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We’re up to fan #41 in the survey, and Osh41 deserves the number.  He’s the one who suggested “why don’t you interview me?” and he also represented us and won the trivia contest at the Two Boots gathering of Mets fans.   He has a bonus 6th question which was eliminated from the final “5 questions” version.   So take it away Osh..

1. When did you become a fan

I’d say 79-80. My brothers were Yankee fans and I did what they wanted when I was young but went over to the Mets largely due to a good friend who sold me on them.

2. Who is your fave player

Seaver but I don’t remember him the first go around. When he came back in 83 I went to a lot of his starts.  I think after Tom I guess it would be Hernandez because I believe after seaver he is the most important player in team history. When they got him everything changed. You could point at him and say he’s a winner, he won’t be like the other guys they’ve run out here from 77-82. Without him, his attitude, the leadership 86 simply doesn’t happen.

3. What is your fave mets memory? 

I was at the Buckner game as a 16 year old.  Still gives me chills.  I peaked at a young age, I can’t imagine any sporting event that could top that.  Still carry the ticket stub around with me to this day.

Least fave?

I was in the building when Pendleton’s HR went over the CF fence effectively ending the 87 season.  The collective air out of the crowd was unreal.  Although attending the last game at Shea and seeing them lose a chance to play for the wild card was just about as horrific.  At least we had a closing ceremony that made me smile a bit after that game.

4. What off the field move would make the fans happy

Any move that this club makes that could be called ballsy and un-reactionary would be refreshing.  The Minnesota Twins have been around 1 year longer than the Mets, have won as many World Championships yet they are building a park that undoubtedly reflects the teams history.  The Mets build a park and put pics up of a team that ABANDONED THE CITY OF NEW YORK.  When I come in the main gate next year and if the Ebbets Field thing is the first thing I see when I turn left off the escalator I am going to scream.

I grew up in NY, I love this place more than any other other in the world and I have read enough and heard enough to know that the Dodgers picked up and said my town wasn’t good enough for them.  Dodgers and Giants – you left the greatest town, your loss.  I don’t care about the Dodgers, they play in Los Angeles and as a fan am still annoyed that they beat my club in the 1988 NLCS, I don’t need to see their logo at Citi Field.  And don’t give me the ‘it’s about Jackie Robinson not the Dodgers’ according to David Howard. If it’s not about the Dodgers why does the front of the place look like Ebbets Field?

Get rid of the black, it was always done to sell hats, not to celebrate the Giants history.  A transparent, money grab that I believe most fans didn’t like but went along with because they felt they had no option.  Now fans voices can be heard through forums like this one.  Go back to the basics, blue hats, no black anywhere.  Do people all of a sudden think purple and yellow are hip colors??  No, the Minnesota Vikings are playing terrific and have a popular guy at QB.  WINNING SELLS HATS.  If yankee hats were aqua and they won the series are you telling me there wouldn’t have been a sea of aqua on Broadway 2 weeks ago week?

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

I would have a press conference and donate all blacks Mets clothes hats etc to charities free of charge.  Mets can’t actually get killed for doing that.

Then I would fire Omar and Jerry and see if maybe Pat Gillick is looking for a job besides consulting in Philly.

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Here’s another round of the 5 Questions For Average Mets Fans…

The questions are:

Here’s Christopher (#38)

1.  1992 after watching the Mets beat the Yankees in an exhibition game at Shea
2. Being at Mike Hampton’s complete game in the 2000 NLCS to clinch a trip to the World Series
3. I never want to experience the pain of September 30, 2007 again.
4. Ownership…..the Wilpons refuse to listen to the fans and seem content with sub par results year in and year out.
5. How the organization scouts, drafts, and runs its farm system. 










Jimmy the Mets Fan (#39)


Start:
1962.  Eight Years Old

Change One Thing:
Get Hot Fudge in the Carvel stand in the Pepsi Porch.  Sprinkles are nice,
but they don’t quite make it.  Seriously, I would tone down the “Noise-O-Meters”
and the “Everybody Clap Your Hands” nonsense.  The sound system has squashed
more genuine Let’s Go Met’s chants with the “Boom-Boom-Smash” sound effects than
I care to remember.  

First Thing to Change:
I would try to rid the team of players who are just punching the clock. The current
team has too many “Don’t Worry, Be Happy….I’ll catch the next ground ball” types.

And #40, Michael

#1 i started seriously following the mets in 1968..my first game was in 1964 my folks took us to see a game while we were at the fair.

#2 my favorite memory has to be the 1973 playoff game between red and mets when rose and Harrelson got into there fight. i was sitting with my mother on the third base lodge reserved area. my mothers friend had some sort of pull and got us these great seats. i cut school to go. every met fan knows what happened but my memory is the one of seaver, mays and berra walking out to left field and pleading with the crowd in the upper deck to stop throwing items at rose or the game would be forfeited to the reds.

#3 my worst and saddest memory is seaver being traded in ’77. i was in 11th grade and it really hurt me to see him go. i was very upset. i think the only thing that made me more upset was 3 years later when Lennon was killed.

#4 a change i would like to see is Doubleday buying back the team and building a new shea stadium. okay that’s my fantasy change. seriously i would like to see the wilpons being more dedicated to there property (the mets) not only doing what it takes to put a winner on the field but turning citi mall i mean field into more of a mets oriented stadium experience.

#5 if i owned the team i would build a statue of seaver and plant it in the front. i would change the robinson rotunda to the hodges rotunda. i would do away with the crazy uniforms. i would be more fan friendly maybe bring back the great theme days i enjoyed as a kid (banner day, camera day etc etc)






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Some good stuff came in last night once everyone was done with turkey…


Student of The Game has left a new comment on your post “McCartney At Citi Field On TV Tonight“:

Gotta love Time Warner. Official description on the guide: “The singer performs some of his favorite songs at Shea Stadium in Queens.”


That’s awesome.   I noticed the Daily News float in the parade mentioned “Shea Stadium.”   My kid pointed out the float was just guys in Yankees uniforms.


John has left a new comment on your post “The New 2010 New York Mets Pinstriped Uniform“: 

Black = a punk, ghetto, gangsta, thug, HORRIBLE image.

Get rid of the black ANYWHERE on the unis and hats and STOP with the frigging Dodgers look.

Get rid of the Robinson shrine. Dump the name “Robinson Rotunda” and honor great M E T S players. You two dopey Wilpons have to come to an understanding that the Dodgers JILTED you 50 years ago and left you with a set of blueballs that lasted 5 long years and get over it.

Get RID of the GREEN seats. The only reason I can think of for the green seats is taht Ebbitts frigging field must have had green seats.

I hate the way the Wilpons have tried to turn thew look of this team into the Dodgers.

Pinstripes should be worn at home for at least 70 of the 81 games. Grey on the road with block style “NEW YORK” blue trimmed in orange. If you must have an alternative jersey, do like the Indians do and go sleeveless and put “Mr Met” or interlocking NYM on the left chest with player # on the right. If need be go with the old Oakland A’s sleveless look in combinations of white/blue/orange.

NEVER mix/match pinstripes pants with solid jerseys

and Finally Wilpons, GET RID of the stupid looking batting helmuts they started wearing a few years ago.

SOME of us actually were around from the jump beginning with game ONE at AL Lang Field in St Petersburgh in 1962 and despise what you have done to the traditional look of the team. 

I don’t see them ripping out 50,000 green seats until the 2040’s.  I think we have to live with that one.  That’s awesome that you go back to that first game, and also interesting to me that you clearly don’t care about former NYC NL teams…Fred needs to let that go.

So is that a 1983 Seaver?  Kinda cool.

David has left a new comment on your post “The New 2010 New York Mets Pinstriped Uniform“: 

As usual, the Mets STILL can’t get it right.

SNY played the 4 games the Mets won in the 1969 WS once again. Games 3-4-5 are in color. There’s the uniform the Mets NEED to go back to. Simple. Unadorned. Like the team in the Bronx, whose home uniforms really haven’t changed much since they put numbers on them 80 years ago. And they don’t seem to have a marketing problem; that version of the interlocking NY is seen all over the world. Why do the METS have to do a minor league move yet again?
PS – Also seen today as part of a family film festival, The Odd Couple, which in its movie version is all full of Mets and Shea Stadium.

Look for the pictures of Mets on the walls of Oscar Madison’s apartment, including L.P. Berra.
“A triple play, Madison and you missed it!” 




There’s a Met Yogi on the wall?  Really?  Will check that out.


DyHrdMET has left a new comment on your post “Bob Sheppard Has Retired“:

If Yankee Stadium (1923-2008) was baseball’s cathedral, then Bob Sheppard was the voice of God. 








ceetar has left a new comment on your post “Court Upholds Willets Point Redevelopment Plan (Ti…“:

I’m really looking forward to having nightlife around Citi Field. I think the bullpen entrance is a really cool area, and is lost because of the dumpy area back there. What would be better than a pennant race game in September, filing out of Citi Field after a win and watching the competition lose ina roaring bar full of Mets fans afterwards?

I’d love if the Islanders moved there. I think I might even be leaning towards hoping for that over the lighthouse project these days.



You’re right, that bullpen entrance deserves better.  Maybe the Islander fans can wave at the real Apple.


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Here’s one to kick of your holiday shopping season.  I love the daily MLB.com spam, I mean direct marketing, and last week they were kind enough to send me the Gift Finder for my holiday planning (this was written before the uni announcement).

What serious handyman wouldn’t want to use this NY Mets screwdriver?

You can also feel secure knowing that whatever you are building is level with this handy tool.

Were you ever walking through the forest and thought to yourself, nature needs more Mets stuff?  I know I do.   Here is a forest face.  The tree has better taste in caps than Charlie Samuels the equipment manager.

Mrs. Potato Head is available in traditional Phillies-esque colors.

I wish this said Est. 1883 so I could wear it as a Giants jersey.   Then it would be cool.  As a Mets short it fails because of the color scheme.

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