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"Mariano, we'll see you and most of New York, in Cooperstown." F U.

Is there any arguing between Marissa and Shelby as to who gets to hold up the winning cover and are the winning covers equally distributed between the two?

This. Jack Renheimer should not be commerated for all time on the winning cover. Prospects. Journeymen. Legends. Obscurities. Future Hall of Famers. Former All-Stars. Players who had won awards. Players who were winning awards. Ring-wearers from elsewhere. Thirty-four catchers who caught Met pitchers. Fifty-one pitchers who recorded Met saves. Forty-two third basemen who followed the trail he blazed to the Met hot corner. Twenty-four men who were on the Met roster he joined July 21, 2004. Three-hundred thirty-one men who'd thereafter attach themselves to the Met roster he was a part of, he was the center of, he would work his spine off to return to before September 30, 2018. Accepting the definition of teammate as anybody who was a Met while David Wright played, healed, rehabilitated, strived and captained as best he could, nearly a third of everybody who has ever played for the New York Mets has been a teammate to David Wright. And David Wright was a teammate to every one of them...even Jack Reinheimer. It's funny that we get to hang out here on a message board with Greg. It's like having LeBron James as one of your buddies and he plays in your pickup games that you have in the driveway. Usually he just fucks around dribbling with one hand and holding a beer in the other, but then once in a while he does some crazy spin dunk and you're like "oh right, he's LeBron James". Oh right. That's Greg from FAFIF. I know. I read his reply and felt sorry for the sap he beautifully eviscerated and then realized that it was me.

=Centerfield post_id=1171 time=1547567502 user_id=65]The only drawback is that Jack Renheimer is behind him and not, say, Conforto.

Yabba-dabba-do!

(It's "Alonso".)

It's the "Top 10 Right Now" series. Saturday night, 9 and 10 PM. 3 more weeks, next week is Catchers and RFers.

"Unceremoniously" is very funny.

It's good that Bob is there to fill-in. I hope that Marissa and Shelby resolve their differences before the finale.

Why is Bob back?

He's a good player and having more good players is a good thing. It lessens the chance of seeing Reinheimer or Campbell.

Meet Milessa Lowrie. Very impressive background. http://www.playerwives.com/mlb/oakland-athletics/jed-lowries-wife-milessa-muchmore/http://www.playerwives.com/mlb/oakland-athletics/jed-lowries-wife-milessa-muchmore/ https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/a22119181/meet-the-women-using-major-league-baseballs-platform-for-activism/https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/a22119181/meet-the-women-using-major-league-baseballs-platform-for-activism/

All they want to do is have some fun.

From Eno Sarris in The Athletic, August 23, 2018 When you see something team-wide like this, you immediately think of leadership. And leaders, especially in this case, usually come from veteran position players. Talk to people around the team and two names keep coming up: Jed Lowrie and Khris Davis. ... “I love talking hitting, and any time it comes up, we just talk; but I also recognize that I'm not the hitting coach,” Lowrie said. “I'm an open book, and if you come to me with anything you have, I can share my experience and my opinions and what I see, but I'm not going to you as a player and try to change what you're doing.” Lowrie is always there to break hitting down with his teammates. Bush has the tools to help them prepare. Davis may not talk a ton, but when he does, the words are meaningful to his teammates and sum up their approach well. All three are leaders in their own way, even if none of the three is necessarily outspoken. https://theathletic.com/484778/2018/08/23/the-thing-the-as-do-better-than-anyone-and-what-khris-davis-and-jed-lowrie-have-to-do-with-it/https://theathletic.com/484778/2018/08/23/the-thing-the-as-do-better-than-anyone-and-what-khris-davis-and-jed-lowrie-have-to-do-with-it/

Good stat on Avilan:

https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=4418&position=2B/SShttps://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=4418&position=2B/SS https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lowrije01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lowrije01.shtml All-Star last season. 4.9 WAR. Switch-hitter. 2B/SS/3B. 34. Beard. Guess who his agent was.

I like the coloring in the News cover as well as the Paul Shaffer reference but Nimmo's smile makes that cover my choice.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mets-acquire-j-d-davis-at-steep-price/https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mets-acquire-j-d-davis-at-steep-price/

I'm in.

Paul Sewald and Jacob Rhame are still on the Mets? Yeesh.

=Gwreck post_id=155 time=1546069250 user_id=56] Actual change they could make: fix the scoreboard. Make it bigger, get rid of the ads, put up the lineups at all times.

This is what I want. Pollock also makes sense, despite his history of injuries, as he can hit and plays CF well but this is much, much better. Conforto in LF, Nimmo in CF, Harper in RF and we'll figure out Cespedes when he returns. Harper takes the Mets from the 3d or 4th best team in a very competitive division to the best (really, not just in BVW's mind). Boras wants 10 years and more than $300M so BVW has some work to do but he knows how Boras thinks so maybe he can make this happen. The Cano/Diaz and Ramos moves are incomplete without one more move and it shouldn't be a backup OF for when Lagares gets hurt. It should be Bryce Harper.

If you don't remember what Jamie Callahan looks like, I took this picture in early March, 2018 as Jason and I wandered around the ballpark in West Palm Beach as the Mets and Astros played to a tie. https://postimages.org/

Woody Allen and Edie Adams are at Caesars???

That's going to be a fantastic semi-final matchup. Best to BG and the entire TCD team, especially Bob who I fear was left in the Serengeti with the zebras.