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I think she was up earlier, but also spotted high-fiving home runners was Gretchen Aucoin [FIMG=400]http://www.ceetar.com/optimisticmetsfan/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220920_232746-scaled.jpg[/FIMG]

The Hot Corner wrote: Buck's experience, awareness (of situations/rules), and preparedness has played a vital role in guiding this team through this season. I think he ha done an excellent job of managing the team. I don't believe the Mets would be in this position if the managerial change had not been made at the end of last season. Buck's been better than expected, but I think the key here is the _change_ more than who it was. Let's just hope he actually uses Edwin Díaz in an elimination game.

7:40 start again. I like it.

Will Smith was on the '16 Giants, is on the Astros. There are probably a few other reliever types. it's amazing how fast rosters can turn over.

Lots of potential for two-time Met opponents this year to add to the list though. Hopefully not Toronto though.

It's Manuel. doubt in my mind. I've never watched someone so inept and gleeful about being so inept.

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=Gwreck post_id=108051 time=1663694007 user_id=56] I remember Ramon may have started the last game at Shea (and several other games that week). Luis Castillo was hurt? Bad? Both?

Wonder if that'll still be the case in 2029 or if Citi Field will become like Sands Field.

=Fman99 post_id=108018 time=1663678838 user_id=86] I think Jim Edmonds was on both of those STL teams, in 2000 and 2006.

unlike the Mets, the Brewers are on board with the more much reasonable 6:40 local start. Early weeknight starts are terribly inconvenient for attendees. I guess people watching at home like them more? no it's not. It's the diff between like a 10-10:30 end time and a 9:30-10 end time, which can easily be the difference between getting home at a semi-reasonable hour and not. On the other end it's a a good 100 minutes after the end of the "typical" work day. If you need more time than that to get to the park, you're likely outside the target area. And it's not like the rush hour gets better for 7:10.

Frayed Knot wrote: Yeah, it's 7:40. Just a typo on my part whilst I was seeking to INform peeps not to assume an 8:10 start and wound up MISinforming them instead. Not the first time, won't be the last. because unlike the Mets, the Brewers are on board with the more much reasonable 6:40 local start. [FIMG=400]http://www.ceetar.com/optimisticmetsfan/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/download-2022-09-18T203103.773.png[/FIMG]

correcting an underpayment (admidst a labor movement where EVERYONE is realizing they're underpaid and also inflation) is not quite "not hesitating to spend to improve" He brought employees up to scale. great. Double that and take the very best people available and get them here. You went to flex financial might to your advantage, that's how you do it. [bLOCKQUOTE]Most surprising of all, they have been . . . a normal baseball team. There have been no ridiculous stories sucking the oxygen out of the room for weeks at a time. [/bLOCKQUOTE] this is LOLMets nonsense. Look in a mirror dude. 95% of those articles were media-driven. And universally, across sports, winnings solves like 95% of those issues. But You'd have to start with this season even, not this year or Spring Training, to avoid "ridiculous stories'. And even that is ignoring the small but budding chance the Mets have to leave a half dozen guys home to play World Series games in Toronto. That's a rehash of a Spring Training story, one in which NYC's ___ mayor had to drop the vaccine mandate so the Mets could fully field their team. (oh, btw, did a certain owner donate to that guy's campaign? hmm... Or are we chalking this up to 'financial might' even though it's evil?) This is mere weeks/months after a on-going "no one wants to work for the Mets!" storyline in the offseason, and IT IGNORES WHO BILLY EPPLER is, ignores that one of the Mets former managers and current broadcaster LEAKED PRIVATE AND PERSONAL MEDICAL information about Matt Harvey. To say nothing of the shenanigans that went on last year. [bLOCKQUOTE]Since Wilpon took control of the team in 1987, the club has tweeted more photos of dildos (1) than it has won titles (0).[/bLOCKQUOTE] normalize sex work and sex toys please. STFU with this. This is just an unprofessional dig. Are you writing a journalistic post or making fun of the Mets? make up your mind. The second is fine if you want, but you can't be upset if no one takes you seriously then. [bLOCKQUOTE]In '13 the team asked older-women dating site Cougar Life for help promoting third baseman David Wright's All-Star Game campaign before rescinding the request. [/bLOCKQUOTE] again, normally sex work (this isn't even sex work, it's just dating) please. I thought the story here was that they reached out and Wright declined. There was some other tie in that I can't remember now. Regardless, this is not embarrassing. Weird how he leaves out the media pressuring Mike Piazza into having a press conference to state he's not gay..hmmm... [bLOCKQUOTE]Four months later players fled the Fenway Park visitors dugout midgame to escape a rat.[/bLOCKQUOTE] This is a uniquely Mets catastrophe? This was the anecdote you picked? being mildly scared of a rat in Boston? Then this guy does finally contradict all his previous points by pointing out some of Cohen's issues, though leaving out some details for sure. But ahah, now, finally we get to the actually point of the article! It's a Buck praise piece! Surprise! A lot of the issues Buck "fixed" were related to Rojas, and also to losing, but I've come around on him. I appreciate some of the anecdotes here. Taking down all the stupid inspirational quotes. That's neat, letting Alonso have a pool table. I definitely appreciate some more info on the Trajekt machine. Though I think he under-states how many other teams have one. But the media previously didn't even bother looking up which company made the machine, just aggregated the press release, so I appreciate learning about how it's being used. More tech is good, and more employees too (Though they were trending that way already on both accounts). It's also much easier to build up a company AFTER a pandemic you didn't manage it through. I'm not convinced by any of this that they're hiring the _right/best_ employees, but I guess there were enough nuggets in this article to make it worth reading.

Rick Reed

Oliver Perez

Trachsel

Louisiana, named for '89-'90 Met Lou Thornton. His teammate David West always used to say 'bout him "Lou Is Iana" which was 80s slang for "on deck".

if he was the grown-up in the room, he was the petulant child in the room the second time throwing a tantrum that he couldn't have his favorite sexual harasser (even though he did!) I hope it's not his health either, I hope it's that Cohen's finally going to look for new (and that means not Point72) blood and thoughts and ideas, and that now that they have a GM that's gone half a year or so without embarrassing themselves, they can maybe give Eppler a little more free reign.

=kcmets post_id=107407 time=1663254711 user_id=53] Braves idle, would it be too much to ask to pick up a half game tonight just for shits and giggles? FOX game, adjust your DVR's if you auto-record SNY or PIX11.

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=Fman99 post_id=107269 time=1663168239 user_id=86] Funny you should mention that. We were there last night and witnessed the HR. Better yet, we had great seats behind the plate and you can see us in the replay of the dinger that was aired on SNY.

That mystery guy is either a coach or a minor leaguer. First of all, the earliest that picture could have been taken was 1978, the first year the Mets wore that uni. And the only players who wore numbers beginning with a '"6" in that uni, Mario Ramirez and Hubie Brooks, are definitely not that guy. (Orosco wore #61 for one game only in 1979, but that was a road game, and thus, a road uni. And that ain't Orosco anyways). Unless there's some other player that wore a # in the 60s at that time that the Mets uni database hasn't picked up yet. yeah, figured the uniform would help. I think Mays was only there until '79, so that's two years. It certainly doesn't look like a coach right? especially in the 70s. I tried to do a reverse image search on the headshot and got nothing. I don't see any names on Tidewater or Jackson that look like an Al or something. hmm.

76,77,78,79 seems to be the overlap. There's no one listed at 60 besides Jessie, and none of the coaches seem to match that signature.

This offense can be real frustrating sometimes.

=whippoorwill post_id=107149 time=1663108191 user_id=79] You could ask him who it is…