Metsblog has a picture of where the Mets stuck the banners. Since the entire post is the picture there’s nothing to excerpt….so click the link:
Do you think this is the best placement? I would imagine that this is one of the least used entrances.
Why not stick them on the fence? There’s room for about 40 retired numbers….and with them giving #17 to anybody who comes by, I don’t sense we’re about to run off a bunch of retired numbers. No truth to the number that they might retire #1 in honor of Pee Wee Reese. I think.
i don’t even know what to think. maybe they’re listening. maybe this was in the plans all along. maybe this is the Wilpon’s way of throwing a bone to the fans. they put the banners up, which is good and I think necessary, but it’s in such a bad, hidden, place.
The only banners that mean a thing, the 1973 and 2000 pennant flags plus the 1969 and 1986 World Series flags are flying in plain view on the flagpoles in the pepsi porch, you can stand under them and take pictures, I did.
The division titles and worse the wild card banner from 1999 are right where they belong hidden, as each of those seasons are as meaningful as the ones in which the Mets did not make the playoffs.
By the way, love Keith Hernandez, but he has no business getting his number retired by the Mets.