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Tudor didn't suck enough for my tastes. He was part of the impenetrable 1988 staff that carried a lousy offense and stole the Mets' Twizzlers.

And ceetar gets the cruel and guilty pleasure of Young batting ninth --- which is exactly where you want the guy who does everything a leadoff man should do, but not enough. Wait a minute... this just in... TERRY HAS BEEN NAMED TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR!!! With half the year still, to go, they're calling the race now. GOOD JOB, TERRY!!

I considered Tudor, but he didn't mention the Dodgers

OK, the Pirate is Smiley-assed John Smiley.

Shouldn't we have a lineup by now?

Digging up this neglected thread to tell you EY is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER!! Andrew Brown, not so much.

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But not EY. Eric expected to be activated in time for tonight's game.

Gwynn played 42 games at Low A, jumped up to AA for the last 23 games of his first pro season. From there, he played 110 games at AAA, got promoted and never returned to the minors, even for rehab. In all, a ridiculously short 175 game internship. Not bad for a third-round draft choice. Oh, and he went .347 / .391 / .520 // .910. Slugged 21 homers, too.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'll guess the Red was Jose Rijo Phillie Expo Dodger sounds like Omar Daal (though I'm sure it isn't) Still, though, pulling Omar Daal out is impressive.

I'm tapping out, though. I'm coming up empty at this point.

It's Darling. It makes sense, in that his tenure was about as long as Fernandez's, and completely contained in the best of the Gwynn era. I know Gwynn hit him hard, but I bet he got a handful of whiffs in.

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Rob Dibble for that second Redlegs slot.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Kile's the stro rock card guy. Beat you to Kile, sucka. A Reds pitcher who represents no other team, but not Mario Soto... Tom Browning.

Astros/Rockies/Cardinals sounds like a career track that represents the late Darryl Kile.

MARIO SOTO!!

I'm tired of striking out! ATLEE FUCKING HAMMAKER!

Kevin Brown.

Curt Schilling.

Looking over the list of some of the guys he destroyed, there's a lot of Metly victims: 1.667 OPS against Armando Benitez in 3 PA 1.235 OPS against Dennis Cook in 12 PA 1.270 OPS against Turk Wendell in 9 PA 1.227 OPS against Al Leiter in 26 PA 1.045 OPS against Ron Darling in 62 PA Some real way-back names too: 1-1 with a double against Scott Holman. 3-6 with a double against Doug Sisk. 2-2 against Tug McGraw! Jesse Orosco, a man grown and genetically programmed in a government lab for the single express purpose of getting Tony Gwynn out, yielded a .955 OPS to the man.

I had a childhood friend named Mark who had incredible comic skills. With the half-Puerto Rican/half-Jewish pedigree of Juan Epstein and a cadence that made him feel like your best friend when he was ripping you to shreds, he would actually grab a mic and a PA during a party and go improv. There may have been only six people in the room, but the mic helped him work the "crowd" like a pro. We encouraged him to try his hand at being a professional comic, but he said his material was too narrowcast. That he could do twenty minutes on Tim Teufel's batting stance, but nobody in Peoria would get it. Anyhow, he did this amazing imitation of Tony Gwynn talking about hitting, but he would spontaneously work in tangents about physics, philosophy, meteorology, pro wrestling, the Protestant reformation, Montel Williams, etc. but he'd always come back to "that's the way I like to approach the curveball." He'd do it in the form of an interview, but he'd end every extensive nasally far-flung answer to every question with "that's the way I like to approach the curveball." Anyhow, I haven't followed Mark much since I left New York, but he posted this about an hour ago: Really bummed out about Tony Gwynn. Twenty years ago when I was a Marketing Exec at The Sports Authority, I arranged an in-store appearance at a Chula Vista loaction. He ended up coming in the night before to talk to the store manager to go over all the details for the next day (he had the same preparation towards hitting) Then the following day he turned a 2 hour in store appearance into a 4 hour event. He stayed until every customer was able to meet him, signing countless balls, photos, batting gloves etc. I had done hundreds of athlete signings and most showed up late and left early - some not showing up at all (Alan Iverson). He was a class act.

Any team that sets up shop in Montreal would surely need bats. You know what the Mets have plenty of? BATS!

Nobody except maybe Ted Williams seemed to think as much about hitting as Gwynn. He seemed to have it distilled down to a simple philosophy, but the amount of information and adaptations that went into it was encyclopedic. You could listen to him for hours and never hear the same thought twice. Except, of course, for that nasal voice, which probably kept him from being a top-flight broadcaster. Can you think of any other Hall-of-Famers who've dedicated their post-playing career to building a college program? Gary Carter, I guess, but that was more of a low-profile thing, after his professional managing aspirations fizzled.

Matt Adams, Allen Craig, John Jay. Lineup card reads more like a Constitutional Convention.