Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Shannon Shark is the founder of MetsPolice.com, tweets as @metspolice, is an avid fan of Lee Mazzilli and Daniel Murphy, hates black uniforms and is the author of "Send The Beer Guy" available at Amazon.com. #imwith28
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A call for People’s Banner Day at Citi Field

From Google+

Let’s do this. Screw Wilpon. If the Mets don’t have banner day on the schedule next year, let’s make one up. The Mets Police should pick a weekend day game against the Pirates, Marlins, Nationals or whichever team is sucky enough and declare in a loud voice, “I’m bringing Banner Day back, whether the Mets want it or not. I love this team from 40-120 to 108-54! I love this team even when they wear black uniforms and when they wear white with pinstripes! I love this team when they trade Tom Seaver and when Doc Gooden wins Rookie of the Year! Lets’ go Mets!”This team is 50 years old, and should honor its traditions, Banner Day being among the best of the forgotten.
I love this idea…and if we need to use this idea we shall.  However, from what I am hearing…..stand-by 😉

At a don’t-burn-people-overview I like everything I have heard about 2012 from unis to patches to possible events.  We’ll see how it actually plays out.

And just to be clear and not to accidentally mislead you, Dave Howard and I did not discuss Banner Day at all in any form, whether he plans to have it or not, or had just come from a meeting picking the date or if he has a giant sign on his desk that says No Banner Day.   I don’t know his thoughts, so don’t add 2 and 2 and get 5.

All that being said…I think we will like 2012 in Queens.
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Help ESPN find Bo Fields

Mark over at ESPN New York has an APB out for Bo Fields. I believe Bo is the “rolling arms lady” from Shea Stadium…pictured here visiting Citi Field.

If I’m right about who Bo is, and you know Bo….drop me a lead and I will pass to Mark.

Whatever you do, don’t buy her a ticket behind home.  Boy she was annoying to watch.

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Bids in for Willets Point | Crain’s New York Business

Two of the area’s most powerful developers and a real estate firm controlled by the owners of the Mets are among the firms that submitted proposals for the right to redevelop Willets Point, real estate and political sources said.

The Related Companies has teamed up with Sterling Equities, which is controlled by Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, to submit a proposal to redevelop the 12.75 acres included in the project’s first phase, the sources said.

via Bids in for Willets Point | Crain’s New York Business.

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Reyes bunting for base hits

As part of my efforts to get beat up in the schoolyard (has that one particular big blog called me a moron yet today?) I’ll ask this one.

Does anyone know where we can find stats about how often Reyes bunted for a hit?  During the game I had the same question as the Post reader below – where did this magic ability to bunt for a hit come and why wasn’t it used more often?

John Fortuna: What’s lost in the shuffle of all the talk about Jose Reyes’ bunt is that I honestly can’t recall him bunting once for a hit in the last few years — even when he was slumping, even when there was a guy on third with two men out and the ream was scuffling for runs. That’s what bothers me most about this whole episode.

VAC: Everything about that moment bothered me, and still bothers me. Reyes has had a good run in New York, and been treated by Mets fans as well as any player since Keith Hernandez. He owed them better. He just did.

via How historic collapses stack up – NYPOST.com.