Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

But Parks Department officials told The News on Thursday that the teams will be allowed to play during the Open on days the Mets don’t have games. The leagues will still lose two weekends.

“The Mets and the U.S. Open are dictating the Spanish soccer players can’t come in the park,” said Alfonso Vargas, president of the Alianza de Ligas Latinas de Futbol, a consortium of 14 leagues that play in the park. “I don’t see why we can’t play our sport while they play theirs.”

via City allows soccer players to use Queens park during U.S. Open following Daily News inquiry  – NY Daily News.

As a (former) long-time Queens resident I hate the way the U.S. Open comes in and gets a different set of rules every year.  Planes can fly over every Mets game but not a tennis match?  Suddenly service on the 7 line becomes important?  Oh, here’s a 99 year lease.  You wouldn’t want to be able to renegotiate that at any point in the 50 years AFTER Bonilla’s contract expires..why would the city want that?  Oh, Mayor Dinkins liked tennis.  Got it.

These soccer fields are well used, but it seems as of late nobody cares about these people.  Build an MLS stadium.  Maybe a mall.  Who cares if it is parkland?  Develop develop develop.

Why has it been fine to issue permits in the past but not now?  Let people play soccer.  It’s not as if the Mets will be drawing 42,000 any time soon and they need to put the cars somewhere….and if they do, ask the USTA if they can borrow some spots.

Pete sent over some pics from Sunday’s ticket plan holder event. Neither Goon nor I could attend.

The 7 Line also has a recap and some video.

Again the Terry Watch Watch monitors the media discussing Terry’s safety.  A Terry Watch would be if his doom draws near.

According to a club source, there is “no chance” the Mets manager will become a scapegoat for the team’s second-half collapse and be fired this offseason or before the season concludes.

via Terry Collins, New York Mets manager, won’t be fired before end of season or in offseason, says source – NYPOST.com.

I remember it well.  Pulling out of the Field 6 parking lot at Jones Beach where I heard the stupidest thing I had ever heard.  The horrible details begin below and finish in the link.

Twenty years ago today, a hell of a trade took place, a trade involving two high-profile players with plenty of talent—and the two guys were traded for each other, too. Well, admittedly, one wasn’t anywhere near high profile at the time of the trade, but it’s still a bigger exchange of talent than you normally see in a transaction.

On Aug. 27, 1992, the New York Mets set star pitcher David Cone to the Blue Jays for Jeff Kent. Well, it wasn’t quite a straight up trade, as Toronto also threw in a player to be named later, Ryan Thompson.

via 20th anniversary: David Cone-for-Jeff Kent trade.

I’d rather have David Cone today than Kent in his prime….and Ryan Thompson was 90’s code for Valdespin.