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Here’s another Met you kids don’t hear enough about…

This kid lived in every neighborhood. He was short and chubby, and when it came time to play ball, there was only one position for him. “You catch, Butter-ball,” the others would tell him. “Knock down the pitches, and if somebody tries to score, block the plate with your blubber.” Even if he made it to the big leagues, the kid carried with him a nickname—such as Yogi—more suggestive of his low center of gravity than his skills.


There are still a lot of squat, lumbering catchers in the majors, but no longer do men matching that description hold a monopoly on the position. Just look at last week’s statistics. In the American League, Boston’s Carlton Fisk, who is a well-proportioned 6’2″, 220 pounds, was battling for the league lead in doubles with 39. No catcher has ever led his league in this category. And in the National League, John Stearns of the Mets was basking in the afterglow of his 24th stolen base, the most ever by a National League catcher.

More below.

John Stearns of the Mets is plenty rugged behind the – 09.25.78 – SI Vault

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 pictures@metspolice.com

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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