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January 1, 2010

Mets Police Decade In Review: New traditions

This week I’m looking back at some of my favorite posts – this from February of 2009 with some suggestions for New Traditions for a new stadium. So far I’m 1 for 15 (Seaver) but I think the Castillo thing will stick. Who knew he’d drop a popup?

New digs, let’s start some new traditions (and bring back some old ones).

I offer the following to the Wilpons and invite you to add suggestions.

1.  Bring Back Oldtimers Day.   Our ’86 heroes are in their 50’s now. Have them play those 2000 Subway Series guys, and have the 69ers and 73ers come and wave. Sprinkle in some Youngblood and Stearns action and you have something. Think the Shea closing ceremony with a game and without a depressing loss beforehand. The Mets might also want to add 40 to 1969 and see what number they get.

2. Banner Day.  An actual unique Mets tradition. Bring it back. If you don’t want to have a doubleheader just do it at noon some Sunday, maybe even on a Mr. Mets dash day. Just make sure ESPN keeps their hands off (no 8:05 starts).

3. Rusty’s Ribs.  Enough with the designer Pop Frites stands. Rip off the Orioles and have Rusty cook up some ribs.

4. Meet Me At The Apple.   There was never any cool place to meet at Shea. Meet me at the Apple. The real one not the phony shiny new one.

5. Seaver Always Throws Out Opening Day.   Don’t mess around. Pay G.T.S. the money. Tom should be at every opening day until he dies, then Keith gets the tradition.

6.   Hang a 17 on the fence.

7. Wear Pinstripes and blue hats six days a week.  Wear whatever they want to sell on Sundays.

8. Bullpen cars with cap-tops.  Even if they are never used, have the bullpen cars. They were cute and kids like them.

9. The new sign man. But not a shill-job. Pick one of the honest bloggers out there and let them have the job.

10. No wave.  Let’s just collectively decide we don’t do the wave.

11. Organ music.   Real organ music. Less techno-pop and loud rock songs. Live organ music.

12. The traditional Take Me Out To The Ballgame recording.  The one from the guy that was the PA announcer in the 80’s.

13. The Curly Shuffle.  This stopped because the curly folks wanted to be paid. Just pay them. It can’t cost any more than Enter Sandman did. Just play it.

14. Lady met returns.

15. The traditional booing of Luis Castillo.  Inspired by commenter Thomas….after I booed Castillo on Wed for going oh for one, he then knocked in 4 runs. We Met fans will boo him during his first at bat, all season long as he wins the MVP and the Mets win a ring. It will be our version of roll call. For years when Luis shows up at Old Timers Day we shall boo him.

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January 1, 2010

Five Questions For An Average Mets Fan (Fan #77)

Our first average Mets fan of 2010 is Glenn..

When did you first become a Mets fan?

1. July 30, 1973. My birthday. My father took me to a twinight doubleheader. Loge reserved, Section 25 Row D. $3.00. Two losses to the Expos, 1-0 and 5-2. Jon Matlack and Buzz Capra were the losers. I can still hear the PA announcing the Expos catcher, John Boc-ca-bell-a. I was hooked.

Favorite memory?

2. Game 6, 1986 WS. I was watching the game in a bar and had the Mets 6-5 in the pool. I knew if the Mets could come back I would be in the money barring a homer. I won $250 and bought a round for everyone.

Worst memory?

3. Tom Glavine, September 30, 2007. 1st inning, turn your sets off there. ‘Nuff said

If you could change one off-field thing?

4. Ownership

If you became owner, what’s the first thing you would change?

5. Open up BP and all levels of the stadium for ALL fans.

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January 1, 2010

Coming Up: Mets yearboks, uniforms, Tug mystery and more

As the site continues to draw in new folks I thought I’d tease some of the things coming up. I’ve been a busy beaver with some extra free time around the holidays. But first…

In case you’re wondering (I don’t want to bog the blog down on this) – Mets Police did make it to 250,000 visits for the year (250,700+) and again one more round of thanks to Metsblog for linking to the 1986 tickertape parade pix and its sequel story about the pennants and thanks to the regular readers and twitter folks who hooked me up with links and retweets.

Flipping the calendar to 2010 here’s what’s coming up:

– Osh41 promised he’d take some photos of his jersey collection. He says he has a version of the Neil Allen one. I’m hoping he’ll take a pic of his Red Sox Seaver jersey which I say is a Jeff Reardon jersey (no name on back). He’s daydreaming about starting a “Mets jerseys” blog but he’s too lazy – good idea though, no?

– I’m going to sniff around this Tug McGraw Mitchell & Ness mystery. Did Tug wear #56? Did the Mets wear numbers that large? I’m going to wind up opening up the MLB style guide and that will undoubtedly lead to multiple posts about uniforms. I’m not linking to it here because if I do I’ll wind up sucked in before I read the papers.

I’ll be going through old yearbooks…today (below) I started on the 1982 yearbook and when we finish that we’ll look at 1983 and 1978….on the left that’s Mets manager Joe Torre from 78. Torre was a lousy manager, and I couldn’t wait to get rid of him.

Another round of “alternate caps” kicks off tonight, next week we’ll look at Mets Couches, thats couch as in sofa and not a typo of coach, and some more great Share Your Shots where you send in your Mets photos to pictures@metspolice.com

Your ticket invoice was due yesterday. If you didn’t send it in you are now ticketless. Stressed? I’ll be curious to see what happens now. I haven’t done my homework on it but I had an idea yesterday that they should sell “Saturday Sevens” smaller packs. Get the people in the building and they might become fans.

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January 1, 2010

Pictures of the 1982 New York Mets Yearbook (Part 1)

Happy New Year! This morning we take a look back to the 1982 Mets yearbook. By George we got it! George Bamberger has a good baseball pedigree, and George Foster recently hit 50+ home runs for the Reds without taking steroids!

The blue, orange and you pinstriped look was getting a little shaky by the early 80’s…the nameplates added some ugliness.

I like this blue uniform look. Since sales is an issue with the black jerseys (our first of many black uniform complains of the new year), why not retire them and sell blue ones in 2011?

Here’s a young fellow named Wally Backman. If I didn’t stink at taking pictures his face wouldn’t be obscured by glare.

Kids, you know that scary Mike Scott fellow from the 1986 Astros. He was a Met once, and he wasn’t very good. Yes, this is the same man.

That’s it for the yearbook today – more from 1982 tomorrow, and more Mets stuff throughout the day on the normal morning/noon/afternoon/night schedule!

December 31, 2009

Tomorrow: Pictures of The 1982 Mets Yearbook

Cerrone really inspired me…I just took a bunch of pictures of my old yearbooks….

I grabbed 83, 78, some ’93 scorecards….but tomorrow we’ll visit the 1982 Mets yearbook for no reason other than that’s the first one I picked up.

In the meantime, I ask you two questions:

1. What is Neil Allen (#13) wearing?

2. Do you think the Cardinals would be stupid enough to give us Keith Hernandez for him if we asked?