seawolf17

Outstanding.

PLUS Reggie totally tried to kill the queen. Not cool, Reg.

Baseball Nation throws Tim Lincecum into that Bailey/Hughes mix as a third wheel: http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/7/3/4489378/homer-bailey-tim-lincecum-phil-hughes Homer Bailey, Tim Lincecum, and Phil Hughes. You were supposed to pick one and argue on his behalf before the 2007 season. There weren't the only three right-handed pitching prospects in baseball, but there was mostly certainly a three-righty tier at the top. Hughes was the #4 prospect in baseball, Bailey #5, and Lincecum #11. When the minor-league season opened, Baseball America led with the Triple-A debuts of all three. Whichever one you picked told a little bit about you. A pitching-prospect Rorschach test, then.

Coda to my thought: it's because of my kids. I want to raise them as Mets fans, and I want them to have warm fuzzies about guys the way I have warm fuzzies about Doc and Darryl. Obviously you don't know what's going to happen down the road (see: Doc and Darryl), but I want them to have that base to draw on.

The guy who first came to mind when I went to check was Jordany Valdespin. What the hell is wrong with me?

Signing Wright was a huge deal for me. I know we're all frustrated with this team, but I'm with JCL. I'm loath to use the phrase "the Mets' Jeter," but he is. Or will be, anyway. I want the rest of the league to hate him the way we hate Chipper and Derek. He's OUR guy.

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Every time I see Strop's name, I want it to be a palindrome. It's not.

Easy, but fun. I miss the Expos. http://mentalfloss.com/node/51485/take

I have the Bob & Ralph one from a few years ago. Gotta get this one up next to that one.

SHUT UP I WANT ONE

Edgy MD wrote: seawolf17 wrote: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. Those who can't, post on the Internet. Obviously.

Swan Swan H wrote: Piazza would have run away with this in his day. Obviously.

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.

Well, the Diamondbacks are in town. We're 54-52 all time against the young upstart expansion franchise from the desert, plus, of course, this: Let's go around the field... 1B: Paul Goldschmidt -- 7th in the NL in WAR (3rd among non-pitchers behind Carlos Gomez and David Wright), 10th in OBP, 5th in slugging, 4th in homers, 1st in RBI -- basically, top ten in the NL in just about everything. 2B: Aaron Hill -- just back from the DL and hitting well; Cliff Pennington held down the fort most of the year so far. SS: Didi Gregorius -- Acquired from the Reds in the Choo/Stubbs/Bauer blockbuster this winter. Solid, if unexciting. The only Didi in major league history. (His real name is Mariekson.) 3B: Martin Prado -- Seriously? They traded Justin Upton for him? Idiots. He mostly sucks. LF: Jason Kubel -- Lots of talk about him being traded (to the Mets!) this winter, which never happened, and thank goodness, because he's been mostly terrible. Hit 30 HR in 2012, but has only four this season and is OPSing .710. CF: Gerardo Parra -- Has three hits, all singles, in his last 24 AB. (Will likely hit six home runs in the series.) RF: Cody Ross -- Another "almost-Met" in the media, Ross is hitting .389 against left-handed pitching and .187 against right-handed pitching this season. C: Miguel Montero -- Hitting .226/.310/.322 in 2013. Led the league in CS% two years ago, but has only thrown out 5 of 19 this year. The bench includes such legendary hitters as Eric Chavez, Willie Bloomquist, backup catcher Wil Nieves, and someone named AJ Pollock. Fascinating stat from Adam Rubin before we look at the matchups: Arizona starters are winless in 22 straight games. That is the longest streak in the majors since San Diego Padres starters went winless in 25 straight games in April/May 2009, according to STATS. The streak is the second longest in Diamondbacks history -- trailing only a 24-game winless streak by their starting pitchers in 1998. That's awful. Pitching matchups: Monday: RHP Shaun Marcum (1-9, 5.08) vs. LHP Wade Miley (4-7, 4.55), 7:10 p.m. ET We faced Miley twice last year; we whacked him around in the fourth inning at Citi Field for a loss in May, and then had a much more respectable outing in July in Arizona, except he faced some kid fresh out of Buffalo who struck out eleven in five and a third scoreless innings. Wonder what happened to that guy. Tuesday: RHP Jeremy Hefner (2-6, 3.72) vs. LHP Patrick Corbin (9-0, 2.22), 7:10 p.m. ET Still don't know if I trust Hefner, but he has a 2.36 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 7.5 strikeouts per nine innings over his last seven starts. Corbin, although undefeated, last earned a win June 2. In his string of five straight no-decisions, Corbin has a 2.55 ERA and .197 opponent batting average. Slugfest! Wednesday: RHP Matt Harvey (7-1, 2.00) vs. RHP Randall Delgado (0-2, 4.05), 7:10 p.m. ET Beat us as a Brave in April 2012 in a game where they lit up Johan Santana. Delgado twice has faced the Mets� Triple-A affiliate this season. He surrendered a homer to Andrew Brown while getting charged with five runs in 3 1/3 innings on May 1. Delgado rebounded to limit Las Vegas to one run, albeit on nine hits and two walks, in 5 1/3 innings in a no-decision on May 28. Thursday: RHP Dillon Gee (6-7, 4.60) vs. RHP Ian Kennedy (3-4, 5.36), 1:10 p.m. ET It's Fireworks Afternoon! Kennedy went 21-4 in 2011, but has been mostly pedestrian since then. Leads the NL with 9 hit batsmen. 4-0, 3.70 in four career starts against the Mets, however. Bullpen includes closer JJ Putz (LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL) and setup guy Heath Bell (LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL). Sidewinder Brad Zeigler (0.94 WHIP, 1.88 ERA) has been excellent. Overall, their bullpen has a 3.15 ERA, good for 5th in the NL. Metly Snakes: Putz and Bell Snakely Mets: Brandon Lyon The Diamondbacks have a veritable 1980s All Star Game of talent on the coaching staff: Kirk Gibson, Manager Don Baylor, Batting Coach Turner Ward, Assistant Hitting Coach Charles Nagy, Pitching Coach Steve Sax, First Base Coach Matt Williams, Third Base Coach Alan Trammell, Bench Coach Well, an All Star Game of talent plus Turner Ward, anyway. LGM!

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That Buckner is odd, because no, that's not an error anywhere that I can find, but he's the only MLBer born 12/14/49. Can't imagine why that'd be Photoshopped, though. Tiger is Dave Lemanczyk. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lemanda01.shtml

Who's our emergency pitcher? Brown?

DON MATTINGLY SUCKS

Lefty Specialist wrote: What's more impressive is that the MARLINS have played .500 ball. Yeah, but nine of those fourteen wins are against us.

Edgy MD wrote: Interestingly, on June 20th, I officially forgot Rick Ankiel was ever a Met. No no no. It seemed like he was a Met because he walked all those guys in the NLCS, but he never actually played for us.

I'm a huge fan of the Archives set. Won a box on Beckett (including a Ronnie autograph!), and have bought a few packs. Working on finishing off the set and the two "1983" styled insert sets, so if you wind up with any of those that you have no use for, Z, I'm happy to work a trade.

I like to think of a world where Kevin McReynolds holds all the important Mets records.

�Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, �It�s hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of a Joe Torre with tits.� This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I�m not sure any exist. he dissolves camera lenses.� from Ball Four