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Frayed Knot Aug 07 2008 12:22 PM

From Adam Rubin's [url=http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/mets/]NYDN blog[/url]: There’s been no formal announcement from the Mets, but all signs continue to point to Brian Stokes starting Saturday for the Mets against Florida. The Mets don’t want to expose 21-year-old lefthander Jon Niese to the Marlins’ predominantly righty lineup. And the decision about which veteran to promote ended up pretty straightforward. Even though Claudio Vargas is not thought to be seriously injured, he was pulled from his last start – a scoreless effort – with grabbing in his elbow. Meanwhile, Nelson Figueroa has been dealing with a blister issue. Stokes has bullpen experience with the Rays, so it would figure he’d stick around after his start.

bmfc1 Aug 07 2008 01:14 PM

Maybe Favre can pitch.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 07 2008 01:15 PM

And Bobby Parnell went yesterday for AA, so he's out.

duan Aug 07 2008 03:28 PM

please get a cool number Brian. any word on what he wore in spring training mbtn?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 07 2008 04:26 PM

He wore 43 in spring training: That Number is available now.

AG/DC Aug 07 2008 09:37 PM

Folks whose last name I know who have a Met share their name: KC John Cougar Lunchbucket duan Metfairy and husband Ben Grimm (a spring training Met, anyhow) Willets Pont A Boy Named Seo Frayed Knot Almost everybody but me, it seems.

duan Aug 08 2008 03:29 AM not really

up for 43 stokes if I was still in college i'd be hoping he got 69.

metsmarathon Aug 08 2008 07:02 AM

AG/DC wrote: Folks whose last name I know who have a Met share their name: KC John Cougar Lunchbucket duan Metfairy and husband Ben Grimm (a spring training Met, anyhow) Willets Pont A Boy Named Seo Frayed Knot Almost everybody but me, it seems. i've got a minor league met named after me who i should get off my butt and adopt...

metirish Aug 08 2008 07:09 AM

I share the same last name as one former Met great of recent vintage , although the spelling is slightly different , which probably disqualifies me. This player might well be known more for being a MFY great now though. OK it seems to me that Duan's last name is Stokes....and he works for Hot Press who's long time editor shares that last name , although I can't imagine him as a baseball fan.

AG/DC Aug 08 2008 07:15 AM

I've got only two big leaguers in history sharing my surname --- but one is a Hall of Famer and the other an All Star.

metirish Aug 08 2008 07:17 AM

And one other HOF player has that as a first name.....

AG/DC Aug 08 2008 07:20 AM

Oh, s'it! You guessed it!

Kong76 Aug 08 2008 07:35 AM

Add SJeets and DocTee to the list. Gwreck is off by one consonant, I think.

seawolf17 Aug 08 2008 07:41 AM

KC wrote: Add SJeets and DocTee to the list. I thought we agreed that Kenny Rogers never happened. NEVER HAPPENED, dammit.

Kong76 Aug 08 2008 07:50 AM

metsguyinmichigan too.

SteveJRogers Aug 08 2008 08:51 AM

seawolf17 wrote: ="KC"]Add SJeets and DocTee to the list. I thought we agreed that Kenny Rogers never happened. NEVER HAPPENED, dammit. If you want I can just flip it around and share the first name of the first ever Met hitting coach (unofficial title)!

OlerudOwned Aug 08 2008 09:00 AM

Sort of surprised to find out that there hasn't been a Major Leaguer with my last name to debut since 1895. I thought Connor was a reasonably common name. There have been 5 with an added "O'", 3 with an added "s", and two active players using it as a first name, albeit one with a missing "n". This also has probably been the most time I've ever spent thinking about my surname, and now it's starting to look funny in print.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 08 2008 09:15 AM

I thought your last name was "Owned."

AG/DC Aug 08 2008 09:30 AM

I have no idea what that avatar is trying to tell me.

seawolf17 Aug 08 2008 09:43 AM

I believe it's that CC Sabathia is fat and wants a sandwich.

HahnSolo Aug 08 2008 09:54 AM

No one with my surname has played for the Mets. The most famous MLBer with my last name had 40+ save seasons in both the AL and NL in the 90s. One MLBer with my last name as his first name had a famous lost no-hitter.

Gwreck Aug 08 2008 10:10 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 08 2008 10:12 AM

HahnSolo wrote: No one with my surname has played for the Mets. The most famous MLBer with my last name had 40+ save seasons in both the AL and NL in the 90s. One MLBer with my last name as his first name had a famous lost no-hitter. The saves thing is actually a good trivia question. No one named Wetteland had a famous lost no-hitter. Randy Myers also doesn't work.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 08 2008 10:11 AM

The name has got to be "Harvey."

Gwreck Aug 08 2008 10:13 AM

Didn't realize he ever had that good of a year for the Marlins.

HahnSolo Aug 08 2008 10:20 AM

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The name has got to be "Harvey." That didn't take long. Bryan Harvey's '91 and '93 seasons were pretty sick.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 08 2008 10:22 AM

It was the Haddux part of the clue that got me to figure it out.

soupcan Aug 08 2008 10:23 AM

No MLBers for me. This is all I've got in terms of a shared surname with notable peeps... It's a stretch too because while the pronounciation is the same, the spelling is very different. Art's definitely not a bad guy to 'share' a name with, but I was once asked if he and I were related. I'm one of the whitest white guys you could ever meet.

SteveJRogers Aug 08 2008 10:30 AM

seawolf17 wrote: I believe it's that CC Sabathia is fat and wants a sandwich. Thats from an Onion piece. That is Prince Fielder as the hamburger. The have another shot of Prince with Sabathia as a hot dog.

SteveJRogers Aug 08 2008 10:34 AM

I almost have an exact match in Montreal Stephen D. Rogers. Though if my grandpa didn't have to change his Mexican surname, then Kase would had to come up with a different Yankee to mock me with!

SteveJRogers Aug 08 2008 10:38 AM

metirish wrote: I share the same last name as one former Met great of recent vintage , although the spelling is slightly different , which probably disqualifies me. This player might well be known more for being a MFY great now though. Only one that fits the description is Coney.

metsguyinmichigan Aug 08 2008 10:43 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 08 2008 11:22 AM

One letter away. His time with the Mets was short. We had a Dan Murray ever so briefly. I do have two Mets home jerseys with "Murray" on the back from Eddie's brief and cranky tenure. I do, however, get the Iron Maiden lead guitarist and a jazz musician.

metirish Aug 08 2008 10:45 AM

SteveJRogers wrote: ="metirish"]I share the same last name as one former Met great of recent vintage , although the spelling is slightly different , which probably disqualifies me. This player might well be known more for being a MFY great now though. Only one that fits the description is Coney. Constable Rogers .

Vic Sage Aug 08 2008 10:59 AM

my last name is an Ellis island invention, and the only ones who share it are related to me. And we are a notoriously unathletic branch of the evolutionary tree Therefore, there have been no major leaguers (nor minor leaguers for that matter) much less former Mets with whom I've shared my moniker. And, unless my son has athletic talents of which i am currently unaware, there is unlikely to ever be one.

seawolf17 Aug 08 2008 11:08 AM

I'm 0-for-all major sports as well. I'm still searching the Italian Baseball League, though.

Mendoza Line Aug 08 2008 11:39 AM

My last name is 0-for-MLB. Two former Mets have my first name for a last name. They were Met teammates for about a month, and there was exactly one game in which both of them played for the Mets.

HahnSolo Aug 08 2008 11:56 AM

Mendoza Line wrote: My last name is 0-for-MLB. Two former Mets have my first name for a last name. They were Met teammates for about a month, and there was exactly one game in which both of them played for the Mets. Mitchell?

Mendoza Line Aug 08 2008 11:57 AM

Damn, you guys are good.

OlerudOwned Aug 08 2008 12:07 PM

SteveJRogers wrote: ="seawolf17"]I believe it's that CC Sabathia is fat and wants a sandwich. Thats from an Onion piece. That is Prince Fielder as the hamburger. The have another shot of Prince with Sabathia as a hot dog. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/c_c_sabathia_prince_fielder_keep

Fman99 Aug 08 2008 12:31 PM

AG/DC wrote: Folks whose last name I know who have a Met share their name: KC John Cougar Lunchbucket duan Metfairy and husband Ben Grimm (a spring training Met, anyhow) Willets Pont A Boy Named Seo Frayed Knot Almost everybody but me, it seems. The odds of a Met having my last name are wildly improbable, until Fboy is playing for them in 20 years or so anyway.

Centerfield Aug 08 2008 12:43 PM

I think a lot of people here know my last name but there have been only two Major Leaguers in history that have shared it. None of them Mets. One of them everyone knows. The other I didn't remember until I looked it up.

SteveJRogers Aug 08 2008 12:56 PM

Centerfield wrote: I think a lot of people here know my last name but there have been only two Major Leaguers in history that have shared it. None of them Mets. One of them everyone knows. The other I didn't remember until I looked it up. If its the right guy, I think he was one of those ST Mets like Charlie Hayes?

soupcan Aug 08 2008 01:27 PM

This guy right...?

metirish Aug 08 2008 01:32 PM

This guy?

SteveJRogers Aug 08 2008 01:43 PM

Ahhh, not to mention an old coach out in San Fran Well, he is a Sox here, but he was a Giant for a long time

seawolf17 Aug 08 2008 01:58 PM

Or Sunny Kim, the old Expos pitcher, which is who CF probably meant.

sharpie Aug 08 2008 02:04 PM

I've had several major leaguers, although no Mets. Closest Met connection: a Hall-of-Famer has my last name as his first name although he uses common nickname. This HOFer has appeared at a few Met spring trainings in recent years to help the youngsters.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 08 2008 02:08 PM

Sanford Koufax?

HahnSolo Aug 08 2008 02:08 PM

Does a namesake of yours own a junkyard on TV?

AG/DC Aug 08 2008 02:12 PM

Is your son a dummy?

Frayed Knot Aug 08 2008 02:14 PM

Centerfield wrote: ... but there have been only two Major Leaguers in history that have shared it. None of them Mets. Yeah but you're all over the LPGA

Benjamin Grimm Aug 08 2008 02:16 PM

HahnSolo wrote: Does a namesake of yours own a junkyard on TV? Do you know how easy it is to put that theme song in someone's head?

RealityChuck Aug 08 2008 08:40 PM

No one with my last name ever appeared in any major league pro sport. About the only celebrity is an obscure actor. In the UK, however, it's the name of a cigarette brand that sponsors auto racing and soccer.

metirish Aug 09 2008 05:30 PM

Rothman?

Vince Coleman Firecracker Aug 09 2008 06:08 PM

2 major leaguers with my last name, both played New York National League teams: The first had 3 AB's with the Giants in 1914 and was apparently nicknamed "Desperate". The second was a Mets pitcher that never panned out, throwing only 15 innings in his career during the HW Bush administration. He wound up with a career 2.30 ERA before he was traded for a player who was traded for Pedro Martinez.

sharpie Aug 09 2008 08:27 PM

You guys got me. I got nothing on Firecracker.

SteveJRogers Aug 09 2008 08:40 PM

Vince Coleman Firecracker wrote: 2 major leaguers with my last name, both played New York National League teams: The first had 3 AB's with the Giants in 1914 and was apparently nicknamed "Desperate". The second was a Mets pitcher that never panned out, throwing only 15 innings in his career during the HW Bush administration. He wound up with a career 2.30 ERA before he was traded for a player who was traded for Pedro Martinez. Don't sell yourself short, you do have an Oscar winner with your surname!

Vince Coleman Firecracker Aug 11 2008 06:52 AM

SteveJRogers wrote: Don't sell yourself short, you do have an Oscar winner with your surname! Winnah winnah!