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Nice story. Untrue, but nice anyway. Hodges played the entire opener. Marshall pinch-hit in the 9th for Clem Labine.

Levels of "Original Met": Level 5: played a few games at some point late in the 1962 season (Kranepool) Level 4: played substantially in 1962 but was not on the roster all season long (Christopher) Level 3: was on the Opening Day roster but got dealt off before the season was up (Zimmer) Level 2: was on roster Opening Day but did not play in the opener (Chacon) Level 1: played in the opener.

So far, it's only you and her family. And I wouldn't count on all of them. The rest of us are on team "**** That Scrawny Bitch"

Sorry--if you think the Mets suck, are mismanaged, are chokers, bite the dongs of lower-order mammalian types, etc, you're mistaken. They're just suffering from a slight case of bad luck. Objectively, they're two games under their Pythagorean projection, meaning if their runs scored/surrendered ratio were perfect (which is just luck), they'd have won 78 games instead of the 76 they've won. No biggie, but we'd probably be feeling a little better today if just two of their worst bad losses had been turned into wins. It's just run distribution. Subjectively, they've been hot as hell offensively, scoring many, many runs in several games, runs that scored after the game had gotten out of control, pile-on runs that pleased you but also made you think "OK, enough already. I got to get to bed." But if we'd gotten a few of those particular runs yesterday or the day before, we'd have 78 wins right now, and we'd be feeling pretty good about their chances. A few more 4-3 wins, and a few fewer 19-4 wins, which is just luck, and we'd be in good shape. No telling when their luck will turn or even if it will this season, and if you want to vent, feel free. It don't cost nothing to express yourself, but if you're complaining about the team, you might want to consider that winning teams are good teams but they're also lucky teams. The Mets are down on their luck.

=Centerfield post_id=203625 time=1757281826 user_id=65] We get bailed out by the Cardinals again. But lose the chance to put the Reds in the rear view mirror. It feels like this team loses every weekend. Especially Sundays.

What losers did he turn into winners quicker? Quicker than whom? Or quicker than what? Maybe you mean "quickest"? Are u asking which was his quickest turnaround job? They were all pretty fast but I could look it up if you like. Your 1984 Metsies were pretty durn quick. 68 wins under Hamburger and Boward in 1983, then 90 under Davey in 1984. Is that quick enough for ya?

Or as the Mother Superior said to the nun who voiced a mild complaint after 50 years of strictly enforced silence, "All you do is bitch, bitch, bitch."

This adjective seems weird to me. Davey was a lot of things as an infielder, but I wouldn't say any of them was "versatile"; he played second base almost exclusively.

Did anyone ever turn more losers into winners as quickly as Davey did?

Francisco Lindor (S) SS Juan Soto (L) DH Pete Alonso ® 1B Brandon Nimmo (L) LF Starling Marte ® RF Jeff McNeil (L) 2B Francisco Alvarez ® C Brett Baty (L) 3B Cedric Mullins (L) CF Brandon Sproat ® P

=Centerfield post_id=203559 time=1757214938 user_id=65] Giants blow

This is the good side of doxxing and internet harassment. Sometimes it hits the right people.

Philadelphians are the salt of the earth

Here's an amazing play I've forgotten or never knew about or something, from a 1986 game, that ended the game. It was posted on FB, but not related to Davey Johnson, other than by coincidence today, I think: 16K views · 378 reactions | ⚾️On August 27, 1986 with 1 out in the... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM ⚾️On August 27, 1986 with 1 out in the bottom of the 11th inning and the visiting New York Mets ahead of the San Diego Padres, 6-5, Lenny Dykstra's throw nails Gary Templeton at the plate when he...

I haven't dorked since 1977 lol... That Fman dude is one clever MFer....

He'd managed some of them at Tidewater the year before, knew that they could play ball at the MLB level, wouldn't take "They need more time" for an answer. Valentine did this as well, to a lesser degree. Davey was a rare baseball genius, eight steps ahead of the rest of us. Won 98 games as a manager five different times, with four different clubs. How many others have done that? Joe McCarthy, maybe? I don't know. Not many. ETA: Looked up McCarthy's record. He won 98 or more nine times but only with two clubs, the Yankees and the Cubs. If you lower the bar to 96 wins, he did that with the Red Sox twice.

The expression used to be "a fireman who brings a full can of gasoline."

My guess is maybe someone spoke to Tong before the game about throwing early strikes, getting ahead of hitters, and the Reds hit a few of those strikes out of the yard. That's what happens when you throw MLB hitters strikes. They belt them sometimes. Still better than walking the world, pitching from behind in the count all night long, and throwing 90 pitches by the fifth inning. If the Mets had scored 9 runs by now, we'd say Tong was throwing a great game.

Bases loaded, for Alonso

2 run blast!! Send the punk kid back to the minors!!

Tong maintains no hitter thru 1 and 1/3!!!

Lindor singles, gets thrown out stealing. . Isn't there a rule against that?

A righter guy there never was. Straight shooter, no-liar, his own guy on a squad of lunatics, champion manager and player, fired from more jobs on his own terms than anyone in history.

=Centerfield post_id=203478 time=1757173480 user_id=65] Just a devastating loss.

Edgy MD wrote: Everybody out of position! Sort of like the Mets with McNeil at DH, Baty at 2B, and Vientos at 3B?