Another one of those videos that could destroy Major League Baseball if we shared it!
DW, wearing pinstripes (LOTS OF PINNIES THIS OFFSEASION, HMMM) thanks you for remembering his birthday.
The Mets Google Ngram viewer
Did you ever wonder how often the word Mets appears in the history of books? Google has a new toy that lets you punch words in to see how often they appear.
To little surprise, the Mets didn’t start appearing until after 1960.
Here’s a different graph which shows 1960-2010.
What does it all mean? I have no idea except (a) the line goes up, (b) I killed 10 minutes at work and (c) we’re one post closer to Opening Day.
Click on the graphs for a bigger version.
Oh, and no I didn’t solve the code tweaking to get rid of the black-shirts ads.
Mets’ Holiday Card
I wouldn’t want MLB to go out of business if we were to use embedding technologies…so click the link to see the 2010 mets Holiday Card.
They’ve done better.
Vintage 1986 Mets stuff from the Daily News
Media Goon was cleaning his room and found these Daily News 1986 Mets Things. The duplicates are zooms so you can read the tiny print. Click on any image for a larger image.
2010 Alternate Mets caps #27
Mets Mom found this one at Roosevelt Field.
As you can see by the Yankee version below it this is not a Mets-only thing. It doesn’t make it less ugly.
I like that there are people walking around stores taking photos of caps. The people at Modell’s always look at me like I am insane.