Here’s Mr. Met sporting his shiny new Blue Los Mets Jersey tossing t-shirts to the crowd.
Further Evidence of Captain Wright
Shannon here – that vibration you felt was the result of Ceetar finally accepting invitations to write for MP. Here’s Ceetar
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Following last night’s loss, David Wright and Terry Collins had a closed-door meeting
via Metsblog. One player meeting privately with the manager, and afterwards speaking about the mindset and attitude of the team, is something that doesn’t happen normally.
It’s a rather shrewd move by Colactus. He’s previously stated that he’s not going to have any more team meetings about staying focused, but he’s still managing to push forward his message to his players. Having the unnamed captain of the team reiterate the message, and act on the message, helps further emphasize that if you’re not willing to give it 100% you won’t be playing for Terry Collins in 2012.
>Hey Rutgers How's That New Stadium Coming?
>I guess it's a good thing that Rutgers decided to waste millions of dollars expanding the football stadium because people aren't going to be able to see the games on tv.
ESPN has told the school (and SNY who gets the feed from ESPN) that this weeks game will be on ESPNU (check your cable system. Correct, you likely don't get it) and the game against Pitt won't be televised at all.
Schiano had one good season and there was about a 10 minute period where people were all hopped up about Rutgers. I particularly remember some frontrunners telling me they were going out for whatever that big Thursday night game was that year.
Of course Rutgers spit the bit. Then the coach bluffed that he was leaving so the school gave him even more money. Now they are 1 and 5 and the games aren't even on tv which puts Rutgers football below Manhattan basketball on the local sports radar.
Enjoy the new stadium. Parents let me know what it's like to write that tuition check while Schiano enjoys his fancy house.
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>Don't Spread Ashes At A Stadium
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Mr. Marvin was a lifelong Yankees fan who could remember the starting lineups from when, as a boy, his house was a short walk from the House That Ruth Built in the Bronx. The Yankees were such a cornerstone of his life that after he died in 1999 at age 86, his grandson Jeff helped scatter his ashes in Monument Park.
There was a similar story last week involving some ashes spread at Shea and the family was trying to “retrieve” them.
I kinda don’t feel bad for these people.
I’m sorry they lost a loved one, but to expect that you are going to recover ashes that have been mixed in with dirt, sod, rainwater, chemicals, spit and who knows what…..you’re just kidding yourself. I know there’s the idea that you could go to 161st and River and look down on dad…but nothing is forever. I’m sure there were some colonists who buried some people and in the 20th century we had no problem covering over their graves with a skyscraper. Hell, we’re even going to do something similar downtown down on Church & Liberty.
Fans who have scattered their family members’ ashes at Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium are grieving.
>Tiger Stadium Lives To See Another Day
>Good news for anyone who is a fan of old ballparks. Yesterday, members of the Toger Stadium Conservancy presented the Detroit City Council with proof of $219,000 in escrow – enough funds to stave off the final destruction of what remains of the ballpark at the corner of Michigan & Trumbull.
As reported on MLB.com, this is just the first step:
The next step is two-fold as the conservancy delves deeper into the planning stages for the project. It faces a Dec. 1 deadline to present redevelopment designs and budgets to the DEGC for approval. Estimates for the project have been forecast around $15 million.
Those designs, Gillette said, have been ongoing. It has been a unique challenge simply because there’s no precedent. Most if not all old ballparks have been torn down once teams move to new ones, with maybe a monument or home-plate location noted where a stadium once stood.
“We have been all along working on the long-term plan,” Gillette said. “In fact, the long-term plan has been more solid than the short-term plan,”
If the designs are approved, the conservancy will then have until Dec. 10 to pay another $150,000 deposit.
All the while, the conservancy will be trying to finalize funding for predevelopment costs as well as the larger project itself. That work has been going on since the summer. Now that they’ve met the first fundraising deadline and demonstrated the effort’s viability, the other fundraising sources are expected to step up.
Tiger Stadium was an amazing place to see a ballgame. It’s a shame that of the big 4 (Wrigley, Fenway, Yankee, and Tiger), Tiger Stadium was too often forgotten and hardly thought of in terms of the history of the game.
Too often we tear down the past to make way for the future, only to regret what we have done years later. Don’t let that happen to Tiger Stadium. To get more information on the plans and to find out about supporting the effort to save this historic landmark, check out http://savetigerstadium.org/
