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Gil Griffin
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NY-born, NY/DC-raised, L.A.-based journalist/teacher/author. Roots: Bakongo/Mbundu 🇦🇴, Mandinka 🇬🇲, 🧡💙#Mets ⚾; 💜#FreoDockers 🏉; wife 👩🏽; cat 🐱; travel; SCUBA🦈; fitness; sci-fi. 🚫maga, 🚫🤡, 🚫ICE; I speak: español 🇪🇸, Pilipino 🇵🇭, 'olelo Hawai'i 🤙🏾, Aussie English.
We need summa that attitude.
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
This better not be true. I wouldn't trade a bag of tortilla chips for Luis Robert Jr.
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Meyers?
December 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Surely you jest.
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Prodigious LH power and strong thinker with the temerity to publicly question playing of “God Bless America” post 9-11 at stadiums and call out US military for using Puerto Rican-adjacent, uninhabited island Vieques as target practice. Was🔥 in ‘06 postseason. What if HE’D have batted vs Wainwright?🥺
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It’ll be a steal IF we also re-sign Edwin Díaz.
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I was at that game in San Diego. End. Of. Story.😄
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Good point. Díaz was horrendous then, but eventually he got it together -- and even returned good as new in '24 after being out a year after tearing his ACL. I want him back.
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Don't forget A.J. Minter. He was lights out before he got hurt and was top-notch for years with Atlanta before that.
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I don't see this as Stearns pushing away Díaz. If he re-signs him, I kinda like the idea of Minter and Williams setting Díaz up. Could Williams possibly be any worse in the role than Helsley or Rogers?
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Hopefully -- and for now, an insurance policy. Won't this be fun if we also re-sign Pete, to have these two on the same side? 😁
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
That's why it pains me that #Mets haven't yet retired his number. Love Keith, too, but Keith was a Met only a year-and-a-half longer than Kid.
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Unfortunately, Straw appears to have self-medicated for his trauma with alcohol, weed, and illegal drugs before his eventual spiritual transformation. He's also a colon cancer survivor. He's had a very tough life. I'm privileged to have loving parents and to have had a safe and nurturing household.🙏🏿
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Giving in? I dunno how I'd react if I had a horrible father as Darryl did, who physically and emotionally abused my mother, me and my siblings. Unfortunately, Darryl carried some of that abuse out on his first wife.
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM