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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Ike Davis Charity Dinner


Join New York Mets star Ike Davis for his 1st Annual, “Striking out Childhood Cancer: A Night with Ike Davis” Charity Event Dinner on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Michael’s Restaurant in Brooklyn, NY.

This up-close-and-personal charity event will be hosted by Linda Cohn of ESPN SPORTSCENTER.

This family friendly evening includes: full dinner; drinks; live interview with Q&A from the guests; baseball stories, a signed baseball item from Ike; a special event T-shirt designed by a child with cancer; auctions of one-of-a-kind items; photographs; raffles, gift bag and surprise guest appearances.
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The mystery of the returning NY on the Mets ball logo

Mrh caught a glimpse of this and emailed it in.  Supreme Commander Lukas also shared an ESPN video with the same thing (the video seems to be gone now.) Notice anything?

The NY is back on the ball logo.   Since 1999 when all sorts of other bad things happened, the logo has looked like this.

Fascinating.

I wonder what it means?

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Mac got his Man Up and Play Better t-shirt.  You can easily get one for yourself by choosing your size then clicking the Buy Now button.  As captialists we make like $5 a shirt which funds all this.

I know…that’s a pretty hot looking shirt, right?
Well, if you’d like one you can now have one just by using this snazzy Paypal button. (Dara not included.)

 

Choose Sizes S, M, L, XL, 2XL

The Yankees are having something called Old Timers’ Day today.  Gooden and Strawberry will be there.  (So will Lee Mazzilli and Cone).  Sigh.

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WSJ on the Seaver trade

Kids,

You may have noticed that I mention the Seaver Trade about every 4 days.  Think about that, and it’s not just me being an old codger.  The trade shows up on the internet almost every day.

Today there’s a great article in the WSJ that tells the tale from Doug Flynn’s vantage point and provides a side I haven’t heard before.

The authour Jeff Pealrman also makes a good point…

Though Worst Trade lists almost always include Seaver-to-the-Reds, the results—from the Mets’ end—weren’t that awful. Flynn started for 4½ years in New York, winning a Gold Glove in 1980. Zachry was a rotation mainstay for 5½ seasons, going 41-46 for some dreadful teams. Henderson batted .290 or better in three of his four seasons with the Mets and Norman, well, Norman never panned out.

via Tom Seaver’s Export to the Reds Still Haunts the Mets – WSJ.com.

..and people who know me in real life know I like to bait that with them about the proposed Reyes trade.

Were Sandy to deal Reyes and get back a young starting LHP who had won 15 games, a gold glove starting 2B, a starting OFer and a prospect you’d have to say he did really well.  Take a look at the indented paragraph…

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Am I a bad person because I’m bored with the Mets?

Maybe it was a string of boring games, maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s because I went on the road and broke the habit – but I’m in one of the phases where I am bored with Mets season.

I’m looking at the late afternoon game and the day game…looking at the sun…thinking about things I could do instead of sitting in front of a TV….and the Mets are losing.

Maybe the Turner/Murph/Gee charm is wearing off.  Maybe it’s interleague play.  Maybe I’m just a jerk.

How are you guys feeling?  Will you be watching?