Year: 2013

I think I will fill it with a large beverage and toast the Mayor. I don’t know how it got here.

Since Shannon, Goon, and I have pretty much cleaned out our closets of Mets jerseys (at least for now, we all know there will be more later), I was thinking where can we go from here.  Easy answer – who doesn’t love bobbleheads?

He averaged 8 wins a year and cost $50 million dollars – and he had his own bobblehead giveaway.  We called him 4-inning Pedro but in actuality he averaged 6 innings per start as a Met.

A few years ago, while doubling as the Mets’ assistant traveling secretary, Horwitz would often try to email players’ flight itineraries to an administrative assistant in the general manager’s office. The assistant was a woman named Dianne, but when Horwitz typed in the D, he would inadvertently email third baseman David Wright instead.

Wright was too polite to tell Horwitz, so he became a sort of liaison between Horwitz and the woman. “I would just forward the emails to her and say, ‘Hey, here’s another one from Jay,'” Wright said.

via The King of the Accidental Phone Call – WSJ.com.

Mr. Vallone, one of six candidates running for the office of the Borough President said last night he supports the Willets Point project including taking 40 plus acres of Flushing Meadows parkland currently used for Citi-Field parking in order to build the citys largest mall.  “It”s not parkland, and anyone saying that Williets Point is park land is relying on some technical definition from the 60s,” Vallone said.

via A Walk in the Park: “Thats Not Parkland” – Peter Vallone On Proposed Mall Site In Flushing Meadows Park.

The 1983 Mets operated under a pair of caretaker managers, George Bamberger and Frank Howard, while a young hotshot skipper, Davey Johnson, ingratiated himself with much of the young talent at Triple-A Tidewater.

via Aldersons plan resembles early 80s Mets renovation – NYPOST.com.