The mission: invite three living and retired third basemen to a hypothetical 2011 Old Timers Day at Citi Field.
My list: Howard Johnson, Ray Knight and Robin Ventura.
I bet that’s your list too.
The Apple’s recap of the 2010 Mazzillis
On Monday I handed out the 2010 Mets Police Awards aka The Mazzillis, and to see why The Apple won Blog of the Year you should read his hilarious recap.
On the Black says retire #7
And not for Jose Reyes but for Ed Kranepool.
I can’t roll with you on this one guys. I know he’s up there on the leaderboard but I use the “my eyes” test on these things and the Krane…well, no way and double no way before 16, 17, 18, 31, and 36.
7 very well get retired some day, depending on Sandy’s mood around July 31, 2011.
Make our own Mets 2011 Old Timers Day: Catcher
Premise: invite three living retired players to a hypothetical Old Timer’s Day.
This one is a little tough if I’m only going to invite three catchers.
Under the rules of our game we can only invite three. So I will invite…
Jerry Grote, John Stearns, and Todd Hundley.
Yeah I know who I left off. There’s like 6 more guys who should be invited including Ed Hearn, Todd Pratt, Ron Hodges, Paul LoDuca and those two other guys.
I never realized how many likeable Mets catchers there have been. Who are your three?
Jerry Koosman, Mets Fantasy Camp 1990
Charles says:
When I went to Fantasy Camp in Port St Lucie in 1990, Jerry Koosman was one of the ‘old-timers’ there. I have a pic w him that I will send later. Can’t believe I was ever that skinny.
Anyway, one night I went to dinner w some other campers, Koosman, and Wayne Garrett. He relayed a story to me directly that in 1969, he went to camp after a terrific first season when he finished 2d in the rookie of the year balloting to Johnny Bench in the closest voting in history, 10 1/2 to 9 1/2. When he was presented with his new contract, his salary had been doubled–from $6,000 to $12,000!!
True story.
This was February 1990 in Port St Lucie. They housed us in the minor league clubhouse by the back fields. There were over 100 of us there that week. Amazingly, I ran into one guy this season in the Delta Club…
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