Happy New Year Mets Fans. 1/1/11 (I just like typing that) and the year the Mets win the World Series. Anyone else wearing a Mets jersey this morning? I am. (Really.)
It’s a slow start here at Mets Police HQ…you know the deal….I’m too tired to even make the Unnamed Donuts Chain run (Frosted Flakes are subbing in)…..
I don’t want to distract everyone from the entertaining Worst 50 Mets of All Time discussion, so please continue to comment on that post.
Concurrently, we have been making our own Old-Timers Day. The premise is you can invite three and only three folks at each position. Today we look at left field.
I will invite Cleon Jones, Dave Kingman (is this cheating? He played all over), and um….Benny Agbayani. How about you? Fortunately, CF will be more interesting – and I will save that one for Monday. Maybe RF tomorrow.
When I get it together I’ll compile who has been invited so far at the other positions. But first…need to rehydrate my brain.
Benny Agbayani, Kevin McReynolds & Timo Perez
Left field is definitely not easy, once you get past Cleon Jones. For all of the talk about Mets’ third basemen, they have not had a whole lot of quallity LFers. It is so bad, I am almost willing to put George Theodore in the top three just based on the fact that I will never forget watching him run into Don Hahn. So, just for kicks, I will say Jones, Thoedore, and any family member of the man with hamstrings of peanut brittle John Milner. Yes, I know he was basically a first baseman, but, You already have Hernandez, Olerud & Clendenon at first.
How about George Foster, Kevin Mcreynolds and Vince Coleman. The best players we loved to boo!!
Cleon Jones, Frank Thomas, Jim Hickman
Cleon forever – my fave all-time Met. All the rest are second best. But I’d throw in Bernard Gilkey and Ciff Floyd, two productive and popular Mets.