What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Speaking of Seaver, the Post interviewed The Franchise about his winery.
“I love the hands-on, the learning part of it. It’s a real thrill, and there are no airports and no airplanes,” said Seaver, 64. “My commute to work is 90 seconds on foot with my two Labrador retrievers. It’s a lot of work but I enjoy the work. A friend of mine told me, ‘The best fertilizer is the owner walking the vineyard rows.’ “
The full piece is here.
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Just got a text (sorry its sloppy, I am mobile).
the fan is giving away tix for the mets vs reds july 10th today. carton picked the curly shuffle as the song to call in when u hear it. boomer told him to get out of the 80'S AND that the song is horrible. carton told boomer to pick for 8 oclock giveaway then..boomer said kashmir.
That doesn't bode well for Curly Shuffle's return since the Mets are leaning on Boomer and Carton for the poll.
By the way Mets fans, an off day for both the Mets and Yankees. As always I advise turning off the radio on such days especially following a bad loss.
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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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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.
Always popular: Inside the Acela Club, Inside the Caesar’s Club and the overall collection of Citi Field pics including obstructed views.
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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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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