Zvon

Werths playing like the player the Nats paid for.

Ashie62 wrote: If the Mets are going to dump the season to 90 losses they might want to reconsider Terry Collins as their likely 2014 manager... I dunno Ash. So much wind has been knocked out of our sails this past month. It must be awfully hard to keep this team as a unit in a positive mindset. I would not hang this seasons close on TC. Or would not hang TC because of this seasons ending.

Young making things happen. >On first >pickoff throw >error >error >on third and.....we're gonna strand him? Come on MURPH!

Lefty Specialist wrote: Here's a dead ringer. He's a security guy at Brooklyn Cyclones games. I did a triple take when I saw him, and had to snap a picture. ha,wow.

Also,...I'm always getting on Dudas case about his fielding, so I should also mention when he does well. That ground out to him earlier tonight that included the toss to Gee was played textbook perfect, and I will note it.

A little thing like d' saying thank you to the ump (after inquiring about a strike) goes a long way in my impression of him as a person. I like and respect him more for something like that.

If Tyrna was playing all season we'd have scored a hundred runs a week!

Frayed Knot wrote: OK, so who thought this constant music thing was a good idea? They are talking about it. Are they really going to do that? That's fucked up.

This player appeared in a Topps baseball set in two different seasons: once as a Met and once as a Cub. But he only played in actual MLB games for one of the two teams. The Mets and the Cubs are the only organizations this player ever belonged to. "What the guy above me in the Cards uniform just said. Except I've got the repeating consecutive letters in my last name only". bump Damn I know his face. The next clue is in this anagram: A Citi Field Hookworm Intro Hi (Randy) Bobb. A Citi Field Hookworm Intro is an anagram for On A Rookie Card With Tim Foli That's a clown anagram bro! lol. I missed this answer. GJ on getting the Bobb G.

Jesus (Ass-ooose) Alou

Frayed Knot wrote: Much better start tonight -- our staff cut the number of 1st inning HRs served up in half. It's still been like watching a home run derby. edit: oh yea, LaRoche goes LaYard.

Werth homers in the first. Gee's pitch was moving but it ended up on Jasons sweet spot.

Edgy MD wrote: From 1978 to 1983, most of the Torre and Bamberger eras. It surprises me how few remember they were ever there. I almost got drummed off the MOFo in my first year there referencing WMCA and getting tagged as a confused Yankee fan. Tuff years. How on earth did you stay a Met fan? I was lucky that I came aboard on the wave that was 1969 that reverberated thru 73 and I was in for life. It must have been nice though, to go through those years leading up to the mid 80's dominance.

Edgy MD wrote: To me, WMCA-570 was the station I first tuned them in on and the frequency whose association with the team I therefore most cherish. What year was that?

G-Fafif wrote: Per Zvon's question, Mets over-the-air TV moved to Channel 11 in 1999. Mets made the playoffs that season and the next. I still instinctively think they're on Channel 9, but in the long run, it only impeded my enjoyment nostalgically. (And at least once a year, I tune to 1050 thinking the game will be on there.) 1999. I thought it was more recent than that. Those were a few good Met years they had coming in. Its funny, the things that can irk a fan.

I absolutely love making these baseball cards. I may have found my calling.

Quiz Difficulty Rating: Eezie Peezy. Only the Man From Topps has photos of this ex-Met in a Phillie uniform. Pat Zachary. Those Padres are stumpers. I wish all we had to know was the guys face. Yes! I know his face. It belongs to him! WINNER!

batmagadanleadoff wrote: It's the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$. It always is. Agreed. And they can do all the research they want. There are some aspects of the game that cant be quantified. I don't know if that's the right word.

The outside pics look like the house of the widow lady on The Bridge. That last pic, of the batting cage.....to think of a home with that right there on the grounds makes me salivate more than any image can portray.

Edgy MD wrote: I don't even need the extra game to be free. Single admission, with a premium tacked on for the second game, would be fine. But I imagine they lose plenty o' revenues. There's only so much premium tack on someone will pay. Would you go double for parking?Would you eat twice as much food?Would you drink twice as much beer?If you did, would you drink a whole lot of it in game one and become a nuisance?Would you buy twice as many hats and thundersticks for your kids? I loved scheduled doubleheaders. I loved planning a whole damn day around sitting in one place. I loved publicly (and, I imagine, disgustingly for everybody else) making out for six hours at one during a Sunday in 1985. I loved the events in between them. I hate that so many events never seem to work out without them, like Sebastian Bach singing "We Are the Champions" to 15% capacity on Autism Awareness Day, or 6,300 people in their seats during the pre-game ceremony inducting Jerry Koosman into the Mets Hall of Fame --- and often the broadcasts don't even include these things, and we only get a blip during the seventh inning stretch. But as attendance leaguewide boomed during the last thirty years, I'm sure plenty of research was done, and they saw just how much money their largesse was costing them. I have great memories of going to Met ballgames, but double header memories? FORGETTABOUTIT! I'd end up having more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Hey, that's okay baseball, you do what you do as the kids of today grow up and become soccer fans. The game is so great it will always have fans. Right? Hope so, cause you're banking on it.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: To me this is another signal of the steady deterioration of the franchise under the Wilpons that has also manifested itself in stuff like carelessly neglecting to build CitiField with any regard for personality; becoming the least desirable team in baseball for a minor-league city to align with; the team whose illegally earned money was wasted on making a show of competitiveness rather than invested in the effort competitiveness actually required etc etc etc down the line. I hate them. You are far from alone on that.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: You wanna extend the format of this quiz to players who were never Mets? I doubt I'd do any better. OK, just this once, a Who Am I? featuring a player who never belonged to the Mets. You won't find this extremely well known pitcher on Dodger cardboard. You'd be lucky to even find a photograph of the guy in Dodger Blue. Unless you're The Man From Topps. Father of the '64 fathers day perfecto, Jim Bunning, US Senator.

This sucks. I hate change. I'm still reeling over the TV move. What year was that, when we went from WOR to WPIX? To me, this was blasphemy. Thats was the Skanks channel my whole life!

I thought each individual picture from the first post was from houses of different ex-Mets. Thats all one house?! Yikes!

batmagadanleadoff wrote: "No, man. Seriously. Scotty was supposed to beam Kirk and Spock onto Quanzar 29 but messed up from all of those blueberry pies he was heaving. Scotty was drunkwalking like he was smoking the schwang and shit but anyway, instead Spock and Kirk end up in Shea Stadium right in the middle of the 9th inning and ol Casey, he doesn't notice anything wrong and so sends Kirk to pinch hit against Sandy Fuckin' Koufax. Besides, Kirk's ta-ta's are a lot firmer than Billy Cowan's. But Spock has like all the angles and trajectories calclulated in his Vulcan brain right down to the fraction of a fraction. Of a fraction. Of an inch. And figures that he should be pinch-hitting instead of Kirk....." LoL! I'm not caught up on Breaking Bad so this is a rare instance where I hope that's a spoiler.