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Edgy MD wrote: Then what "rule" are you referring to when you quote my post? Ohferchrissakes. Do we hafta have a variation of this discussion every other week? I quoted you only as a jumping off point because I thought it was convenient to segue off of your post. I was referring to the non existing rule that some posters believe exists or believe that it should exist or think that because the Red Sox only retire the numbers of HOFers that played solely for the Sox, that the Mets are somehow bound by that rule and are violating it all of the time by retiring anybody's number given that the Mets have no such players. So of course they then come up with exceptions to justify retiring the numbers of their personal favorites while still maintaining "rules". Rules that are always being broken because there always seems to be an exception. You can't have the Red Sox rule and at the same time, have Seaver's number retired. And why the Mets should be bound by whatever the Red Sox do, or what any other team does is beyond me in any event. This all has little or anything to do with anything you specifically posted.

Edgy MD wrote: I didn't know there was an established rule. That's because there isn't one.

Edgy MD wrote: But then there's the (a) historical deposit of the legacy of the lost team, and ( the honor of Mrs. Payson's promise. That's my point. If someone's gonna constantly make exceptions to the rule, then there really is no rule. Which, of course, there isn't. Once again: Where do these supposed rules come from? The problem that Mets fans have is that the franchise doesn't have many of these inner circle no doubt about it Hall of Famers who played exclusively or practically exclusively for the Mets. The Mets don't have a stable of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Berra, Mantle, Ford, Dickey, et. al. So they have to make do with what they have. Or wait one or two lifetimes for the Babe Ruth of the Mets to arrive. If they're even playing baseball two lifetimes from now. Me, I doubt it, but that's for another thread. And besides, the Yankees also retired the numbers of players like Ron Guidry, Don Mattingly and Reggie Jackson, whose Yankee careers are more in line with the Mets careers of Hernandez, Strawberry and Gooden. In fact, the Mets only have one of these guys - Tom Seaver - and even Seaver spent about 40% of his career with teams other than the Mets. Piazza and Hernandez, without doubt, have had careers worthy of having their numbers retired. But Piazza split his career about evenly between the Mets and other teams. And Keith spent the majority of his career with the Cardinals. I'm not even mention Gary Carter, a deserving Hall of Famer --- the almost entirety of his peak star years came as an Expo. Because if Carter, then Nolan Ryan. And if Ryan, then Rickey Henderson. And Warren Spahn. This is the Mets history. The team's been around for more than 60 years and in that time, Doc and Darryl and Keith Hernandez and Jerry Koosman and Mike Piazza and David Wright are, along with Seaver, [CROSSOUT]among [/CROSSOUT]the very best Mets ever. And there's no denying that.

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=whippoorwill post_id=135852 time=1692920420 user_id=79] =metirish post_id=135850 time=1692919031 user_id=72] Strawberry has the club HR record and Doc second only to Seaver in wins , so there is that

Why would anyone wanna have some rigid rule requiring the player whose number is being retired to be a Hall of Famer enshrined in a Mets cap? If I owned the Mets, I'd never make a rule that might handcuff me like that. (Not that I can't ignore it anyways if I was the owner). Some of youse are saying, with that rule, that even if Keith Hernandez played his whole career as a Met -- rookie to retirement -- he still wouldn't deserve to have his number retired because he's not a HOFer? Or David Wright? I never understood this "rule" stuff with retiring numbers. What rules? It's the owner's team and he's allowed to do whatever he feels like doing as far as retiring numbers go.

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Frayed Knot wrote: =kcmets post_id=135815 time=1692898889 user_id=53] =Gwreck post_id=135802 time=1692891535 user_id=56]For Doc and Darryl, next year. Didn't see that coming.

Cohen likes to retire numbers!

Well, needed or not, they're a zillion times more deserving than Gary Carter. That's for sure.

"Come to Citi Field this weekend to see Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani!... Uh, to welcome back Brandon Drury, Eduardo Escobar, Dominic Leone, and Aaron Loup!" It's practically Labor Day and so baseball's stretch run is approaching. And yet for the next nine games, the Mets will be playing teams that don't compete with them for a playoff spot because the baseball schedule went moronic. This is quite an unlikely outcome given that almost half the teams make the playoffs nowadays. Not that it matters as far as the Mets are going this season, I guess.

2022 Mets who have yet to appear in an MLB game this season (including the entire Kelenic haul): R.J. Alvarez Travis Blankenhorn Robinson Cano Sam Clay Edwin Diaz Nate Fisher Terrance Gore Ender Inciarte Khalil Lee Yoan Lopez Devin Marrero Patrick Mazeika Adonis Medina Bryce Montes de Oca Tyler Naqiun Nick Plummer Yolmer Sanchez Thomas Szapucki ... and a coupl'a other one-time Mets who haven't played in the majors since 2022 (this list below is incomplete and needs some serious updating): Jerad Eickhoff Robert Gsellman Jed Lowrie Chris Mazza Oliver Perez Kevin Plawecki Joe Smith Jonathan Villar

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Ohtani tears UCL. Out for rest of season.

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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=135646 time=1692716460 user_id=68] I know. My point was that there's no mystery if stolen bases aren't translating into runs. It's from lack if hitting or timely hitting. Which is either randomness or a lack of hitting

I know. My point was that there's no mystery if stolen bases aren't translating into runs. It's from lack if hitting or timely hitting. Which is either randomness or a lack of hitting

If teams can't convert stolen bases into runs, blame the hitters, not the thieves. Anyways, Lindor is stealing 'em at a 90%+ clip this year.

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Bump.

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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: This game Gott ugly quick He ain't pretty no more.

The year's almost three quarters in and so far, no 2023 pop posts. Till now. On the latest episode of HBO's quirky How to with John Wilson, Wilson attends a Mets/Nats game at Citi Field that is eventually rained out. While there, he meets the Mets fan Pin Man, who invites Wilson back to his residence, where they hang out and watch old Mets clips on homemade VHS tapes.

Streakers - Parts three and four. Miguel Batista (four straight threads); Chasen Shreve (three straight threads) Not in the mood to post their streaking cards. Our interloper here is the spectral Jim Bibby, owner of some of the hugest hands in the game. Thank you for not playing.