Frayed Knot

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=84463 time=1642007523 user_id=68] When it comes to Knight's '86 season, you have to look at the splits.. Against lefties in '86, Knight was like Ted Williams. ... He was a lefty crushing monster that year.

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=84428 time=1641994520 user_id=119]: Wright, Carter, Beltran, and Gooden.

Ray Knight occupies a weird niche in NYM fandom. - came over in mid-'84 where he hit .280 but with almost no power for a corner position; 4 2Bs, 1 HR [isoP = .075] over 100 PAs - then proceeded to go .218/.252/.328 (OPS+ = 62) as a part-time player (290 PAs) in '85, much to the displeasure of more than a few fans - much better season in '86 (OPS+ = 115) but much of that was early (April was his best month, followed by May) and he finished 12th on the team in WAR. - then he was WS MVP although even that was more a case of being the best from a pack where none of the more likely suspects really distinguished themselves: 9 hits (7 singles) over 6 games isn't quite a case of being the tallest midget in the circus but it was more a good, not a great series, where there were no great ones. - at that point he was 34 y/o and, after the non-signing, went on to have two awful seasons for two awful teams before calling it a career. So he was a very good Met for like two months plus a week (out of nearly two seasons and a half) and yet a sizable portion of NYM fans feel that his non-retention was an obvious mistake and moaned about the loss of him well into the early '90s citing his (and Backman's) absences -- Years after both had retired!! -- as key reasons for the decline of the club and lack of more WS rings: y'know, the loss of grit and leadership and all that stuff (Backman wasn't any good at his future stops either). But none of that stopped the notion that both somehow would have remained the ballplayers they (briefly) were had only they stayed in Queens. HoJo, meanwhile, spent the net five seasons averaging a 135 OPS+ as a full-time player. (Knight as a NYM: OPS+ = 97) My recollection of the winter '86/'87 negotiations is that Knight wanted more than one year which Cashen (rightly IMO) wouldn't give him. Ray has since denied asking for more than one but that might be either convenient after-the-fact memory or maybe he wasn't all that up on what his agent was saying to the club. oe: cross-oosted on that final part with roger_that

I still don't love all this number retiring stuff, but it's not something I'm going to go to the mat over.

I'm starting to think that Roger is leaning towards the 'No' category on Buck.

Willets Point wrote: He basically loves everything to do with baseball. Relatable. Yup. The game itself and everything that surrounds it. Which is pretty much what I expected of Showalter.

iow: I didn't do it and I won't do it again.

Wayne Kirby was a Met??!!???

Well, that he'll be the lesser Soto is almost guaranteed.

They got you out just in time to be that year's tax deduction, eh?

You had me at: Mis Fuentes me informan

Y'know, you do have the ability not to read things you're uninterested in, right? I do it frequently and it saves a lot of time.

Edgy MD wrote: Please be assured that Frayed Knot will be banned from any future tapings of the show after shouting a potential answer from the audience! No, I merely mentioned which answers had been used on last night's show and only after both had already been spoken aloud here.

Trevor Noah and Noah Webster were both answers. Can't remember who the other two were, although I'm sure there's a site that'll tell you.

Noah Syndergaard, actually his nickname, was an answer on JEOPARDY Monday night. The category was NOAHs

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Stupid-funny at times. iow, a Will Ferrell movie?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The plan is to start talking about the difficult stuff (arbitration, free agency, luxury tax, etc.) in January. Well, you don't want to rush things.

So I guess this means that Buck passed his physical? I hadn't heard anything on that prior to today. Hope he's in the best shape of his life.* *I like how my phone anticipated those final four words right after I typed 'best'

=kcmets post_id=83389 time=1640009902 user_id=53]Bambi?

=ashie62 post_id=83362 time=1639926261 user_id=90] Charles Bukowski could have written this.

I assumed her name would be Doe

I say, 'Buck Yeah'

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The Mets always announce shit on Fridays Except when announcing stuff at 3 in the morning for the sole purpose of inconveniencing reporters.

I'm one of the opening day '62 crew.

If they continue to stand in the middle of the L.I.E. they're not going to be tall for long.