Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

The T-Shirt Guy sent this to his mailing list.

It’s been years, but we’re finally heading back to Brooklyn! The Cyclones are incredible hosts, and The 7 Line Army trips to Coney Island have always been a great time.

Grab your tickets next Tuesday, March 8th at 10am ET!

Cyclones vs the Jersey Shore Blue Claws
June 25th 2022
6pm game (gates at 5pm)

And he included this image!

 

The first 2,000 fans in attendance will receive a bobblehead (TBD). Game time is 6:00 PM with gates opening at 5:00 PM.

Once again we will be offering a special package in The Backyard for fans to enjoy. Here’s the rundown of what’s included:

Game Ticket for The Backyard

BasebALL You Can Drink Package

2 Hour Open Bar: Runs from 5:30 – 7:30 PM. Includes beer / wine / hard seltzers / mixed drinks. Drinks will be served one per person.

Includes $8 food credit that can be used at concessions stands around the ballpark for food options.

Brooklyn / T7LA Jersey (Sizes Available on First Come, First Served Basis)

Section 22 & 24 in the main seating bowl will be held as GA seating for members of The 7 Line Army if you prefer to watch the game from there.

The above package will be $65 per person.

I’m excited. Are you excited?  Cyclones of Coney?  I have one word for that!

Full details here.

I think coming off that 2006 World Series we were all disappointed by 2007, but fortunately the Mets once again made it to the World Series in 2008!

I think for all of us, the 2006 World Series vs. the Tigers is unforgettable.  I still have my program!

I stumbled across this from the NY Times in 1998.  The bold is mine.

From the time he was 10, Jeff Wilpon has been eager — maybe too eager — to follow his father. At that age he carried a homemade business card identifying himself as Director of Construction. His father, Fred Wilpon, was an owner of Sterling Equities, a real estate conglomerate he founded with his brother-in-law Saul Katz. In 1980, when Jeff was a high school senior in Roslyn, N.Y., his father and uncle bought the Mets. Jeff was so gung-ho to join the front office that he gave up every boy’s dream — a potential career as a professional athlete. He had been drafted by the Montreal Expos out of college and believes he could have started at catcher in the major leagues, he said, but quit after one spring training session to join the family business.

”I always knew I wanted to do what my dad did,” he said, sitting, like his father, with legs crossed in Fred Wilpon’s office in Sterling Plaza, on Fifth Avenue at 47th Street. From time to time, his father glanced dotingly at him.

Source: Bringing a Son Up Right (Right Up to the Top) – The New York Times

 

Give me a bleepingbreak.  He could have made the majors but gave up so he could get a job with the Mets?  As if he couldn’t have bounced around the minors THEN got a job with the Mets?  As if he couldn’t have made Cooperstown and THEN got a job with the Mets?  As if even if he weren’t that good, the Mets wouldn’t throw him a bone and look at him?   Hell, Tommy Lasorda did that for his nephew Mike and it turned out OK.

Come on Times, you’re better than selling that story.

A respected colleague of mine isn’t enthusiastic of my use of “swoosh” to describe these, as swoosh is usually associated with Nike, but my buddy Osh41 (the Chuck Berry of Mets Police, I stole all his riffs and added some Brian Wilson magic to them) has always referred to them as Swoosh Jerseys going back to the beginning.

We always hated the home jersey…

…and they still look terrible, although writing this post makes me want to bust mine out…..

…but the road ones have grown on me over the years.  NOW LISTEN TO ME STEVE THE UNIFORM SET BETWEEN 2012 and 2020 WAS PERFECT BEFORE SOME IDIOT BROUGHT THE BLACK BACK…SO I AM IN NO WAY SUGGESTING YOU MESS WITH THE ROAD UNIFORM…….