"Don't Mets Up a Good Thing": Discuss the METS

by **Bill McNeal** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 14:48:23

It all started with the giant helmet

by **BigEd76** » Tue Oct 16, 2018 16:28:58

The Mets changed their new Syracuse AAA team from the Chiefs to the ..... Mets

by **Bucky** » Tue Oct 16, 2018 16:38:40

geez smart everybody will forget the guy ever existed

by **TenuredVulture** » Tue Oct 16, 2018 21:19:11

Does Willie mays not count as a met? I really dont remember what his met career was like, but he had a pretty good career over all.

by **BigEd76** » Tue Oct 16, 2018 21:24:55

It was worse than Hank Aaron on the Brewers

by **smitty** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 13:28:51

His first season with the Mets wasn't bad. His second ans last season was very bad.

by **thephan** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 16:59:18

TenuredVulture wrote:Does Willie mays not count as a met? I really dont remember what his met career was like, but he had a pretty good career over all.

As much as you would consider Richie Ashburn a Cub and a Met. So if that cup of tea is for you, then Willie was a Mets.

For your horror I offer this tidbit: Ashburn had a career high 7 home runs in 1962 with the Mets, his previous high was 4 in 1951. If not for '51 and '62, he was good for between 0 - 3.

by **smitty** » Fri Oct 19, 2018 13:32:44

TenuredVulture wrote:Does Willie mays not count as a met? I really dont remember what his met career was like, but he had a pretty good career over all.

Pretty good? He was a sure fire Hall of Famer.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... wi01.shtml

by **TenuredVulture** » Sun Oct 21, 2018 09:42:34

It's funny because in my mind as a 7 year old just starting to watch baseball in the early 70s, I just thought of Willie Mays as a met. I am too young to remember him as anything else. I sort of assumed his met career was longer than a season and a half.

by **swishnicholson** » Sun Oct 21, 2018 09:56:21

TenuredVulture wrote:It's funny because in my mind as a 7 year old just starting to watch baseball in the early 70s, I just thought of Willie Mays as a met. I am too young to remember him as anything else. I sort of assumed his met career was longer than a season and a half.

I'm REALLY old so I of course remember Willie mostly as a Giant, but also as a Met. Irked me off that then and later, as sportwriters do, most of the articles about him were that it was such a shame to see him playing out his days in a Mets a uniform, a shell of his former self. I thought it was cool to be able to see him out on the field more often, and back playing in NY where he started his career. As smitty said, his first year didn't look too bad. In fact it was pretty damn good, with a 145 OPS, but people didn't know from OPS in those days, they just saw that he didn't hit .300 or hit 20 hrs. His final year was pretty bad, but he did get into the playoffs and World Series, where he hit .300 and drove in a couple runs, so there's that. All in all a fitting farewell to my mind.

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:07:08

TenuredVulture wrote:It's funny because in my mind as a 7 year old just starting to watch baseball in the early 70s, I just thought of Willie Mays as a met. I am too young to remember him as anything else. I sort of assumed his met career was longer than a season and a half.

I see now why you are not a professor of history.

I thought your “pretty good” comment was, like, a gag.

And I am younger than you!

:shock:

by **Bucky** » Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:39:26

yeah, many rankings put him #2 of all time, behind only George Herman

by **swishnicholson** » Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:25:30

Bucky wrote:yeah, many rankings put him #2 of all time, behind only George Herman

There was an article in the New York Times (?) recently on the history of sports talk radio, and on the first call-in show the subject up for discussion was "Who's better, Mays or Mantle?" Hint: it was Willie, with Mickey's bad knees trumping Mays' Mets history on the negative side.

by **rolex** » Sun Oct 21, 2018 18:25:20

My Uncle started taking me to the NY Giants/Phillies games when I was six. We always went early to see what he called, the "greatest player there ever was" take infield practice. Mays at SS was unbelievable; like a water bug on a pond. His range and glove was phenomenal. Unfortunately he could never play that position because someone would have cracked him up on a play around the bag. He did alright in CF though. He most likely could have been a HOFer at any position on the field except the mound.

by **ReadingPhilly** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 17:47:08

down to chaim bloom (who was in phillies final 3), doug melvin and agent brodie van wegenen for their gm spot.

by **Doll Is Mine** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 14:19:36

Matt Ehalt @MattEhalt
Woah. Mets say No. 5 prospect Franklyn Kilome, who they received in the deal for Asdrubal Cabrera, underwent Tommy John.

by **ReadingPhilly** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 17:50:16

ReadingPhilly wrote:down to chaim bloom (who was in phillies final 3), doug melvin and agent brodie van wegenen for their gm spot.

after it was reported yesterday that melvin was the front runner, heyman says it is down to bloom and van wegenen.

by **BigEd76** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 14:44:23

Van Wagenen is the new GM but he'll need to wrap up things at CAA before he's officially announced. He's the agent for deGrom and Syndergaard, among other Mets

by **joe table** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 18:31:48

The optics there aren't great but you gotta go what you gotta do if you're the Mets

by **ReadingPhilly** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 20:16:16

Mets are looking for bench coach as well as hitting coach, new gm Van Wagenen announces. Disarcina goes to 3b coach, Sherlock 1B coach, Ruben amaro to front office to assist Van Wagenen

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