Classic NY Mets pictures

[Edgy MD]

Picture Jacob deGrom, except with a devastating hook, finishing his own games.

[The Hot Corner]

Picture Jacob deGrom, except with a devastating hook, finishing his own games.

Gooden not only finished his games, just as importantly, he could be counted on to make his scheduled starts (year after year).

[Frayed Knot]

Picture Jacob deGrom, except with a devastating hook, finishing his own games.

Gooden not only finished his games, just as importantly, he could be counted on to make his scheduled starts (year after year).

Until he no longer could.

[batmagadanleadoff]

deGrom, at his peak, had better stuff than Gooden. Granted, deGrom was as delicate as a hothouse flower and broke down often, but on stuff alone, deGrom was the best. You could even make a reasonable argument that at his peak, deGrom had the best stuff in all of baseball history. Better than everyone else. Koufax, Walter Johnson, Pedro. Everybody.

[whippoorwill]

Yes I think so too



I’m still hoping he gets it back. Even for someone else.

[metirish]

Picture Jacob deGrom, except with a devastating hook, finishing his own games.

And a personality?

[metirish]

Uncanny

[Edgy MD]

[whippoorwill]

They look like the kids from Christmas Story

[metirish]

Hey hey, My my

[Edgy MD]

In between acts at the Beatles Shea Stadium appearance, promoter Sid Bernstein tries to plug one of the other bands he's been pitching around time by having the Shea scoreboard post "THE RASCALS ARE COMING!!"



Brian Epstein, aptly, refuses to let his band take the stage until the message is removed.

[Edgy MD]

[Benjamin Grimm]

Is that Steve Garvey in the far left corner of the table?

[Edgy MD]

That's one.

[Frayed Knot]

L to R: Keith, ?, Garvey, Kaat, ?, Brooks, Ozzie


Lotsa Gold Gloves at that table.

[Edgy MD]

Seventy Gold Gloves, to be precise. SEVENTY!

Good job. Two figures remain.

[metirish]

I know the guy to the left of Kaat , not a baseball player if I remember correctly

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, I'm going with former NYC Police Detective Bo Deitl between Keith and Garvey, and the Maitre'd between Kaat and Robby

[Edgy MD]

Not Bo Dietl.

[Edgy MD]

The two as-yet-unnamed figures have both famously appeared on variety shows.

[metirish]

It came to me , Joe Piscopo , my head kept saying Joe Pepitone

[Edgy MD]

Piscopo is correct! No Gold Gloves but he is a member of The New Jersey Hall of Fame, so there's that.

[DocTee]

Johnny Bench next to Keith?

[kcmets]

Piscopo is correct!

[Vermin]My father hung me on a hook once. Once![/Vermin]

[Benjamin Grimm]

Johnny Bench next to Keith?

Oooh, maybe. My first thought (quickly dismissed) was that it was an unusually puffy Ron Darling.