Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

In some ways this is a companion piece to the Times article I posted.  I meant to get to this one last week but I’m still fighting off Zombie Virus…but it made me laugh because it’s so true: it always comes back to the Seaver Trade.

when a Mets fan spots a fellow Mets fan, especially down here in Greater Trenton, at the very edges of Metsdom? At the very least, there’s a nod of mutual understanding, at the most, a teary hug, with the middle ground being a 20-minutes stop-and-chat that invariably comes back to A) trading Tom Seaver, B) the 1986 Mets or C) usually both.

via Spring training is here, and Mets fans all over the world complain the Tom Seaver trade again (Jeff Edelstein column) – trentonian.com.

I’m going to make this one the Must Read Of The Day.  Those of you in your early 40’s, or I suppose in your late teens, will find a kindred spirit here, believe it or not.

I share not to mock the late 60’s Yankees, but because I understand what it’s like to root when all the front-runners are at the shiny place in the other part of town.

All of this has happened before, and it will happen again.

In 1965, when I was 7, the Yankees finished under .500 for the first time since 1925 — years before my father’s birth.

In 1966, when I was 8, they came to a thud in last place for the first time since 1912 — so deep in the past that they were known then as the Highlanders, fielding a team with names like Hippo Vaughn, Cozy Dolan and Klondike Smith.

via The Yankees of Mediocrity Had Their Own Strange Charisma – NYTimes.com.

#imwith28

and here’s our buddy future HOFer Jon Niese

and some guy on the Marlins

Via the Daily News

The mockup depicts Carter’s number over an inverted home plate and will be ready for players to wear later in spring training and definitely by Opening Day at Citi Field on April 5.