Lefty Specialist

Get these yabbos out of the radio booth, please. Let the pros do their work.

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Ha. Another couple of firsts.

12. Zimmo Gah. Too slow.

Zimmo gets the fiirst HBP of the year!

Wearing my Skyline socks today. LGM!

Wow. That really sucks. Not just a good player, but a good person. He did a lot for the 9/11 police and fire widows, among many many other things. Agreed on the orange stripe- it would be so perfect.

Anything with a triumphant Piazza in the middle is a winner.

Name the first Met to: 1. Record a base hit. Nimmo 2. 1st single Nimmo 3. Double Cabrera 4. Triple Rosario 5. Home Run Cespedes 6. Run batted In Bruce 7. Multiple runs batted in on a single plate appearance Cespedes 8. Steal a base Reyes 9. Draw a walk Frazier 10. Reach safely on an error Rosario 11. Be hit by a pitch Gonzalez 12. Score a run Nimmo 13. Enter the game as a pinch hitter Flores 14. Record a sacrifice hit, including a Sac Fly Bruce 15. Get picked off or caught stealing Rosario 16. Drive in multiple runs in a single plate appearance that takes the team from behind in the score to ahead. Cabrera 17. 1st "walk-off" RBI Plawecki * Name the first Met pitcher to: 18. Record a strike out Syndergaard 19. Reach double figures in strikeouts in a single appearance DeGrom 20. Issue a walk Syndergaard 21. Hit an opposing batter with a pitch Syndergaard 22. Get a win Blevins 23. Get a save Familia 24. Appear as a relief pitcher Swarzak 25. First pitcher to record a hit as a batter DeGrom 26. Throw a complete game Syndergaard 27. Be credited with a "hold" Swarzak * Name the first guy: 28. Not on the opening-day roster called up to the team Smith 29. Placed on the disabled list after 1:05 p.m. opening day Gonzalez 30. Pictured on the back cover of the Daily News and the Post on the same day, beginning with Friday's edition Syndergaard Tiebreaker: Which Met will be the last man to bat on opening day? Cespedes

This team is skating on thin ice, just like last years' was. I think injuries, a weak bullpen, and a spotty offense are going to bite them again, and the Phils and Braves will be better than you think. 75-87, fourth place. Maybe after this they'll do the rebuild right.

SteveJRogers wrote: 2017 is a better version of the college brochure that the 2010 one is. Wow, that's it! I was wondering what it looked like and you nailed it.

Well, I guess in '63 there weren't a lot of 1962 highlights to put on the cover, and with a team that bad you couldn't plan on putting any particular players on it either. Ergo, giant Mr. Met. The 2017 model, it takes you five seconds to even realize it IS a yearbook, down there in the lower right-hand corner. The pictures aren't very stirring, either. And the kid in the Wright shirt is just kind of sad considering David didn't play in '16 and wouldn't play in '17 either. So I went with the simple, painfully white Mr. Met.

Two years that portended the beginning of franchise collapses. 2002 wins by a mile, though.

1970 was my first yearbook. No contest.

Spends a couple of weeks on the ML roster when Plawnaud gets hurt or something. Leaves little impression.

I'll be in the upper deck somewhere hoping it's not too cold, as I prefer ballpark beer to ballpark hot chocolate.

It cannot ever be colder than the 2003 Opening day, where we were two rows from the very tippy-top of the upper deck at Shea, the wind was 30 MPH and the temperature was near freezing. I think we were sitting between the Donner Party and the Shackleford Expedition that day.

Boy, Robles was promising once but made a U-turn somewhere along the way.

My worry about Lugo is that just when the Mets need him, his elbow will snap.

Not terrible, considering it's March 29th.

The '#1 since '84' thing always bothered me. It had no real meaning. They won a lot of games between '84 and '88 but only had one WS to show for it. A pointless promo that I found irritating; I even have a giveaway sportsbag with that dumb logo on it somewhere. So I'll take Buddy trapped in his Tholian Web.

Lugo looking more like the #5 starter than Wheeler right now.

Every time you think, 'that's it, Montero is toast, we'll never see him again', something happens. So this means he'll at least technically be a Met until mid-2019.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: I still think they'll give him a month or so of regular season baseball just to make sure. This. Sandy doesn't like admitting to mistakes. And A-Gon has enough of a track record that maybe you give him a longer leash. But if it's May and he's hitting .150 with no power, they'll pull the ripcord. Then you probably have a Flores/Smith platoon at first. I don't see Bruce playing there except in an emergency.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Our voters eliminated YA GOTTA BE LEAVING in the first round. Yes, but obviously the Snooze staff thought it was a winner, or runner-up, anyway. Maja may be unaware. She strikes me as more of a Times reader.