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Peter has a great idea but I’m going to need your help. Somewhere in your room is a picture of you as a kid dressed as a Mets fan. Share it with the world!
Shannon,
In spite of 2 months that were just insane and tumultuous even by Mets standards, the good guys sit just 2 behind .500 and miraculously just 6.5 out of first. (he emailed this 2 days ago) This is just incredible to me. If, and it is a very big IF, we could get all our guys in the line up and healthy, this team could really make a run. And if Jason Bay remembers how to swing a baseball bat, forget it. But, alas…
So, my idea: at some point shortly after the David Einhorn news broke- I remember seeing a picture of him dressed as Dave Kingman surface. It was a beautiful sight for 2 reasons.
1) It made me realize this is the first time that an honest to goodness Mets fan has purchased any part of this team. That in itself is a good thing. What could reinforce this paradigm shift more than the sight of a young kid in full gear impersonating a great Met.
2) How great is that shot of a kid– when all his baseball fantasies seem not only possible but probable –if not destined– posing for the camera with stars in his eyes as if he IS the great player he emulates.
I immediately went to my archives– I knew I had at least one or 2 of those somewhere. But how great would it be to see those shots of all of your readers. It could be a perfect corollary to “How I met the Mets”
This could of course get out of control if you didn’t set the cutoff sufficiently ancient. Not that the pictures of kids from 2 years ago in black Gary Sheffield jerseys won’t someday have their appeal. But I am thinking of a call to have readers submit their childhood Mets shot– not shots of their kids.
What do you think?
I will start the bidding- circa 1987.
I have another one for you that is simply insane but I will save it for Halloween. To whet your appetite in 1986, at the age of 7 and just 4 days after the best day of my life– I trick or treated as Wally Drac-man.
Well as always- keep up the good work!
and as always– Let’s Go Mets!!!
-Peter
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I love it. 1987 may exclude a lot of folks…let’s try 2000, because somehow the year 2000 is now a long time ago.
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I wonder if my parents ever took a photo of me in cream colored pinstripes with #41 sewn on? And yes, I had real stirrups.