Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

 

There’s nothing “nice” about a story that starts with a police officer being killed, but I thought you’d find this one interesting.  The Mets have invited the family of Det. John Falcone out to Citi Field.  If you click through the link you’ll see David Wright made the call.

The Mets don’t make a big deal out of such things since they aren’t doing it for the press..but since I give the franchise lots of guff I like when I can shed light on things like this…again if such a thing can be “good” when starting from such a bad place.

On Feb. 18, Falcone was shot while he tried to disarm a Catskill man, 27-year-old Lee Welch, who had just shot and killed his wife, Jessica, in a parking lot near the Poughkeepsie Railroad Station. He was the first police officer in the city’s history to be shot and killed in the line of duty.

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Saturday’s invitation to Citi Field in Flushing came after Falcone’s cousin, Robert Frank, of Middletown, wrote to the Mets about the shooting and how Falcone was a huge fan.

via New York Mets to host family of slain police officer | Democrat and Chronicle | democratandchronicle.com.

I know most of you will just decide I’m an idiot and I’ll hear from the “who cares?” crowd today but since this blog is so much about viewing the Mets through my eyes, I don’t have it in me to fake it this morning.

This return to black annoys me.

If you follow the site you’ll notice I have been pretty cheery, pretty positive.  I’ve been on twitter during just about every game and enjoying the hang-out.  There have been lots of posts.

Even though they sucked, I felt like MY Mets were back.

Last night, even though they won I felt like I was staring at the Jeff Wilpon Mets that hijacked my team.  They might as well have started Tom Glavine last night and let a Yankees captain manage.  I felt so distant.

I know most of you are excited about the win.  I’m not.  I’m not even being stubbornly defiant…I’m being honest, I feel empty.

This was supposed to be the soft infested summer me and Terry became friends.  Now he’s just Colactus: returner of the black.  An outsider.  Not one of us.

I know this is dumb, but this is about me.

Maybe I should just let Media Goon take the lead today or maybe I’ll just post a lot of pictures.

I’m kind of done with this subject for a while and I’m sure you’re all bored with it, so I’m gonna let it go and let General Lukas fight this one while I regroup.

I know we’ll see the dopey black tonight.  Only more losses get rid of it, and I can’t root for that either.

But the desperate Mets also tried to alter their recent karma by going back to the uniform patterns they used during spring training – donning white tops with black undershirts, caps and socks for the series finale.

“The unis might’ve worked,” Terry Collins, who was ejected in the first inning, said afterward. “I don’t know. I know one thing: We played pretty good in spring training in this outfit.” (via Daily News)

True.  Hopefully the rest of the major leagues will start their AAA lineups on the road like they did all spring.

32,819 saw the Mets climb into a second place tie for “most wins at Citi Field” with two.

Dressing in lucky black undershirts is not enough (also via Daily News)

 

I’m so annoyed. This was Terry’s idea.

Update: yay, the bringer of black got tossed. Here’s a crowd shot via @mediagoon.