The Mets Google Ngram viewer

Did you ever wonder how often the word Mets appears in the history of books?   Google has a new toy that lets you punch words in to see how often they appear.

To little surprise, the Mets didn’t start appearing until after 1960.

Here’s a different graph which shows 1960-2010.

What does it all mean?  I have no idea except (a) the line goes up, (b) I killed 10 minutes at work and (c) we’re one post closer to Opening Day.

Click on the graphs for a bigger version.

Oh, and no I didn’t solve the code tweaking to get rid of the black-shirts ads.

2010 Alternate Mets caps #27

Mets Mom found this one at Roosevelt Field.

As you can see by the Yankee version below it this is not a Mets-only thing. It doesn’t make it less ugly.

I like that there are people walking around stores taking photos of caps. The people at Modell’s always look at me like I am insane.