Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Shannon Shark is the founder of MetsPolice.com, tweets as @metspolice, is an avid fan of Lee Mazzilli and Daniel Murphy, hates black uniforms and is the author of "Send The Beer Guy" available at Amazon.com. #imwith28
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5 Words to describe the Mets

The Mets survey asked folks to name five words that describe the Mets. I asked for your submissions. Here’s a few for starters:

George: frustrating, predictable, mismanaged, remote, depressing
RCR: Disgruntled, Underacheiving, Overpaid, Uninspired, Unorganized

however Maggie went the haiku* route (I know a haiku isn’t 5 words but whatever) with one..

Maggie: second-class citizens to the Yankees

Ouch.

Mags, let it go. The frontrunners will be back as soon as Sandy & Colactus clear out Omar’s payroll. Even if the Mets run off 25 straight titles we’ll still have to listen to Yankees fans.

Got five? Hit the comments…

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The Mets Google Ngram viewer

Did you ever wonder how often the word Mets appears in the history of books?   Google has a new toy that lets you punch words in to see how often they appear.

To little surprise, the Mets didn’t start appearing until after 1960.

Here’s a different graph which shows 1960-2010.

What does it all mean?  I have no idea except (a) the line goes up, (b) I killed 10 minutes at work and (c) we’re one post closer to Opening Day.

Click on the graphs for a bigger version.

Oh, and no I didn’t solve the code tweaking to get rid of the black-shirts ads.