The Mets Police

Another look at Brian’s closet.  Here’s Brian:

Vaughn
The only saving grace in this one is that I have a jersey of the last Mets’ player to ever wear #42 as a full time number. I’m convinced that the sole highlight of his Mets career was that 500 foot bomb he hit off the Budweiser sign on the Shea scoreboard against the Braves in 2002. For Mo and all of us who watched him, that was as good as it gets.

Want to feel worse about this? We took Vaughn and his bloated salary from the Angels in exchange for one year bust Kevin Appier. Want to know the young arm the A’s drafted as compensation for the Mets signing away Appier in the 2000 offseason? Jeremy Bonderman. He’d look pretty decent in the number 5 spot in the rotation right about now.

She’s a good girl, loves Mazzilli
Loves Seaver and Piazza too
She’s a good girl, crazy ’bout Reyes
Loves Hojo and Dwight Gooden too

Good work by Keith Olbermann on his Baseball Nerd blog….he has proof that there are pictures of Torre at Fake new Yankee Stadium.

It’s a long day listenin’ to Howie
Don’t want to… donate my car
And I’m a bad boy, ’cause I don’t even miss them
I’m a bad boy for startin’ this blog

(everybody!)
And we’re free, we’re free fallin’

Speaking of the Yankees, Googling God has a nice story about Mrs. Bob Sheppard.

All the vampires walkin’ through the clubhouse
Move west down Ventura Blvd
And all the bad boys are calling Joe Benigno
All the Mets fans are home with broken hearts

And we’re free, we’re free fallin’

Paul’s Random Stuff is having Vintage Week, where he looks at old Mets baseball cards.  Very cool.

Now the Mets fly over Mulholland
I want meaningful games in July
Don’t wanna free fall out into nothin’
Wanna enjoy the Mets for awhile

And we’re free, we’re free fallin’

Let’s open up the fake mailbag:

Fake letter #1 says:  Hey Shannon, love the blog.  I notice you didn’t post the cool thing I sent you a few days ago.   Jimmy.

Jimmy, thanks for pretending to write.  Well, I argue with lawyers all day long and had a cold kicking my tail earlier in the week but get this – remember how I mentioned the Mets Police HQ renovation a few weeks ago?  Well tonight I got home in a good mood and was looking forward to blogging and one of the kids had overflowed the toilet and took his or her time telling Mrs. Mets Police about the flood….so the brand new family room ceiling is ruined.   AWESOME.  So I agree, I am behind on my blogging.

Fake letter #2:

Shannon, nobody gives a crap about your homelife.   What happened to the hard-hitting chop-busting stuff you did in 2009?  You’ve gone soft.   Jimmy.

Well Jimmy, the franchise has fixed a lot of sins from 2009.  We now get to enjoy the wonderful new museum, and there’s more “Mets stuff” at the park.  So that’s not worth bitching about.

I also have to remind myself that not everyone has read the blog from the start…so maybe you missed a few things.  I’m still mad that Dave Howard won’t admit that there are Obstructed Views at Citi Field.  Some day Dave will take me up on my offer and sit in the first three rows of the Promenade and we’ll talk about it.  I’ll pay for the tickets, beer and hot dog.  Let’s hang, Dave.

Fake letter #3:

Shannon, you write like 7 posts a day.  What has been the most popular post of the last 365 days?   Dan.

Dan, the most popular post of the last 365 days has been Pictures of the 1986 Tickertape Parade which were taken by Dan Twohig who helps me out from time to time

Fake letter #4

Shannon, just curious – what was the #2 post of the past 365 days?  Different Dan.

Well different Dan, the second most popular was the time The Mets Respond To Our Letter which was also written by Dan Twohig.  Hey, wait a second…

Fake Letter #5:

Shannon, do you write anything anyone reads, or does Dan do it all?    Call me Nad.

Nad, I guess I get credit for Incorrect Information on 1986 Fan Brick which is #3…but of course that’s because I got a tip, and then the Times picked up the story….

Fake Letter #6:

Shannon, even though Dan does all the work and you coast off tips – how can I subscribe via Google Reader or can I get a free daily email?   Shannon.

Hey Shannon, great name.    Yeah, you can get a free daily email with all the articles by clicking here, ditto on Google Reader.

Fake Letter #7:

Wow this is some amazing blog.  Do you do an audio version or a podcast or anything?   Zimmy.

Zimmy, we do have a podcast which you can grab here or listen on Blogtalkradio here or the player on the right side of the main page.  The next show is Sunday at 6:30

Actual Letter #8:

Shannon,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tezza_pics/sets/72157624553834434/

Dark Mets Blue (like we remembered it), Green underbill, White cotton sweatband, no MLB logo on back and Blue button (“Squatchie” for the UWers)….Heaven.

Terence M.K.

Terence those are AWESOME.

Fake Letter #9:

Shannon, you’re putting on weight again.  What the hell was with wolfing down a whole pizza at 8:30 tonight?  And are you going to be on the computer all night?  Wouldn’t you rather come upstairs for some kissin’ instead of watching Mets-Diamonbacks and blogging about some caps you saw?   Mrs. Mets Police

Have you seen what the kids did to the ceiling?!   Be right up…