Some odds and ends….first some Yankees stuff
I am still chuckling about something I saw on Twitter last night. The Yankees press notes mentioned that the recent span of 9 games without a DH were the longest in team history. Someone wrote that they would have guessed 1901-1972 was the longest.
Also in Yankee-land, it seems that more rank and file Yankee fans are finding out about the Hal Steinbrenner survey that Raissman wrote about over the weekend, we told you about here and the Yankees blog New Stadium Insider told you about on Monday.
My Yankees friend “Mr. Sunshine” theorized that the survey came out during the Subway Series – that maybe some Yankee types had made their first pilgrimage to New Shea of Friday and correctly observed that the Yankees now have the poorer of the two stadiums. The timing seems tight, but maybe. Sunshine also told me that one of the super hardcore Yankee fans he knows also dug Citi. I like to repeat myself, so I will repeat myself by once again saying the Yankees made a colossal mistake moving across the street. They should have gutted the loge, and expanded the concourses by building wider between Lot 8 and the first base line.
On to the Mets, this first comment is hilarious:
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “Mets Police Endorse “Meet The Mets” In New York Me…“:
Is it true the Dodgers are wearing home whites and sitting in the first base dugout next week?
Sparks has left a new comment on your post “I Finally Got My Home Grown Team Of “Mets” I wante…“:
The text poll last night killed me. A majority of voting fans wanted to trade prospects for an established bat.
The organization has crap for depth as it is, and people want to trade what little it has away on the off chance that there’s some glorious savior out there whose mere presence can somehow turn Martinez, Tatis, and Murphy into Beltran, Reyes, and Delgado? That’s insanity!
The Mets biggest problem is that there’s a whole layer of MLB-ready players missing. What is the current major league bench should be down in Buffalo and the AAA players belong in AA. I fully expect most of the young players you name to be fine. They just need be honing their skills in Binghamton or at best Buffalo right now instead of Citi Field.
I disagree with you on Sheff not being a true Met. I know we picked him up off the trash heap at the end of his career, but he’s Doc’s nephew, for heaven’s sake. I think of him as finally arriving home.
Adam Solomon has left a new comment on your post “I Finally Got My Home Grown Team Of “Mets” I wante…“:
COMPLETELY AGREE. Not enough people do, I think. Personally, I’d much rather root for people who are going into the annals of Mets history – true blue (and orange) Mets.
Does anyone see the “vote for the 8th inning song” link on Mets.com? I keep looking and I don’t see it. Maybe it is staring me in the face.
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The sing-along poll is at the bottom of the Mets.com home page, just to the right of center, in a box labeled "Mets Poll."
If you can't see it, it may be because you have a browser app masking it.
Yep – it's the poll at the bottom, second box from the right.
Back to stuffing the ballot box for Curly Shuffle – I mean, Meet the Mets.