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My bad - that's Roger Craig, the Padres' manager

Why is Ted Williams wearing a Padres uniform?

Piazza's bat trumps Grote's defense. That having been said, Grote was one of the most underrated catchers in our time. Bench himself said that if he were on the same team with Grote, he (Bench) would have been playing at third.

Ashie62 wrote: When Jeter retires he will stand at home plate with 24 teammates in line to give him a hummer..They each will only get 10 seconds... and they will find gift baskets in their lockers...

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Who is this Toppless ex-Met who never appeared on a Topps baseball card in a Cardinals uniform? There is something about the look of kodachrome that just can't be duplicated today...

G-Fafif wrote: I wasn't sorry when he was bought out. I'm sorry at who bought him out. I have to say I agree with this. The stories of his alleged drunken anti-semitism were troubling to say the least.

I never would have guessed that there have been 23 new players at third since Wright's debut..

Get rid of "Takin' Care of Business" after a Mets win. This team hasn't taken care of business in half of a decade - playing that song is an embarrassment, and I now hate that song...

batmagadanleadoff wrote: They built a 1990's stadium 20 years after 1990. A 1990's stadium modeled after a stadium that opened in 1913. The Mets are always late to the party. They incorporated black into their uniforms right about when that trend began to wane, and then clung to that hideous mistake for 13 or 14 seasons. I blame the black on Charlie Samuels. I don't think it was a coincidence that they both disappeared at the same time...

dinosaur jesus wrote: Something like this? Oh good God, that's ghastly. As much as I would love a return of the shingles, I just don't think it would work with that brick facade...

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The stands are confectionary colored ribbons that swirl around and around the playing field, creating the sensation that you're inside of a spinning cotton candy machine. And that's the only thing that's right with this picture. Who is this ex-Met? Why do I get the feeling he's eyeing M. Donald Grant in the stands?

Get rid of the Jackie Robinson Rotunda - Lose that ugly 42, and replace it with a statue of Tom Terrific: Make the rest of the Rotunda a celebration of Mets history

G-Fafif wrote: How much would have dividers in the proletariat men's rooms cost anyway? Not installing them was a subtle dismissive "eff you" to the people who couldn't buy seats in the fancier sections. The entire stadium is a not so subtle study in classism.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm rooting for WABC. They could broadcast the games between Dan Ingram and Johnny Donovan. I find myself rooting for WABC for their signal...

metsguyinmichigan wrote: G-Fafif wrote: The Wilpon/Wilpon era accelerated the deMetsification of the franchise. Banner Day had been allowed to lapse while Doubleday was still around. Old Timers Day disappeared while Doubleday was still around. Blue and orange was blackened while Doubleday was still around. So it can't all be blamed on the second W. But the determination to ignore the traditions and the heritage hardened post-2002 and took years of carping from the peanut gallery -- and the fact that they needed something/anything to distract us from the lack of a competitive product -- to reverse course. Part of it is the well-documented and often commented-upon obsession the principal owner has for the team of his childhood and how that obfuscated properly tending the legacy of the team he actually owns, part is the intimidation the franchise as a whole suffered in the face of MFY hegemony in the runup to the construction of Citi Field and part is generally faulty institutional memory. I've been told by those who made some of the decisions that were antithetical to Metsian equity that, in so many words, a) people don't care about those things (that is we doubt we can sell an extra 'x'-thousand tickets right away if we schedule this or that); and the MFYs already do that and we're not the MFYs and that thing you're asking about is associated with the MFYs. MFYs on the brain directly explains why you didn't see blue walls when Citi Field opened and, to a certain degree, why you haven't seen a 40th anniversary celebration of the You Gotta Believe pennant (unless you want to count the Playing Cards giveaway, sponsored by Caesars). The concomitant belief among ownership and upper management that whatever the Mets have in their annals doesn't really matter when compared to all those rings, et al, is probably why blue and orange did not become fully prominent in the Met palette again until 2012. And why Banner Day comes on little cat feet instead of striding proudly through the center field gate. And why the Mets Hall of Fame was allowed to idle for eight years as Gooden, Strawberry, Johnson and Cashen went unrecognized nearly a quarter-century after their greatest accomplishments. I've also been told there's a simple clerical reason why so often "This Date in Mets History" blurbs on the video screen are wrong (the other night Jim Hickman was credited as driving in a big run for the 1969 Mets), but when you get right down to it, you have an organization that never stops to think about the details that go into making a thing people love a thing people love. Or to put it more corporately and coldly, they're horrendous brand managers. If I ran the Mets, I would create a position called vice president of tradition and fan experience, and GFAFIF would be the only person interviewed. He would have an office next to mine and authority to roam the stadium and order changes to anything and everything, except for the fridge of Diet Coke in my office, my lone act of rebellion. G, what would you do, assuming you accepted my job offer? (Pay is somewhere between David Wright and Juan Lagares, closer to Lagares.) MGIM - you beat me to it. The same thoughts have invaded my fantasies of buying the Mets after the biggest lotto payoff in history...

We can always pray for the miracle that the Yankees are about to embark on a period of futility rivaled by the 65-74 yankees, and that Mets are on the upswing. Thereby giving the FANdroids a great big shitburger to eat.

MFS62 wrote: Allowed the installation of THAT scoreboard at CitiField. Later Allowed? That was probably designed according to their specifications...

Zvon wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: To me this is another signal of the steady deterioration of the franchise under the Wilpons that has also manifested itself in stuff like carelessly neglecting to build CitiField with any regard for personality; becoming the least desirable team in baseball for a minor-league city to align with; the team whose illegally earned money was wasted on making a show of competitiveness rather than invested in the effort competitiveness actually required etc etc etc down the line. I hate them. You are far from alone on that. yup ©

This means I wouldn't listen to WFAN at all. The only reason my radio is pointed to that station from the times I'm listening to Mets games. I find it to be unlistenable most of the time...

I need to find a screencap, but there was a guy who played a cop in some of the Chicago scenes of The Fugitive who was a dead ringer for him.

This is that moment when I realize the Bryce Harper is 2 days younger than my daughter... I'm old...

Edgy MD wrote: It's not about convenience, really. It's about their ability to perform at a reasonably competitive level the next day. I agree. I was just attempting to refute the previous post.

regardless of where or when those teams will play the next day and selected the Mets @ Nationals game on September 1. Even though Harvey isn't pitching (perhaps Strasburg is), even though the game is likely meaningless (unless they want to analyze the Mets 9/1 call-ups!), and even though the Mets have a 1:10 game in Atlanta the next day (which might be the same day by the time the Sunday game ends), they picked this game I highlighted the relevant parts. The Mets will take a bus (maybe even with a police escort) directly from the stadium to the airport. They won't stand in the TSA security lines, they'll board their chartered jet to take them directly to Atlanta; they'll deplane and not have to wait for their bags, they'll be driven straight to their five-star hotel rooms where they'll get plenty of rest before going to the park on Monday. There are plenty of things that suck about Sunday night baseball games from the fan's perspective. Player inconvenience is not one of them. Ok, let's do the math (with a lot of assumptions, and guessing)... Let's say the game lasts 3 hours - that's 11:10. An hour in the clubhouse for showers, interviews, etc (probably longer, but we'll say an hour), that's 12:10. Driving to the airport, boarding the plane, getting clearance to take off, another hour? (1:10)... An hour flight.. 2:10... So, with luck, they'll be in their rooms around 3, and that's if all goes well. Yep, not inconvenient at all...

G-Fafif wrote: dgwphotography wrote: This is just wrong on so many levels... To be fair, he was trying to go incognito. Bud should have brought back his mustache from '77

A douche in any other uniform is still a douche... This is just wrong on so many levels... This is just wrong on so many levels part 2... *&$! you Richie. Just *&$! you...