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Edgy DC Apr 05 2007 11:38 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 05 2007 09:11 PM |
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metsguyinmichigan Apr 05 2007 07:43 PM |
Just curious. How do you count a Tim Foli type who had two tours with us? Does he count once, or twice like Gover Cleveland?
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Frayed Knot Apr 05 2007 08:37 PM |
Once.
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SteveJRogers Apr 06 2007 02:28 PM |
FWIW the 2007 Met media guide clocks the number at 797, yet they list all the names listed in Yancy's ATR page (which is used here!
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iramets Apr 06 2007 02:36 PM |
I, for one, would be interested in an account of various steps and mis-steps Yancy had to take to get at such a precise head-count.
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Johnny Dickshot Apr 06 2007 02:41 PM |
What I think we as a forum should do is count up together in a fabulous 700-post thread.
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 06 2007 04:16 PM |
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You know, I wish I had an interesting story to tell about that but I don't. I seem to remember very early on comparing lists with the future Johnny Dickshot. I might have had a few players for his list and he may have had a couple for mine, but we cross checked each other in the first month or two of both of our sites being live. The list of players has been complete pretty much from the very beginning.
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Edgy DC May 01 2007 11:56 AM |
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iramets May 01 2007 12:40 PM |
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JD's site has someone complaining that two Mets (Les Rohr and More Roar, I think) had been omitted from the headcount, though it's a bit unclear as to when that was corrected, etc. JD or Yancy, care to comment? I don't get what this guy was complaining about or if he had a valid complaint, how and when it got cleared up.
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Johnny Dickshot May 01 2007 12:57 PM |
Those guys appaarently were left off the all-time roster published in the Mets media guide.
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Benjamin Grimm May 01 2007 01:06 PM |
Park is 807, Gotay is 808.
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Gwreck May 01 2007 01:22 PM |
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I was going to say. I think we missed Easley somewhere in there.
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Edgy DC May 01 2007 01:29 PM |
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Sorry, I missed Easley.
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Edgy DC May 05 2007 08:17 PM |
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Frayed Knot May 06 2007 08:27 AM |
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Twice now in the last few years my nephew's Little League coach has told the parents that he was a former major league player - which prompts my sister to e-mail her baseball-savvy brothers wondering if they remember him. Except that both times the guy has failed both our memories and the Baseball-Reference test. We did dig up some minor league history and draft status on the last guy and it is possible that what he claimed was being in the StL Cardinal or Tex Ranger system not necc their MLB club and it was mis-understood. Either that or he's trying too hard to impress suburban moms figuring that no one will call him on it, who knows?
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SteveJRogers May 06 2007 09:08 AM |
One of my Dad's friends had his son (elementary school age) in a baseball instruction thing where the guy claimed to be a former Met and the father kept asking me if I heard of the guy, for some reason he never quite got the actual name; He thought it was some son of a famous ballplayer and for some reason either Roberto Clemente Jr or Eduardo Perez kept going in his mind.
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iramets May 06 2007 09:20 AM |
Never ceases to amaze me how readily humans will lie when they foolishly believe they cant get caught.
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Frayed Knot May 06 2007 09:40 AM |
There was a 'Monty Python' skit which was a game-show parody called 'Stake Your Claim'. In it the contestant had to stake his claim to something and see if it would stand up to scrutiny.
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Benjamin Grimm May 06 2007 05:00 PM |
Lino Urdaneta is number 810.
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Edgy DC May 06 2007 05:19 PM |
And his ERA has been lowered from to 81.00.
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Benjamin Grimm May 17 2007 12:19 PM |
Carlos Gomez is number 811 and Jason Vargas is number 812. (That's the area code for Southern Indiana, by the way.)
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Edgy DC May 17 2007 01:14 PM |
"Southern Indana" nickname for Vargas.
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Edgy DC May 29 2007 07:48 PM |
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cooby May 29 2007 07:55 PM |
That's a nice picture. He looks happy to be here!
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Willets Point May 30 2007 11:18 AM |
It's not a very good picture of the Count though.
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Benjamin Grimm May 30 2007 12:26 PM |
How is it possible to photograph the Count, anyway?
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Edgy DC May 30 2007 12:35 PM |
Not all counts are vampires.
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metsguyinmichigan May 31 2007 01:42 PM |
I read to day that the Blue Jays had their 500th player appear today.
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Johnny Dickshot May 31 2007 01:58 PM |
Yeah but we've had 559 players to their ~500 in our common history.
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Frayed Knot May 31 2007 02:59 PM |
When we were as old as the Jays are now - two months into season 21 - we had 466 different players (acc to GWreck's list).
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Edgy DC Jul 08 2007 12:21 PM |
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Edgy DC Jul 21 2007 04:08 PM |
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Edgy DC Aug 02 2007 11:48 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 02 2007 11:59 AM |
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Willets Point Aug 02 2007 11:55 AM |
This pic actually looks menacing.
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Edgy DC Aug 02 2007 12:00 PM |
I wanted a picutre of him in his castillo. Get it?
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Edgy DC Aug 22 2007 09:23 PM |
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Edgy DC Sep 03 2007 02:18 PM |
Boo. I had booted up Collazo.
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Edgy DC Sep 05 2007 12:38 PM |
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Elster88 Sep 05 2007 03:38 PM |
I have no memory of that muppet. Was it the Countess?
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seawolf17 Sep 05 2007 05:55 PM |
Most definitely.
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Willets Point Sep 06 2007 06:28 AM |
Looks like the Count in a wig. I suspect that the Count is gay.
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 06 2007 06:30 AM |
I did once see a purple muppet hand underneath an airport bathroom stall.
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metsguyinmichigan Sep 06 2007 08:29 AM |
It's long been suspected that Ernie and Bert were a couple. And I don't think any of us would be surprised if Big Bird stepped out of the closet.
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 06 2007 08:36 AM |
What clinches it for me with Ernie and Bert is the matching monogrammed headboards on their beds, an E for Ernie and a B for Bert. Picture the two of them shopping for those headboards together. No heterosexual roommates would ever do that.
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Johnny Dickshot Sep 06 2007 08:40 AM |
Dick Shot Junior and I have watched a few eps of Sesame Street and I must say, it's gone completely to hell since I was crapping my pampers.
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metsguyinmichigan Sep 06 2007 08:46 AM |
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OK, this started a whole discussion here in the newsroom, which is what happens when the editors go into the news meeting. Were Ernie and Bert adults? Were they kids? Brothers? If so, where were their parents? Could it be that they were just a couple metrosexual kids living in an apartment (with monogramed beds) without jobs but enough resources to collect paperclips and rubber ducks and slurp soda at Mr. Hooper's store? Oscar, we understand.
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Willets Point Sep 06 2007 09:09 AM |
Don't forget Bert's pigeons.
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seawolf17 Sep 06 2007 09:19 AM |
We've definitely rediscovered Sesame Street, and we have come to love Elmo as practically a member of the family. There's really a phenomenal amount of research that's gone into the character development (Elmo's three years old, Grover is six, Prairie Dawn is a precocious four-year-old, Baby Bear's lisp, etc.) and relationships (Telly & Baby Bear, Elmo & Zoe, Bert & Ernie, Baby Bear & Curly Bear, Elmo & Grover, etc.). You could do a fascinating PhD thesis on the whole structure; hell, you could write a whole encyclopedia, considering the show's history.
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Willets Point Sep 06 2007 09:33 AM |
Old School Sesame Street. Do they ever show anything this trippy anymore?
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Johnny Dickshot Sep 06 2007 09:36 AM |
Hate. Elmo.
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seawolf17 Sep 06 2007 09:40 AM |
Give him a chance, JD. I know he's irritating, and he's been so overexposed in the media, but the kids really do dig him.
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 06 2007 09:52 AM |
I liked Gina the veterinarian. When I saw her on The Sopranos throwing around the f-word I almost signed up for therapy.
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Johnny Dickshot Sep 06 2007 10:25 AM |
I'm sure I'll wind up watching a lot of Sesame Street in the future. And Elmo is prolly only a little worse that Captian Feathersword when it comes to annoying characters.
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Rockin' Doc Sep 06 2007 11:04 AM |
JD - "With all the youngins around and coming we should set up some kinda all-purpose parenting thread"
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metsguyinmichigan Sep 06 2007 12:40 PM |
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I confess that when my son was a toddler, we'd watch Sesame Street whether he wanted to or not just because of Gina! I assume she was an attempt to pull dads into the show, or at least get dads to leave it on.
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 06 2007 12:48 PM |
Have any of you dads discovered The Big Comfy Couch yet? (It may no longer be on; my kids are both now too old for those beginner shows.)
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seawolf17 Sep 06 2007 01:04 PM |
Yeah, this dad is definitely a fan of Dr. Gina. And Ms. Noodle (played by the wonderful Kristin Chenoweth) as well.
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soupcan Sep 06 2007 01:52 PM |
The favorites in my house were Barney, Teletubbies and the Wiggles.
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Edgy DC Sep 25 2007 07:00 PM |
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Gwreck Mar 31 2008 10:44 AM |
#822 - Johan Santana
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Valadius Mar 31 2008 10:46 AM |
And Ryan Church.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 31 2008 10:53 AM |
now why is Santana 1st of these? I though we were going in order they were announced, assuming they all get into the same game.
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AG/DC Mar 31 2008 10:58 AM |
I still think it should sort first in the order their appearances become official. If Pagan bats, he's first. If we go on defense before he bats, it's Santana, Schneider, Pagan, Church.
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Gwreck Mar 31 2008 11:00 AM |
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That was my thought as well.
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Benjamin Grimm Mar 31 2008 11:19 AM |
We had agreed on it being the lineup order, which, to me, makes the most sense.
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Valadius Mar 31 2008 11:36 AM |
Well how have we done it in years past? We can't change our methods on this now.
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AG/DC Mar 31 2008 11:39 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Mar 31 2008 11:42 AM |
Sure. Why not? While they may not get credit for a game played if they throw a rod in the dugout, it's not like they can re-enter the game if they've been introduced but don't appear.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 31 2008 11:39 AM |
I agree with YSG here. He convinced me of its rightness.
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TheOldMole Mar 31 2008 11:41 AM |
If they throw A-Rod in the dugout?
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 31 2008 11:43 AM |
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Not in my great list. I don;t think he was announced, by the way. Let's just assume that becoming official is a two-step process: Getting announced and participating in the game, but all participants enter into the sacred scrolls in the order they were announced.
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Benjamin Grimm Mar 31 2008 11:43 AM |
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If he got into the box score, then yes.
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SteveJRogers Mar 31 2008 05:35 PM |
#826 Matt Wise, welcome a-bord-ick!
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SteveJRogers Mar 31 2008 05:40 PM |
That leaves Raul Cassanova waiting to be #827
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SteveJRogers Apr 02 2008 07:29 PM |
Blame it on Pedro, not the Cassanova!
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Rockin' Doc Apr 02 2008 07:54 PM |
It must suck to be Raul Cassanova right now.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 02 2008 07:58 PM |
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Sometime I will add a Met Count number to the site and tell you
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AG/DC Apr 02 2008 08:00 PM |
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Richie Ashburn.
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SteveJRogers Apr 11 2008 05:41 PM |
Met # 828 is the battery mate for # 827!
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Valadius Apr 11 2008 07:42 PM |
It's one "s".
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Rockin' Doc Apr 12 2008 12:08 PM |
Well, how were we to know that? He never got to play before.
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AG/DC Apr 26 2008 11:24 AM |
Number 829!
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SteveJRogers May 14 2008 07:39 AM |
830
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metsguyinmichigan May 14 2008 07:50 AM |
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Why oh why is he wearing No. 17? Take it out of circulation to eventually hang on the wall.
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Benjamin Grimm May 14 2008 07:55 AM |
Nah. Keith was terrific, but I don't want to see his number retired.
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metsguyinmichigan May 14 2008 10:09 AM |
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But do you want to see it on people like Fernando Tatis? Fernando Martinez, maybe. But not a guy who packed only an overnight bag when he left New Orleans.
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AG/DC May 14 2008 10:10 AM |
If it causes Keith to publickly whine in the booth, you betcha. That's entertainment.
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Benjamin Grimm May 14 2008 11:02 AM |
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Doesn't bother me at all. As for Fernando Martinez, I'd rather he got a number that will more firmly belong to him. I think I'd give him a 25, if it were up to me.
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AG/DC May 14 2008 11:07 AM |
For what it's worth, he's wearing 19 in Binghamton now.
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metsguyinmichigan May 14 2008 11:28 AM |
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Good point! Or have him salvage No. 43 -- which I read somewhere, can't remember where -- has yet to have a quality owner!
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AG/DC May 14 2008 11:35 AM |
Damn it, all threads lead to Armando.
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SteveJRogers May 14 2008 05:14 PM |
# 831
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SteveJRogers May 14 2008 05:21 PM |
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Not to give Kase any more annumition, but Armando never challanged Seaver's 69, or was rivaled by Gooden's 85 as dominat seasons in a New York uniform the way Guidry's 78 did.
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AG/DC May 14 2008 06:54 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 14 2008 08:14 PM |
What does that have to do with anything?
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metsguyinmichigan May 14 2008 07:46 PM |
"Not to give Kase any more annumition, but Armando never challanged Seaver's 69, or was rivaled by Gooden's 85 as dominat seasons in a New York uniform the way Guidry's 78 did."
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Benjamin Grimm May 15 2008 07:29 AM |
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Second Met named Vargas, first named Claudio. Although there was one Claudell and one Claude. (Quick trivia question: which Met was named Claude?)
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John Cougar Lunchbucket May 15 2008 07:29 AM |
What happens in Vargas, stays in Vargas
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Frayed Knot May 15 2008 07:36 AM |
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Skip Lockwood
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Benjamin Grimm May 15 2008 07:41 AM |
Yup. Quick question, quick answer.
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Rockin' Doc May 15 2008 10:55 AM |
metsguy -"I know I'm kinda new here and all. But sometimes I read Steve's posts and I wonder if deep down he has kind of a soft spot for the MFYs. Just saying."
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Benjamin Grimm May 15 2008 10:59 AM |
Silver briefly poked her nose in here just a week or two ago.
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Rockin' Doc May 15 2008 11:07 AM |
Sorry I missed her brief visit.
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Benjamin Grimm May 15 2008 11:14 AM |
This is the one post she's made in the last eight months:
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AG/DC May 24 2008 09:45 PM |
Meet Fernando Tatis, #832:
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soupcan May 25 2008 12:10 PM |
He does sort of look like Magadan.
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Benjamin Grimm May 25 2008 01:12 PM |
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Tatis was 830. Vargas was 831 and Evans is 832.
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AG/DC Jun 15 2008 10:36 PM |
June 5: Abraham Nuñez, #833
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SteveJRogers Jul 01 2008 05:58 PM |
837 Andy Phillips
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Frayed Knot Aug 05 2008 05:08 PM |
This thread needs some serious updating.
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AG/DC Aug 05 2008 05:23 PM |
Yeah, I jumped ship on this one. Sorry. I'll climb back aboard, or Backman aBordick.
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SteveJRogers Aug 05 2008 06:20 PM |
The way things are going, the Mets might hit the 900 mark in 2010.
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Gwreck Aug 05 2008 09:03 PM |
Wait, I think we skipped a number again. A. Reyes was 839.
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AG/DC Aug 19 2008 07:14 PM |
839) July 3, 2008: Argenis Reyes
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AG/DC Sep 02 2008 05:29 PM |
845) September 1, 2008: Jonathan Niese
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G-Fafif Sep 02 2008 05:31 PM |
Ruddy Lugo long tosses with Jerry Moses.
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SteveJRogers Sep 02 2008 06:04 PM |
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Little cart before the horse no? See Erickson, Scott.
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AG/DC Sep 02 2008 06:11 PM |
Game's underway. Lineup card is filled in. I'm confident.
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AG/DC Sep 05 2008 07:29 PM |
846) September 5, 2008: Ricardo Rincon
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AG/DC Sep 07 2008 01:51 PM |
846) September 7, 2008: Ramon Martinez
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 07 2008 01:57 PM |
You mean 847
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AG/DC Sep 07 2008 02:04 PM |
That's what cutting/pasting does for you.
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Frayed Knot Sep 15 2008 07:43 PM |
Bobby Parnell = 848
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