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As this thread title suggests. Service set for Friday in West Palm Beach. Representing the Mets: Management Sandy Alderson John Ricco Former Mets Personnel Keith Hernandez Rusty Staub Wally Backman Tim Teufel Howard Johnson Roger McDowell Mookie Wilson Sid Fernandez Darryl Strawberry Current Mets Personnel Terry Collins Dan Warthen Bobby Parnell Jon Niese Josh Thole David Wright I'm sure the list isn't final. Thole, Niese, and Parnell all played for Carter in the minors.

Adam Rubin wrote: Ike Davis traveled to NY for additional tests related to his physical. Not an ankle issue. Adam Rubin wrote: I wouldn't be automatically alarmed. Last year physical discovered anemia w/ Ronny Paulino. But it's often just a minor blood reading off. Adam Rubin wrote: Terry Collins said Ike Davis already has been cleared and will resume practice tomorrow.

All Mets questions used on Jeopardy! since 1984, courtesy of Amazin' Avenue.

Theme wet blankets were planning on going with: They didn't even bother scouting or considering making an offer to Scott Kazmir. This reflects how cheap this organization has become along with how embarrassed they still remain over the deal that sent Kazmir to Tampa Bay for Victor Zambrano in 2004. Theme wet blankets are scrubbing off as a backup plan: Why would they even bother scouting or considering making an offer to Scott Kazmir? This reflects how cheap this organization has become along with how embarrassed they still remain over the deal that sent Kazmir to Tampa Bay for Victor Zambrano in 2004.

Hopefully, he's busy hunting down the still-at-large [crossout:nyyh6twc]un[/crossout:nyyh6twc]wanted asshole who kidnapped his mother.

A blurry sighting of the rumored instructimus septimus:

Before signing with the Mets, Scott's got to ask himself, "Was I someone's unwanted asshole?"

Well, the Dionne thing couldn't be less true. Her most successful period came after the most gorgeous set of caps were affixed to her chompers.

When you list Hall-of-Famers the Mets have employed, you perhaps wouldn't want to overlook Tom Meany. Meany, the Mets' public relations guy in 1962-1963 and promotions director in 1964 (does that make him the father of Banner Day?) took the would-be route of Adam Rubin toward baseball employment, having jumped the fence after decades of writing about the game, working with several papers and authoring over a dozen books, while gaining a rep as one of the game's great raconteurs. (When Toots Shor's closed, guess who was the toastmaster on their last night.) His big scoop as a baseball writer came when he ducked under the bleachers during a rain delay and stumbled upon the scene of John McGraw packing his office up to turn the team over to Bill Terry. Felled by hemorrhage on September 11 of 1964, he became the first Met (so much as he was a Met) passing in about 21 months. He was posthumously honored with the J. Taylor Spink Award in 1975 (so much as that would allow you to be called a Hall of Famer, and it's really not supposed to). In the seventies, they would give the award to two or more a year, and he was honored in the same year as Shirley Povich, which is sort of like going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the same year as the Beatles, you know? But good on him. On December 31, 1959, the Dodgers lease on Ebbets Field expired. The Dodgers leaving town should have been a dead story by then, but he showed up to see the team's caretaker turn the keys over to the new landlord, who would begin demolishing the place, writing, �Being Irish, I have attended my share of wakes, Lord have mercy on us all, but on New Year�s Eve at historical Ebbets Field, I went for the first time to a wake without a body. The corpse was alive and kicking 3,000 miles away in Los Angeles. All that was left at Ebbets Field was the spirit and that was giving up the ghost at noon.� Seems like a great character. Unfortunately, while I found some great statements while searching, I can't figure out where he is buried, which kind of falls short of the whole purpose of this thread. He was born in Brooklyn, and died somewhere in New York, so it's pretty safe to assume he was buried in New York City limits, or possibly Long Island. Beyond that, the trail has gone cold.

Both, kinda.

New thought for a tribute from the Mets: Name one of their minor league teams "The Kids." The GCL Mets would have been a good target, as he skippered them, but they are, alas, no more. And all the GCL teams, seemingly as a general rule, share the names of their parent clubs. But how about Kingsport? He never coached them, but they seem like a team in need of a little identity adjustment. The B-Mets would be a bad fit, as he left the organization after refusing to manage them, but if the AA affiliate moves to Ottawa, that might be a great opportunity to honor Carter's Mets' legacy and his Canadian legacy in one fell swoopage.

Great role. He can go from minor league town to town in one of his semi rigs. Will he be in big-league camp? (ESPN be blocked at work.)

The players have some short-cut sleeves to show off their guns. Casey's, on the other hand, almost go down to his elbows.

I was thinking they'd maybe reclaim it by bringing in Ed Kranepool or Hubie Brooks or Jeff McKnight as a spring training guest instructor. On the other hand, I also kind get the impression that Ed Kranepool doesn't get out of bed for the kind of money that the Mets would pay him to be a guest instructor.

I agree. And so I say to you: Be the change you long for!

Bob Geren listed on the roster as #7.

Well, I think (though you didn't ask and were, in fact, never going to ask) you early exiters should look for those posters that brought everything screechingly to a standstill (*cough* Valadius *cough*) and jump back into the contest by playing his or her hand.

I don't really get how so many are posting complaints but nobody is posting submissions (and hasn't for like a month). Is there any particular matchup that brought this to the screaming halt that it was brought to? Should I just unstick the thread out of embarrassment?

No jail time. His lawyer says he still maintains his innocence, but the no-jail-time plea offer was too good to turn down. Sometimes, I wonder if you or your lawyer going to the media declaring your innocence immediately after you've pled guilty on the record should be regarded as a violation of the agreement and re-open the charges.

Samuels banned from CitiField and the not-yet-named Gary Carter Baseball Complex at Port St. Lucie. Also ordered to give back "all" of the memorabilia to the team and pay them in $24,955. I assume there's some sort of $25,000 restitution cap, but I also would guess that the damage he's done amount to a lot of eggs that can't be meaningfully unscrambled.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Out, as in injured? Out, as in on the field and available to chat? Out, as in openly gay? Damn that 140-character limit! That's whumsayin'! Out of his car? Out of his mind? Out of cigarettes?

Kevin Burkhardt @KBurkhardtSNY wrote: gotta run. Johan is out. Try to get back to more of you later What? WHAT?!

Probably.

Deadspin looks at the making of the strangest episode. Not mentioned: Terry Cashman's closing credits contribution.