Edgy MD

The Cubs road jerseys with the number in the middle. Awful. https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/2571807082_7aab64f8f6.jpg> It'd make a pretty cool old-timey, leatherhead football look, though.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=rundgr001rexRex "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" Rundgren, longtime Marlins infield prospect. https://www.tcdb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/108486/108486-7523555Fr.jpg> When asked why he never made the show, his father answered, "Well, he didn't want to work."

There's a time for debunking. Lez do some more nominating. Early Tampa uniforms: dissolving colors in the lettering, the hat having no identifying information, and the ichthyologically incorrect depiction of the fish with the wings tapering in the wrong direction — making the tail, forced into service to underscore a name that doesn't need underscoring, seemingly come out of the nose. Add to that a road color that isn't gray, and isn't blue, but something in between. It all feels like a theme park that doesn't know what it's brand is. Yeah, we're a good place to look at water fauna, but we have roller-coasters and flumes and funnel cakes and a renaissance thing going on too! [fimg=500]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/screen-shot-2022-06-10-at-4.44.54-pm.png[/fimg] An alphabetic insignia would soon make it onto the cap, but not in a good way. [fimg=500]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/screen-shot-2022-06-10-at-4.46.45-pm.png[/fimg] As that fake rock outcropping in the background of the first photo suggests, these unis were introduced at The Florida Aquarium, so I guess, in weird way, they sort of were on brand. I guess I'm not giving enough credit.

Jack Fisher looked at Ellis Valentine's card and wondered where he could get a Mets —> Angels makeover even half as sweet as Ellis'. https://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/1970/Topps---Base/684/Jack-Fisher.jpg?id=62124a22-a6ad-4f31-9c75-a79e3220d0a5&size=original>

Worst Uni nominations. To keep things orderly, please nominate one kit at a time, and stick to threads that were in regular rotation, worn at least a dozen or so times by the team in question. It'd be a shame if a classickly bad look that someone nonetheless believed in and stuck with got ranked behind an ephemeral Arbor Day getup that a squad donned once or twice and agreed not to speak of afterwards. _________________________________________ I'll open with the awful Sox uniform that somehow ended up on the best of pitchers. Everything about it says company picnic softeall. The tricolor hat feels like it came out of the bargain bin after a real team returned them because they didn't turn out right. The horizontal stripes are whatever the opposite of slimming is. https://www.rksportspromotions.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/1916-1952.jpg?itok=mvgOZDjI> Lamarr Hoyt did a lot of cocaine in those threads. The team's road uniforms were virtually the same except for the gray foundation, but I chose the homies, because they include the white front panel that makes the hat look like a trucker's, and the brightness of the home whites just adds to the shamelessness.

PhotoShop, by the by, hit the market in 1989.

I know Mo Vaughn wore it and stuff, but that uni Terry Collins is rocking didn't really do it for anybody, did it?

I think I read earlier that today has been the anniversary of Bobby-in-Disguise Day.

Granted. Hopefully, this means more sponsorship $$ for me.

Transactions, 6/9/2022 [td90]Direction[/td90][td90]COMING[/td90][td90]Transaction[/td90][td90]Signed as International Amateur Free Agent out of Colombia and Assigned to DSL Mets 1[/td90][th]Position Group[/th][th]=#FF8000]Relief Pitcher[/th][td90][/td90][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/805344/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td90][td90]Name[/td90][td90]Wilson Lopez [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/flag-of-colombia.png[/fimg][/td90][td90]DoB[/td90][td90]7/15/02[/td90][td90]B/T[/td90][td90]R/R[/td90][td90]High Level[/td90][td90]Academy (2022)[/td90] Some sources had this guy signed last week, but it looks official now that the team is announcing it. Or maybe there are two Wilsons Lopez. We're seeing different heights and weights listed. His arrival seemingly lends support to Gary Cohen's (otherwise not very strong) theory that all Combian baseball players are from Baranquillo.

So, so far we've got batmagadanleadoff: 32/36 — 88.89% * Johnny Lunchbucket: 72/84 — 85.71% seawolf17: 72/84 — 85.71% Benjamin Grimm: 63/84 — 75.00% Edgy MD: 57/84 — 67.86% centerfield: 55/84 — 65.48% Willets Point: 2/12 — 16.67% * roger_that: 0/1 — 0.00% * Players with a * have not yet completed their rounds and signed their cards. Lefty, G-FAFIF, vtMet and all haven't yet teed off.

I thought it was that all 2021 Athletics looked the same.

Yeah, that's where I fell. Fell hard, too.

2022: 10 of 12 2012: 10 of 12 2002: 7 of 12 1992: 8 of 12 1982: 8 of 12 1972: 9 of 12 1962: 6 of 12

What you might have missed. Manaea wasn't that good. The Mets bats just seemed out of their depth. Between being banged up and missing key parts, they seemed to be on their heels. They never seemed to know what was coming, but what came wasn't that deadly. The Padres were successfully hitting against the shift most of the night. They certainly got devastating extra base hits to clear the bases, but only after packing them with baserunners via opposite field singles and walks. Not having an "Oh, shit, this is the guy you don't want coming up" guy in the lineup really seemed to give the other hitters an identity crisis. Cahna doesn't have the arm for right. There may have been a slight identity crisis on defense as well.

And ... thankyouvermuchgnight.

And, inexplicably, they continue to swing at the first pitch. I suspect they may not win tonight. Two outs in the ninth.

Single by J.D. and he's the tying run. And by that I mean, if he scores and the next eight Mets reach, he'll bat again as the tying run.

Gary claims that seemingly all Colombians in the bigs are from Baranquilla. https://www.baseball-reference.com/bio/Colombia_born.shtmlNot so much. Mets have switched the infield around, putting Mazeika in at first, moving J.D. Davis across the diamond to third, sliding Escobar over to second, switching Guiillorme to short, and pulling Francisco Lindor.

Three fielding errors tonight also, just to complete the trifecta.

And, as I type, they plate run #12.

Mets rally for two in the seventh, cutting the San Diego lead to single digits. Not looking like it'll last because the Padres are starting to make some more noise against Joely Rodriguez.

Also important to note, before the day is done, this guy joining the organization Transactions, 6/8/2022 [td90]Direction[/td90][td90]COMING[/td90][td90]Transaction[/td90][td90]Signed Away from ATL to Minor League Contract and Assigned to Minor League Complex[/td90][th]Position Group[/th][th]=#FFC2C2] Outfielder[/th][td90][/td90][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto/w_180/v1/people/605253/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][td90]Name[/td90][td90]Terrance Gore [fimg=50]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/US-flag.png[/fimg][/td90][td90]DoB[/td90][td90]6/8/91[/td90][td90]B/T[/td90][td90]R/R[/td90][td90]High Level[/td90][td90]MLB (2029)[/td90] Terrance was more highly pursued as a football player coming out of high school, offered scholarships from some of the top college programs. He instead pursued a baseball career, figuring that his small frame would not get him to the NFL. He's listed at 5'7" and 160 but you can immediately spot in him a halfback's frame and running style. Also worthy of mention — the Mets signed him on his birthday.

Andruw Jones is the all-time top player from Curaçao, but by the end of the series, I'm thinking that Jurickson Profar will have topped him. It just went to 11-0, so ... we better get them back in New York.

Through five innings, that bunt single is the team's only hit. Had McNeil pulled that out this inning, in which he batted leadoff, it would have led to a run. Assuming, of course, everything that followed would have happened exactly as it did.