NY Mets Twitter Takes

[metirish]

I would have thought a user named SUP would be chill, but no

[metirish]

I hope this is not satire

[Edgy MD]

I loved that segment of last night's broadcast, with two seconds passing between Gary identifying Mayer and then labeling him as an obvious frontrunner.

[Gwreck]

Mayer has been seen at other Mets games in recent years, including in LA. He may be a real fan.

[G-Fafif]

Mayer has been seen at other Mets games in recent years, including in LA. He may be a real fan.

Mayer’s dad definitely is. He made a point of expressing his gratitude for the club furnishing him and his father with vintage jackets when he played Citi Field with Dead & Company.

[metirish]

I gotta agree with some of the comments in here about Mets fans and the SNY booth

[metirish]

sacrilege

[metirish]

Happy heavenly birthday, Bob

[whippoorwill]

Happy birthday Bob. You and Ralph were my other two ‘dads’

[metirish]

[metirish]

I guess he has some merch he wants to flog, clown

[metirish]

I love Mike , my favorite Mets player ever, but this is a no for me

[Benjamin Grimm]

Apparently NOT all Mets fans can agree. I'd say no too.

[Centerfield]

What would constitute statue criteria?

Mike played 8 seasons with the Mets. Career OPS of .915. His lowest OPS in any single season was .778. 2003 was the only year he missed significant time. Five time All-Star (should have been 6). Hall of Famer.

I'm not saying this is enough. Asking where the line is.

[metirish]

No doubt , I guess for me it's like where would it stop , what about Keith? Wright?

[Centerfield]

No to Keith. Probably no to Wright.

For me, it's probably something closer to what the criteria used to be for Mets retired numbers. I would say:

1. No-brainer to have his number retired
2. Hall of Famer
3. Clearly associated with the Mets over any other team

Seaver fits this bill. Piazza no, because of the significant time with the Dodgers. Beltran no, again because he moved around so much. Wright no, he won't make the Hall of Fame.

Jacob deGrom might one day meet this criteria, but he also doesn't feel like a statue guy to me.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think Wright has the best case, but it's not strong enough.

Maybe Pete Alonso, if he comes back and gets to 400 homers as a Met.

Maybe Francisco Lindor, if he can lead the team to two or three championships this decade.

But for now, I'd stop at Seaver.

[batmagadanleadoff]

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

For a long time, Seaver was the only deserving of a retired number. Then achieveing a retired number became easier, so they had to separate Seaver again. If you start giving out statues to everyone we'd need another way to honor Seaver, which would be to exhume him and bury him in the parking lot underneath a gigantic orange and blue tombstone

[metirish]

For a long time, Seaver was the only deserving of a retired number. Then achieveing a retired number became easier, so they had to separate Seaver again. If you start giving out statues to everyone we'd need another way to honor Seaver, which would be to exhume him and bury him in the parking lot underneath a gigantic orange and blue tombstone

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[batmagadanleadoff]

For a long time, Seaver was the only deserving of a retired number. Then achieveing a retired number became easier, so they had to separate Seaver again. If you start giving out statues to everyone we'd need another way to honor Seaver, which would be to exhume him and bury him in the parking lot underneath a gigantic orange and blue tombstone

And speaking of exhumations, there were so many rumblings this afternoon at Gary Carter's gravesite that they hadda exhume his dead body to figure out what the hell was happening. And when they did, Carter said that he deserved a Citi Field statue next. He was inducted into the HOF before Piazza and he won a World Series with the Mets. Not Piazza. Also, Carter was the last piece to the puzzle. And he had two good seasons with the Mets.

[Edgy MD]

Time can help decide what makes for appropriate statuary. If the presence is already casting a shadow across the decades, as the kids who watched him themselves grow up and make big decisions in the world, then that would probably get it done.

I wouldn't complain, but if it were up to me, I'd say no. The guy was a MAGA jerk to me on Twitter.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The next statue should be of Marv Throneberry. How Marvelous!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Put a statue of Mookie jumping away from Bob Stanley's wild pitch right where the Shea batter's box used to be.

[Edgy MD]

This is something all baseball fans can agree on. Tom Seaver's number deserves the correct font on his statue at Citi Field.

Sign the petition!