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Stumbled across this
Kevin Frisch: My days in the Mets’ dugout – Belmont, MA – Belmont Citizen-Herald

and here’s a taste.

In the early 1970s, my family lived in Amityville (yes, of “horror” fame; but that’s another column). Our home happened to be just two blocks from a bar and restaurant called The Dugout. And The Dugout was owned by none other than Mr. Met — no, not that giant-baseball-headed mascot; I’m referring to longtime player Ed Kranepool, who had the distinction of playing for the team in each of its first 18 seasons.

A first baseman who occasionally turned up in the outfield, Kranepool rode the Mets arc from expansion exasperation, to miracle turnaround in 1969, to unlikely World Series appearance in 1973, to renewed futility in the late 1970s. While never a Hall of Fame-caliber player, Kranepool was nonetheless productive enough for long enough to still hold Mets team records for most games played, at-bats, hits, doubles and total bases in a career.

But best of all, from my 10-year-old perspective, he owned The Dugout.


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Much thanks to Metsblog who links here a few times a week. Yesterday
was the biggest day for visitors yet, much of that fueled by a link
from metsblog. So thanks Matt and happy to pass along love to other
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Wearing a number you should never choose as a Met unless you are a young Ron Darling (see Ryan Thompson, Lastings Milledge, the bad version of Hojo, Tim Redding) is  #44…Rusty from The Real Dirty Mets Blog 

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Oh boy, nothing ever goes right for our boys in cream and black.   I laughed when I saw Ben’s name in this article because he frequently comments here on the site, and I have a sneaking suspicion that Mets Police is one of the blogs that they’re talking about.   Sorry Metsies, but you do this to yourselves.  $226?  Ouch.

There were no signs, however, to announce the arrival of the new uniform tops lined up against the wall at the Mets Clubhouse store. The jerseys, which have embroidered lettering and are made with a finer material, cost $266, nearly three times the cost of other replica jerseys.

The retro jerseys sparked a debate among fans on various Mets-related blogs. Some thought the team should focus more on improving the team and less on marketing. Others thought that the jerseys were an effort to make fans feel good just as they receive their season-ticket renewal notices.

In any case, $266 was too pricey for Ben Testa, a Mets fan who stopped in the store on his way to work. Testa asked an employee how many of the new jerseys he had sold so far. None, he was told, as of midafternoon Friday.

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2. What is your favorite Mets memory?

Without question it would have to be the bottom of the 10th inning of Game 6.  Everyone in my house but me thought the season was over after Hernandez’s fly out to center field.  Thankfully, the Kid, Mitchell, Knight and Mookie also did not think the season was over.

My favorite in-stadium memory was what I like to call “The Rich Becker” game.  It was some, non-descript game in, I believe, May of 1998 against the Pirates.  The reason it was my favorite is that I caught my first and only foul ball.  I gave the ball to my nephew who was with me and the joy in his face when I gave him the ball was priceless.  Oh yeah, Rich Becker hit a home-run, threw a runner out at home plate and drove in the game-winning run.


3. What is your worst Mets memory or experience?


 A: It is a tie: The 2000 World Series with the Yankees celebrating in our house and Joe Torre crying on our field.  That is tied with the culmination of the 2007 Collapse.  The season was effectively over after one-half inning.  Just horrible moments that will live on in Mets infamy.


4. If you could change one off-field thing about the franchise what
would it be?

I would like to have the Mets’ baseball operation to run much more efficiently and productively.  I would have the Mets follow the way the Angels and Twins conduct their baseball business and try to emulate them both. 


5. If you owned the team starting tomorrow, what is the first thing
you would change?

If I owned the Mets, that would mean I would be extremely wealthy and, as such, I would scrap the Citi naming rights deal.  I would not need their tainted TARP money.  In addition, Citi must have brought some bad karma to the Mets in 2009.  In fact, ever since the Mets announced their naming rights deal with Citi in the middle of 2006, things have gone downhill.  I would rename the Mets ballpark to William A. Shea Field as it should have been.

Thanks for the great work Mr. Shark.  Keep on with your on-point criticisms of the Mets’ organization.
Sincerely,
Manny (North Bergen, NJ)

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