Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

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Another loss.

Another Reyes Error. Appropriately he made the last out.

Willie is still here, without any guarantee for his job.

Mets lose again. I’m completely disgusted with this franchise, which is why this blog exists. The stated mission of The Mets Police is to call the Mets on the carpet for the stupid things they do. This was stupid. No vote of confidence nor a change.

So now the fanbase will be louder and louder and eventually Willie will go down. Omar you are now on watch too. Wilpons….sigh….you rarely get anything right. Please just go buy the damn Dodgers.

I propose to all Mets fans that we take the old negative “Dar-yl” chant that the Red Sox fans started….and we chant Wil-lie. Wil-lie. All game long, every game, until anyone else manages this team.

(In happier news, New York Times now using “Willie Watch” – you’re welcome Times!. It’s right here in the last sentence of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/sports/baseball/27randolph.html?ref=sports)

Cool link here about The Curse of Eddie Grant.

Some say that it’s the reason the San Francisco Giants never win.

Others say it’s the reason that every single free agent that comes to Shea leaves his best game with another team.

Others still say it causes New York national league managers to lose their mind and say willy words like “machete.”

http://underwood.mlblogs.com/archives/2006/05/the_curse_of_ed.html

Legend has it, the only way a curse can be lifted on a franchise is to admit that a team other than the Dodgers once played here.

Had you read the New York Times on May 30th 1921 you’d have seen this

MEMORIAL UNVEILING TODAY; Eddie Grant Monument to Be Uncovered at Polo Grounds.

So now you’re asking – Who is Eddie Grant?

Well Grant played for a number of teams including the never-spoken-of New York Giants. Not ana amzing bplayer by any means. Eddie was killed during World War I in 1918.

In 1921 the Giants unveiled a plaque in Eddie’s memory, and there it stayed until the Giants last game in 1957.

It was uncovered recently and now is in the possession of these guys:
http://www.baseballreliquary.org/EddieGrantPlaque.htm

How about we put this plaque back in a baseball stadium. How about Dodg, I mean, Ebb…um Citi Field which as you know honors the Polo Grounds with green seats.

Thanks to contributor Louie Maz (no relation to Lee Maz) for the heads up on this one.