2025 Mets in Retirement Thread

[stevejrogers]

Pat Mahomes’ father-in-law was admitted into hospice care
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-ne ... i-mahomes/

[Channel9]

Sorry to call you out on a technicality but Pat Mahome’s mother’s father has no connection to the Mets.

15 yards, loss of down.

[stevejrogers]

Sorry to call you out on a technicality but Pat Mahome’s mother’s father has no connection to the Mets.

15 yards, loss of down.

KC Chief QB’s maternal Grandfather = Ex-99-00 Met reliever’s father-in-law.

[Channel9]

Exactly.

MATERNAL. It’s the paternal side that has the Mets connection.

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[stevejrogers]

Exactly.

MATERNAL. It’s the paternal side that has the Mets connection.

You have no more reviews available.

If he wasn’t a such a noted figure in baseball/NYC baseball history, I’d wager Bobby Valentine’s father-in-law’s passing would have been noted in the 2016 version of this thread!

[Channel9]

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[Edgy MD]

I just met the late Tom Sturdivant's grandson Tommy in a Facebook Beastie Boys group.

[Frayed Knot]

I just met the late Tom Sturdivant's grandson Tommy in a Facebook Beastie Boys group.

I'll take 'Sentences Never Typed Before Ever' for $600', Ken.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You'd lose! I include that phrase when filling out Christmas cards every year.

[MFS62]

I just met the late Tom Sturdivant's grandson Tommy in a Facebook Beastie Boys group.

In the No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn video, one of the Beastie Boys is wearing a Mets cap.
Has that been noted on the CPF before?

I don't want to turn this into yet another music thread, so please move it to an appropriate "Mets fans in strange places" or whatever we call that thread.

Later

[stevejrogers]

Billy Wagner will be the latest ex-Met to get a number retired by a franchise that isn’t the Mets this August in Houston.

Part of a weekend celebration for his Cooperstown induction, and I believe a yet to be announced Astro Hall of Fame 2025 Class.