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Holy crap. Bon Scott, what can't you do?

Justin Turner stepping in with the ol' .114 batting average.

Two guys on in the seventh. [youtube:3ubj7rbz]oIP1okixlfE[/youtube:3ubj7rbz]

den Dekker looking to crack that roster to the tune of a .120 batting average this spring.

Johan pitches out of a first-and-second, one-out situation in the fourth. Still 2-0, Cardinals. I'm declaring this a must-win.

I'm not sure what anybody ever says, but "settle down, remember the plan, don't get flustered, you're still the man" --- stuff like that.

Maybe, but goofy. I guess there should be stirrups and/or piping on the Tobi in the southwest.

Johan's start > Walk. > Walk. > Single. > Walk. > Warthan...

The northeast photo is clearly the same as the southeast one. Why would the watercolorist paint the white jersey blue? Ugh. Not even Tobi Stoner is safe.

I wonder if striking a modest handful of gold in the Dickey signing wasn't such a wonderful turn of good fortune amidst so much bad that some can't bring ourselves to trust it to any more than a begrudging degree, and so hold onto our <3's ever more tightly, lest the gold suddenly reveal itself to be the fool's variety most turns out to be.

I'm thinking he gets a lot of two-inning mopup jobs, particularly early in the season, whereas a lot of the higher-profile guys will only get to work two-three outs per appearance.

Here's a funky trip through the wayback machine. Tobi's debut was pretty much 2009 in a nutshell, throwing a scoreless mopup inning against Flawridah in a game in which the Mets were clobbered, 13-4. That day also featured (1) Johan Santana getting stitches removed from his elbow, (2) Gary Sheffield returning to batting practice, and (3) Elmer Dessens getting his Range Rover stolen after leaving it with a hotel valet near Citi Field. The day started with a clubhouse fundies meeting in which Jerry Manuel stressed what he called "Championship Baseball" and others might call "keeping your head in the game." Angel Pagan responded by going out and making two baserunning mistakes, including getting doubled off of second on a Jeff Francouer flyout, when he forgot how many outs there were. All the while, everybody was wearing pizza logos on their sleeves.

I agree that he never sniffs the ninth, but neither do I think that he'll fall so particularly out of favor. But on second thought, yeah, there'll be some stretches where Collins will seem to have forgotten his name for two or three weeks. He'll have some stretches where he's as good as anybody in the pen, some where he's as bad. 55 games, 72 IP, 3.21 ERA. Might get traded if he's on an upswing at the deadline and the Met see themselves as sellers. He can be passed off as a Carlos Diaz.

The obsession with Dickey's nutsack had been getting creepy by then.

Tobi was Met in 2009 and 2010 and... and an organizational specter since then --- you turn and think you saw him, but maybe not, and briefly remember that he once was, and then your thoughts turn to more pressing matters. But Tobi once was indeed. And now he is no more, released by the team today along with LHPs Chris Hiliard, Eric Niesen, and Roy Merritt; RHPs Nick Carr, Ronny Morla, and Steve Winnick; 1B Lucas Stewart; and OF Chase Greene. Pretty athletic dude anyhow:

I feel like I turned over the pinball machine.

One centerfielder short of a squadron. Pounce today, boys. Pounce unrelentingly.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bennett was the third of three lefthanders traded for during a 2-week span in June of 1967. Nick Willhite and Bob Hendley were the first 2. Koosman and McGraw at the time were in the minors (McGraw additionally was in Westrum's doghouse). Bennett made six appearances before getting farmed out himself. I take it that you're the expert around here on fringe 1967 Mets. So how do you pronounce Joe Grzenda's last name? And how many syllables? Transition years like 1967s and 1983s are great years, even though we don't always realize what's happened right in front of us until years later.

There's a lot of jazz in the B in that autograph.

Some comfort to know that most of the damage were off two guys who weren't going to make the team anyhow. Some small comfort. An iota. But come on. Let's put a team together.

If I got a 1984 remake, I'd totally make the move on Karen I didn't make 28 years ago.

This be ugly.

Matchup of the future, with Harvey vs. Strasburg. Last chance for David Wright to fulfill the "by the weekend" prediction.

Frayed Knot wrote: Nymr83 wrote: Actually saw this on twitter as Dickey posted about it the other day, said he already felt lonely as the only active knuckleballer (is that true?) Probably is, at least for pitchers who use it as their majority pitch. Another side-note about Wakefield's retirement is that it leaves MLB without an active 200+ win pitcher for the first time since ... since 1879!! when Tommy Bond (you all remember ol' Tommy, right?) passed Bobby Mathews to take over the lead in the post-Al Spalding era with 195. The Ireland-born T.B. (as we who were close to him called him) went on to win 26 that year (after four straight seasons of 40+) to push him over the 200 mark. Of course, seeing how Wakefield didn't get #200 until September it would seem that last season didn't have a >200 guy either but Jamie Moyer (267) was considered active even though he didn't pitch due to injury. Moyer hooking on with a team (I think the Rox invited him to camp) would give him back the lead and continue the streak. If not it'll still only last this year as current leader Roy Halladay (188) is poised to break the barrier unless (heh, heh) something bad happens. There were a few close calls over the years such as Don Drysdale with 204 taking over the lead upon the retirement of Whitey Ford. But there were also decade-long streaks where the mark stayed at 300+ Hold the phone. Jamie Moyer just threw four perfect innings against the Giants.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: That 2nd vid is unreal. That's the cool thing about center. It's the only position where a superior athlete can outrun a drive. I thought he'd get hurt on all three of those. Then a I remembered that 19-year-olds bounce a little better.