seawolf17

Kingman the K king?

I'm a huge fan of sidewinders. I maintain that if my little league coaches had let me pitch that way back in the day, I'd be a million-dollar ROOGY right now.

Is the layup... Darren O'Day?

Bonus q: Charlie O'Brien, Tom O'Malley. Also Jesse O'Rosco and Junior O'Rtiz.

Stunned.

Un. Fucking. Believable.

Because somebody's got to give up that dramatic game-winning hit, and he just wasn't doing the job.

For the benefit of the rest of us who didn't see it.

Thankfully, packs have ten or so cards, so you've got some wiggle room there.

I used to do something like this when we used to do a live in-person draft. I'd buy a pack of cards on the way to draft day (football or baseball, depending on the draft) and force myself to draft at least one of the guys in the pack.

Way to abandon the team while I'm in a meeting. "Oh, don't mind me. Just have to claim this roto team."

I'm taking over a team with Jason Bay on it!??! Fuckin' hell.

Speaking of Valdespin -- the game-tying home run in Washington. Awesome moment. Reached across five rows of seats to high-five the other Mets fan in my section. (The only Met game I went to this year, and it wasn't even in New York.)

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Did nobody really say Seaver yet? You're all fired.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I specifically pick a non-ugly KMac card and you give me that. I'm still kinda bitter that he never signed a Topps contract until he got here. I want to have Topps go back and make retro cards from 1983-1987 in Padres uniforms for me. (Someone get me a Photoshop expert.) I want to say it may have been done for their Fan Favorites/Archives/Retired lines. IIRC there is a Met card of him somewhere in there, so there must be a Padre one of him as well. No Topps Padres McReynolds cards exist. None were ever produced, not even in Mac's retirement. As the foremost expert on Kevin McReynolds cards in the world, that is correct.

I remember hockey! They used to play it when I was a kid.

Is it wrong that I get possessive of Gary? I don't want anyone else to hear him because I want him doing Mets games forever. I don't want, say, some Cleveland radio station to say "this guy's amazing; give him whatever he wants to come here."

I like to think of potential matchups in terms of which prominent player's legacy the two teams most fully share. Baltimore-Cincy: That would be the All-Frank Robinson Series. Atlanta-Texas: The All-Jeff Burroughs Series? ATL-BAL: Davey Johnson ATL-DET: Darrell Evans ATL-OAK: Tim Hudson ATL-TEX: Jeff Burroughs (or Kevin Millwood) ATL-MFY: Who Gives A Crap CIN-BAL: Frank Robinson CIN-DET: Sam Crawford (historical); Dmitri Young (modern) CIN-OAK: Scott Hatteberg (although Joe Morgan spent 1984 in Oakland) CIN-TEX: Buddy Bell CIN-MFY: Ken Griffey Sr (because I refuse to give it to Paul O'Neill) STL-BAL: Chuck Diering or Jim Dwyer STL-DET: Placido Polanco STL-OAK: Mark McGwire STL-TEX: Luis Alicea? Todd Zeile? Darrell Porter? (the least impressive group) STL-MFY: Enos Slaughter or Lindy McDaniel (long histories there) SF-BAL: Stu Miller SF-DET: incredibly, Darrell Evans again SF-OAK: Vida Blue (or Barry Zito, if you prefer) SF-TEX: Will Clark or Gaylord Perry SF-MFY: Dave Righetti, when you include his coaching career out there WAS-BAL: Davey Johnson again WAS-DET: Pudge Rodriguez WAS-OAK: Matt Stairs? WAS-TEX: Pudge Rodriguez again (although there's obviously Washington --> Texas old time history there) WAS-MFY: Nick Johnson Only included current iteration of the Nats, although it's not all that impressive. edit: Changed WAS-BAL to Davey.

G-Fafif wrote: Not the MFYs versus Not the MFYs. This, pretty much. I went Cincinnati/Texas, because I have good friends who are fans of each.

Being a very small piece of the 50th Anniversary Conference at Hofstra and getting to present on baseball cards and the Mets.

They changed the divisional rule this year, yes.

When you/he are ready to go, hit me up on twitter and we'll make it happen as quickly as we can.

Created my account. Let me know what I should do.

Ah. This is some sort of open online league that we all jumped in together on? I'll do whatever we need, if marathon and I need to do it together, or if he can just change the e-mail address on the second account to mine or whatever. What's the link to the league?