Well without any announcements from Gov. Cuomo’s son Andrew to distract us today, let’s dive in again on our 1978 Mets. As we have seen in part 1 and part 2, there isn’t much to look at.
Catching the newbies up, the millennials are upset that the Mets haven’t made the playoff in one year. Meanwhile those of us in 1978 are still bleeding from the Mets trading Tom Seaver and we’re trying to root for this crap. If the Wilpons ever buy this team we will welcome them like MacArthur.
So let’s look at this. On the one hand we have Joel Youngblood and Nino Espinosa. These were some of the best Mets. On the other page, that peach ice cream looks freakin’ delicious! Do they still make peach ice cream? Which would you rather have? I would trade Nino and Youngblood for that ice cream right now.
Bob Myrick had a dog. @lagranderusty would like this dog. Anyway, it’s 1978 – Bob Myrick had a dog. His 0-3 season would be the end of his 3-6 ML Career. Sorry Bob.
Hey let’s try and compare John Stearns with the greatest catcher that the sport has had up until this point. More importantly, let’s look at that road jersey. Interesting design for a road jersey, isn’t it?
And let’s see if I can get the Uni Watch’s attention…let’s look at the long tail on that M. By the way, when you’re done here go read about The Wilpon Script.
We digress. Back to the players. The Mets re really big on pushing this Jackson Todd, Roy Jackson (that’s Roy LEE Jackson to you sir) and Paul Siebert thing. Kind of a Generation J as it were.
Willie Montanez wears his uniform well. That’s as good as late 70’s polyester tailoring is gonna look.
Hey did any of you dopes take a picture of Ken Henderson in a Mets uniform? No. OK screw it. He’ll only be here for 7 games anyway….
..and you millennials complain about the 2018 roster. Sheesh.
The 1978 Mets are so exciting that what the hell lets include everyone on TV who might mention the Mets. These aren’t actual Mets announcers, these are the guys who do 5 minutes of sports on the 11 o’clock news. JOHN STERLING making a Mets yearbook appearance.
And in 2018 where Marc Carig writing what was basically a blog post one time made him look like Mike Wallace among the current post-Rubin crowd, the one thing the 1978 Mets had over the current ra was the beat. Look at these guys. Sure Dick Young just chased The Franchise out of town, and Murray Chass would wind up blogging, but look at all the coverage we’d get to read in tomorrow’s newspaper!
We still have some more 1978 bottom scraping to go, but I remind you – when you’re upset that a team has JDG, Thor, Cespedes, the idea ofTDK, David Wright’s Ghost, Conforto and two promising rookies – I don’t want to hear about how hard you have it with your baseball team that hasn’t been in the playoffs in 15 months. Waaaaah.
