The Mets Police

So I think I just saw Matt Harvey in the trailer for the TV shoe "The Americans" pic.twitter.com/4x5ZbnShMJ

— SaltyGary (@SaltyGary) January 24, 2015

Here’s a Mets cap.  This cap is beautiful.  It’s floppy.  It looks like your mom washed it 50 times and messed up the cardboard.  It looks like it sat in the uppers for some 90 loss teams.  Your dad drank some Rheingolds while you wore this cap.  It has that 70s/80s blue that I remember from my youth.  And no stupid high-crown.  Beautiful.  I hope the underbrin is green like the gods intended.  I saw this on American Needle.  May have to get me one.

While everyone waits for Matt Harvey to return and go 42 and 5, let’s talk about how stupid this Mets cap is.  WTF who approves these and does anyone other than a 5 year old think this is cool?

This New York Mets MLB Team Trill 59FIFTY Cap features an embroidered New York Mets team namesake on the front, stitched New Era® flag at wearer’s left side and embroidered logo on the rear. Interior includes branded taping and a moisture absorbing sweatband.  Via New Era

And yeah it really is a “Mets” cap.  Good to see the licensing people at MLB have high standards.

This may be the best sentence written about the Mets in the 21st Century.

The Mets give me every impression that if they have a goal, it is to invest the bare minimum of resources to gain the bare minimum of wins that will get them to what we shall call the Big Five Tournament.

via All About First Place « Faith and Fear in Flushing.

Fred Wilpon’s recent appointment to the Finance Committee led me to google “Fred Wilpon” for some research.  During that research I stumbled across the 2011 New Yorker article.  That’s the one that gave us great lines like “Carl Crawford Money” and Saul Katz telling us about his balls.

If you haven’t read it in a few years I suggest you do.

Here are some interesting parts.

“No one had heard of us before we bought the Mets, and afterward the change was dramatic,” Wilpon told me. “I don’t think someone has not returned one of my telephone calls in thirty years. It’s a small club, owning a baseball team, and people want to be near it.” As Katz told me, “You take the chairman of the board of a bank, with his grandson, on the field to meet David Wright, and make that grandfather a hero, and you do business the way we do business, it opens up everything.”