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Check out this photo gallery of Fenway in hockey mode.

Cough Rangers cough Citi.

In other news….

…I should correctly scold MLB and not the Mets for not allowing anyone to embed video.  I really understand their keeping of highlights exclusive to mlb.com, but a coat drive?  The league may want to liberalize their policies.

…I can’t remember if I thanked Uni Watch for mentioning the Blue Cap Army.   Some folks are asking if I plan to be jerky and take credit for anyone who wears a blue cap to a Mets game.  Nope.  I understand that some people wear blue caps.  I’d like to (a) see a majority of fans wear a blue cap and (b) use the Blue Cap Army to focus frustration and demonstrate unity of fandom rather than someone try to do a 6th inning walkout or something.  Plus I’m enjoying “bragging” about the size of the army which is rapidly approaching ten members,\.

Thanks to those who have been sending in pictures for Share Your Shots.  Over the weekend I should have some time to process them (darn real job) and I’ll start a series where we check out each other’s Mets related photos.  Anything goes – you at a game, players, views obstructed or not, Shea, Citi, Polo…anything.  Send to [email protected]

Was talking with Osh41 about Game 6.   Y’all realize if Carter flies out we are going on 40+ years.  That’s a really scary thought.

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Today’s average Mets fan is Kevin.

I had a few beers last night and decided to watch (again) “Seasons: 1986” on MLB TV.

I don’t care how many times I watch Game 6, I get nervous when there’s two outs in the 10th, I still can’t believe the rally as I watch it, and I’m not exaggerating here, even last night when I watched “Buckner” I got choked up.  Really did..  It really is amazin’ to watch.

Scully’s call is poetry.   Even on the printed page:

Little roller up along first

Behind the Bag!

It gets through Buckner

Here comes Knight!

The video below isn’t new, but it shows how amazing the rally is.  If you’ve never seen it before sit through the videogame version, and even if you have, you’ll enjoy hearing Vin Scully.

Does anyone anywhere have a picture of the scoreboard displaying “Congratulations Red Sox?”  That’s like my holy grail (or maybe I suck at Google).

In other news…there was a Mets Yearbook on SNY last night, I missed it but I did ask the DVR to tape 1963 and I think 1968 (those either were on at 1am or are on at 1pm today).  1975 is on at 6:30 tonight.

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The Mets did something nice.  They had a coat drive.  They made a nice video about it.

However, like everything MLB, they refuse to have embedding technology.  You want us to come to MLB.com for highlights, I get it.  You do something nice like a coat drive…just let us embed it.  It’s not going to destroy your business if we don’t go to the site.

Although I like to support goodness, this annoys me so I refuse to link to the site on this post.

You have PR problems this offseason, why not make it easy to be loved?

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Aidan dropped me a note along with this picture:

“I realize that this is the foul pole an a necessary part of any baseball stadium but when I purchased these seats on the phone the day tix went on sale there was no mention that this could be an issue. To be honest this is (not) even the worst view as if you sat in the next seat over your view of homeplate was 100% obstructed. Now I’m not asking them to remove the foul pole but a little warning, disclaimer, or discount I think is not much to ask for. I’m curious what your thoughts are on this issue?”








For the answer, we seek the wisdom of Dave Howard who was once quoted by saying:

“The way we characterize “obstructed” is if you have an obstruction, something in front of you — a beam, a pillar, something that’s blocking your view.”

So yes Aidan, this appears to be an obstructed view, even under David Howard’s narrower-than-mine version of the term.

You have something in front of you, something that is blocking your view, such as a pillar or beam.  My dictionary defines a pillar as “a slender, freestanding vertical support; a column.”  Whereas I don’t believe the foul pole supports anything, the secondary definition is “such a structure or one similar to it used for decoration.”   A decoration is “something that renders something more ornate” and something ornate is “flashy, showy” such as the only orange foul poles in major league baseball.  In my opinion you have a pillar blocking your view, thus it is an obstructed view in the sense of the Howard Definition.

Do I think the Mets should label as such?  Yes.   I’m actually surprised at your suggestion that they don’t and am not sure they they don’t.  I know in the old Yankee Stadium (1976 version) I sat in seats that were called limited or obstructed or such.  I don’t remember about Shea and I don’t know about Citi.

Do I think they should discount it?   Yes.

Do I think this is a big deal?  No.  It’s a foul pole at a baseball game.  Just warn the buyer.

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