This seems better sourced:

I don't care about the Yankees. Nor do I think the Mets "relied" on the Yankees in any meaningful way when they hired Buck Showalter, for instance. It's a factual question, and not particularly concerned with how much you care or don't care about it. I find it very odd, damned peculiar in...

Mark Healey claims it's an inaccurate report.

Dunno how accurate this report is

, but I really dislike framing ANYTHING, even positive stuff, in terms of a Yankee perspective.

Aren't they just dicking around with job titles at this point? We could discuss the hierarchy of who's responsible for making certain decisions, who's above whom on the hiring/firing ladder, etc. Coaches are subordinate to manager, manager is subordinate to someone who was formerly known as a GM, th...

I don't care about the Yankees. Nor do I think the Mets "relied" on the Yankees in any meaningful way when they hired Buck Showalter, for instance. It's a factual question, and not particularly concerned with how much you care or don't care about it. No, the premise that the Mets "re...

I don't care about the Yankees. Nor do I think the Mets "relied" on the Yankees in any meaningful way when they hired Buck Showalter, for instance. It's a factual question, and not particularly concerned with how much you care or don't care about it. I find it very odd, damned peculiar in...

Has any franchise in history relied as heavily on one team to supply their managers as the Mets have relied on the Yankees?


Jerry Blevins is excited:

Awful funny way to spell "Beltran," if you ask me.

The fans stuck with Andrew Young... Point well taken. I remember Young well, and how Mets fans were in his corner. I wonder if Mets fans are more loyal than fans of other teams. If there's one trait that identifies a Mets fan, it's empathy with long-suffering losers of baseball games, and extending...

You are a more evolved human being than I am. I'm not sure I'd abandon my rationality at 22 games but there is a point somewhere that I'd want to pull the plug, especially if we had potentially good starters in the bullpen or in AAA, crazy as that is. Which may be why it's a good thing I don't have ...

How far does your rationality extend? We all (I think) accept that Jake deGrom in 2018 performed phenomenally well and that his Cy Young Award that year was well earned. We cite his bad luck and lousy run support as the primary, if not the sole, reason that he took a loss or a no-decision in 22 of h...

And the fact that he threw four more pitches than Santana did doesn't give you pause? I just googled this https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/mlb/mets/2022/05/31/johan-santana-no-hitter-terry-collins-mets-pitch-count/7453024001/ to look up Santana's number and it's a little scary. I wonder if t...

With the Japanese WS still yet to wrap up, Y^2 pitched the Orix Buffaloes into a Game 7 (presumably tonight) with a 14 K, 0 BB, 138 pitch CG 5-1 win over the Hanshin Tigers last night. Nice way to hit his expected FA period running. Be a pisser if he blew his arm out with that performance, wouldn't...

"I'd wonder at times if he could actually tie his own" Well, he could at least complete his own posts. I actually own a hardback book of his, 100 Dumbass Sports Arguments, or something close to that, in which he puts forth a large sample of his style of arguing. You can practically see the...

By "pays attention," I mean merely that he watches a lot of sports, remembers the names of players, can recite many events from the past, and so on, because that's what he's paid to do. Certainly in some senses he's more "knowledgable" about sports than you or I, though not neces...

hard to tell exactly how intelligent he is about baseball, mind you, because he espouses so much nonsense that it's hard to pick through it all. Not that hard. He pays a lot of attention, because that's his job, but while I haven't listened to him in years, since he was on FAN with Franscesa, who c...

I enjoyed him on the 1962 Dodgers, who could field not one, but two outstanding outfields:

RF: Howard, Fairly
CF: W. Davis, Snider
LF: T Davis, Moon

And they were all pretty good in 1962.

Each of the six made multiple All-Star teams. Gotta be a record of some sort.

stevejrogers wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 2:59 pm

roger_that wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:37 amBobby Jones

Jones was drafted by the Mets and made his MLB debut with them

Right you are.

Bobby Jones

Randy Myers. And in a reversal of initials, Mike Remlinger. I thought sure, Kevin Elster made an All-Star team after leaving the Mets, but no. He did have one gigantic year where he hit 24 HRs and drove in 99 runs for Texas (and fielded like Kevin Elster) but, no, that was worth just a Comeback Play...

Like Fernandez, David Cone, who pitched a bit for the Royals first.

Jeff Reardon and Hubie Brooks, both multiple All-Stars post-Mets careers.

Joel Youngblood in 1981. Sid Fernandez, another bare qualifier by dint of a brief pre-NY stay on the Dodgers.

Jim Hickman.

And here's a weird one I'd forgotten about--Buzz Capra, whom the Mets sold to the Braves, and who made the All-Star team and led the NL in ERA the next season.