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Also, follow @brentandbecca on Twitter. Brent Williams is a PROLIFIC case opener who does an enormous amount of eBaying, and is an incredibly nice guy. He's posting pictures of his breaks all day long.

dgwphotography wrote: You got it. Time to start building another set (not that I finished building last years' set). Happy to help fill holes if you need. Got plenty here. Zvon, you too.

That is a cool story. Vic Black could walk into my office and say, "Hi, I'm Vic Black," and I'd be like "eh?"

Taylor was with Steve when they were on campus a while back. She was really very nice, although I think she expected someone (anyone?) to know who she was, and nobody seemed to.

Today -- Target had them out yesterday. Stopped in and grabbed one more back BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP MYSELF: Four packs, ZERO Travis Jankowskis. You're killing me, Topps. (And if any of you DO go out and buy anything -- DGW? Z? -- save me your #184 Travis Jankowski cards.)

The other thing is that I'm legitimately excited about the players on the cards this year, too. The last few years it's been like "Oh, great. Vic Black and Matt denDekker." But starting with the Update series last year, it's suddenly turned the corner.

Bothered me that they gave him #1. That's Mookie's.

BOOM Mets well-represented ins this year's Topps Series 1. Leaving off all the various autographed and game-used inserts: 31 Travis d'Arnaud - New York Mets 43 Noah Syndergaard - New York Mets FS 67 Matt Harvey - New York Mets 86 Wilmer Flores - New York Mets 136 Michael Cuddyer - New York Mets 145 Jon Niese - New York Mets 190 Jeurys Familia - New York Mets 232 Michael Conforto - New York Mets RC 236 Juan Lagares - New York Mets 273 New York Mets - New York Mets 310 David Wright - New York Mets 312 Curtis Granderson - New York Mets 323 Jacob deGrom - New York Mets 326 Kevin Plawecki - New York Mets FS 2016 Topps Series 1 Baseball Berger's Best BB-20 Nolan Ryan - New York Mets BB-21 Tom Seaver - New York Mets BB-34 Dwight Gooden - New York Mets 2016 Topps Series 1 Baseball First Pitch FP-1 Abby Wambach - New York Mets FP-2 Gabrielle Giffords - New York Mets FP-8 Kristaps Porzingis - New York Mets FP-13 Victor Espinoza - New York Mets 2016 Topps Series 1 Baseball MLB Debut MLBD-14 Dwight Gooden - New York Mets MLBD-15 Matt Harvey - New York Mets MLBD-33 Nolan Ryan - New York Mets The Greatest Streaks Set Checklist GS-07 Tom Seaver - New York Mets Topps Laser Set Checklist TL-11 Matt Harvey - New York Mets 2016 Topps Series 1 Baseball Walk-Off Wins WOW-7 Wilmer Flores - New York Mets

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I don't know who has the penthouse offices. Every time I stop by, Maja never lets me past the front desk. We pay her well to do her job.

Man, I'm so glad Facebook wasn't a thing back then.

Lefty Specialist wrote: (Goes to PriceLine.com) (Snags sweet deal on 7-night stay at Kran Pool Forum Internationella Huvudkontoret using my secret CPF discount code.) Don't waste your money. Maja's married. I tried.

Frayed Knot wrote: Greg Bird -- Yanx 1B prospect who filled in admirably when Teixeira was shelved for long portions last season [11 HRs in 157 ABs] -- will miss all of 2016 due to surgery to repair a torn shoulder labrum. He was probably destined to at least start the year in AAA while waiting for the inevitable Teixeira or ARod injury, but this certainly steals from the Yanx' depth even if not with their opening day lineup. lolyankees

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Poor Akeel Morris, guaranteed to be last on everyone's list if we ranked the whole team.

Blows out his elbow in spring training, misses the year.

Matt Harvey guested on Bravo's Look Who's Talking: Live with Andy Cohen, alongside Connie Chung (Thursday, January 28, 2016). There was one baseball question (pertaining to staying in for the ninth inning of Game Five; Harvey claimed he had no idea what inning it was until he went back out to the mound) and the rest involved whether Harvey's been in a three-way (he has), whether he's had shall we say relations on a ballfield (he has, in college), whether he's in the mile high club (he's not) and which Met brings the most sizable Louisville Slugger to bear, if you will (he invoked the Fifth Amendment). Kiner's Korner it was not. Not for nothing, but Harvey is NOT the star of that show. Connie Chung is hysterical.

Fuckin' FORESTS. Eff you, Trebek.

Pretty sure you made him up. And I remember the Ashley Ashley discussion and I STILL think you made him up.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'd like it more if that World Championship came at some other team's expense. Yep.

I love these too. I think I'm going to need one of those hats.

The minor headlines play a factor in this for me. I'm all in on YES-PEDES.

None. No problems. 120 wins, 11-0 postseason.

Nymr83 wrote: seawolf17 wrote: There's BIG WIN OVER ALBANY sort of exhilaration. And then there's BIG WIN OVER ALBANY followed by AND CESPEDES?!? exhilaration. Poured myself a Hellgate, by Blind Bat, a semi-local microbrew. It's not great, but it's in a growler that I've gotta get through soon, so what the heck. Albany will beat you AGAIN in the conference tournament finals. when it counts. /glares

You do know that we're going to wake up tomorrow morning and find out that this isn't real and that we've instead signed Carlos Gomez, right?

There's BIG WIN OVER ALBANY sort of exhilaration. And then there's BIG WIN OVER ALBANY followed by AND CESPEDES?!? exhilaration. Poured myself a Hellgate, by Blind Bat, a semi-local microbrew. It's not great, but it's in a growler that I've gotta get through soon, so what the heck.