Mets blood drive at Citi Field on Thursday. Give blood, get tickets.

The Mets will host their annual Winter Blood Drive for the New York Blood Center on Thursday, January 6th, 2011 in Citi Field’s Caesars Club from 10am to 5pm (Donors should enter through the Hodges VIP Entrance). Donors must be 17 years of age (16 with parental permission), weigh at least 110 lbs and be in good health. Each donor will receive a pair of tickets to a 2011 Mets home game during the month of April. Bring ID with photo or signature. Patrons may use parking lot G at the corner of 126th Street and Roosevelt Avenue. Call 1-800-933-BLOOD for more information.

Give the gift of life, give blood.

Make our own Mets Old-Timers Day: Center Field

Once again the premise is invite three and only three living former Mets at each position to hypothetical Mets Old Timers Day (this being the 50th season at all).

Today, CF.

Mookie Wilson, Lenny Dykstra (we won’t talk stocks) and (cue the Springsteen music)

Do I have to say his name?

Master of the Universe.

King of the World.

Weighing in at 6’1 and 180 pounds.

From Lincoln High School in Brooklyn NY

Number 16….

And to think all three men were on the 1986 Mets together!

Mets stuff to kill time at work

Good morning Mets fans,

I know you blew off the site the last two weeks.  It’s OK.   But now you’re back to work and need timekillers.   Lucky for you I have plenty of articles for you to read while you’re supposedly working on projects and killing time until 5pm Friday.

Props to the Metsoblogosphere for continuing to churn out new content during the “break” whereas most of the mainstream either printed nothing about the Mets or generic “10 things something something” looks back or looks ahead.

The Worst 50 Mets of All Time discussion is sailing along.  I will recap soon.

Your votes for Make Our Own Old-Timers Day at SS, 2B, C, 1B, LF, RF

Some information about the 2012 Mets Conference, and some more information.

I got a great Mets jacket for Christmas!

A Los Angeles blog called Strawberry the worst acquisition of the past 25 years.

A great picture of Tug McGraw and Danny Frisella

Retire #7?

The 2010 Mets Police awards and Randy’s acceptance speech.

Dave Howard should steal my Undefeated Tuesdays promotion and run to the bank.

Hockey:  Charles Wang floats “Queens” as a possible home and here’s what it might look like at Citi.

Looking ahead this week there’s actually good stuff coming up. What a luxury to have posts lined up at the start of January.

Make our own Old Timers Day: CF.  Oh you should know who I am inviting.

Pictures of Josh Thole dressed as a french maid.  Really.

A look back at the Mets 40th anniversary (a great guest post)

A rerun of the history of Mets uniforms.

and a bunch of unscheduled items related to Lee Mazzilli, Jerry Grote, Tom Seaver and even Christy Mathewson.

Is it Friday yet?