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=kcmets post_id=144943 time=1705088248 user_id=53] I think you may want to re-think that area code thing. I live in the 914 and 845 area code and it's not exactly mid west here. I have friends in No Mass that are 978. Parts of Joisey are 908.

Cohen bought a team in utter shambles. And I'm not necessarily talking about the squad at the major league level. The minor leagues were in awful shape. There were under-investments in modern equipment. Its analytics department was relatively primitive compared to other teams, especially the best teams. Its scouting and development departments were also behind most other teams. I've no doubt that even at the lowest levels, like the secretaries and clerks that type out the season-ticket requests, morale was as low as can be, working for an organization in financial crisis and led by idiot tyrant Jeff Wilpon.

Harrelson was a dais speaker at the Mets 50th anniversary symposium held at Hofstra University, where he shared this terrific comeback line: he would constantly get ribbed about his light hitting, almost non-existent HR power from well-meaning and maybe some not-so well-meaning fans - he hit just seven HR's in a 16 year career -- less than one HR every two years. And he would respond: "How many HR's did you hit in the majors?"

Edgy MD wrote: [FIMG=222]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/F1MAAOSwEdRkwDXw/s-l960.jpg[/FIMG] Nobody ever paused before making a Harrelson card thinking, "THIS is the one I have to nail." You never knew my friend growing up, Vinny. Vinny collected baseball cards and needed Harrelson's card to complete the first series of the 1972 set. He stole all of his parents money, (which they kept hidden in their mattress because they distrusted banks) and then spent the entire family fortune on Topps baseball cards in a mad effort to nail that '72 Harrelson card and finally complete the first series. Long story short: the family was financially ruined and hadda move into a homeless shelter. And for all the packs of cards that Vinny bought, he never did get that Bud Harrelson card. Edgy MD wrote: A low, round number would never be reserved for Bud Harrelson.... Not sure what you're getting at with the low round number reference but under Topps' baseball card numbering system that existed when Harrelson was active, numbers ending in zero and five were reserved for the best players, the superstars, the stars, the fading stars and the most popular players. Harrelson's '74 Topps card ended in a zero and two other of his Topps cards ended in a five. Edgy MD wrote: While his career parallels much more high-profile types — Seaver, Jackson, Rose — few players span that era with such an under-the radar profile. I object. Harrelson was a two-time all-star and a Gold Glove award winner. He was an everyday starter on the '69 World Championship squad and only three other Mets could make that claim: half of the non-pitcher positions on the '69 Mets were platooned. At the peak of his career (Nixon's first term, more or less), Harrelson was always in the conversation for best shorstop in the NL. Edgy MD wrote: The photo is clearly from 1964 or 1965, as indicated by the World's Fair patch in place of the Mets logo on the sleeve. We can pretty confidently conclude it's 1965 as Harrelson spent the 1964 season in Salinas, California. Extra credit for knowing about Harrelson's Salinas stint, but you overthought it. 1965 was the only year or season when the Mets simultaneously wore their World's Fair patch and had numerals on the front of their jerseys. Edgy MD wrote: Here we have Bud's Topps rookie card — 1967 #303. Unlike Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan, he blessedly doesn't have to share his rookie card with some other shlub. Jerry Koosman was a shlub?

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Edgy MD wrote: Ed Kranepool was signed by the Mets as a free agent fifteen years earlier, on June 27, 1962. I think the unwritten distinction is that Hausman was a professional veteran free agent. Yes! Emphasis on unwritten. I momentarily forgot that before the amateur draft was instituted in 1965, every amateur was a free agent. I thought the answer was Reardon because of the "in the can" hint. Reardon spent some time in jail. And he was signed before Hausman. So what's the connection between the "in the can" hint and Tom Hausman?

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The answer on the originating post from 2008 was Hausman, so that's the answer I went with here. OK. I'll do this for you. According to Baseball Reference, the Mets signed free agent Tom Hausman on November 21, 1977. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hausmto01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hausmto01.shtml Jeff Reardon, though, was signed by the Mets as a free agent on June 14, 1977, five months before the Hausman signing. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reardje01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reardje01.shtml

2. When lots of teams where throwing cash the Metsies signed a free agent at last. The few thousand New Yorkers who remained as fans knew my 'big' signing meant one more season in the can. M. Donald Grant was a cheap & miserly creep bringing me aboard meant more empty seats. Who am I? --originally posted by "whoisonit" 4 & 5: Tom Hall and Mac Scarce. 2 is Jeff Reardon. Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: 2 is tom hausman Reardon was the first Mets free agent signed. Hausman was the first major league free agent the Mets signed. Also, Reardon spent some time in "the can". Did Hausman? Maybe he did, but I don't know or don't remember, if he did. Could we get a ruling?

I like Steve Cohen. I especially like his big, fat wallet. But there's enough of a record now, where I'd say Cohen's got more Mets misses than hits.

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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: 2 is tom hausman Reardon was the first Mets free agent signed. Hausman was the first major league free agent the Mets signed. Also, Reardon spent some time in "the can". Did Hausman? Maybe he did, but I don't know or don't remember, if he did.

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4 & 5: Tom Hall and Mac Scarce. 2 is Jeff Reardon.

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Me too. I also wanna play for the Mets.

I would say Antonelli was a part of the Mets family, so he could loosely be considered "a Met." And he is correct! Well then Casey Stengel retired before Antonelli did. So did Rogers Hornsby.

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not sure that's happening. I think we might have to bend our heads around DJ Stewart and Tyrone Taylor opening the season at DH. I think the main focus right now is a starting pitcher. Because Cohen can only afford one of the two, but not both.

He fucking cheated. What he did is no different than than if the Astros planted bugs and surveillance cameras in the visitors locker room and dugout. Or a listening device in the pitcher's mound.

2 is Galen Cisco. If 1 never played a game in a Mets uniform, then he wasn't a Met and couldn't have been the first Met to retire. Right? But still, Johnny Antonelli?

deGrom, at his peak, had better stuff than Gooden. Granted, deGrom was as delicate as a hothouse flower and broke down often, but on stuff alone, deGrom was the best. You could even make a reasonable argument that at his peak, deGrom had the best stuff in all of baseball history. Better than everyone else. Koufax, Walter Johnson, Pedro. Everybody.

=nymr83 post_id=144062 time=1704227068 user_id=54] Yes, Beltran is undoubtedly suffering the repercussions of being one of the players most associated with the trash can banging.

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