Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

I took Mets Police Mom out to the game last night.

Like any Irish lady in her later years she can be stubborn.

She was very impressed by the ballpark.   I forget her exact quote (I tweeted it last night @metspolice) but it was something like “it’s the nicest thing they’ve built in Queens in 50 years” and “it doesn’t feel like New York.”  That latter part was in a good way, New York often feels like a sweaty ratty alley.  Oh, she also thinks the ladies room was well done.

She even got herself a Mets jersey at the store!

David Wright “seems like a decent person” and she cheered for him.   I also saw her caught up in some Reyes excitement.

NEW TIP: the right side elevator lets you out through the Hodges gate…so you can see some of the cool photos in that area which you might not normally walk through.  I assume the same is true of the Seaver gate/elevator scenario.

As for me – Dickey impresses (especially when he chooses a blue color scheme).   He seems confident and makes me feel confident.  I don’t know how the heck I’m confident in a knuckler but if you told me that the shuffle resulted in him starting Game 1 of the NLCS I would feel fine.  Strange.

The Noise Pollution Patrol was trying really hard to get an R-A R-A R-A chant going but there was silence.

35,045 last night.  Looked pretty full.  Time to show up folks, our young home-grown team is winning.

Mets Police Mom is going back tonight (Mrs. Mets Police kidnapped Junior to another event) and she’ll be rocking her jersey.  I’ll be the fat guy in the burnt orange David Wright jersey which I got to annoy Osh41.

Since I’m up late…

SHUTOUTS: New York tossed its major league leading 10th shutout of the year…Colorado and San Diego entered tonight with nineshutouts…Detroit was shut out for the sixth time this season.

R.A. DICKEY: Is the first Mets pitcher to go 6-0 in his first seven starts with the team…R.A. Dickey has allowed two or fewer earnedruns in five of his seven starts…He retired the final 13 batters he faced

TEAMMATES IN THE COMMUNITY: Jeff Francoeur, Mike Pelfrey and Francisco Rodriguez will help take care of cats and dogs up foradoption at a midtown Manhattan animal shelter in support of Mayor Bloomberg’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, a coalition of more than160 animal rescue groups and shelters to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs

METS POLICE MOM: loved the game so much she’s coming back tomorrow. Check @metspolice on twitter for the details as tonight’s game went…and more in the morning. I need my 5 hours sleep

You may have heard about this Megdal for GM campaign…Mr. Megdal is going to have to work a lot harder to get MY vote.  I mean, what’s up with that shirt?

A smart politician would realize nobody is going to vote against you if you wear a traditional shirt, whereas a black jersey could cause a lack of support amongst fat bloggers.

I’m in the car the other day and I’m listening to one of the sports radio stations down here (don’t ask me which one, I still have just NY stations programmed into memory).  Anyway, the afternoon host is talking about why the Phillies should be worried.  He starts with the Braves and how they are for real and if they get one more bat they could take it.

Then on to the Mets.  The host says – and I’m paraphrasing here – “the Mets are different this year.  These aren’t the same Mets that collapsed a few years ago.  They believe they can win.  The team is not for real, but they believe they are for real, and that can make a world of difference.”

He continued on this idea of the Mets believing they were a team that could win for quite some time.

Good job Mets marketing.  I didn’t love the Believe campaign at first but I guess it’s far more influential than I thought.