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Part 1: YES or NO 1) Curtis Granderson leads the club in HRs? (any ties count as a win for the YES answers) No 2) Jenrry Mejia leads in saves? (same deal if there's a tie) Yes Will be on the team's ML roster (or DL) the entire season? 3) Dillon Gee No 4) Bartolo Colon No 5) Travis d'Arnaud Yes 6) Anthony Recker Yes 7) Daniel Murphy No 8) Ruben Tejada No 9) Jonathon Niese Yes 10) Terry Collins (has to be field manager for a YES to count - if demoted but stays in the org with a "special assistant" title or other such nonsense it doesn't count) Yes Part 2: OVER/UNDER 11) Lucas Duda -- 29.5 HRs Over 12) Michael Cuddyer -- 119.5 Starts Under 13) Jenrry Mejia -- 19.5 Saves Over 14) Wilmer Flores -- 449.5 PAs Over 15) Bartolo Colon -- 17.5 Starts Under 16) David Wright -- 21.5 HRs (22 or more would surpass Straw's club record) Over 17) Kirk Nieuwenhuis -- 199.5 PAs Under 18) Noah Syndergaard -- 19.5 ML Starts under 19) Steven Matz -- 9.5 ML Starts Over 20) Brandon Nimmo - 49.5 ML PAs Over EITHER/OR - simply name one player or the other in each comparison 21) More PAs w/2015 NYM: Murphy or Herrera? Murphy 22) More PAs: Nieuwenhuis or Mayberry? Nieuwnhuis 23) More PAs: d'Arnaud or Plawecki? d'Arnaud 24) More Saves: Parnell or Familia? Familia 25) More IPs: Gilmartin or Leathersich? Leathersich

78-84 3rd place. No play-offs.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Almost all of those logos suck -- at least at the size I'm seeing 'em on my computer. For reference, the Mets logo is one inch high on my screen; the DBacks logo is seven eighths of an inch high. Most of them just don't scale well at that size range. I like the Marlins logo the best, at that size. It's simple, yet it effectively invokes the vibrant and colorful culture of the host city of Miami and the team nickname, in one fluid modern design. But even so, some of the design element is still lost. When enlarged a little bit, you can see that the smaller version atop this thread looks flatter than it's supposed to. [fimg=133]http://everitas.univmiami.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Marlins-Logo-2-374x347.jpg[/fimg] The guy tries to do something nice, that no one asked him to do, just so we can add a little color to the KTE's or the IGT's, and you have to act like a petulant asshole.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Okay, he's a douchebag, but he's OUR douchebag. I'll take what he's giving off the mound if he can perform ON the mound. He's a huge douchebag. He's won 12 games in his CAREER, and he's worried about his "brand". Win 20, don't do anything stupid, and your brand will take care of itself.

I agree with Grimm on this. 2019 is a long way off (not as long as some of us think), but I don't enjoy rooting for him now.

Edgy MD wrote: I'll open with... Justin Hampson. My first reaction was... "Who?" Pitched 10 games in 2012, mainly after a September callup. Pitched to a respectable 1.80 ERA in only 10 innings. I always loved the name Joe Moock. Tell me why.

I have a few extra 2015 Topps Series One Mets available if anyone wants them: #4 - Curtis Granderson #24 - Mets Team Card (3 available) #83 - David Wright (2) #129 - Jacob DeGrom (3) #133 - Daisuke Matsuzaka (2) #149 - Daniel Murphy (2) #173 - Carlos Torres (2) #199 - Eric Young Jr. (2) #236 - Zack Wheeler #263 - Dillon Gee (2)

Baby, if you've ever wondered, Wondered whatever became of me, I'm pitching in the pen in Field of Citi, Pitching for the Mets. That is me. Got kind of tired packing and unpacking, Town to town up and down from the farm, Maybe you and me were never meant to be, Just maybe think of me and my right arm. I'm in the bullpen at Field of Citi...

Fred would have bought it if it had a white 'B' on the hat....

The leader (so far) to be this year's version of Tito Fuentes is Carlos Gomez. I already have 4...

Ooooooh, I just pulled a Bryce Harper short print variation.... (rolls eyes) [fimg=400:270vhu32]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d80/dgwhitham/207-harper.jpg[/fimg:270vhu32]

G-Fafif wrote: For those of us who grew up in the 70s and early 80s, we don't have too many wonderful memories from Shea Stadium. I realize this isn't the point of this thread, but can everybody who writes ledes like this -- even if or especially if your shtick is Long Suffering Mets Fan -- be reassigned to lacrosse? (No offense to any lacrosse fans out there.) I even had fun during Opening Day, 2003. You know - 15-2, bitter cold... yup, still had fun...

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Shea looks so "quiet" in that photo with Cleon. In its later years, Shea was all gaudy and brassy and noisy. (That's not exactly a complaint, by the way.) We'll probably never see a big league park looking so pastoral again. No gaudy colors. No big TV-style scoreboards. Restraint on the placement of ads. I'd love to travel back in time and see just one game at Shea from that era. I remember the organ music, the baseball-cap bullpen buggies, and the smell of cigar smoke. I'd love to squeeze into that DeLorean with you...

Ceetar wrote: he _didn't_ have the tear. The MRI in January did not show it. Look up one post. These tears can be missed, even in MRI images

Ceetar wrote: Ceetar wrote: No, he's asking why they didn't do something about it. According to our great GM's quote, they knew about this already. So, why not do something about it in the off-season, instead of pushing him and waiting until now? No. He didn't have a tear in January. It was only 'expected' because he's a freaking pitcher and his previous MRIs did show weakness. Unless he's talking about the crock idea of a preventative Tommy John surgery. You do know that he was in pain all off-season, and needed a shot, don't you? If he didn't have the tear then, then why the pain?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: What color would you call these walls? [fimg=1222]https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8722/16659455238_22fc28edc2_o.jpg[/fimg] I don't care what color the walls are. It just makes my heart ache...

Wow. That is a great find...

Ceetar wrote: No, he's asking why they didn't do something about it. According to our great GM's quote, they knew about this already. So, why not do something about it in the off-season, instead of pushing him and waiting until now?

d'Kong76 wrote: I can't see the word obtuse without thinking of The Shawshank Redemption. To be honest, I still haven't seen that movie.

Ceetar wrote: wait, what? KlapTrap is wondering why the Mets didn't do something about it? Like they have the magic pill for Tommy John and aren't using it? Are you always this obtuse, or just purposely being so? He wants to know the same thing I want to know. Why weren't they more transparent about this? I don't know about you, but I have a healthy dose of skepticism about everything the Mets do, because the Wilpons have hardly done anything to gain our trust.

They're all too high-maintenance. Notice how they all have some kind of pure-bred or high-falutin' breed mix, and Britney doesn't care for any of that. She just has a dog.

Frayed Knot wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Five blondes out of six is, I believe, right around the standard ratio for sports WAGs As usual, the non-blonde is the best of the bunch.

Maybe, but he's not wear-your-headband-outside-your-cap-cool like Tito Fuentes, who it seemed was in every one of my 1974 Topps packs...

d'Kong76 wrote: I didn't know where to stick this so I made a thread for The Ol' Girl. Someone posted it on one of the Mets' fb pages, forget which one, but I like the colors and the angle. Sunny and close to fifty here today and I have spring fever I guess... [fimg=850]http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/shea030915a.jpg[/fimg] Saw this on FB - everything is so shiny and new...

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, I guess that is Arnie. This is Benny. Arnie went on to play 3rd for the Indians.