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June 15, 2009

What If: Today’s Media and The Seaver Trade

I’m going to admit right in front, the following is not an original thought. The thought was inspired by a sentence in Jimmy Scott’s blog but it’s a great thought and one worth exploring.

What if we had today’s media environment in June 1977.

Imagine three months of Mike and/or the Mad Dog killing Seaver for asking off the Mets, or killing the Mets every day for not paying the guy.

Imagine popping on Mets Blog and finding out the Mets had traded Seaver AND Kingman for a bunch of guys you’ve never heard of. We’d all head on over to Mets Walkoffs and hope there was some cool stat about this Doug Flynn guy that we didn’t see at first glance.

Time marches on and the Mets start to really suck. Some righteous fat guy calling himself The Mets Police decides he hates Steve Henderson and starts piling on about how overrated he is.

Remember during the Art Howe years how the newspapers would put about a three paragraph Mets story in the paper once they were hopelessly eliminated? The same would happen to the ’77 Mets up against the Bronx Zoo (and did!).

Remember “Show up at Shea” and the stupid half-ass “children’s park” they tried in right field for like a season and a half? Try selling that to today’s fan-base after a Seaver-trade.

Can you even imagine a fire sale in today’s environment? Break up the core? Imagine waking up and finding out that while you slept the Mets traded Santana and Wright for some “prospects” – and they are trying to move Reyes and Beltran too.

Time marches on. Matlack leaves. Koosman leaves. The Yankees win a World Series, and then make up 13 games on the Red Sox. You’re sitting in an empty ballpark in Flushing. Blogger rage galore! WFAN becomes all-Yankees all the time. Fun times.

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June 14, 2009

Most Popular Mets Police Articles (week of June 14)

As usual a recap of the most popular Mets Police articles from the week (with a few of my favorite under-read articles mixed in). From the week the wheels fell off…

Far and away the most popular discussion was started by Vegas Rich who contends that Jerry Manuel is eliminating the Mets from contention. He may be right if I’m right about why Santana hasn’t been good.

What a horrible weekend it was. Who knows what Buckner, Castillo, Pratt, Pendleton and Scoscia have in common? I will tell you here.

No link but isn’t New Yankee Stadium a joke? And that one guy with the big neck who used to play for the Rangers…no not A-Rod….well….his neck is pretty big is all I’m saying. I don’t want to go all Ibanez on the guy.

Because of you and Charlie Samuels, the Mets are still wearing black. Click the link to donate money to cancer research every time the Mets don’t dress in black uniforms. At least Howie Rose is still ripping Charlie Samuels and the unis.

Instead of black, maybe the Mets should go with these New York Giants inspired uniform designs.

I thought Keith Hernandez saying the “core Latin players” didn’t like Willie Randolph was interesting.

New Stadium Insider has fan video from inside Yankee Stadium during “Castillo.” Watch the video before MLB takes it down (I’m sure they planned on selling a DVD from this vantage and the NSI video will hurt sales).

Speaking of New Yankee Stadium: Here’s my guide to the place.

How come nobody told me Mr. Met got married?

Vegas Rich walks you newbies through the history of the Mets. Part 1 and Part 2.

Upcoming this week: Seaver stuff. more obstructed views and more.

Shoutout to the fireman. Love ya.

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June 14, 2009

I Have Been Telling You What’s Wrong With New York Mets Johan Santana and Will Tell You Again

I’ve mentioned this several times, but now I will blow it out into a full fledged I TOLD YOU SO before the mainstream press figures it out.

On May 27th I was in he Promenade with a friend as the Mets played the Nationals. Santana labored threw a 41 pitch 4th inning. he was clearly laboring but Jerry left him. Then the Mets were on offense for a short time and Jerry sent Johan back out. Santana threw 120 pitches that night.

June 2 at Pitt. 3 runs on 6 innings but the radio guys mentioned his velocity was down. Once again I mentioned that I hoped that 41 pitch inning didn’t bite us in the fanny.

June 9 vs Philly: A win, but 5 runs and 4 home runs.

Today: velocity down, 9 runs in 3 innings.

All of us better hope it’s just a tired arm – but it’s another example of why you can’t let these guys throw a million pitches early in the season. If Santana goes down it’s time to wave the white flag rather than make a panic trade trying to chase the dragon.

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June 14, 2009

Mr. Met and Lady Met Got Married? Nobody told me.

Real Mets fans know that in Mets lore there was a female character called “Lady Met” who they haven’t used in quite some time.

I was trying to find out how old The Devil Charlie Samuels is (hoping we can buy him a nice black Mets jersey for his retirement and wish him well) and I stumbled across this page on mlb.com

The picture is captioned Mr. and Mrs. Met.

Lady Met used to look like this.

Then again, Mr. Met used to look like this.

So I’m going to assume Lady Met and Mrs. Met are the same person despite their appearances. Unless everyone wants to roll with me and call this current goofball lame imitation Mr. Met II like I do.

You know what, I have changed my mind one sentence later. Mr. Met II is married to Mrs. Met. I’ll assume Mr. Met I and Lady Met retired and live somewhere near Port St. Lucie. Maybe Mr. Met II is a distant nephew or something.

Did some more research and found this ESPN video:

Was there a wedding at some point? When did he have all these kids? Did I just black out and miss all this or did the Mr. Met canon get rebooted for ESPN?

This is the kind of stuff I worry about. Help me out here folks. I know one of you is even nerdier than me and is going to point out that the Mets had a wedding between games of a doubleheader in 1994 or something.

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June 14, 2009

Howie Rose Comments On New York Mets Black Uniforms Aagain

During the top of the first Sunday…big time paraphrasing:

The Mets are wearing their alternate black road uniform tops today at the behest of Charlie Samuels. Charlie was all hopped up yesterday that they won while wearing the non-Mets black uniforms.

Then either Howie or Wayne said that it’s funny that you never hear from Charlie when the Mets lose in black uniforms.

While we’re talking about Howie – what a fine play by play guy he has become. He was never awesome on Sportschannel where he was burdened with Fran Healy, but since becoming the main voice of the Mets following Murph’s death, Howie has really hit his stride.

Howie was born in 1954 so hopefully we will get another 20 years out of him. It also means he was a young man when he was hosting Mets Extra.

It’s great having a real Mets fan in the booth, not a paycheck fan like Sterling (seriously, if Sterling became the voice of the Diamonbacks, suddenly Arizona would be a shrine).

Every time I hear Suzyn genuflect at the beginning of the game I throw up. Can you imagine someone having to say “and now here he is, the VOICE of the New York Mets – Mr. Bob Murphy?”..and yeah I understand Mr. Murphy wasn’t the nicest person to work with either.