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Time for a new blue Mets cap


I’ve decided the time has come to retire this cap. It has served me well since about 1998 (I’ll go down in the basement sometime this week and find its predecessor, I keep everything) but it just doesn’t work for me any longer.

See the “dents” – I don’t know how those got there but I can’t get them out.   Thus, when I wear the cap it looks sort of deformed.

The “stains” I bet are from chlorine long ago.  I’ve learned the hard way not to wear anything you care about when cleaning the pool.

I shopped around today and found one I liked (I think it’s called “franchise”) and some I didn’t.  I’ll dive into thatduring the week.  As for right now, I clicked on “Mets” at lids.com and must resist the temptation to do 50 posts about Mets caps.   Dinner is ready and Mrs. Mets Police is in a happy mood.   No blogging tonight.

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Mets Yearbook 1980 is coming

Thanks to Manny for the heads-up:

Just wanted to let you know that by using the directv application on my iPod touch I found that SNY is scheduled to finally show a different Mets Yearbook.  The 1980 yearbook is scheduled to air on Tuesday, March 23 at 6:30 pm and Wednesday, March 24 at 4:00 pm.  That team stunk but I loved that team.  Heck, what did I know back then, I was only eight years old.

Will they talk a lot about first baseman Lee Mazzilli?   Will they mention a young scrubby pitcher in the bullpen named Mike Scott?  Will they show pictures of John Pacella’s cap falling off after every pitch.  That’s not me exaggerating.  It fell off after every pitch.  The Mets even asked MLB if he could go cap-less and the answer was no.

I love this series, and I’d love to see a deliberately cheesy modern-version hosted by Howie Rose.  I can see/hear it now,”The 2009 season got off to a great start with a 2-1 victory over the Reds…”

Random thought: the Mets didn’t really interrupt the Jason Bay press conference to hand him a Rangers jersey, did they?  I made that up in my dreams, right?

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Giveaways: Mets scarf and Mets ski cap

Here are two more images of 2010 promotional items.  How about that scarf!  It is lacking in one of the Mets traditional colors (black).  How dare they issue something that is blue and orange?!

It looks cool.  I’m not nuts about the casino logo but that’s the price you pay, and I wish it were longer – but it’s overall cool.  Looks like you could play Where’s Wally with it.

As for the ski cap?  Not so awesome.

Mets Scarf Mets-Nationals April 10

SKI CAP: Mets-Braves April 23rd

Thanks to Walter for sending over.   [email protected]

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Mets Yearbook 1963

I decided to stop being a slacker and catch up on the episodes of Mets Yearbook that piled up on my DVR   As I’ve done in the past I’ll just type whatever comes to mind as I watch.

I was enthralled by the opening to Mets Yearbook 1963.   The shots of NYC, where the Empire State Building truly dominated the skyline.  The Grand Concourse actually looked nice (as my parents often told me).  There’s a neat shot of the Verezanno being built.

The film has fake Mets fans!   Hey ma’am can you say “we talk about Mets at our dinner table every night.”  You sir, can you say “we used to be Dodger fans..but now that the Mets are here blah blah.”  So so rehearsed.    And oh the “New York” accent.  Awesome, real, and something you don’t hear these days except in poorly written sitcoms.

Casey Stengel made 80 grand in 1962 bucks.   That seems like a lot, no?

There’s an interesting Mr. Met bobblehead where Mr. Met is wearing a two-tone cap (blue and orange of course.)

The hot dogs actually look edible!

I love how the owner is “Mrs. Charles Payson.”  And of you old guys when women would be known as Mrs. Man’s First Name?

It’s fun listening to the GM (missed his name) trying to BS Lindsey Nelson about how this team is close to winning (this is in the offseason between 63 and 64).

I haven’t seen much film of the Mets at the Polo Grounds (neither has Fred) so that’s always fun.

Holy cow Bob Murphy is young in this!!! I mean it makes sense if you do the math, but it’s a young Bob with dark hair and a few extra pounds.   I didn’t catch much of Lindsey Nelson but it comes through on this film that he was good.  Ralph is at his best stiff self, without the charm that comes from being old and having been on for 50 years.

Next time we whine about advertising on the fence we should look at the walls of the Polo Grounds.  Apparently it’s a Mets tradition that skipped Shea.

Now I’m getting annoyed looking at the Polo Grounds.  The Mets played there, and use the old Giants style NY – so the Mets build a replica of the Dodgers’ stadium and shun the one thing they borrowed from Brooklyn: the blue.    They got everything backward!

Nelson just told me they had a day for Willie Mays!   The active player in San Francisco??!!! And Stan Musial – sure he’s about to retire but he’s a Cardinal.  Why not have a tickertape parade for Sammy Sosa?  Get the time machine – the Mets Police have a newsletter to type in 1963!!! (you can subscribe by sending me a self-addressed stamped envelope, and you should expect issue #1 sometime in December 1963 unless I get distracted.) Continue reading “Mets Yearbook 1963”