My sub-conscious made up a fake broadcast where Howie and Wayne were talking about uniforms, which got my mind rolling about the 2012 ticket plans (I think I will blog that info tomorrow)…so the title of this blog post segues us nicely into The End.
Mike Vaccaro (whose work I always enjoy) took today to write about how an entire generation has now grown up as Yankees fans. I suspect this will cause the Mets to be the #2 franchise in town for quite some time…but as the article reminds us, New York has two million front-runners, and they’ll abandon the Bronx for Queens at the first opportunity.
Mookie has left the team because of a death in the family and Wally Backman will finish up as 1B coach.
Darryl Strawberry has some words of wisdom for Jose Reyes, who has 4 games left with the New York Mets (before re-signing at a budget friendly number and then Sandy finds 20 more players for $55 million).
“Being successful here, they appreciate it a little bit more than anywhere else you go, you’re just another player that comes along in other places, but the fans here never forget, the legacy you leave for yourself here is incredible and Jose has a chance to do that,” Strawberry said. “He’s a remarkable player, he’s had some wonderful years, done some wonderful things and he still has a chance to do some greater things before his career is all over.”
The way I remember it, Darryl spent like a year and a half talking about going to LA, and then did. However, as we’ve seen, today’s Strawberry seems a better man than the one from 25 years ago.
Last night I finally hit the Mets wall. I think it was the first game all year I didn’t check in on. No twitter, email, didn’t change the channel, didn’t look up the score. I just slothed on my couch trying to empty out the DVR.
@JBMets19 sent over this last night…looks like I wasn’t the only one who was bored.
4 games to go. Time to start hording those generic articles.