What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Last week I heard from Angel who is a Mets fan living out by Anaheim. Â He mentioned that he has every Mets yearbook and was kind enough to send photos. Â I’ll post one a day until we get to the end. Â Some of these are more familiar to me than others, and I thought it would be a neat thing for you and I to enjoy.
First of a 5 part series. Â Here’s Brian:
I loved Terrence’s posts about customizing his authentic jersey, because I’ve been through the process a bunch myself. Sometimes, you go for the new young gun who you think has the potential to be a star, like I did in the summer of 2003 with Jose Reyes. That one panned out pretty well. But then…there are other times. Times you get caught up in the seemingly big signing or a huge month of June that catapults our team into first. These are those kinds of jerseys. Here’s my best of the worst. All authentic, all expensive…all mistakes.
Alomar
This one was a shocker. I still can’t believe Alomar was as big of a New York bust as he was. 2002 was my senior year of high school and when my buddy bust into our classroom breathless with a print out from ESPN.com that the Mets had acquired Alomar, I had disillusions of the Canyon of Heroes. I immediately ran out to snag this futute Hall of Famers jersey. Little did I know Flushing would be one of the last stops (and one of the few disappointing ones) on his farewell tour to the game.
Just curious Mets fans: earlier in the season many of you were screaming about replay.
Do you still wish that a camera had overturned yesterday’s 9th inning call and sent the Mets reeling, or is replay only a good thing when it doesn’t hurt the Mets?
The papers are filled with Mets saying the runner was safe at home. Shhhhh. Keep your mouths shut before we have a Pine Tar game.
Santana must be the greatest teammate ever. He steps up every time this team really needs a win, and he never bitches anyone out when his W total stays the same. Ace.
Yesterday on the radio Eddie point blank referred to Wright as the captain, then qualified it with “well de facto captain anyway” or words to that effect.
I was mentally prepared for no Howie so I was fine with Wayne and Eddie. Even without Howie in there the Mets booth is a million times better than that inexplicable mess across town.
This morning the Mets sent an email offering prorated season tickets. I know some folks will complain that the Johnny Come Latelys get the same “benefits” that the people who bought in the winter got but…
…what exactly are these benefits anyway? Do you really care?
…if you are worried about postseason tickets then just do the postseason reservation thing MLB posted a few weeks back.
…the Mets are in the business of selling tickets and merchandise. The baseball is just the mechanism that gets you in the building or your eyes to SNY.
…maybe this teaches people to wait, so if you are mad you can have the last laugh.
The below is what the Mets sent. I’m mobile so I can’t format it. The offer is on mets.com
Season Tickets include all 29 remaining regular season home games beginning August 10 at Citi Field and access to exclusive Season Ticket Holder only benefits and services. Get the same great seat location, a preferred parking option, the ability to electronically transfer and resell your tickets, the option to purchase your seats for all potential 2010 Mets postseason games at Citi Field.
We did another audio version of Mets Police tonight. Â You can listen below, and we’ll do another one next Sunday at 6:30. Â Topics covered included: Wayne Hagin, Mets Fan Panic, Santana the Ace, K-Rod and the shaky history of Mets closers, Old-Timers Day 2011, All-Star Game 2013 and is David Wright one of the Top 10 third basemen ever? (Some of those were also covered here on MetsPolice.com – anything that looks like a link is a link to the article…for the audio play the file below.
I expect the All Star Game jerseys to look terrible if the Mets host.
Here are the Mets ad in honor of George Steinbrenner and the patches the Yankees added to their jersey in honor of George and Bob Sheppard. Â I really liked Bob, lots of Bob Sheppard articles here.
I suspect you’ll be as fascinated as I am by this video of a fan and Gary Carter.
The infamous Lee Mazzilli poster
From 1976: The Mets pillbox caps
Come on, Mettle the Mule!
You went to the beach and missed this video of Shea’s deconstruction and the photos of Mets stuff in the Yankees museum.
From late Friday: photos of Mets players from the late 1970’s
Anyone digging the organ music at Citi Field?
Coming up this week: Â a wonderful set of “You own this jersey” articles, and a look back at all the Mets Yearbooks since 1962 – the actual books not the SNY show that they don’t promote properly (such as when it’s on). Â Looking back I really didn’t obsess over uniforms or caps this week. Â How strange.
