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January 16, 2010

Construction Alert

Heads up to the faithful, the site might go down, or you may come by and find a placeholder site. I’m working on a redesign and I’m in over my head and bobbing in the waves. It’ll all work out but just wanted to warn everyone before the oddities happen. Tonight I am waiting on some stuff over which I have no control, I need various internet companies to send each other emails.

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January 16, 2010

2010 New York Mets Batting Practice Caps

Thanks to NyPfdr for watching my back this morning and letting me know the new 2010 batting practice caps have been released.

This is a league wide thing so we can’t just kill the Mets on it.

Let’s for a second suggest that the black shouldn’t be on there. We may have something then that looks like this Giants cap (thanks Uni Watch)

We might wind up with a normal looking Mets cap with just some weird pop-up line thing on the brim.

I don’t totally hate it (if they insist on having black for some reason, and what is that reason again?) but I don’t get the brim.

Instead of piling on our poor beaten down Mets, lets focus our annoyance on the Yankee who have decided to have road…

…and home caps. You can see all the teams here, and be thankful you’re not an Orioles fan today.

January 16, 2010

Meet the Mets bloggers….24 Hours From Suicide

Continuing the Meet the Mets Blogger Series

Who are you and what’s the name of your blog?
We are 24 Hours From Suicide…A Day In The Life Of A Met Fan
(www.longislandmetfan.blogspot.com)

The site mainly consists of two writers:

Long Island Met Fan
metsfan73

What kind of things can we find on your site?
Unlike the majority of Mets sites, we offer the entire history of the Mets. We do not just cover from 1986 to the present, or from 2000 to the present. We deal with current Mets news, opinions, as well as anything else related to the Mets. We cover this team from it’s inception in 1962 through present day. We have such topics as Where Are They Now: bringing fans up-to-date with Mets from the past, Talk Me In Off The Ledge: which allows us to rant about something that irks us, and we have periodic posts called A Fans Fond Memory: which recounts special memories we have of times at Shea, Citi, or even watching from home.We believe in the history of this team, not just present day, and we try and show our readers more than what they might read on line or in the press.

Expectations for 2010?
The jury is still out. If Omar bolsters the pitching staff in the coming weeks, along with signing a catcher, plus a little more bench depth, a play-off spot isn’t out of the question. Of course, the health of the team will be the big question, especially after 2009. If Omar doesn’t do anything the remainder of this off-season, I see the Mets, at best, finishing third.

(btw – David sent this to me pre-Beltran.)

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January 16, 2010

Felix Millan 1976 New York Mets Topps Baseball Card

Here’s a website dedicated to the 1976 Topps Baseball Cards.

I think Felix needs to choke up a little more. I also think his number should be retired.

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January 16, 2010

Mets Yearbook: 1969 (Vintage edition)

Good morning. Seems quiet in Flushing, and today is supposed to be redesign day (redesign night actually) so once the coffee kicks in and I clear my daddy duties for the day, away we go.

My DVR tells me “Mets Yearbook 1976” is coming soon. That should be fun. In the meanintime, here’s some material from the films SNY is using to fuel Mets Yearbook. Let’s call this one “Mets Yearbook 1969.”

1969 Mets Highlight Reel from Brad S on Vimeo.

Osh41 did send me a ton of pictures from the Mets fans gathering, I will post those and Peter’s as soon as we move to the new place. As a reader, expect that at some point you come to the site this weekend and it looks different. Other than that, should be smooth sailing. I’m using a web design company called Minaya-Wilpon and supposedly they are the best.