If you missed it, the best read of the weekend and probably the month is Faith & Fear’s “Can Don Draper Save the Mets.”
I was in love with the article from the get-go because of the Mad Men tie-ins, but once I really started reading I realized how brilliant Greg is:
The 1965 New York Mets needed plenty of help on the field, compiling a record 29 games worse than the benighted 2010 club, but they were plenty popular, all 50-112 things considered. Met attendance 45 years ago totaled 1,768,389, a phenomenal figure considering Shea was no longer brand new and the Mets remained in tenth place.
Greg walks you through “attendance” vs “paid attendance” and it puts in perspective how a lovable franchise has become a mess here in the second decade of Century 21.
Seriously, stop wasting time here and go to Faith and Fear in Flushing.
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(If a similar post shows up let me know. I wrote basically this yesterday to lead-off this morning but the post seems to have disappeared.)