What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Media Goon, who is much better at taking photos than I am, sent this over. Â I like it a lot. Â Fred, Jeff and Dave: ditch the black and go blue in 2011. Â There’s money to be made.
I wanna go to bed but there’s so much blogging to do – I have been procrastinating on the St. Patrick’s day gear, I gotta get cracking.
In the morning  – pictures from McFadden’s Citi Field.
The fine folks over at Faith and Fear (they are the smart bloggers who figured out how to get a book deal – insert envy here) said they wouldn’t mind if I copied and pasted an entire post which (a) gets the word out and (b) saves me work, which is extra important tonight because Mrs. Mets Police waited until she saw me sitting with the laptop to put down the newspaper and become chatty Cathy. Â Go watch Lost, I’m blogging…
Mark your calendars, your Blackberries and your whatever ya got for March 23 at 7 PM and the return of AMAZIN’ TUESDAYS to Two Boots Tavern, the Lower East Side’s foremost bastion of Metsdom.
The Mets-themed reading and venting series that was infinitely more successful in 2009 than the team on which it focused makes its 2010 debut just as Spring Training will be growing interminable and the wait for Opening Day will be passing intolerable. We — that’s Jon Springer of Mets By The Numbers and I — are pleased to reignite our regular Metsfests by welcoming two distinctly Metsian voices to the Two Boots stage: the Mets Poet, Frank Messina, author of Full Count; and Edward Hoyt, a major contributor to the must-have 1969 tribute volume, The Miracle Has Landed. Both are gifted Met writers and sincere Met thinkers. You’ll enjoy hearing from them both.
In addition to bringing a Met baseball card and having Two Boots proprietor Phil Hartman buy you a beer, you will have the opportunity to purchase a copy of the brand new paperback edition of Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets, signed by the author (me again), for 10 bucks. All proceeds from FAFIF sales at Two Boots on March 23 will go to Sharon Chapman’s marathon fundraising efforts on behalf of the Tug McGraw Foundation and its fight against brain cancer — more about which you can learn here. The paperback edition includes an epilogue on the first season at Citi Field, in case you were wondering if it’s the same exact book you already read.
(I’m not 100% sure right now how many copies I’ll have on hand, but you can contribute to Sharon’s and Tug’s cause that night and I’ll be sure to mail you out a book, inscribed any way you like, shortly thereafter.)
Great pizza, fine beverages and an evening of Mets talk while they’re still 0-0. Who can ask for anything more? We look forward to seeing you in two weeks.
Two Boots Tavern is at 384 Grand St., between Norfolk and Suffolk. You can take the F to Delancey; the J, M or Z to Essex; or the B or D to Grand. Phone: 212/228-8685.
I really hope these guys pull this off. Â From my email…
To Our Supporters of Yankee Stadium Gate 2,
I just wanted to give you a quick update of where we stand with regard to our proposal to preserve Gate 2 within the new Heritage Field to be built on the site of Old Yankee Stadium.
Gate 2 is still not in the plan for Heritage Field. On February 22, 2010, the New York City Design Commission granted preliminary approval to the revised Parks Department plan without Gate 2. The demolition of the “House that Ruth Built” is proceeding and currently scheduled to be completed by June 2010. Sections of the Upper Grandstand are being removed. We will continue to work with the local community and the appropriate New York City agencies in our efforts to Save Gate 2.
In the meantime, I want to let you know that your support for us is most appreciated.
To paraphrase Yogi, “It ain’t over as long as Gate 2 is standing.”
Regards,
Mark
More on this story here and here.
(For Mets Police newbies, I sometimes check out what’s going on in the Bronx. Â Pretend you’re with your hot girlfirend that you really love and another chick walks by. Â You look. Â I don’t know why we do that, we just do. Â This is the baseball version).
Ben who has his own Mets related blog at metsiesandothermusings.blogspot.com was kind enough to send over some of his photos from Citi Field on Monday, and I added one more of my own – Â the man at the ticket window. Â It’s a funny shot of one guy buying tickets but let’s be fair…it was 6pm.
I forgot to mention my reaction when I got off the subway. The main staircase was closed, so I had to take the “normal subway station” one on the left as you exit. I wasn’t really thinking, and walked down those side stairs like I have done hundreds of time and I looked up to see Shea and there was nothing there! The emptiness caught me by surprise! I don’t know if my brain expected Shea or thought Citi was further over or what….anyway Citi was over on the right.
