What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Thanks again to the Mets for featuring MetsPolice in the latest issue of Mets Magazine (aka the scorecard/program).
Hopefully there are some new fans visiting this week…so I thought I’d re-post season 1 of How I Met The Mets. I’ll post one each day this week at noon
Some more info…
METS AND EMBLEMHEALTH TEAM UP TO CELEBRATE EDUCATION
AND FITNESS WITH SCHOOL IS AMAZING PROGRAM
Mike Pelfrey and Daniel Murphy Among Mets Players to Visit
Four New York City Public Schools Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday, May 18th
FLUSHING, N.Y., May 17, 2011 – The New York Mets and EmblemHealth, which provides health insurance to 2.9 million people through its companies Group Health Incorporated (GHI) and HIP Health Plan of New York (HIP), today announced that Mets players including Mike Pelfrey and Daniel Murphy will visit four middle schools across New York City Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday, May 18 in celebration of School Is Amazing.
Today, Pelfrey and Chris Capuano visited P.S. 184 in Brooklyn where they coached students in basketball and other activities designed to keep them healthy and active, while Daniel Murphy and Justin Turner went to P.S. 142 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side where they gave out tips to students playing in the school’s whiffleball program.
Tomorrow morning, Wednesday, May 18, Scott Hairston and Jason Pridie will provide instruction during a softball class at M.S. 101 in the Bronx. In the afternoon, Josh Thole will be the cheering squad for students as they race on a new track the children helped design at M.S. 216 in Fresh Meadows, Queens.
School Is Amazing celebrates academics, athletics, the arts, friendship and the opportunity to learn and develop intellectually and socially. EmblemHealth’s participation in the program promotes the connection between academic accomplishment and a healthy lifestyle including good nutrition and exercise. The School Is Amazing program was launched in 2006 by the Mets, and is sponsored by EmblemHealth. The program continues to reinforce the benefits of education and attendance, and allows students the opportunity to express what they most enjoy about school. Continue reading “Mets’ School is Amazing program”
Continuing a look at the greatest article ever
It was big changes, where they really wanted to change the whole look. And my thinking was, there’s nothing wrong with this look. It looks great, the cap looks great, the road jersey with the Red Sox-y lettering is classic — that’s my favorite Mets jersey, in fact, and they wanted to make big changes to that. But I said no, you don’t want to do that, you don’t need to overhaul your look.
That’s the killer quote. It’s what makes Halfacre, bringer of the black, a surprisingly sympathetic figure. One can only image the horrors that might have befallen the Mets.
Let’s take a look back to the state of uniforms circa 1998 (Yes I know that’s not Terry Collins)
That’s scary. Imagine crap like this..
Can you imagine what might have happened?
Matt did…
Hi Shannon.
Just a real quick thought about the Lukas column & your posts.
My initial thought when I first read it was, “would we have been better off if they were a complete & utter disaster?”, meaning would they have been SO bad that everyone would have been in an uproar & Fred would have had no choice to go back to the traditional look. Instead, we get what we have & most people accept it & the proud minority are huddled in our quiet corner of the internet complaining.
Just a thought. 🙂 Keep up the great work!
Matt
Charter Member, Blue Cap Army
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If you are new to Mets Police, the Halfacre article is here on ESPN’s Uni Watch…it chronicles how black uniforms came to Flushing.
Shannon,
During the rain delay the other night, I caught an old “Mets Yearbook” from 1982. It took me back to my earliest visits to Shea in the mid 80s. I distinctly recall the deep blue fence with pennants from every NL Club painted on the wall. I’d love to see this look revived at Citi Field. There are a few things standing in the way:
· Major league parks now rival Minor League Fields in outfield wall billboard space.
· The Mets have received enough criticism (and rightly so) for honoring other teams in their park.
I’d like to see a modern update on this design. Here’s what I’m thinking:
· Make the Citi Field fence a deep royal blue.
· Eliminate all current retired number and championship banners from the wall.
· Condense the billboards into the left and right field areas. (There’s plenty of room on the 16 foot left field wall), leaving a significant area from left center to right center clean.
· Bring back the pennants! They should stretch from left center to right center. However, instead of NL Clubs, the pennants should represent #37 Stengel, #14 Hodges, #41 Seaver, Shea, #42 MLB Jackie Robinson, the 1969 World Series, the 1986 World Series, the 1973 NL Championship and the 2000 NL Championship. (Sorry, no wild cards or division titles. Aim higher).
· An alternate, more advertiser-friendly design would be to place the pennants where the current numbers and banners reside on the top half of the left field fence, leaving those valuable billboards in place.
Who wouldn’t love to see a nod to the salad days at Shea? Know any graphic designers or photoshop junkies that would like to take a crack at this?
-Jeff
So class, what do you think?
One thing I do like is that the bar for “walldom” should be an NL Championship or World Series championship. Wild Card Schmile Card. Oooh you beat the Reds in a one game play-in. Who cares?
Some items from last night’s pre-game notes about this week’s off-field activities. I’ll try to share some pictures as I get them.
SCHOOL IS AMAZING: Daniel Murphy and Justin Turner will go to P.S. 142 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side where they will give out tips to students playing in the school’s wiffleball program, while R.A. Dickey and Mike Pelfrey will visit P.S.184 in Brooklyn where they will coach students in basketball and other activities designed to keep them healthy andactive…Mets players visit New York City schools to reinforce the benefits of education and fitness as part of its School is Amazing program, sponsored by Emblem Health.
WEATHER EDUCATION DAY: The Mets and PIX11 will host the sixth annual “Weather Education Day” this Thursday at Citi Field for 8,000 students from NY, NJ and CT prior to the Mets 1:10 p.mgame…Students will be treated to a pre-game meteorology lesson by PIX11 weather experts Mr. G and Linda Church, who will engage them in an interactive program about weather patterns…They will discuss some of the extreme weather we have experienced in recentmonths and take students behind the scenes at the PIX11 weathercenter.
