Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

I know a contract is a contract but when you read this:

The Treasury also will invest another $20 billion in Citigroup on top of the $25 billion of taxpayer dollars already invested in the bank this fall.

and you read this:

Citigroup Inc. announced it will cut 53,000 jobs over the next few quarters. The cuts come in addition to the 23,000 jobs the bank already cut in October.

and then you read this:

The 20-year deal, announced two years ago, was reported to be a record $400 million and entailed naming the new stadium Citi Field after it opened in 2009 in the New York borough of Queens, adjacent to the team’s old home, Shea Stadium.

“There is no change in regard to Citi’s commitment to the new ballpark,” Mets spokesman Jay Horowitz said in an email.

Another generic post while I’m hopefully not stuck at the airport and actually on a plane on my way back to Flushing….I found this last week and share it here so there’s something to keep the blog alive while I travel.

This guy gets sad talking to Mets fans.

I’m tempted to post the entire thing but that’s not cool, so here’s a clip and go visit his site.

So we are talking and he’s trying to tell me that the Mets are going to sign CC Sabathia over the Yankees. I just laughed in his face. I said dude “The Mets will never out spend the Yankees. The only reason they got Beltran and Santana is because the Yankees turned them down. Get Real.” He got all huffy and pompous but all the other dudes who worked in the bank almost pissed their pants. I just hate talking to Mets fans.They have an incredably skewed view of their place in the ecosystem.

So the blog has been on auto-pilot all week while I did some of my Clark Kent wok to pay the bills.   I’m home now and decided to scan the papers and blogs and see what I missed.  

Surely the Mets have acquired someone by now…or at least made a big bid for a free agent.

Nope.  Nothing.   Nothing to the degree that if you search “Mets” on google blog-search you get my dropey generic post about the Shake Shack opening at Shea.

Oops, I typed that naturally – old habits die hard.  I decided not to go back and edit.

Shake Shack opening at Citi Field is what I meant to say.  Which brings us to the closest thing we have for news:  whill Citi even exist in April or will the Mets be playing at El Stadio Del Banco Popular or Mizuho Financial Group Stadium.  

It’s the Mets, you know we’ll wind up with a dopey name.

In good news, maybe this silly blog is working.  Read the next post down where I bitch about the NFL doubleheaders…we’re getting two games at 1pm today, hooray.   It’s only because both the Jets and the Evil PSL Team are on the road, but I’ll take it.

This sentence is the obligatory Red Bulls mention.  MLS championship today.   Who cares.