I’m sure I’m a day behind the other 10,000 Mets blogs (I was down at the Daytona 500) but I’m not going to pass up a chance to link to a Joel Youngblood article from the great “Where are they now?” series in the News.
If you’re old enough you remember the day Joel played for the Mets and the Phillies. If you’re one of these 20-somethings who aren’t old enough to remember the Mets winning a World Series, then you have no idea who Joel is. Youngblood was an OK outfielder – really a 4th OFer type although he rang up some starts on some awful Mets teams – and even was the Mets All-Star one year.
You think the Yankees are annoying now? Try being 12ish years old and every year the AL All Stars are half the Yankees and your team just has one guy (usually Mazzilli of course) and even the one guy doesn’t start, maybe he gets in in the 8th inning, and you are 12 and half asleep.
Joel’s the kind of player the 2007 and 2008 Mets could have used. Scrappy and serviceable.
Here’s the article: Youngblood link
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