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January 19, 2012January 19, 2012

Mets Hall of Famer Gary Carter Fight with Cancer Seems to be Getting Worse

This is some sad news. Let’s keep #8 in our thoughts.

This is from the NY Daily News:

On Thursday, Carter’s family received a phone call from the doctors at Duke University who have been treating the Mets Hall of Fame catcher informing them that the most recent MRI revealed “several new spots/tumors on his brain,” Carter’s daughter, wrote on the family website.

In recent weeks, Carter’s condition was visibly worsening, and Carter began complaining of severe headaches, fatigue and balance problems that resulted in a fall on Christmas Day in which he tore his rotator cuff.

This past week, Carter spent almost all of his time at his home in Palm Beach Gardens and was too weak Monday to even attend his annual charity golf tournament a few miles away.

According to a family source, the doctors are now deciding whether to cease giving Carter any more treatment

You can read more here.

January 19, 2012January 19, 2012

Mets Daniel Murphy to Receive Thurman Munson Rising Star Award

Shannon will be happy about this. #Iamwith28This comes from Adam Rubin over from Twitter.

Daniel Murphy is inaugural “Thurman Rising Star Award” winner. It will be presented at 32nd annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner Jan. 31.Murphy will join Yogi Berra, Mark Teixeira, R.A. Dickey, Chris Mullin and Dikembe Mutombo at Munson Dinner at Grand Hyatt in NYC on 1/31.

Congratulations to Daniel Murphy on this award. Good to see the guy that made Mr. Shark speechless win this award. Congratulations are also in order for RA Dickey for also getting an award that night and for being inducted into the Tennessee Baseball Hall of Fame.

January 19, 2012

Precinct 41 is in Charge of MetsPolice

Hey guys. Quick little reminder that out intrepid chief of MP is away for the next few days and he left me in charge of the site. My twitter handle is @mediagoon and my email is mediagoon@gmail.com just in case you need to contact me for any reason. Have something cool to send in? Send it on in to me. Chiefy should be back in full effect on here on Monday.
Now I wonder what kind of news the Mets will release while he’s gone.

January 18, 2012January 18, 2012

Mets Auctioning Off The Old Walls

Here is an interesting auction the Mets are having. You have the 1988 NL East Championship panels from Citi Field.The bid is currently at $800 dollars for this.

These two panels make up the 1988 National League Champions pennant and were located on the top portion of the left field wall at Citi Field until the end of the 2011 season. Each panel is approximately 4X8′ and weigh about 75 pounds. FJ631830 – FJ631831 Please contact Mets Amazin’ Memorabilia to discuss shipping/pickup details. You may pick up the panels at Citi Field during regular business hours at no additional cost.

*SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE*WINNER MUST CONTACT AMAZIN’ MEMORABILIA TO ARRANGE FREE PICKUP OR DISCUSS COSTS OF DELIVERY*

I would hate to see the cost of delivery for that.

I can see someone wanting to buy the 88 Pennant panels (there is the 1969 and 1986 World champs, the 1999 wild card,2000 NL Champs and 2006 NL East Champ Pennant panels too), but I can not see myself buying the the ad panels that were in the the outfield(sorry to Delta,Lincoln, Geico, Wheat Thins,Bud, Nikon, and Verizon).

Here is the link if you are interested in possibly owning any of these items.

Quick Update: I missed this originally the Mets also have up for auction the retired numbers.

You can start bidding at $1500 for The Franchise’s number.

You can also bid on Gil Hodges and Casey Stengel’s number panels.

January 14, 2012January 14, 2012

Mets RA Dickey Finds the Yeti

The New York Mets naturally would be worried about their best pitcher of 2011 could get hurt while climbing Mt Kilamanjaro. Fearful he might tear, sprain, dislocate, or break any part of his body they just asked him to be careful ascending Kilamanjaro and figured he should be fine. That is till they read about the Phillies “Doc” Halladay down on the Amazon River tangling with an Anaconda. Their fears almost came true. Dickey came in contact with the elusive YETI. Of course, he would be the guy to find one of these primitive creatures of lore. The Yeti at first went to attack RA, but using a Jedi mind trick he picked up over the years was able to calm the abonimable snow man down. Dickey then proceeded to show him how to play baseball. Dickey’s sherpa was able to send this picture back to the states as an exclusive here to Mets Police. Thanks to Sherpa Goon for snapping this pic for us.

Here is a closer shot….

Of course if you want to see the pics full size click them….

On a serious note, good luck RA on your climb. You can still donate to the cause clicking here.