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Here’s a really good read….that won’t help you sleep at night.  Joel Sherman breaks down the winter meetings and there’s two troublesome quotes.

An agent said, “You might not like what Omar had done in the past, but he was always aggressive and decisive. He looked old, beaten and without a plan this time.”

A second agent said, “The Mets are not a destination spot right now, especially if you are a hitter. You would be going to a questionable team playing in a huge park

Read more: In the NY Post

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Bernie Madoff may not be honorable, but he did have a nice Mets jacket.

Pictures of the 1986 Tickertape Parade

Here’s the 2010 Mets ticket prices, broken down by gold/silver/tin nonsense (please please stop) and also the letters that went out to season ticket holders.  Your money is due December 4th by the way.

Ron Darling on Sesame Street looking might young. (video)

Mets Yearbook on SNY is the best thing to happen in Metsland all year…and that’s in a year where we opened a new stadium that I just don’t love.  It’s not Atari Pac Man bad but it’s kinda like the Batman with George Clooney.

You kids really should read about Gooden.

The Mercury Mets continue to fascinate…if you have never seen the Mercs, you need to see how stupid it was.

Just saw a phone commercial featuring a guy being called up to the Buffalo Bisons and using an email to prove he has been signed to the team.   Nice to see that if you show up four seconds before the game you can bat leadoff.   We asked the Bisons for media credentials for one of our guys that moved up there and the Bisons didn’t even email back.  Even Jay Horwitz gets back to you. Your google tracker catching this up in Buffalo fellas?  Gave ya a month.

• The compilation post of pictures of our Citi Field walkaround 
• The midseason update to Citi Field pictures can be found here.
• Tour of The Mets Team Store
• Yankee Stadium being demolished
• The Uncensored Unofficial Guide To Citi Field
• Inside the Acela Club
• Inside the Caesar’s Club
• Has the novelty worn off Citi Field?
• Citi Field in McCartney mode.
• Photo Tour of Jackie Robinson Rotunda
• Tour of the ’47 Shop
• Uniform Unanimity…and commenting.
• Look at this picture I took in the Yankees store and how it disses Mets fans.
• Mets Uniform Survey Part one and part two.

• Mets Police guide to being cheap about parking near Citi
• Suggestions for new traditions at Citi
• Shopping at the team store (10 part photo series)
•  1969 jerseys 
• Yankee Stadium guides and parking tips.
• An updated compilation of obstructed views at Citi Field

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I think you will like the vibe of John Harper’s piece in today’s News.  He is with the rest of us that the Mets have to spend the money, or they’ll just be losers again.

And let’s not forget that $500 million, or $25 million a year, the Mets are getting for the naming rights to their ballpark. That alone would go a long way toward landing Lackey and Holliday.

Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2009/11/11/2009-11-11_harper_mets.html#ixzz0WxTKpNHW

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If you are a younger Mets fan, say 25 or younger, you probably do have a handle on how good Tom Seaver was.   You don’t understand Gooden.  I know you think he was this really good pitcher who flamed out over drugs.  I’m sure you can fathom the numbers from 1985 and understand that he was good.

What you don’t understand is how electric Shea Stadium was on a late 80’s Friday night with Doc on the mound.   The Piazza years never touched it.  The Subway Series never touched it.   Santana can throw a no-hitter in Game 4 of the World Series to win it all (sucks that the NL lost the All-Star Game in my made up scenario) and it won’t touch it.

Gooden on Friday night was an event.   He was dominant in a way few pitchers ever are.

When you have 60 wins at 21 years old you’re a no-brainer firest ballot Hall of Famer/   He was young, he was ours, and he was going to be around a long long time.

The Daily News has a long piece about Doc (he was better when he was still “Dwight”) today.

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I’m tempted to call next year’s fantasy football team the Chicago Leaders just so I can show up with merchandise.  Check out Hat Junkies.

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