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Originally Posted by dsvitak
I know you're attempting to be cute..but if peeps can't understand what you're saying...
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Well, any Mets fan can.
1. "Frankie Sweet Money" is a reference to Lindor's contract and a play on the nickname of the LAST notable "Frankie" in these parts, Frank "Frankie Sweet Music" Viola. I also note that I've had 5 years to think this up, given that Lindor is entering his fifth season with the team.
(Yes, yes, Lindor's contract looks like bus fare compared to Soto's, but Frankie's was waaaay more shocking, at the time.)
2. Soto
3. "Swaggy V" is apparently the name his teammates call Vientos, as discussed on this very page.
4. Nimmo
5. My calling Winker "Pocket Lint" is literally in the very post you quoted, and "the Decaying Corpse of Starling Marte" has Marte's name right there to see, even if you haven't followed the progress in this thread from "The Broken Corpse of Starling Marte" to the current "The Decaying Corpse". It's a reference to his age and injuries, obviously. (See also "The Ghost of Rich Hill", who lasted three more seasons even after I declared his career "dead".)
6. Alvarez
7. "Squirrel" is of course our beloved Jeff McNeill (just because "Polar Bear" Pete Alonso gets a few more mentions doesn't mean we don't love our little Rodent) and "McKnees" is a reference to how Jeff got ground down early last season because David "Wild Turkey" Stearns was apparently too drunk to get us a back up infielder last May, and thus Jeff had to play Every. Single. Inning. at 2B, thus grinding his knees to powder. A bit more inside than some others, but easy enough if you know.
8. Predictable "Siri" joke about Jose Siri whom (if you didn't know) the Mets have traded for and who will be our new (mediocre) CF.
9. TBD means what it always means.
So only 3 of the 8 require deeper knowledge, and nothing particularly obscure. No need to panic, keep pushing.
("David 'Wild Turkey' Stearns" is a quadruple-homage to
1. David Stearns, the current Mets GM
2. "Turkey" Stearnes, the Hall of Famer
3. "Wild Turkey" a brand of Bourbon
4. Recent Mets GM Zak Scott, who was suspended for DUI, not long before his firing.
So, when I think David Stearns is doing something exceedingly stupid [such as refusing call up a middle IF to save McNeill's knees], I refer to him as "David 'Wild Turkey' Stearns" implying that judgment this bad can only be the result of drunkenness. Got it?)