Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Murray Chass wrote for the Times for years and years so you can’t dismiss him as a kook.  He also has been accused of dissing bloggers while currently writing about baseball on the internet via websites that have no print counterpart as described in his “about” section..

This is a site for baseball columns, not for baseball blogs. The proprietor of the site is not a fan of blogs. He made that abundantly clear on a radio show with Charley Steiner when Steiner asked him what he thought of blogs and he replied, “I hate blogs.”

I can see where Murray is coming from.  Who in their right mind would read about baseball on the internet…and you’d have to be crazy to spend your time posting your random thoughts to the internet, right?

But I digress.  Murray mentions that he is not a conspiracy theorist…

The only question relevant to pre-publication is does Piazza write about steroids and if so, what does he write? No one is giving away that information. But sometime last year a Piazza associate said he would cover his entire career, whatever that means.

It seemed unlikely that the former catcher would admit to steroid use and jeopardize, even for an $800,000 advance, his chances of being elected to the Hall of Fame. The publisher, however, will not issue the book until after the Hall of Fame results are known.

via Murray Chass On Baseball » PIAZZA PUBLICATION PLANNED POST-ELECTION.

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The second thank you of the week to @tomwatson for putting this on my radar.

The full article is here but let’s excerpt..

the Wilpons will now build a million-square-foot “entertainment complex” (don’t call it a mall!) on the west side of their stadium.

Note the WEST side.  You know, where Shea was.

I guess it would be good in that there would actually be somewhere to go before games…but the potential of covering the Shea markers makes me sad..and I wonder about the parking situation.

As for the east side…aka 126th…looks like the parking lots will be moving.

This first piece of development is meant to activate the entry to the stadium while also masking a 20-acre parking lot that will be paved behind it. This will facilitate the construction of Willets West because the plan is for the new million-square-foot complex to be built on the stadium’s current parking lots.

And this next piece of what I feel is science fiction really makes me laugh.

The new lot will be fitted with temporary ball fields and community space that will be available half the year, during the Met’s off-season and when the team is away on prolonged road trips. The developers are exploring whether this would be fields that could be driven on top of or temporary structures that need repeated installation, as happens at all-star games, the Super Bowl and similar events.

Riggggggghhhhhtttt….the Mets are out of town for a week, roll out the baseball fields so the kids can play.

Lest any of this worries you..

“This is a great asset for the team and for Queens,” Jeff Wilpon, executive vice-president for Sterling Equities said.

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I wish Jason Bay tremendous success and happiness, and I thought we were all going to love Torres, but Colactus has kept us emotionally invested all the way past Seaver Day so it’s time to stop (bleep)ing around and just play this lineup (plus or minus Tejada). Hopefully #fixtheike has taken hold even though I was shipping him to AAA back on Monday.

Nieuwenhuis-8
Murphy-4
Wright-5
Duda-9
Davis-3
Hairston-7
Thole-2
Quintanilla-6
Niese-1

Yes friends we have lived long enough that I want to see Hairston on the lineup. The man has done a good job. Now let’s stop jerking Kirk around and leave him out there for 15 years.

A nice story that got lost in Santanamania, and since I am on an aeroplane we can let @mediagoon sleep in.

Gold’s newsletter, which cost 45 cents for a half-year’s subscription, was distributed to about 100 people. He signed up his friends and relatives, and posted a notice in Sport magazine. Alan Blum included a note with his payment. It said, “Here’s my 45 cents — now buy yourself a dictionary.”

More subscribed after Stan Fischler wrote about Met Maze for The New York Journal-American. Fischler understood what Gold was going through. He, too, had written a newsletter as a youngster (about hockey, not baseball), and he was also a rabid and bereft Dodgers fan.

via Following the Inept Mets of 1962 With a Newsletter – NYTimes.com.