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Mets GM Alderson Attends Fans for the Cure Event

Mets general manager Sandy Alderson was open and frank about the state of the Mets when he spoke Tuesday evening at Fordham University for Ed Randall’s Fans for the Cure charity event.

Randall, a radio personality from WFAN and Sirius Satellite Radio, hosts the event with the active Mets general manager every year to promote prostate cancer awareness and education. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 47 and has since beaten the disease.

All proceeds for the event benefited Fans for the Cure.

Alderson provided an expansive commentary, touching upon the financial state of the Mets and his time working as an envoy in the Dominican Republic for Major League Baseball.

He addressed the most pressing issue currently surrounding the Mets, which is the pending lawsuit against the team’s owners, the Wilpons, for their involvement with fraudulent investor Bernie Madoff. The family is now seeking a “strategic investor” who will ease the financial blow by paying for 25% of the team. But Alderson made it clear that the team’s financial crisis did not affect his ability to spend this winter.

“We started with $135 million worth of contracts, and we’re going nothat of that,” he said. “We’re going to be close to $150 million.”

Even though 2010 may have been a throw away year for the Mets, Alderson was optimistic about the team, asserting that with some luck and good health, playoff contention is a strong possibility. Going forward, Alderson was most hopeful with the organizational reform he has instituted.

Read more at this link

http://nyunews.com/sports/2011/02/04/04mets/

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Shea exterior from 1965 (Squares!)

Most of you don’t remember the squares on the outside of Shea.  I liked it.  I never understood them but I missed then when they were gone.  This is one of the best shots of the squares that I have seen.  From Mike and from 1965.  Click on it for a bigger view.

Notice none of the squares are black.

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Wrecking Ball Looming for Flushing

Wait. I hope I didn’t scare you guys with that headline. It has nothing to do with destroying Citi Field or the Mets. It is the first steps of getting rid of the Iron Triangle on 126th street.

Ceetar of OptimisticMetsFan, sent this over to us here. Ceetar also pointed out that during the meet up the guys had last week that they actually talked about the Iron Triangle. (Note: I wasn’t there. Real job actually had me work the weekend.)

This is a quote from Ceetar from that meetup:

I hope they could at least clear the street outside the bullpen gate by july 2013 , for an all star village.

And, here is a snippet from the site that has the whole story:

The EDC now controls 88% of the property within the 20-acre first phase of Willets Point, a 980,000-square-foot chunk that will include 2,000 apartments and possibly a hotel. TheJournal reports that next week Team Bloomberg will initiate eminent domain proceedings against nine holdouts, with more to come in the future.

You can read the whole story here.

And again thanks to Ceetar. Click OptimisticMetsFan to get to his site.