Once again the papers get around to stuff the blogs have been complaining about for weeks. As I stated last week, blogs and newspapers have an increasing symbiotic relationship. I’m not going to sit here and claim that I don’t use the newspapers as a resource, but I do get mad when they treat us like a bunch of rubes.
Anyway, I’m glad that Mike Vaccaro has also noticed that the Mets don’t honor their own history. He wrote about it in Sunday’s Post.
Here’s Mike’s full column with excerpts below.
…this is a franchise that has gone to great lengths over the years to, for some mysterious, inexplicable reason, to distance itself from its own history. It is madness, and remains madness, that only one player — Tom Seaver — has his number retired, though it seems inevitable that Mike Piazza‘s No. 31 will join Seaver’s 41 soon enough.
It is absurd that not one member of the 1986 Mets — winners of 108 regular-season games and a World Series — has their number retired. Not the No. 17 of Keith Hernandez, the catalyst of the renaissance that culminated with ’86.
And the part below warms my heart….I think Mike may have come across our site!
But it is the worst kind of slap at Mets fans that there isn’t a room, or a hallway, or a wing, dedicated — on the day the place opened — to the team’s history. It is inexcusable. And Mets fans have every right to be as angry about that as they do about obstructed seats, about the fact that the stadium’s security guards seem to be dressed in Phillies jackets, about the fact that other than orange foul poles there’s no nod at all to the Mets’ team colors — the same team colors the Mets have no problem at all seeing their fans shell out souvenir money for.
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What of the memories? Think of all the crazy games this team has played. There wasn’t a place to put a big screen and a constant loop of highlights from the Imperfect Game, the Black Cat Game, the Ball Off The Top of the Fence Game, the Grand Single Game, the Buckner Game a you get the idea. (Mets Police here – as i said earlier in the week, after the Robinson loop has ran for the 10 millionth time, I think this will wind up playing in the rotunda. It doesn’t mean that we’re racists or don’t think Jackie was important.)
And think about this: name me another franchise, in baseball or any other sport, in which two of its teams are instant metaphors, for entirely different reasons? If you coach a Little League team, or play in a YMCA hoops league, and your team isn’t very good, what do you invariably say? “We’re the ’62 Mets.” Conversely, if you’re team comes out of nowhere to turn things around, what do you say about yourselves? “We’re like the ’69 Mets.”
Mike, you too are invited to join the Mets Police. Much like we reinstated Howie Rose this morning.
Read Mike’s piece in the New York Post here.
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The Post is just a hating POC. Don’t take their bait.