artworkimages/medium/2/new-york-mets-bud-harrelson-september-07-1970-sports-illustrated-cover.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=355]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53481820138_9539461183_h.jpg[/FIMG] That was back when magazines mattered.

Edgy MD wrote: 1971 [FIMG=450]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/EWkAAOSwuENlm6f6/s-l1600.webp[/FIMG] [FIMG=450]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/7aYAAOSwtLllm6f6/s-l1600.webp[/FIMG] [FIMG=350]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8eoAAOSwsNNkADQg/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] Even the back is barely meeting you half way.... And now that they've finally given Bud the satisfaction of an established big-leaguer removing his minor league stats from the back of the card, they also remove the stat lines from his first several seasons, as if he's somehow still (or again) a rookie. And lest the point be missed, this is a guy coming off his first All-Star season — a year that would see him finish 20th in National League MVP voting. One might think the single line of stats would allow room for some .... Yes. But Bud wasn't singled out. All of the cards from that set listed only the previous season's (1970) stats.

McHugh was running second to Justin Turner in the ongoing Longest Ago Met Still Active (LAMSA) derby, having made his Met and MLB debut on August 23, 2012. Unless Jeurys Familia gets another shot, we can bestow the 2012 Last Met Standing crown to Turner, who already owns the 2010 and 2011 versions. Collin kept a blog in his minor league and rookie days. His wife's Twitter was/is a trip. Baseball is better off with people like them. Oldest Typewriter Chewing Gum card of an active MLB'er: 2010 Rock and Roll Total Mets set [FIMG=444]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53481357264_c8f672fc7c_h.jpg[/FIMG] 2023 Typewriter Chewing Gum Total + Mets set, Code Name: Mexico [FIMG=277]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53481053526_a1a6f9292c_h.jpg[/FIMG]