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Frayed Knot wrote: Conflation alert: Gordon Beckham was drafted in the same draft as Tim Beckham who was the 1/1 pick that year. Both were from Georgia and neither lived up to his potential but the similarities ended there. Tim was a black HS pick who played the OF; Gordon is white, an IF, and was drafted out of UGa I appreciate the de-conflation.

Optimistic Mets fan does it again. Hoping to join a proud contingentt of former #1 overall picks for other teams who eventually became Mets: Bill Almon Gordon "Jump" Beckham Shawon Dunston Kris Benson Adrian Gonzalez

Whoah ... not even a CAA client.

But you kind of made it your own headline too.

He let her host his show where she hooked up with hot, young, hairy Chuck Norris. [YOUTUBE]FxLOQLxie6w[/YOUTUBE]

Well, that's not the strongest of arguments, but I can't argue with the brevity.

It also suffers from the Nationals Park problem of trying to keep seats close to the field horizontally by building way up vertically. Tier on top of tier on top of tier.

Salamander Q covers the Metlife of Johnny Lewis at BillJamesOnline.com https://www.billjamesonline.com/the_thing_with_feathers/?fbclid=IwAR1ZS7bD0MMlJqH6dEZaPP7gaacLJaQEem8IfN3mnoB7nB6MTmsQMSZSRZIhttps://www.billjamesonline.com/the_thing_with_feathers/?fbclid=IwAR1ZS7bD0MMlJqH6dEZaPP7gaacLJaQEem8IfN3mnoB7nB6MTmsQMSZSRZI

Pretty cool that he came up in the Mlicki/Franco innerview.

It would be the equivalent of a 29.7-game winning streak.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: It was the Fox Sports organization. Of course. Post-season. Duh. I'm trying to ramp up my workouts and rapidly get up to mid-season form. But there are bound to be some bumps along the way.

Yup. But Howie's producer is probably furloughed and one of his kids is running the show. Lookit the giant monitor on Franco's exercise bike.

The Mets never had a player or manager they would un-retire 14 for, but when it came to Sinatra's cock, it was a different story.

I had no idea that Lewin had an earlier tenure with the organization.

Two of the four Lords — Stallone and Perry King — ended up reading for Han Solo.

Yeah, so it's unclear.

Mets Roster Central is quickly moving to adapt to the ad-libbed standards of the announced truncated 2020 season, but roster rules will apparently be as such: Teams will open second spring season with 60 camp invites. As they trim down, they will ship out their players to an alternative site. Many will use their AAA facilities for this. The Mets and the Yankees have the options to use their New York-Penn League affiliate facilities, as they are nearby. I suspect shipping out the cuts is as much about limiting virus exposure as anything. Those 60 will be the only players available for the team to use during the season. Training at their home fields will be a challenge because unlike spring training sites, there isn't a complex of multiple diamonds adjacent to each other. So I'm guessing St. Johns and/or Christ the King facilities may come into play. My impression is that the full 40-man roster will stay with the team, allowing transactions to be instantaneous. When the season begins, teams will have a 30-man active roster. Two weeks into the campaign, teams will cut to 28 players. Two more weeks, it finally gets whittled down to 26. Maybe I'm missing something, but it's unclear if the September 1 roster expansion will happen. I would guess something like it will.

Everytime i read about Ahmaud Arbery, I read about one of his killers being named "Greg McMichael," and just for a second, I think he's the ex-Met.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

I don't agree that the Wilpons know nothing about baseball.

It's like he doesn't have any other marker colors. Which is cool, 'cuz neither do I.

I would have figured that Blackmon's beard was a happy little nest for all sorts of dangerous micro-organisms long before anybody identified covid. That said, get well soon, Charlie Blackmon.

I thought all those Hoo-Hoo clues were hinting at Burt Hooton.

=Ceetar post_id=39185 time=1592936193 user_id=102]Of course, I don't think it's relevant anymore anyway, as VitaminWater was sold to Coke and I'm pretty sure Wright cashed out at that time.

Undrafted free agents are indeed fun. Who is more of an underdog to root for than a guy who got passed over at least 900 times in the draft? Who do people relate to at a heart-to-heart level when they make a big-league debut than a T.J. Rivera. Whose cause more personal heartbreak upon their release than a Nelson Figueroa. Unlike foreign-born free agents, these guys only ended up in free agency after getting yawned at through the draft, and perhaps had to show up to a tryout camp to get scouted at all. And as the Rivera and Figueroa examples underscore, they're also more likely than most to be locally sourced. But not this year. This year, with the draft blessedly cut down to five rounds, a lot of these guys are dudes who've been heavily scouted, and have every chance of making the bigs, and many will sign only after fielding offers from several teams — not that we shouldn't expect big league teams to conspire to fix these players bonuses. It's what big league teams do. These FFAs have recently signed with the theoretical abstraction known as the Mets organization. First to sign was http://metsminors.net/mets-agree-to-deal-with-first-udfa-brandon-mcilwain/Brandon McIlwain. Bernie Mac came to the Mets through the most circuitous of routes. He played for South Carolina for two seasons, but only just, appearing in 10 games. Then he transferred to Cal-Davis. Forced to sit out for a year as a baseball transfer, he instead played football, getting a lot of time at QB in an unusual three-man rotation. In 2019, he returned to the diamond and got more time, appearing in 20 games, going .258 / .309 / .435 // .744, including a big walkoff homer against rival Standford. He was set to play more in 2020 but got off to a slow start, and like everybody else, saw his season cut short by COVID-19. No matter which sport he plays, he likes to keep things simple. [YOUTUBE]TF6kXwLSMFs[/YOUTUBE] Obviously he's a projectable athlete who you'd like to have seen get a lot more reps by the age he's reached, so hopefully there'll be some catching up if things ever get started. In a normal year, he'd go straight to Brooklyn and strike out a million times but still get pushed to Columbia by the next season.