Coming Up This Week on Mets Police (January 3)

Here’s what’s coming up over the next few days…..

A look at the 1978 Yearbook.  Don’t you love the vintage chocolate ice cream stain on the cover.   I didn’t know I’d have a Mets blog 32 years later.

I ask a Mets executive out on a date.

A plan for a 7 game Saturday package that makes sense for you, me, and the Mets.

A ton of cool vintage Mets pennants.

We’ll investigate “Kid Met”

Then the week after I’ll apologize to the Mets.  It turns out there’s lots of Mets history at Citi Field, it’s just not where us riffraff hang out.

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Jeff Wilpon wants the Winter Classic at Citi Field

From the Post….as I mentioned the other day I think it would be awesome, but there’s no chance of Islanders-Rangers in my opinion.  I’m surprised the 2011 game isn’t already scheduled.

Slap Shots has learned that if the NHL wants to bring the Winter Classic to New York on the first day of 2011, Jeff Wilpon already has notified the commissioner that the Mets are ready, willing and able to host it at Citi Field.

“I’ve had several conversations with Commissioner Bettman and have informed him that we’d love to have the game,” Wilpon, the Mets’ COO, told us by phone on Thursday. “Gary has told me that he and his team will come out and do a site visit early in the year, so I know that we are going to be under consideration.”

Read more: in the Post

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Mets Police Decade In Review: Should the Mets retire 16, 17, 18?

Continuing a walk through the archives…from 4/9/09…should the Mets retire 16, 17 and 18?



My initial reaction was, “No way!  Teams retire too many numbers as it is!  Let’s not retire everyone!  It’s a special thing!”
Then I thought more.
The top two complaints about Citi Field are obstructed views (which hasn’t even begun to reach the levels of complaining it will once people sit in their “real” seats) and that there’s not enough Mets stuff at Citi Field.
About that he’s right, and so I agree – let’s hang some numbers on the fence.   I just think he has the wrong numbers.
Let’s start with the first choice.   17.
I cringe any time I see someone else wearing Keith Hernandez’s number.   He was The Captain.  He was the one who taught us how to win.   He was a great player, a great New Yorker, and has a constant long-term presence with the club.   He’ll never make the Hall of Fame, but he’s one of the greatest Mets of all time.   17 should be next.
Doc Gooden’s #16.   My initial reaction was no.   Gooden had a few great years, and some ok years later – but he never won 300 like was destiny.  He didn’t even win 200.
However, Gooden is like the ex-girlfriend you just can’t get out of your system.  No matter how much he hurts us, we always long for what could have been.
It has been 23 years since the 1986 Mets, it’s time to start honoring them.   Later in the summer, after Keith Hernandez day, let’s welcome back Gooden and hang the 16 on the fence.
Plus, I can pretend it’s for Lee Mazzilli.
Finally, Strawberry’s 18.  I’m going to say no.
Even when Darryl was here, he was talking about how he couldn’t wait to get to LA.  It was all he talked about.   I can’t do this revisionist history and pretend he loved us.  When I think of him today I actually picture him as a Yankee!    He’s one of our heroes…but he doesn’t deserve to be on the fence.
Mike Piazza’s #31.   We all know this one’s coming.  Let’s just get it up there.  We can tell Fred Wilpon he was a Dodger.
Baumbach makes a good case.  Check it out.

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Pictures of the 1982 Mets Yearbook (Part 3)

Here’s some more fun from the 1982 Yearbook….that grainy photo on the left shows some sort of promotion related to whatever King Korn was….

That’s from this section of the yearbook which is a great recap of the first 20 years of the franchise.  Unfortunately for you I take blurry photos and post them sideways.   No excuses here.

Here are some Mets who are on their way.  I have my money on that tall fellow Darryl in the middle of the back row.  I’m not too sure about the rest of these guys.   Next week we’ll look at the 1983 yearbook to see if he is in it…but tomorrow, it’s the 1978 yearbook.

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