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I think "I Will Not Mention The Dropkick Murphys" was in the original draft of my wedding vows.

His love for pulling the low ball suggests as much. Yogi and Glavine were also both reported as scratch linksmen (Yogi, for decades), but if Instagram WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM anything is credible about this 59 business, yeah, maybe McNeil is our guy.

Having just watched the second installment, Lenny was fire, as the kids' say. I got the idea he (a) insisted on being paid for is contributions, ( insisted on getting the money up front and in cash, © spent it all before the cameras started rolling, and (d) told the interviewer "nobody needs to know about this."

The New Mets Rallying Cry: "FEWER MEANINGFUL DATES IN SEPTEMBER!"

Tim Tebow not a Mets guy.

Lacrosse is tough because it's generally a spring sport, creating a conflict with baseball. But so is outdoor track and that didn't stop Kanehl.

Just riffing here. Football: DJ Dozier (Vince Coleman, John Stearns) Basketball: Chris Young (Tony Clark, Terry Bross, Austin Jackson, Frank Howard if we're counting managers) Ice Hockey: Tom Glavine Golf: Yogi Berra (Tom Glavine, Livan Hernandez, Yoenis Céspedes, yadda, yadda) Speed Skating: Lee Mazzilli Ballroom Dancing: Bobby Valentine Decathlon: Rod Kanehl Surfing: El Sid Pugilism: Ray Knight Obviously many or (at one time) even most schoolboy athletes starred in another sport but stuck with baseball in college, but I include Austin Jackson and Tom Glavine because they were among the top recruits in their class. We need a soccer guy and a tennis guy, at the very least. Maybe a lacrosse dude, too.

I figure Hembree will be on the mound when things go south.

Sweep the rest of the season and ... well, that'll probably still fall short of the playoffs, but it'd be something.

Good to see Louper come out to open (at least) the eighth.

Terry may not have a lot to say over the long haul, and he's got more than a few "What I used to tell the fellas" cliches, but he's generally a good listen.

Hey, McNeil hits his first homer since the crunk era.

Terry Collins on the air.

Yes, apparently Dominic Smith can hit after all.

It's not about you.

Any notion that Dom Smith is in the doghouse? I mean, sure, he played his way out of his playing time. But it's not like McNeil has totally wiped him off the map statistically, but he's sure wiped him out of the lineup.

Geoff Hartlieb is your Worcester Red Sock and you last postcard-posting family member. Thank you all for playing Postcards from the Fam! ashie wins first prize, a vintage Margate, a New Jersey, postcard personally signed by Lucy, the Margate Elephant. Jake Hager_________ Put through waivers by the Mets and claimed by Milwaukee. Put through waivers by Milwaukee and claimed by Seattle. Put through waivers by Seattle and claimed by Arizona, his current employers. (ashie) Trevor Hildenberger__ Put through waivers by the Mets and claimed by San Francisco, his current employers. (seawolf17) Billy McKinney______ Put through waivers by the Mets and claimed by Los Angeles, his current employers. (cal sharpie) Geoff Hartlieb______ Put through waivers by the Mets and claimed by Boston, his current employers. (MFS62) Anthony Banda_____ Put through waivers by the Mets and claimed by Pittsburgh, his current employers. (ashie) Jacob Barnes_______ Traded by the Mets to Toronto, his current employer, for Troy Miller. (kcmets) Tommy Hunter______ Traded by the Mets to Tampa Bay, his current employer, for Rich Hill. (ashie) Nick Tropeano______ Put through waivers by the Mets and claimed by San Francisco. Designated for assignment by San Francisco, cleared waivers, and declined minor league assignment, becoming free agent. Signed as free agent by Los Angeles, his current employers. (Gwreck) Stephen Tarpley____ Released by the Mets and currently not employed by an MLB organization. (ashie) Johneshwy Fargas___ Put through waivers by the Mets and claimed by Chicago (N). (Johnny Lunchbucket) Incorrect Mallex Smith, Cameron Maybin Scoring ashie: 12 cal sharpie: 3 Gwreck:3 kcmets: 3 MFS62 seawolf17: 3 Johnny Lunchbucket: 2 A Boy Named Seo: -1 chad ochoseis: -1

Greg addressed that thesis too. If he stayed there, I imagine it wouldn't have been long. Davey Johson says in the documentary that he had wanted Gooden on his team since the 1983 playoff appearance with Tidewater.

Mark Vientos is 5-for-7 in his first two game in Syracuse with a walk, a double, and a homer.

Number four is all that remains. We didn't see that much of him but he got a lot of love when claimed by Boston, for whom he hasn't yet appeared.

I think they do all the time. If you look at the list of guys left unprotected, virtually all teams included one or two veterans with contracts that were thought of as large at the time, thinking teams would stay away from budget-busters. I believe the Mets left Kingman and possibly Foster exposed also. Probably Staub too. OE: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2007/11/18/saving-ron-gardenhire-instead-of-tom-seaver/Here's the column. And yeah, Staub, Kingman, and Foster were all exposed.

Go boldly, Steve. We've got your back.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=78142 time=1631981628 user_id=68] I could relate to one of the narrators questioning Frank Cashen's honesty about the Mets supposedly screwing up by leaving Tom Seaver unprotected after the '83 season - exposed to then being claimed by the White Sox. The implication was that the Mets didnt screw up but made an intentional decision to expose Seaver because the team believed it had more useful players to protect than a past his prime Seaver. The suggestion was that Cashen was engaging in calculated PR to assuage the portion of the fan base that the Mets expected to be disappointed by the loss of Seaver. I could relate to this because that's exactly what I believed was happening when Cashen issued his mea culpa on behalf of the Mets. And I wasn't bothered in the least by the Mets losing Seaver. I figured he'd get worse every season and was there mostly for sentimental reasons and as a fan attraction.

Ah chit. Hard outs < Soft hits

O, Perrazzy, Villar, and Nimmstone, followed by the heart of the order.