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Am I glad I wasn't the only one who didn't get it. That's just brilliant

I thoroughly enjoyed Black Panther, but it had better theme music when it was pink.

According to Heyman, it's done pending a physical.

I get that he's referring to warming up pitchers and not bringing them into the game, but can't they come up with a better term?

And all I can think is, what will he tear this year? http://mlb.com/cutfour/index.jsp#contentId=266329440

Buddy will always be one of my faves 761EDEE5-638C-42C3-A70E-31D51BFDF512.jpeg[/attachment:xsmlmyd1]

Knowing what we know of DiMaggio, comparing Jeter to him is hardly compliment

Unfortunately, it will probably look more like this... bullpen-cart.jpg[/attachment:31zyq06z]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Filled the 'we have too many injuries and no decent outfielders in the minors so we have to have a body to put out there' role adequately. First time I saw him at the plate, I wondered how this guy was in the majors...

Thanks. I got lucky with two images that matched up pretty well. Only took a couple of minutes to whip that up

Edgy MD wrote: One of those (Guerra?) was a favorite of our dgw too, I think. I don’t really remember Guerra. I remember being high on Gomez, but it was a trade that had to be made

Edgy MD wrote: Hey, look! Jon Niese is a Texas Ranger! [attachment=0]chuck-norris-walker-texas-ranger-jpg_210637.jpg[/attachment]

Frayed Knot wrote: dgwphotography wrote: That, and the entire pitching staff spending time on the DL, not to mention the season starting with Doc in rehab Sure. I was just looking to point out the contrast between the guy who was never accepted by fans vs the one towards whom a sizable portion of fans mentally hung onto years after his sell-by date. Backman had BY FAR the lowest OPS on that '87 team [below Raffy Santana, below the decaying carcass of Gary Carter] yet never gets a whiff of blame - except from my friend at the time, Bruce, who maintained a hatred of Backman every bit as irrational as the love was for others, but Bruce always had a tendency to zig when others zagged. Sounds like my continued hatred of Dykstra from day 1

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: A lot of it was there from the start though. The idea that the Met owners were trying to make the Mets more bland and mechanical has always been a knock against the move. Not to mention the assertion that he was a bad influence on Doc & Darryl which clearly was a wrong assertion. It's always been a silly assertion. And it wasn't there from the start, but retroactively — and in some cases, bizarrely — re-writing history. Kevin Mitchell was never the Mets' leftfielder, not as a full-timer. They had a three-way platoon between left and center for the second half of 1986, and he was squeezed in all around the diamond, earning him the nickname "World." It was an explicit part of Frank Cashen's philosophy to make one major lineup change each offseason, to keep things chuning and players from getting too comfortable. Being set at most positions, they saw the ad-libbed outfield alignment as a spot to target, and spent the 1986-1987 offseason looking to set on a fulltime leftfielder and maybe a shortstop, and seriously considered a major trade moving all of their top prospects in a huge deal for Harold Baines and Ozzie Guillen. They instead went for McReynolds. The wisdom of that may well be argued (they made a lot of questionable consolidation trades in this period) but imagining a business meeting where the minority owner of the defending champs barks at the GM that they need blander players (and the GM seriously acts on this) just stretches all credulity. But folks have been imagining it for 30 years, and lacking evidence, they take speculation as fact, or just make evidence up. The champion of McReynolds wasn't the Wilpons or any desire to make the Mets "blander" (that's absurd revisionist history). Look instead to Joe McIlvane who said at the time and since that KMcR at U-Arkansas was THE best amateur player he ever scouted. McIlvane became the Mets scouting director in 1981 but it must have been after the draft (or he was overruled) because that was the year the Mets took Terry Blocker two picks before the Padres grabbed McReynolds. By '87 McIlvane was asst GM and didn't want to miss out on him a second time and obviously was successful in pushing for the trade. Remember that McReynolds was essentially replacing George Foster as far as succeeding him as opening day LF'er. When adding to a team coming off a dominant season and a WS win, opting for him rather than a half-season rookie was a no-brainer. Fans of that era could possibly pint fingers towards good ol' fiery Wally and his 70 point tumble in OBA between '86 & '87 as one possible factor for the next season not going as well as the previous, but of course that doesn't fit in well with the pre-determined narrative and fans were still calling for Wally's return into the next decade. That, and the entire pitching staff spending time on the DL, not to mention the season starting with Doc in rehab

Didn't I say something to this effect (Jeffy being too hands on regarding the treatment of injured players) a little while ago, and was told it was patently ridiculous?

Hopefully this is a step to completely rebranding the team. Changing their name to the Spiders would be cool.

Vic Sage wrote: ...and when his name comes up, i hear banjos and think of the backwoodsman who rapes Ned Beatty in DELIVERANCE. And then i think about K-Mac hanging out on the 7 train with John Rocker, spitting tobacco juice at immigrants. But that's just me. Since he's from Arkansas, and likes hunting, he just has to be a racist like Rocker, amiright? This speaks more to your bias than any perceived bias of his.

Centerfield wrote: It hurts now when you look back, but Mitchell for McReynolds is a trade you have to make. Mitchell was a nice looking young hitter, but he was undersized and hadn't proven anything yet. McReynolds was already an established good to great hitter. It doesn’t hurt at all. With the exception of one season, McReynolds was the overall better player.

Centerfield wrote: - - There was a sense that he was too cool for school, aka: not fiery enough [see Edgy's post] I do believe there is some truth to this. Basically he made everything look so easy some didn't really appreciate how tough these plays were. I've said it before, Torii Hunter got more credit for missing the ball and falling into the Boston bullpen than Beltran did for catching it, bouncing off, and then throwing it back in. He did it with such grace it was impossible to know that he hurt his ribs on that play. This. He made everything look so effortless. He easily is the best CF the Mets have had.

Frayed Knot wrote: McReynolds definitely had the lack of outward passion charge leveled against him. That and bad timing -- getting there, as he did, one year after the big one -- were his biggest problems. He didn't help himself with a couple of comments, but mostly those just gave extra ammo to folks already predisposed to dislike him and those comments would have been ignored if from another source. McReynolds I was much better than McReynolds II. When I think of McReynolds, I remember him taking out Scioscia to score in the NLCS.

I went with God of Blunder because In The Big Inning, while clever, was on a page that is just too busy

Call the high strike, and make batters stay in the box. Calling the high strike means fewer walks, fewer pitches thrown, pitchers going longer, fewer pitching changes...

It’s ok, I guess. He’s a cheap insurance policy.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Zeile did have a rap for being less than enthusiastic before he came to the Mets ALL HE NEEDED WAS ONE STEROID SHOT, AND TIMO COULD HAVE SKIPPED ALL THE WAY HOME...

I just went back and looked - I had forgotten just how good Olerud was for us. Wasn't there something about him going to Seattle because he had a newborn, and his mother played the grandmother card? Or was that just postulation on our part?