Category: mets

@pjayf44 not only has a nice twitter icon but she’s in the 514

And someone named @docgooden16 is at the game

If you watched the game last night you heard lots and lots of fence talk from Keith and Gary. Like a lot. Like enough to make me thing someone is talking about it in Queens.

So that sets up this letter from Jeff.

Shannon,

The talk of adjusting the Citi Field fences has been constant enough since the ballpark’s opening that I have accepted it as inevitable. If the Mets must (and I don’t think they must) adjust the fences, please give us something aesthetically acceptable. By adding a row of seats to the left field stands, the entire left field fence would move in about 3 to 4 feet and the outfield wall would need to be lowered by about 1 foot.

I think this would produce a few more honest home runs, while still maintaining the feel of a pitchers park. It would also create one more row of promenade seats that can now see the fence. Knowing the cost of such an addition, I’d suspect it’s more likely we’ll just see a tacky orange stripe across the middle of the fence. Besides reviving a look not seen since the implosion of all the football/baseball cookie cutters, it would render fans on the entire left field side of the stadium incapable of determining a home run.

Thoughts?

-Jeff

I like the park the way it is. You know how I get. It might be a dumb design but it’s our dumb design so let’s leave it that way for 65 years until I invent the holodeck, buy the team from David Einhorn Junior and open the Mazzillidome back where Shea was. Don’t worry it will have squares on the outside.

Until that day, I suspect we’re going to see a dopey orange line halfway across the Great Wall of Flushing.

Unless you want a silly “inner fence” like Yankee Stadium II had. Yuck.

@mskatiebordiuk checked in.

And good old reliable @sclevine

Remember yesterday when Steve D brought up this Seaver jersey that Tom never wore in a game (because the design changed)…well, some interesting things popped up in the comments section.

Stephen checked in:

Hello Officer,

I was the co-owner and editor of New York Sports when we launched that first issue in April 1983. We did a cover photo shoot with Seaver at Shea that January or February before the team went to spring training. A couple of side stories: The only reason we got Tom Terrific to smile the way he did was by his asking Jay Horwitz to stand next to the camera lens so Seaver could look at him and, as Tom said, “laugh his ass off.”

Also, in that issue we have a profile of Neil Allen in which he blasted Mets management and many players during a interview at his home while he was downing many beers. The fallout from that story is what spurred Frank Cashen to try to trade Allen and he found a taker in the Cardinals who were looking to unload Keith Hernandez. So I take at least a little credit for getting Hernandez to the Mets.

and Joe D. from Mets Merized Online tacked on…

The former owner and senior editior of New York Sports magazine is Stephen Hanks who is now the senior staff writer at Mets Merized Online and co-host of our upcoming Metsmerized Radio.

Here is an article from him that explains the backstory written in 2009.

http://metsmerizedonline.com/2009/12/a-winters-tale-the-keith-hernandez-trade-and-me.html

Ironically, he has a new Seaver post coming up this week from the Veterans Luncheon at Citi Field complete with pictures.

And I suggest the next thing you do is go read the Neil Allen stuff in that link.  Wow it’s amazin’ and made me chuckle with this one from Neil, “Stearns may not be able to throw the whole year and that leaves Ron Hodges at catcher, a guy people think died because they confuse him with Gil Hodges”

As a kid, yep we would confuse Gil and Ron.  I know that seems absurd now.  Hilarious.

And this right here is why I love doing the blog…random old Seaver photo, an answer, some memories.  I love when you guys have suggested topics and when you help with answers.

Most of all I like the randomness…sure I’ll have runs of uniforms or Seaver or Mazzilli but for the most part it’s a fun mix.  Thanks for reading, and always open to ideas and guest posts at [email protected]

 

There’s a new entry over at Blog That Criticizes Wayne Hagin that you should read. If I tease it all I will give away the surprise ending.

Mets Police does not wish anyone to lose their job. However, if Wayne were to get a multi-million dollar deal to call Phillies games for the next 50 years I would be happy for his success.