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The Mets celebrate their remarkable righthander from the eighties and then take the field with one more two-digit number forever remaining respectfully unavailable to them. The team that had the greatest pitcher on the planet in 1985 goes against the unlikely 1985 MLB champs.

Lefthanded podcaster Cole Ragans goes for the Royals as the Mets call back José Butto to do the Gooden's work for the Mets.

Pause a silent moment as well out of respect for the good honor brought to the number 16 by the likes of Lee Mazzilli, Felix Millan, Angel Pagán, Paul Lo Duca, Hideo Nomo, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Danny Napoleon, and many others.

A day of rest for young Brett Baty.

#	Player	Pos.	#	Player	Pos.
1	Maikel Garcia (R)	3b	1	Brandon Nimmo (L)	lf
2	Bobby Witt, Jr. (R)	ss	2	Starling Marte (R)	dh
3	Vinnie Pasquantino (L)	1b	3	Francisco Lindor (S)	ss
4	Salvador Perez (R)	c	4	Pete Alonso (R)	1b
5	MJ Melendez (L)	lf	5	Tyrone Taylor (R)	rf
6	Nelson Velázquez (R)	dh	6	Francisco Alvarez (R)	c
7	Adam Frazier (L)	2b	7	Jeff McNeil (L)	2b
8	Hunter Renfroe (R)	rf	8	Zack Short (R)	3b
9	Kyle Isbel (L)	cf	9	Harrison Bader (R)	cf
	Cole Ragans (L)	sp		José Buttó (R)	sp

Butto and Hartwig are up, Sulser and Jay have been optioned. The Citi Field PA is pumping out hits of the ’80s to set the mood for the man who gave up so few of them back then.

Edgy, your keyboard put Alvarez in center field again.
Hasn't it seen his improved defense behind the plate?
Later

Why are the positions in lower case and so small?

Some of wear specs, ya know.

DVR'ng the ceremony to watch later (in case there's FF parts I don't
want to watch haha)...

Interestingly, Ragans is out there wearing Orel Hershiser's number like its nothing.

Mike Torrez in the house!!

The NYC mural by the tunnel of Doc said it all for me

He did well today

You can still see the damage on him

Gooden's championship ring is barely staying on his finger.

It was such a nice day until.like 20 minutes ago.

I'm just tuning in, I take it there was a rain event?

The ceremony ended with some sweeping rain that kind of capped the ceremony.

Tore apart Gooden's umbrella.

Glad I recorded it. I'm such a Mets mush for this stuff...

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:30 pm

K

K

Watch yourself

kcmets wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:37 pm

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