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The linked article examines the history of new Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary word "F-bomb." A snippet: So who's responsible for lobbing F-bomb far and wide? Kory Stamper, an associate editor for Merriam-Webster, said she and her fellow word spies at the Massachusetts company traced it back to 1988, in a Newsday story that had the now-dead Mets catcher Gary Carter talking about how he had given them up, along with other profanities. Hat tip to Metstradamus for sharing this.

If Jackson ever bothered to look at the numbers, Carter entrance into Cooperstown is well deserved. I guess such a task is hard for another "classy" Yankee. Keith and Ron come to Carter's defense.

Please join Ms. Tanya Mercado and I as we pay tribute to the late great #8, former Montreal Expos and New York Mets Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter on this week's Phil Naessens Show.

I'm unable to find the embed, but this is a very touching tribute to the Kid.

Chris Jaffe at the Hardball Times looks back at the great and memorable games of Gary Carter's career.

Courtesy of SB Nation: New York, video of Gary Carter's Hall of Fame acceptance speech in 2003.

Great news!!!

Good luck, Gary - we are all rooting for you

Not good. Kimmy Bloemers, the daughter of baseball Hall of Famer Gary Carter, wrote on the family’s website that her father’s brain tumors are inoperable, the Montreal Gazette reports. "Dad’s tumor is not operable, as it is like a snake of tumors that are connected across the back of the brain," Bloemers wrote. "The biggest tumor is on the left side of the brain."