Theoldmole

Finally figured it out. Fantastic.

If we're talking classic New York National League sports, it would have to be Pistol Pete Reiser.

Too easy, and Jack's no Willie Mays. But I'll say it. 24. Albert Camus.

29. He kind of looks like Dave Magadan, and has that same sort of competence. Mick Jagger.

]I'll give Abreu credit, he was very good at Binghamton last year, but a 27 year old hitting the 21 year olds isn't impressive enough to make me at all confident in him at the major league level. Especially since it's a little foggy how old he is.

Photographer David Douglas Duncan. http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/duncan/

Pedro has more daddies?

Who's Parnell, and is he related to Mel? And can that be right? The Mets have another outfielder named Endy Chavez? I thought having two guys named Ambiorix in the organization was impressive, but this outdoes it.

Not saying he should do it, but if he sells out the park every day, that would be an indication it matters to more than three people.

I liked the tandem of Don Bosch and Don Hahn.

I always had the impression that Martinez was rated with more upside potential.

Am I the only one who sees the html code on all these threads, and if so, what can I do about it?

Valad - thanks for linking to this again -- I missed it the first time, and it's awesome. Edgy - yours too.

I was being facetious.

Too bad...there go the Mets' chances to have a 15-game winner with an ERA of under 4 on their staff.

Or negative action?

Copy edit. He shouldn't put "retiring from" and "retiring as" in two consecutive sentences.

I'm not sure I would compare Derek Jeter in importance to baseball, or even New York baseball, with Jackie Robinson.

I can handle trading Lastings, though I hate it, because they have the depth behind him, but I'm not impressed with the trade.

I'd love to have Alan Freed as the Mets broadcaster.

I have a Mets hooked rug that one of my daughters made for me.

According to a fan poll in Newsday: Lastings Milledge (1309 responses) 14.9% Phillip Humber (614 responses) 7.0% Mike Pelfrey (954 responses) 10.8% Carlos Gomez (2057 responses) 23.4% Fernando Martinez (2814 responses) 32.0% Kevin Mulvey (1052 responses) 12.0%

I'm liking Doc Rock.

What's a switch hitter vs RH only?

] Joe Nuxhall, who became the youngest player in modern major league history when he pitched in one game for the 1944 Reds at age 15, then went on to spend more than half a century with Cincinnati as a pitcher and broadcaster, died Thursday in Fairfield, Ohio, outside Cincinnati. He was 79. His death, at a hospital, was announced by the Reds, who said he had lymphoma. On the afternoon of Saturday, June 10, 1944, four days after the D-Day invasion, the Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals were playing at Cincinnati�s Crosley Field as World War II baseball carried on with players who were rejected for military service or were too young or too old for the draft. The Cardinals, en route to a third consecutive pennant, were leading the Reds, 13-0, in the eighth inning when Cincinnati Manager Bill McKechnie beckoned to a young man seated in the dugout. He was 6 feet 3 inches and weighed about 190 pounds, a left-handed pitcher who threw a fastball 85 miles an hour. He had spent the spring in junior high school. A year earlier, the Reds scouted a right-handed pitcher named Orville Nuxhall, who was playing in a Hamilton, Ohio, Sunday baseball league. They also noticed his son, Joe, barely in his teens, who was also pitching in the league. Joe Nuxhall signed with Cincinnati in February 1944, and when his ninth-grade classes in Hamilton let out, he would occasionally get into uniform at the Reds� home games. Then came the moment in the debacle against the Cardinals when his manager told him to grab his glove and head to the bullpen. Wearing cleats borrowed from a friend, Nuxhall made it as far as the top step of the dugout. �I was scared to death,� he told The Associated Press 50 years later. �I got all shook up and tripped over the top step and fell flat on my face in the dirt.� Nuxhall did make it to the bullpen, then entered the game at the start of the ninth inning, arriving in the major leagues at the age of 15 years 10 months 11 days. He got the first Cardinals batter, George Fallon, to ground out, then walked St. Louis pitcher Mort Cooper. He induced the next hitter, Augie Bergamo, to fly out. While facing Debs Garms, the 1940 league batting champion when he was with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Nuxhall glanced at the on-deck circle. Waiting to hit next was Stan Musial, the 1943 batting champion. Nuxhall walked Garms. Musial followed with a line single to right, then Nuxhall walked three batters, threw a wild pitch and gave up another hit. With five runs in, McKechnie took Nuxhall back to the dugout.