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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8/9ths of your 2011 Mets

Stick Jason Bay in LF and this could be your 2011 Mets.  For those of us who love home grown teams, here’s one.

Sunday, August 8
@ Philadelphia

Jose Reyes – SS
Angel Pagan – RF
Carlos Beltran – CF
David Wright – 3B
Ike Davis – 1B
Fernando Martinez – LF
Josh Thole – C
Ruben Tejada – 2B
R.A. Dickey – RHP

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Mets July attendance breakdown

Another gem from Walt (@formerdirtdart).  I have not verified his standings so although I believe them to be accurate, he could potentially be a well thought out practical joker who is fooling us all.  Here is your unofficial attendance breakdown (click for a larger view):

The crowds were actually pretty good as compared to earlier in the year. I suspect that’s about to change.

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Santana mans up once again

When I jumped in last night’s game late (I’m no longer revolving my evening around 7:10 starts) and saw the score, all I could think of was this sentence I wrote on Friday when I declared myself team captain:

This team needs more guys like Santana – who basically says “OK you #%^%#s I will go out and throw 130 pitches today because the rest of you suck.”

I can’t believe he only has 9 wins.  It was nice to see Jerry use K-Rod with a game on the line rather than save him for a 1-2-3 save in the 23rd inning.

Join us on the Mets Police Podcast tonight at 6:30. Listen live, lurk, or call in at 917-889-2723. So far the topics are Meaningless Games in August, yesterday’s roster moves – has the front office given up, and black uniforms 6 days in a row.  If you think you might join us drop me a note at [email protected] so I can associate your name with the phone # you’ll call in on (I only see phone numbers) – although you’re welcome to just call in and I will name you “caller.”

The podcast audio lives in the orange section of the main page, of if you punch “Mets Police” into iTunes you can subscribe.   We do it live at Sunday at 6:30pm although next week I’m going to need a substitute host (Dan and Media Goon, start warming up in the bullpen.)

Looking ahead – I’m on the road for much of this week so I will be spending my Sunday writing ahead.  From your end the blog should function as always (Media Goon will handle the “breaking news” stuff) but I may be slower than usual to reply to email submissions – however keep them coming to [email protected]   Last trip it worked out well with me sending things to the Goon to post.

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The 1979 New York Mets Yearbook

Flushing, December 1978:

“Well, that was a disaster.”

“What should we put on the yearbook?  We got rid of Koosman. and Torre will never amount to anything.”

“How about Richie Hebner?”

“Hebner?  Ha!  I’d rather put nothing on the cover!  Raise the price a quarter too.”

“Another quarter?  We just raised it last year!  That’s another 20% gain!  We had a lousy season, and the Yankees have won back to back World Series!”

“Just do it.  Mets fans are idiots.  They’ll come out to Shea no matter what we put on the field.  I bet we could change the team colors and nobody would notice!  You think they’re gonna stop coming?  We own this town.  It’s not like we’d ever draw under 800,000.  Raise it!  Did you order the mule yet?!”