As drawn by my son at an Applebees
Mets spaceship
For newer Mets Police readers: interview with myself
Imaginary Reader: Hey, I just discovered the site. What’s the deal?
Me: We’re mainly focused on off-the-field stuff. I leave game recaps and roster stuff to the other fellows. We’re more interested in Keith Burgers, Mr. Met, crowd shots, the “You Own This Jersey” series where you send in random Mets jerseys, and Lee Mazzilli
Reader: Lee Mazzilli, the guy that works for the Yankees?
Me: watch it
Reader: who is this we?
Me: most stuff is me, but a guy who goes by Media Goon helps me out a lot. He can be reached at [email protected] and is on twitter @mediagoon Goon is good with a camera, I’m not. He backs me up when I get busy. There are a few other guys that occasionally pitch in but they have been slackers in 2011 so I’m not mentioning them.
Reader: what about you? Are you on twitter?
Me: Sure. @metspolice I also have the catchy [email protected] email address
Reader: is there a Facebook Page or something I can follow?
Me: Why yes, there is a Facebook Page. There’s also an RSS feed. You can also get a daily email with all the articles if you please (I do not spam.)
Reader: I was thinking of advertising. Is the site popular? I own a large donuts franchise.
Me: I welcome advertising and would be happy to discuss. Drop me an email at [email protected] .
The site has had its three biggest months ever the last three months, with April 2011 already being the biggest. Is Mets Police as big as Mets Blog…not even close, but people do seem to dig it and the growth is quite noticeable. I leave it to others to determine if they like it or if it is “popular” but I like to think it is.
I also am frequently spotted at a famous donuts chain.
Reader: you write about uniforms a lot. Aren’t you just stealing from Uni Watch?
Me: it’s definitely an influence. Are the Beach Boys stealing from Chuck Berry? Isn’t Lady Gaga just doing Madonna’s act? I think the site is a mix of Mushnick/Uni Watch/Straight Cash Homey/Mets Blog/stealing from Ceetar/all the emails I used to send my dopey friends/and a little bit of “me”
Reader: how can I help?
Me: people really dig random photos from Citi Field. Take a picture of the shake shack line, or a cool jersey, or the beer you are drinking, or the crowd and email them to me [email protected] . I also love suggested topics and guest posts (we haven’t had one of those in a while.)
Reader: I’m going to click “like” now so this shows up on my Facebook page. I may even “share” it.
Me: thanks!
For new readers: The Treaty of Flushing (War on Black)
Peter wrote this in the comments. Since I am letting other people fight the battle this weekend…
the losing streak was cruel and unusual punishment for the blue cap army– we finally got our big breakthrough and were able to see our beloved Mets in blue, orange and white for an entire homestand. then- as if the losing streak was not bad enough, we had to stand by as that blue- the official uniform of this team no less- was implicated as a potential cause for the losing by our MANAGER!?
even at our most irrational moment of black uni hatred- never did any follower of this fight or campaign ever posit that the black might be contributing to or losing ways over the past 5 years. but there it was- one homestand- one minor victory for arguably the team’s most dedicated fans– a group that only wants to see it hold true to some sens of tradition– and the the f’ing manager- a previously sensible seeming man if nothing else- proposes that maybe a move back to the black could bring back the winning ways!
cruel and unusual punishment.
this is also known as the moment i lost all respect/hope for terry collins. you know, since we are looking to change our performance by changing clothes– maybe we should try out some philies unis– or better yet yankees unis for a while. the guys who wear those seem to win an awful lot these days.
You know if I’m the Mets, I gotta have at least one meeting about this topic. Maybe we’re all a bunch of morons, but there’s a lot of us morons. (Read the comments on Uni Watch Flushing executives).
Once again (since there’s lots of new readers here in 2011) I will quickly recap my proposed Treaty of Flushing in which I make great concessions.
1. 5 days a week the Mets wear their traditional dropshadowless uniforms. White and blue at home. Gray and blue on the road (with the traditional N E W Y O R K).
2. Wilpons decide if they want pins or pinless. And then that’s it. Stay with it.
3. I will concede Black Fridays. Since Black sells (so I am told) dress the way you did last night. With the black cap so we can at least see the NY. This is a major concession.
4. Since marketing/merchandise is important – Anything Goes Sundays. Hawaiian shirts, Los Mets, Negro League throwbacks, camouflage, shorts, pink, orange, blue. Hell, roll one out every Sunday if MLB will let you (I don’t know how that works).
5. We all move on to another topic.
I believe this solves all needs (except for fans of hybrid caps which are eliminated). Is it ideal? No. Does it cause me pain? Yes. But this war must end.
I still like the idea that we meet in a subway car…I want Supreme Commander of The War On Black Paul Lukas to have the privilege of signing, but Howie Rose should be there too.
Shoot, I thought I wasn’t going to talk about this this weekend.
Uni Watch has a long section on this topic today…a must read for you cats which includes my favorite comment (in the comments): I’m torn on hybrid versus all-black. Kind of like choosing between a root canal and a kick in the crotch.
Mets Weather: if you ask me, they’ll play
I’m no weatherman, but I am a long time Mets watcher.
The game is at 1:10 so you have all day to stop, start, and wait.
The Arizonas with the dumb name don’t come back to Citi.
Do you think the Mets want to play a doubleheader again with two sweeps under their belt?
Play ball.
Here’s your 9am weather radar from the excellent Weather Channel iPad app.
The daily Mets ticket sales article
The WSJ does the rounds…quotes some #s, gets someone to compare it to the 70’s, mentions the secondary market…
Last night’s paid crowd was 26,546 on a Friday night
Going into Friday night’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Mets—who going into Friday’s game had the worst record in Major League Baseball—were averaging a paid attendance of 30,184, down 6.8% from last season’s number of 32,401. They had not drawn more than 40,000 fans since Opening Day
