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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Devils have a decision coming in goal

This has nothing to do with the Mets, but the Devils have a decision coming up in net.  Do you start Brodeur when he comes back or do you bench the greatest goaltender of all-time?
 
I’m going to send you over to Examiner where I wrote about this problem this morning.
 
Devils win and have a big decision coming in goal

1 hr 57 mins ago – NY Sports Examiner

 The Devils wake up this morning in first place. They’ve done that without their sure-thing Hall of Fame goaltender Martin Brodeur. Scott Clemmensen has stepped in and kept the… Full Story

 

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Citi Field Name Debate Goes To Treasury Department

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) have written a letter to new Treasury Secratary Timothy Geithner asking that the Treasury Department step in and end the naming rights deal with the Mets.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer  has the phrasing in Kucinich’s press statement as:

“The Treasury Department, which forced Citigroup corporate executives to give up their private jet, should also demand that Citigroup cancel its $400 million advertisement at the Mets field and instead being to repay their debt to the taxpayers”




Huffington Post has similar but different wording, presumably from the actual letter.

We request that you intervene and demand that Citigroup dissolve the agreement they have with the New York Mets.  Absent this outcome, we feel strongly that you should compel Citigroup to return immediately all federal monies received to date, as well as cancel all loan guarantees.



This has been and continues to be an avoidable storm for the Mets.  All they have to do is redo the deal with Citi and issue some statement along the lines of, “We understand our partner is going through a tough time, and we want this to be a lasting partnership, so we have worked together to restructure the deal so (insert financial doubletalk)….”

The Mets are messing around with a President who wasn’t shy today about Wall Street bonuses, and is already mad at Citi for trying to spend $50 million on a plane.
The Mets need to get in front of this before we find ourselves at “Mets Stadium” with a lot of outdated signage on April 13th.
Why not “Jackie Robinson Stadium?” – the Mets will want a corporate stadium name whether it’s Citi Field or Eskimo Pie Stadium.   Can you imagine the backlash if they ever tried to rename “Jackie Robinson Stadium?”
Mets Field here we come.   Get in front of this one boys.
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The Lee Mazzilli Curse

There has been some talk in Metsdom lately of the Hernandez curse. Surely it’s been mostly from bloggers looking for something to write about on an otherwise cold quiet morning. Clearly there is no Hernandez curse, but I am here to tell you about the Lee Mazzilli curse.

Lee, as you all know, is the golden child of the late 70s and should have had a 15 year run in center field but no they had to give the job to that Mookie guy and trade Lee away for some ‘prospects’ that essentially wound up being Darling and Hojo.

Lee moved on to Texas who turned their back on him after 58 games. How many World Series has Texas won since? He went to the Yankees who also shunned him – how many World Series did the Yankees win before they realized about the Mazzilli Curse and hired Lee’s old Mets manager?

Off to Pittsburgh. No championships for them since they released him in 1986.

Meanwhile the Mets had put together a good club, but they couldn’t get over the hump. So they brought Mazzilli back in 1986. Bingo, championship.

When Lee returned, sure-fire future Hall of Famer Dwight Gooden was now wearing Lee’s old #16. Doc offered it to Lee, but Lee being a gentleman wasn’t going to take the hall of famer’s number. That was Gooden’s biggest mistake – and the curse of Lee Mazzilli led Doc to drugs and a ruined career.
On to Toronto in 1989. When did the Mets start to suck? That’s right, right around 1989! The Jays finished first, and Lee knowing he had taught the Jays how to win knew he could retire and leave the Jays on their own to win two world series.

In his post-playing days Lee was coach for Joe Torre, who saw the magic expire after Lee left the coaching staff following the 2003 series. Joe tried to bring the Mazz magic back in 2006 but it was not meant to be.
As for the Orioles, the only curses stronger than the Mazzilli curse are those in Chicago and the curse of Peter Angelos. No force can help with those.

Mets Police fully support Jerry the Gangsta, but he would be wise to ask Lee to suit up in a #16 and sit next to him and end this 23 year drought.

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