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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New York Mets: The Complete Illustrated History

This is coming. Looks awesome. This will be a book giveaway on the site (details to come, and this is not the prize for the Piazza contest – for that you just get named King Of Piazza.). I’ll also interview the author.


New York Mets: The Complete Illustrated History brings to life a half century of Mets baseball, from the lovable losers of the early years, through the championship teams of 1969 and 1986, up through the stars of today. Chock full of photos, memorabilia, and memories, New York Mets tells the complete story of the franchise, including season-by-season recaps, profiles of the great players and characters, and behind-the-scenes stories through the decades. Longtime Mets fan, author, and expert Matthew Silverman selects the Top 50 Mets players of all time, including current and future Hall of Famers Tom Seaver, Gary Carter, and Mike Piazza; superstar hurlers Jerry Koosman, Jon Matlack, Dwight Gooden, Ron Darling, and Johan Santana; powerful sluggers like Dave Kingman, Darryl Strawberry, and Carlos Beltran; slick-fielding glove-men Bud Harrelson, Keith Hernandez, and Jose Reyes; and fan favorites Ed Kranepool, Tug McGraw, Rusty Staub, Mookie Wilson, David Wright, and many more.

Pre-order now (the link takes you to an Amazon page off which I’d get a commission, which will allow me to pay Media Goon in hot dogs.)
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Dick Young calls Tom Seaver a headache June 1 1977

You’ll have to check out this link to read it but here’s a pair of newspaper articles from June 1, 1977 – Joe Torre has been named manager of the New York Mets (I remember that guy, he was terrible and couldn’t win with talent like Lee Mazzilli, he will never make it) – and Dick Young asks Torre about trading Tom Seaver.  Who in their right mind would trade Tom Seaver?

What’s interesting is you read the Young article and you come away kinda agreeing with Young – yeah Seaver is being greedy man!   (I don’t know if he was, but Young fires me up.)  As I mentioned yesterday, imagine you had Francesa and Kay calling Seaver names all afternoon or Rubin poking at him or angry fat bloggers in their own basement (it’s my basement not my mothers basement).

When did this site switch to an all-Seaver format by the way?

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August 4, 1998: Doc wins 300th

This post right here makes all the work I have out into the blog worth it.  I have been looking around the dark corners of the internet for years for this article.  This once lived on the Star Wars bulletin board behind the door in my room.  Long gone.  It’s a “future” article written about Gooden’s 300th win that showed up very very early in Doc’s career.

Then Scott emailed me the Holy Grail.

Click Gooden Wins 300th and it will open as a PDF that’s big enough that you can read the entire thing.  Wait until you see who the manager is….but you’re not going to like what happened in the 1988 Subway Series.

Scott, thank you thank you thank you.

Now who has a real screen shot of “Congratulations Red Sox?”