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I was always curious about this: How is Joe Grzenda pronounced? Is the Z silent? (Grenda?)
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Brooks played all of July. Therefore, each bead corresponds to a Met game, rather than a Met game coupled with the game's calendar date. Otherwise, the July All-Star break would create a gap in every player's July. I like it. You'd need to look at both charts to determine that a particular Met is in solely for defense.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: She seems like the kind of person that really, really likes her cats, but really, really can't stand anyone or anything else. She might like her cats ... if they were celibate. But if Andrea were to ever find out that her cats like to get it once in a while, those cats would end up on her shitty kitty list.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think he's very good but prolly not a top-tier salary deservin kind of guy, and I don't think he's reliable. He's no Rickey Henderson. Yeah. Whaddya think Rickey would command in salary today, if he were in his prime?
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Peyser's generally pretty terrible, if I recall correctly. I'd agree, even though I hate Peyser so much that I stopped reading her years and years ago. I wouldn't read Peyser even if I'm certain that I'd agree with her particular column: I fear that I'd end up disagreeing with her even when I shouldn't, solely because of my hatred for her. Sometimes I think that she's the unhappiest, most miserable wretch ever to report news.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm saying Reyes looks for "Crawford money" in his next deal and the new sensible Mets don't cough it up. How would you feel about that? It's too early to tell, but what if Reyes returns to top-form in 2011?
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Edgy DC wrote: Well, the comments might bring up a question if they actually existed. Spoilsport.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Reyes is a goner I think. I'm not sure I follow. Are you sayin' that the Mets can't afford to spend $20M for a ballplayer? Or that the Red Sox are significantly wealthier than the Mets? Or something else?
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Ricciardi's Had It With The Moneyball Talk
batmagadanleadoff replied to G-Fafif's topic in New York Mets Talk
It's shocking to me that as recently as the beginning of this century, a MLB front office could have a significant competitive advantage over another front office simply by understading the value of OBP and bases on balls. -
As if the 1980 season wasn't enough torture, Met fans who collected baseball card were constantly reminded of Hebner even after he'd gone away. Twitchell's the one! at Shea:
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The other '69 Met is Bob Johnson who, with Amos Otis, was traded for Joe Foy. New question: Ten years after the miracle of '69, the 1979 Mets were, perhaps, the worst team in Met history that didn't play their home games at the Polo Grounds. Yet all but one 1979 Met appeared on a Topps card as a Met. Who's the one?
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I saw the opportunity, and took it. Who would believe me if I attributed that quote to Omar Minaya? Like Carter, that post's a good kid.
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Dickey on Chris Carter's throwing arm: [Carter] didn't throw the ball back to the infield. He pushed [the ball] back in, with this unusual throwing technique that was all elbow and wrist flicking and more suited to aiming a dart instead of launching a throw. His thrown ball would typically embark on a circuitous route back to the infield, floating in on an unnecessarily high parabola, as if the ball was tethered to an invisible parachute. Eventually it arrived, gently if not timely. We gave Chris a lot of ribbing about his throwing arm, but it was all good natured. He's a good kid. Chris was an asset to the clubhouse and his ability to take our ribbing in good spirits shows why.
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I'll put up the answer within the hour. In keeping with the theme of this thread, here's one of my modern favorites: Carlos Delgado's 2006 Bowman Heritage card The image used for this card is a detail of the image used for Delgado's 2007 Topps Heritage card:
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I screwed this one up. There were two other '69 Mets who never appeared on a Topps card as a Met. Dilauro was one of them
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My early memories of that 1970 Pfeil card are indelible. 1970 was the first year that I collected cards, and because Pfeil's card was included in the first series, his card received more of my attention than many of the other Met cards of that year. Plus, there was an urban legend circulating in my neck of the woods that attributed the end of Pfeil's Met stint to the "fact" that during the 1969 WS celebration, Pfeil's batting helmet was stolen. "How could Pfeil play without a helmet?" went the legend. I was sensible enough to question the logic of this tall tale which I nevertheless believed to be true. Whenever the Pfeil card was displayed among a group of boys my age, someone would inevitably repeat the legend of Pfeil's helmet which, as far as I can remember, was never challenged. I suppose that we all eventually outgrew the legend of Pfeil's helmet.
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I gather that you were too young to be collecting baseball cards during the manager Gil Hodges era, right?
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batmagadanleadoff wrote: The third answer to my Topps Mets trivia question is Jim Gosger.... I believe that in addition to Heise, Schneck and Gosger ... Here's a spinoff trivia question. [crossout]Three[/crossout]Four members of the 1969 Mets never appeared on a Topps baseball card as a Met. Heise and Gosger are two of the Mets. Who's the third [and the fourth]?
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Paulino's career numbers against LHP's: .338/.390/.491 OPS .881 (> Larry Walker's career road OPS of .865) 16 HR's, 41 BB's in 531 AB's Not bad. Not bad at all. If Paulino holds form in 2011, (he'll turn 30 in April) this has the makings of a nifty acquisition. Earl Weaver would approve.
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Edgy DC wrote: Here's a vote for Bob Boone, who only got better with time, while Carter was never really a defensive star with the Mets. Seaver raved about Carlton Fisk. Grote, Bench and Fisk: Seaver pitched to the best of them.
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Madoff Trustee Sues Sterling Equities
batmagadanleadoff replied to metirish's topic in New York Mets Talk
John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: If there's one overriding uniformed conclusion I've drawn from the whole Madoff episode, it's that the folks who invested with him almost had to know there was something fishy about it, or rather, they handed off their money willfully not wanting to know how it returned as much as as it did. I don't know how you unravel all this but I'm sure the losers are as guilty as the gainers in that respect. You could be right. I don't know what the Wilpon group knew or didn't know, but it's quite [crossout]possible[/crossout] probable, as it is with most Ponzi schemes, that Madoff was simply sitting on piles and piles of money, and doling some of it back to his investors as supposed "profits', arbitrarily and at his whim in order to perpetuate his scam --- and that these supposed "profits" had no correlation to any real-life profitable ROI because there were no real profits. If so, the Wilpon group should take a hit to the wallet down the line. -
It's probably too late for this, but if I had a say, I'd recommend that the team move their fences back to Citi Field dimensions, maybe even slightly deeper. Either that, or move the fences in to make their ballpark the most hitter friendly park in baseball.
