Edgy MD

Who let d'Arnaud swing at that?

Duda, me. O, Mother, Duda me.

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Bring the storm, Mets.

Granderson is the guy you want up here, even more than Cespedes. And Cespedes is on deck.

Keep your eye on the ball, Matt.

Before there was Diamond Mind Baseball, there was Pursue the Pennant, its ancestor card-based game that was that Strat-o-Matic for the guys who wanted to go deeper. Occasionally, things got a little weird and borderline racist. There were little icons on a very few cards that would mean extraordinary occurrences would occur for these players and these players only. For instance, there was skate on Lonnie Smith's card (and presumably on the cards of a few other klutzy fielders), which meant that a certain roll of the dice on a hit in Lonnie's direction would mean some sort of disastrous error, such as falling down and losing his shoes, or kicking the ball into centerfield for a four-base error. For Andujar and Jose Rijo and perhaps a few others, there was a chili pepper (I think) icon. This meant that they were eligible for plays from the "Latin Hothead" chart, and if the dice came up just so, they would go nuts, try and brain somebody with a pitch, tear off the uniform, attack an umpire, or maybe try to batter Johnny Roseboro with a Hillerich & Bradsby.

dinosaur jesus wrote: I just thought Andujar was a dick back then. And that meltdown in the 1985 Series was pretty hard to excuse. It was a big part of what turned me against the Cards for good--which is funny, because it's what also turned the Cards against him; they shipped him the hell out of St. Louis after that. But I guess you can call him colorful or something now. And he was good. Not so much in his 20 win seasons--those were a little flukey--but he was huge in 1982. No way they would have won the pennant without him. (And I still don't know how they did win it.) Whitey, for his part, never stopped being a fan of the guy. After going to work in his later years for California — Gene Autry always dug Whitey, soliciting advice on the side for years while Whitey was employed by other teams — Whitey called up Andujar and added him to this scouting and development team. I don't know if he had any training or experience, but Whitey just believed in his instincts.

Grandy in triple mode. Pitching coach at the mound and his name is McCatty. Tying run at the plate, and his name is Cespedes.

I heard the Mets plan to pitch Harvey the first three games of the season. Counting on MGiM for that series in Detroit.

For what may be the first time in history, the two World Series teams will open against each other, as the Mets head to Kansas City, opening on the road, and in another league. http://theguycornernyc.com/2015/09/08/mets-announce-2016-schedule/ Hosting Phillie for the home opener, April 8.

I don't like the Rothenberg Law Firm promoting themselves by depicting a Mets baseball brawl.

Do it again, David.

2 followed by 1 followed 0 in the first three innings for Harvey. I'm hoping for -1 in the fourth.

"You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die." PnTduQvK2-Q

David Wright: Bailing out turds since 2004.

Well, it takes away the motivation for the team to make an aggressive pre-emptive offer. Allowing for that downside may be worth it to him at this point, but it's a calculated maneuver and the Mets may certainly have paid something for the honor.

For lack of any evidence to de contrary, I'm declaring thirty- seven regular-season Mets in one clubhouse to be a world record! 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Ouch. That's the best of mid-eighties baseball embodied in one figure. One tough Dominican. He was such an ardent and shameless self-promoter, he campaigned for himself for the Cy Young Award. In the National League. In 1985. You had to tip your hat.

Ashie62 wrote: Can the Mets just trade Harvey for Cespedes? I'm sure the Tigers would like that just fine.

I'm curious about flip-flopping Wright and Cespedes between two and four.

That "Stick Around" vid has a disturbingly high Yankee content.

It's much too early for goodbyes.

Wow. Wonder how much that cost them.

Kenny Rogers went 5-1 down the stretch for a Mets team that ultimately needed a one-game play-in to get in the post-season at all. Any Mets fan who runs into him should kiss his filthy mouth.