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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Everyone still want replay?

Just curious Mets fans: earlier in the season many of you were screaming about replay.

Do you still wish that a camera had overturned yesterday’s 9th inning call and sent the Mets reeling, or is replay only a good thing when it doesn’t hurt the Mets?

The papers are filled with Mets saying the runner was safe at home. Shhhhh. Keep your mouths shut before we have a Pine Tar game.

Santana must be the greatest teammate ever. He steps up every time this team really needs a win, and he never bitches anyone out when his W total stays the same. Ace.

Yesterday on the radio Eddie point blank referred to Wright as the captain, then qualified it with “well de facto captain anyway” or words to that effect.

I was mentally prepared for no Howie so I was fine with Wayne and Eddie. Even without Howie in there the Mets booth is a million times better than that inexplicable mess across town.

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Mets offer pro-rated season tickets

This morning the Mets sent an email offering prorated season tickets. I know some folks will complain that the Johnny Come Latelys get the same “benefits” that the people who bought in the winter got but…

…what exactly are these benefits anyway? Do you really care?

…if you are worried about postseason tickets then just do the postseason reservation thing MLB posted a few weeks back.

…the Mets are in the business of selling tickets and merchandise. The baseball is just the mechanism that gets you in the building or your eyes to SNY.

…maybe this teaches people to wait, so if you are mad you can have the last laugh.

The below is what the Mets sent. I’m mobile so I can’t format it. The offer is on mets.com

Season Tickets include all 29 remaining regular season home games beginning August 10 at Citi Field and access to exclusive Season Ticket Holder only benefits and services. Get the same great seat location, a preferred parking option, the ability to electronically transfer and resell your tickets, the option to purchase your seats for all potential 2010 Mets postseason games at Citi Field.

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Sunday Night Recap: July 18

We did another audio version of Mets Police tonight.  You can listen below, and we’ll do another one next Sunday at 6:30.  Topics covered included: Wayne Hagin, Mets Fan Panic, Santana the Ace, K-Rod and the shaky history of Mets closers, Old-Timers Day 2011, All-Star Game 2013 and is David Wright one of the Top 10 third basemen ever? (Some of those were also covered here on MetsPolice.com – anything that looks like a link is a link to the article…for the audio play the file below.

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I expect the All Star Game jerseys to look terrible if the Mets host.

Here are the Mets ad in honor of George Steinbrenner and the patches the Yankees added to their jersey in honor of George and Bob Sheppard.  I really liked Bob, lots of Bob Sheppard articles here.

I suspect you’ll be as fascinated as I am by this video of a fan and Gary Carter.

The infamous Lee Mazzilli poster

From 1976: The Mets pillbox caps

A blue and orange hybrid cap

Come on, Mettle the Mule!

Cool photos of Tom Seaver

You went to the beach and missed this video of Shea’s deconstruction and the photos of Mets stuff in the Yankees museum.

From late Friday: photos of Mets players from the late 1970’s

Anyone digging the organ music at Citi Field?

Coming up this week:  a wonderful set of “You own this jersey” articles, and a look back at all the Mets Yearbooks since 1962 – the actual books not the SNY show that they don’t promote properly (such as when it’s on).  Looking back I really didn’t obsess over uniforms or caps this week.  How strange.

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Mets lineup is Justin Time

Here’s a lineup that looks more March 18th than July.  Help us Johan.

Sunday, July 18
at San Francisco

Angel Pagan – (CF) *
Justin Turner – 2B
David Wright – 3B
Jason Bay – LF
Ike Davis – 1B
Jeff Francoeur – RF
Henry Blanco – C
Ruben Tejada – SS
Johan Santana – LHP

* the Mets emailed out a lineup with two RFers including Pagan.   I’m assuming Pagan is in CF but I don’t actually know and I’m not chop busting, just saying I don’t 100% know.

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The incredibly awkward video that features Gary Carter

Maybe I have been spending too much time in the basement, but although this has been on Deadspin and Big League Stew I haven’t seen it in the Metsosphere.

Here’s an incredibly awkward video of a fan and Gary Carter and some autographs.  I feel bad for Gary and I imagine that this sort of thing happens to players all the time.  It’s very easy to be placed in a no-win situation.