What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Well it has been 54 years I guess since someone in my family last attended a Giants home game.
This park is AWESOME.
Already found some Mel Ott stuff and this…(hope u can see it)
Dave from Flushing needs to see how you can work team history into a park
Back to you Goon….
Terence let me know you can get a green version (with orange bill) here.
I still dare the Mets to try this with another nationality. I really would love to watch that play out. But the Fighting Irish, Lucky Charms and Mayor Bloomberg’s comments…it’s all fair game. Where’s Andy Martino when I need him?
What was one of the unique selling points of Citi Field was the fact that it had The Shake Shack. Now the Nationals are getting it?
The Nationals announced on Wednesday that renowned restaurateur Danny Meyer and his Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) will bring the very popular “Shake Shack” concessions concept to Nationals Park this season.
They are also getting the other Danny Meyer food stands too.
Other new concepts from Meyer and his group include pit barbecue at “Blue Smoke,” Belgian-style fries and dipping sauces at “Box Frites,” and authentic Mexican food at “El Verano Taquería.”
Okay. I have an idea Shannon might like. Since the Nats took the Mets “unique” foods, maybe they can also take something a lot of us Mets fans don’t like. No, they took Ollie already. Maybe the can take the black jerseys, dropshadow, and hybrid hats.
To read the whole story was from Nationals Buzz.
Dan is out to upset me. He sent me this 1998 article from the NY Times. Meet the new public enemy #1
‘We want to be relevant,” said Mark Bingham, the team’s vice president for marketing and broadcasting. ”We want people to walk down the street with a Mets cap on, and felt that the black-based hat was a great look. We hear that it’s moving, that people are asking about it.”
Mr. Bingham is current an SVP at Completely Unnecessary Stadium in case you are wondering.
The article discusses how the Yankees were outselling the Mets 12-1 for reasons including tourists, these kids today, but curiously not the whole 1996 World Series thing.
Wear your blue Mets cap with pride Mets fans.
Perhaps some day in the future someone will figure out how to sell and market variant off-field merchandise- I will call them Fashion Caps….what do you guys think?
I think the discovery of this baseball has helped me solve my entire childhood.
Here’s what we know about me as previously mentioned on the blog
– I love Lee Mazzilli
– I don’t remember Joe Frazier and the first guy I remember as Mets manager was Joe Torre.
– I met Tom Seaver as a kid, he gave me a 1946 Cardinals baseball, and as an adult I talked with Tom about it.
– I also met Jerry Grote on the Seaver trip.
– I have been a big Mets fan since 1977
– I just found this Lee Mazzilli baseball which is autographed to me and has signatures from Mazz, Kranepool, Lenny Randle….with Torre’s signature in a prominent spot, as if he were the manager.
I called my mom to tell her about the ball and she says it was from the day a nice man named Emmett brought me and my dad out to Shea…ah, now I remember…..and suddenly this all makes sense.
It’s May or June 1977. I’m 7 years old. A very impressionable age. Since Junior is about that age now it’s easy for me to see what registers in his brain and not…he’s kinda sorta aware about baseball but not really but starting to get interested.
So we head out to Shea in May or June 1977 and I get to go on the field and meet Seaver and Grote who are on the roster. I pin it to May or June because Torre is the manager by then. (Lenny Randle came to the Mets on April 26, 1977)
By May or June 1977 Seaver is very frustrated and…speculating here…maybe he is starting to tidy up a bit. Seaver gives me the Cardinals ball from his locker (I remember that very clearly and have asked Tom about it and he told me it was possible since he collected autographs).
On said trip I get an autographed ball from some young player nobody cares about yet named Lee Mazzilli. It’s signed to ME.
A few weeks later Seaver leaves the Mets, which I remember well, and remember being hurt by. The nice man I met isn’t a Met any more?????!!!!
That leaves this Lee Mazzilli fellow who signed a ball to me. He becomes my favorite player, well before poster day and all that.
It’s 1977 and while all the other kids are in love with Reggie Jackson, I become a Mets fan.
Wow, that all makes sense now!!!!
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Great story right? One problem.
That sure looks like a Bobby Valentine autograph on the ball. Bobby came to the Mets on June 15, 1977 – a date which you should know.
Boom. My unified theory destroyed. More years of therapy for me.
I called Mom again to ask her and the best she had was, “Well you went out there a few times. I remember you came back one day with a bunch of autographs.”
Hmmm.
Well the Seaver thing happened, but now I can’t pin a date on it.
The question now: am I Lee fan because I had the ball, or did I get the ball because I was a Lee fan. I think it’s the latter. I’ll let you know what I can uncover from my subconcious.
