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Good morning Mets fans.

I’m doing some detective work about the Mazzilli Ball I found last night, and I think it explains EVERYTHING. I may have solved it all – my childhood, what this blog is about, everything. I will write that up for Monday since nobody reads the blog on Saturday.

The hound woke us up at 6:40 which was annoying, but Mr. Mets Police was nice and went to the Unnamed Donuts Chain for me.

Here’s today’s jersey choice.  Yes it has dropshadow.  Yell at the Mets not me.  I can’t be having custom non-dropshadow Mazz jerseys made unless you guys start clicking on a lot of ads.

I have to run out to lacrosse so I can’t rotate that image for you.  Tilt your head.

As I have been mentioning, I really dig Adam Rubin’s morning news roundup on ESPN NY…MetsBlog has followed.  It’s good for Mets fans if those two sites push each other – and it’s weird to even say that because Matt, Michael & co do such a great job at MetsBlog it’s crazy to think they are being pushed….but Rubin is bringing it.  Fun to watch and read.

Oh, and I just learned there is a teacher named Mrs. Roboto, although I’m not sure I am spelling that correctly.  If you’re of a certain age you know why I am giggling.

I can’t wait to write up my unified theory…but I gotta head out.

I swear to Seaver this is a real deal post. This just happened tonight, I didn’t save it

I’m cleaning out the basement here on Lee Mazzilli’s birthday and I found the most amazin’ thing!

This baseball. I don’t even recall owning it…

Those are some of the guys who signed it. I see Lenny Randle and some signatures I cant make out.

As you can tell this forgotten ball unfortunately wasn’t taken care of – and has moved at least 4 houses.

But although you can’t make it out, it is indeed signed to me by one particular player…

How awesome.

My dad must have made this happen oh 30 something years ago.

He’s long gone but wow here’s this baseball in a house my dad never saw.

Pretty friggin’ cool!!!

Happy birthday Lee Mazzilli, thanks for signing me this ball.

A man near me has this on. What don’t I understand? Why does this exist?

He has started at least 142 games in each of six consecutive seasons and at least 153 games in five of the past six. No Mets infielder has started as many games over so long a continuous length of time, according to Stats Inc., a firm that tracks statistical trends in sports.

via Wright Is Tupperware in Mets’ China Cabinet – WSJ.com.

In case you missed it, Dan added in the comments to the “Most Mets Don’t Like Black” piece

One thing that I neglected to post was that the guy I spoke with volunteered this information. We were discussing MetsPolice and I said jokingly that we’d be kind as long as they didn’t wear black. That got him going and everything he told me was unprompted. Goes to show you how much the black unis are disliked

I just wanted to share that so you don’t think we walked up to Person X and were like “hey don’t black uniforms suck? If you like black uniforms you hate America, right?”

Also we’re choosing not to mention Person X because Person X is nice and I’d hate to accidentally complicate X’s life.

This is all so easy.  Introduce 2012 jerseys and wear the black crap on Friday night (so you can still sell it, since wearing it is somehow tied to selling it).  It’s called the Treaty of Flushing and I have been talking about it for years.  Me, Paul Lukas and Howie meet the Wilpons in a subway car.  Nice unis and no more uniform complaining.  Can’t we all get along?

Did I mention the tickets look nice?

Are you sick of this topic?  I can talk about finances if you want.