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Another Mr. Met 1.5 appearance
This too showed up at Hofstra and on Remembering Shea’s Flickr set.
From what I can tell, the original Mr. Met was downsized by the Mets in the late 70’s and replaced by Mettle the Mule.
Mister had two sons. The older (1.5) partied too much and didn’t take the job seriously, often looking wide-eyed and crazy in photos. The younger brother (Mr. Met II) went to school with Jeff Wilpon and is a more stable influence on children than this party animal seen on the 94 schedule.
Letter to Dana « Faith and Fear in Flushing
I know I excerpt from faith and Fear like 5 times a week but it’s just so so so damn good.
This time it’s a letter from Greg Prince to Dana Brand. It was Dana’s idea to have the Hofstra conference. Unfortunately Dana passed away before the conference took place, but Greg and a few others saw it through.
I feel bad that I’ve split two paragraphs here (there was a third fine one in the middle) but my goal in excerpting from Greg is not to steal his readers but to entice you guys to go there.
So here’s two paragraphs from another masterpiece which I hope you’ll go read.
My unacademic conclusion was you get out of your experiences what you get out of them, and I felt enhanced by my three days surrounded by Mets fans (peppered by the occasional unbiased Mets observer). This is the stuff we decide we care about. I was at the same game as that guy when he caught the Kingman ball. As he introduced his story, I could tell that was the game he was headed for. I was excited to hear what happened to him at Shea in 1979; where the ball took him; why the notoriously anti-social Kingman didn’t big-league him and instead tolerated his request for an autograph; how Kingman might have been different from his reputation; what their next interaction entailed when he tracked Kingman down at the end of his last-ditch minor league stint in 1987 and showed him the same ball plus the paper he wrote for high school about catching it and meeting him; what an allegedly cranky old ballplayer was like when confronted by unimpeachable fandom in retirement.
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You also said plainly enough that “the Hofstra Conference on the New York Mets would be a lot of fun.” Mission accomplished on that count. How could something that included Mr. Met not be fun? I know you wanted the Mets themselves to be involved and that proved tricky, but they did send their literally heaviest hitter to Hofstra (as measured by head weight, of course, though let’s not overlook prominence, either). Mr. Met made no small contribution to the proceedings. To that I can attest.
As for Greg and the others who made Hofstra happen…standing o with the slow clap and my complete respect. Great job fellas. Great job Dana.
You own this Mets jersey: BiggD
@guydownthere with a gem
In a recent survey of people who wore #1 for the Mets, BiggD finished ahead of Castillo and Vince Coleman.
Actual thoughts about the standings (Mets)
If you look at today’s standings you’ll notice the Mets are 12-5 against the east.
You will also notice that the Nats, Braves and Marlins have each only played around 9 games within the division. That means the other teams will be playing each other. And when they do, someone has to lose. That will help clear the logjam that finds four of the five teams above .500
Of course when someone loses that means someone wins. Let’s hope for lots and lots of splits, and hope that the Mets continue to take care of their own dirty work.
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Although I’m still mad at Joe Torre over capgate, I do think he’s right about getting to five games over .500 (and then 10 and then 15..). Get to five over and then treat that like the new .500. If you fall to 4 over again be mad and claw your way back to the new .500. Stay 5 over for a while and eventually you get hot and 10 becomes your new floor. 10 over is 86 wins.
So big game tonight. Not life or death, but a game that can make your season.
Sounds like I missed a fun game last night!
