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I thought Marcum was showing some good stuff, and that pitch to Schierholtz was not a bad one. Like Ronnie said, a little up, but on the corner.Nate just went out and got it. Mets down 0-1

Ashie62 wrote: Same here in AC It blew thru rather quick. That was a real hard rain. Looks fine at Citi atm. Marcum to take the mound. I'm pulling for this guy big time after his magnificent performance in the last half of the 20 inning affair. Lets go Marcum! Lets go Mets!

My band in the late 70's was named Split Beaver. We were big in Canada.

Raining wicked hard here in south Jersey

COMMENTARY "Fans want to see a winning team," said die-hard Mets fan Matt Kaufman. "Or at least a team they think can win." I'd settle for a team that I think can win.

I came across this Mr Met coloring book. I've seen pages of this online. I was never sure if it was for real or a joke by someone. Because if this is real it might be the worst coloring book ever. This is the entire thing: .... This is one horrendous wacky coloring book. This complete book is on Flickr and I believe it is an actual thing from the past (I didn't doctor any of these images). How did this ever see the light of day? I checked out the set on Flickr and the Flickr set is incomplete. I know because I own a copy of that coloring book. It exists. The coloring book is refreshingly innocent and wonderful in that it also depicts an ownership group that can laugh at the Mets' struggles on the field. My favorite page (not included in Flickr) is an illustration of Mr. Met upside down standing on his big baseball head and reading the standings. The caption reads "First place, Mets style". Some pages are cute but some are out there~~~. Mr Met throwin' bottles at fans in the stands strikes me as insane. Its mostly the captions that are just wack. I'm gonna look for that one with the standings and see if there are more. I'm not trying to debate this. Im just sayin thats one crazy coloring book.

dinosaur jesus wrote: Zvon wrote: That book is full of lies. See, this, the true story of the real Mr Met (Willard Metz) is not common knowledge. This is his secret history. You can consider DJ and I whistleblowers. *books a flight to Hong Kong see crazy coloring book in my last post^ "Full of lies" is a bit strong. Reilly is telling the truth, just not the whole truth. It's actually a Tony Clifton kind of thing, with Reilly as Bob Zmuda. At the beginning, Reilly would step in occasionally when Mr. Met was overbooked or under the weather. Both of those things came to happen more and more often, and after a while Reilly was doing at least half of Mr. Met's gigs. He was good at it, too; even people in the know could never be sure which one it was. Thats just like what Barris did with the Batmobile!

That book is full of lies. See, this, the true story of the real Mr Met (Willard Metz) is not common knowledge. This is his secret history. You can consider DJ and I whistleblowers. *books a flight to Hong Kong see crazy coloring book in my last post^

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Matt has nowhere to go until after the 2018 season. The state of the 2013 Mets won't influence his decision. I know. We are all excited about Harvey and getting a little ahead of ourselves. I think we are more worried about how things add up over that time.

Wright 2 Byrd 1.3 Buck 1 Harvey 4.7 Edgin 1

Wow. How the game has changed. I thought with the crack down on roids and such that it could go back to being the ol' ball game but todays athlete is a different breed, or so I am led to believe. I do think the pendulum has to swing back further still. It has to be a fans thought these days, that fear that Matt does not want to be on a team that's okay with just getting by through patchwork. I'd like to think that Harvey is just focused on whats right in front of him but that thought might be in there somewhere. If run support becomes an issue over a few seasons in front of us...

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Wow! Satin has eyebrows! It's as though he applied eye-black while standing on his head. lmao

LETS GO SATIN!!! and his brows too

I'll allow them to tease me. I'm just happy the Harvey/Wheeler double header stays in order. That's something to look forward to.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: No-decisions have become more common as starting pitcher innings have decreased. Yes, and the 18 complete games is telling.

Frayed Knot wrote: Start by checking out 1976 I'm sorry guys. I was thinking in terms of Seaver pitching on a Met team that was trying to build around him when he first came up. But to say that the Mets built a championship team for '69 is stretching it. Easy in retrospect, but they were in no way predicted to do what they did.

Seaver had 69 starts over 67-68 and got a decision in 57 of those games. He pitched 18 complete games during that period.

Edgy MD wrote: Seaver didn't get run in far more Met years than he did, thus driving (in part) the wedge between him and the Mets. Quite an assumption. That is an assumption, right? I'm interested in no decisions. I'll take a trip to the database.

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not sure sending Harvey to the plate wasn't their best play there. The very sad fact is that it's debatable. Jeezeloueeze. Cards eek out another run.

dinosaur jesus wrote: Come on, guys. You've got two more innings to get Matt that no-decision. And that's not asking for much. SCORE A FRAKIN RUN!

metirish wrote: Imagine how he feels??? I wonder if he secretly wished he were on a different team. I have, and it's very disconcerting. I have asked before...Seaver must have gone through something similar in 67 & 68, no?

Turner wastes an at bat and we are wasting away

Edgy MD wrote: Kirk Nieuwenhuis is hitting .077 and they intentionally walked him? Yep. Intentionally to force Terry to pinch hit for Harvey.