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January 9, 2011January 9, 2011

Condolences to Dallas Green and Family

Media Goon: I woke up to some really crappy news this morning and it really gets me down. The shooting that was all over the news yesterday in Arizona of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others included a nine year old girl.

The little girl that was shot and killed was former Mets manager Dallas Green’s granddaughter. Her father John Green is a scout for the LA Dodgers. Our thoughts are with the Green family and all the other victims from this senseless shooting.

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UPDATE 10:05am Shannon here.

Before all the talking heads argue back and forth over politics let’s take a second to think about this senseless act of violence and a especially a young life snuffed out.

I’m posting this picture not to be sensational but because of the emotional impact. I’m also making this post “stuck” to the top of the blog for the day. New items will roll out below.

The brown-eyed athletic girl had one sibling, an 11-year-old brother named Dallas, and the two loved to go swimming together.

She’d already told her parents she wanted to attend Penn State one day and have a career that involved helping those less fortunate than her.

She also loved animals and was a passionate dancer who loved ballet, hip-hop, jazz and gymnastics and was the only girl on her Canyon del Oro Little League baseball team, “The Pirates.” She played second base.

Much more in the Arizona Daily Star.

Take the political discussions elsewhere.

January 6, 2011January 6, 2011

Mets 2008 World Series Ticket

Chris who helps us out over on Sportspolice.com found this lil gem over on ebay. Nice looking ticket. Hopefully in the near future we can actually get to use the tickets for the World Series and not have to sell them on ebay as a “cool” collectors type item.

And when I say “cool” I mean makes me angry to look at it.

Remember you can always send stuff to me if you can’t get in touch with Shannon.
My email is Mediagoon@gmail.com and you can follow me on twitter @mediagoon.

December 22, 2010

Thank You Call from the Mets

I am sitting here at work minding my own business, when I get a call from a 718-507 number. Lo and behold it was Number 5 of the New York Mets was on the phone. Okay it wasn’t really him live.
It was a David Wright Cylon, I mean robo call. I was thanked for renewing my ticket plan and for being a loyal fan. Robo Wright also wished me happy holidays. Now I am hearing Terry Collins called some people who renewed also.
Who did anyone else get a cylon call from?

And yes Shannon, We shall step up our technology.

December 15, 2010December 15, 2010

Mets Coat Drive

I happened to be off from work today so I went to Citi Field to drop of some coats I have and don’t use. I missed the Mets Players showing up at 11 am due to some things I had to do. I went back later on in the afternoon to snap some pics for here and I ran into Randy from Readtheapple.com.

We walked around the Team Store for a while and when we were about to leave we saw Mr. Met loading up some of the coats in to the back of a truck. I could of sworn I had seen Ollie Perez’s head sticking out of one of them.

Visit NY CARES to donate if you couldn’t make it today.

December 15, 2010December 15, 2010

Photos and recap of Mets MVP reception

Jimmy the Mets fan with the major hook-up. Here’s Jimmy:

Hats off to the Mets. They could have given me Luis Hernandez, Lucas Duda and a bag of potato chips. They could have done nothing, the way they used to.

Instead the season ticket holder reception had real food, real drinks, real beer and wine and as much of it as you wanted.

David Wright, Jason Bay, Ike Davis, Carlos Beltran, Terry Collins and Sandy Alderson milled around for a while taking pictures and trying to look happy to be there.

A Q&A session followed with Ron Darling moderating. Most of the questions were of the softball variety and elicited the predictable athlete speak cliche answers.

Most of the things said weren’t news. We’ve heard them before. More than once. However a few things did stand out in my mind.

– In Jason Bay’s answer to some inane “Is Jose Reyes important to the team?” question, Bay says “I wish he would get a haircut”. At that point, Darling pipes up (while looking directly at Alderson), “And lose the do-rag”. Interesting.

– Poor David Wright. The next interesting thing he says will be the first. His answers were a snooze fest. Nice guy. Good player. Not a leader.

– Sandy Alderson stood out. It’s a breath of fresh air to have a general manager who has a vision and can actually articulate it.

– I was surprised by the love fest for Carlos Beltran. First of all, it was a little surprising that he would even be there. I found it a little odd that the same fans who bellyache about him would be feeding him softball questions and applauding the answers.

I had a minute to speak with Sandy Alderson. I complimented him on keeping his cool with Mike Francesca yesterday. He said “They told me to go to the studio in person rather than call in. He might take it easier in me.” So much for that. Alderson added “He kept repeating himself”. No kidding.

Pics after the jump…not our best formatting job…slammed with real life. Thanks to Jimmy for sending and Media Goon for working on most of this post.

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