Good Morning. Happy Birthday Ron Hodges. Rob Manfred tweaks the proposal, and Players
delay the vote.
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SNY.TV
(MetsBlog): 4 memorable Mets Father's Day moments, including Brandon
Nimmo's go-ahead homer.
Faith
and Fear in Flushing Shaun
Fitzmaurice 1966’s A Met for All Seasons.
Rising
Apple: Mets could regret letting Steven Matz
leave more than Noah
Syndergaard. Writer Tim Boyle makes the case that with Thor’s Tommy John
operation, there are no guarantees Thor will be the better pitcher in the
future.
Rising
Apple: Mets: Vulgar or not, Pete Alonso
is exactly what baseball needs.
Rising
Apple: How Skip
Lockwood reinvented his career as a closer in Flushing.
Mike’s
Mets A Not So Very Big Deal: Mike talks about the trade of Jae Weong Seo
and Tim
Hamulack, for Duaner
Sanchez and Steve
Schmoll.
Metsmerized
Online: MMO Exclusive: MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis Talks Mets’ Draft. About
the Mets First Round Draft Pick, Pete Crow-Armstrong Jim Callis said: “Overall,
he might be the best high school outfield defender and is a plus runner with
the chance to be a plus hitter. His power is a question mark, but I think he
could be a 15-20 home run guy. His floor and ceiling are both very high for a
player coming out of high school.”
June 21, 1964: @Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning fires a perfect game against the @Mets on Father’s Day at Shea Stadium. Bob Murphy calls the final out (below) and listen to the entire game here: https://t.co/glA7Mb9kXP #LGM #MetsRewind pic.twitter.com/tW1IUZRaDp
— Mets Rewind (@metsrewind) June 21, 2020
#OTD in 2006, Jose Reyes became the 9th player in @Mets history to hit for the cycle.@lamelaza_7 @Metsmerized #Mets pic.twitter.com/y5sBZO11u1
— Mathew Brownstein (@MBrownstein89) June 21, 2020
CBS
Sports: Rob Manfred offers MLBPA 2021 concessions as MLB players wait to vote
on 60-game proposal, per reports. Also on Sunday, commissioner Rob Manfred sent a letter to
MLBPA chief Tony Clark offering to remove expanded playoffs and a universal DH
(both features of MLB's proposal) for
the 2021 season if a 2020 season is not completed, per ESPN's Jeff
Passan.
Joel
Sherman NY Post: MLB’s best hope is for the silent majority to rise up. One
player said, “I’m no expert on the mechanism that is needed, but I do know as a
baseball fan and player that we can’t do this (publicly squabble and hurt the
product) anymore if we want baseball to be cool in the future. We are doing a
major disservice to the next generation and the game.” One agent: “I think
there are bullies on both sides and if you privately polled the non-bullies
this would be a different negotiation.”
NY
Post: MLB 2020 season on verge of painful Rob Manfred resolution. “Unilaterally
implementing a season.”
Bob
Klapisch NJ.com: Ready to fire Rob Manfred and Tony Clark? Here are 5 unlikely
replacements who could get an MLB deal. Joe Torre, Bob Costas, David Cone,
Bobby Valentine, Doug Glanville.
Kevin
Kernan Ballnine.com: Lowering the Bar, Lowering the Boom. “Both the owners
and the players have forgotten fans pay their salaries. A tipping point is near…The
majors had their lowest per game attendance last season since 2003 at 28,198
fans per game and the second lowest rated World Series, an 8.1 rating. Perhaps
fans are getting bored seeing all those 42,823 strikeouts last season, another
K record, or the 15,895 walks. So that means 58,718 batters went to the plate
last season and the ball was not put in play.”
Happy Father's Day from Ebbets Field (Part 1)-now let's get baseball back~!! pic.twitter.com/oLAlaVKf1M
— Flagstaff Films (@flagstafffilms) June 21, 2020
Happy Father's Day from Ebbets Field (Part 2)-now let's get baseball back~!! pic.twitter.com/VhKqXhib1T
— Flagstaff Films (@flagstafffilms) June 21, 2020
Mets have committed to paying their minor leaguers through August, per source.
— Andy Martino (@martinonyc) June 20, 2020
Ronny Mauricio getting some work in💯💯💯 pic.twitter.com/JE1eQ1tNO7
— GENY Mets Report (@genymets) June 19, 2020
It's so great to have baseball back at the ballpark! https://t.co/ApNwPLTsdH
— Columbia Fireflies (@ColaFireflies) June 22, 2020
Baseball
Mexico Blog: CHITO RODRIGUEZ URGES LMB TO CANCEL SEASON. A widely-respected
Salon de la Fama member with over four decades of Mexican League front office
experience is calling on the LMB to cancel the 2020 season due to ongoing
uncertainty regarding the Wuhan virus outbreak in Mexico. When asked by writer
Angel Villegas last week about the upcoming Mexican League season, Rodriguez
was quoted as saying, "cancel it," in Puro Beisbol. "I don't
think baseball being played in the LMB is possible this year. The country is
immersed in the virus and we don't know when it will be solved."
Yesterday in Japan:
Yesterday in the KBO.
NC Dinos 9 Hanwha Eagles 7 Aaron
Altherr 1 for 3 with an RBI (Box
Score).
Mack’s
Blast from the Past: 6/22/2013: Brooklyn 4 - Aberdeen 2. Southpaw Carlos
Valdez pitched well in his Cyclones debut, allowing just two runs in five
innings of work, but it was RHP Akeel
Morris who stole the show. In his second appearance for the Cyclones,
Morris was lights out, striking out seven in 3.2 IP allowing only one hit.
Born on this date:
- Ron Hodges (1949)
- Willie Harris (1978)
- Darrell Ceciliani (1990)
Transactions:
New York Mets traded Jack Heidemann to the Milwaukee Brewers for Tom Deidel on June 22, 1976.
New
York Mets released Mike
Torrez on June 22, 1984.
New
York Mets purchased Ed
Glynn from the Cleveland
Indians on June 22, 1984.
1963 - Philadelphia CF Tony Gonzalez plays his 200th straight errorless game to help rookie Ray Culp beat Roger Craig and the Mets, 2 - 0.
1980 - Claudell Washington hits his first three National League home runs to lead the Mets to a 9 - 6
win at Los Angeles and snap a seven-game losing streak.
1987 - Tom Seaver abandons his
comeback attempt with the injury-riddled Mets and retires
with a career Win-Loss record of 311-205, an ERA of 2.86, 3,640 strikeouts (3rd
on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton), and 61 shutouts (7th).
2009: All-Star centerfielder Carlos Beltran of the New York Mets is
placed on the disabled list with a bruised right knee.
The ailing Mets still defeat St. Louis, 6 - 4, as Omir
Santos goes 4 for 4 to hand Tim
Redding his first win for New York.
2017: The Dodgers complete a four-game sweep of the Mets with
a 6 - 3 win. Joc Pederson hits a go-ahead home run in the 7th and
teammates Enrique Hernandez and Justin Turner also go deep in the win.
Over the four games, Los Angeles outscored New York 36-11 and banged 15 homers
to move into first place in the NL West.
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Another in the "time flies" department: Darrell Ceciliani turning 30. Seems like only yesterday that he was drafted.
ReplyDeleteMy father suggested to me, as I rooted for the Mets against Jim Bunning late in the perfect game, that I root for Bunning that day, as he said to me that a perfect game was such a rare thing. I think I still kept rooting for the Mets to come back, though.
Hope all the fathers had a great Fathers Day. You are all Essential.
Let's hope the games go on, with strong precautions against getting Covid. It seems to be weakening - why else is a county like Suffolk, with nearly 2 million people, averaging just 1 Covid death per day and new hospitalizations down to about 10 per day? Why else would NYS's death rate be down 98% from its peak?
Apologize for being so picky, but that Dodger game film was not on Fathers Day. Went to every one (even yrs in Bklyn) and the never played the Pirates on FD.
ReplyDeleteSorry.
I became close with Akeem and his family when he was with the Mets.
ReplyDeleteHis fabulous Mom still follows me on FB.