What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Sigh.
Hate the hats more than the jerseys. I’ll deal with the jerseys for a weekend.
What other colors go with red and white that would look good on a hat….oh I know….red! no, black! Red, white and red it is!
(somehow I missed this the other day)
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “How To “Mets Up” Citi Field By Borrowing Ideas Fro…“:
I realize that there is now talk of building a hall of fame in the back, but this just brings more attention to the fact that this was left out and crowds an already very crowded area! Here are some ideas I have:
a) I really like the rotunda, but how about calling it “The Mets Hall of Fame in Jackie Robinson Rotunda.” Put the busts of the hall of fame members around the rotunda on pedestals and the two hall of fame trophies somewhere prominent as well. It might be hard to put pictures of the mets up, but perhaps some banners of our championships?
b) Also consider putting the busts throughout the hallways of the stadium on pedestals if the rotunda doesn’t work. They should definitely be out somewhere!
c) There should be team pictures lining the halls/walkways.
d) Pictures of famous mets and met moments everywhere we walk!
Also, the outfield wall color is terrible. I heard you had picked black because it makes everything else look better on TV, however it really makes the stadium look depressing. Honestly, just make it the same color as the one that was at Shea (that nice Mets blue). It will look great, match the mets colors nicely with the orange stripe, and it will quiet people about the mets colors not being around!
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “Yahoo News Picks Up The “Trade Jose Reyes” Story W…“:
Jimmy Rollins? gimme a break.
The only thing Rollins has over Reyes is he’s an elite fielder.
In Reyes’ 2 Good years (out of 4 FULL years)so far he has sported an OPS in the Mid 800s, In Rollins’ 8 Full years of Major league service he has only approached that one time, His Insane 2007 (his MVP year).
Reyes has been around a while he is only 25. Rollins is 31 and should be on the decline soon.
I think Rollins is the one who is overrated
We all need to give Reyes a break for a little longer. He is Maturing, he is walking more, striking out less, and swinging at less pitches outside the zone.
Not to mention he is the best SS our franchise has ever had. For the sake of the history of the Franchise we need Wright and Reyes to win a championship, these are 2 of the best position players the Mets have ever produced (home grown) and I predict they will carry us to a championship before they turn 32 or so and start to decline.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “Inside The Acela Club“:
Some people are really hard on waiters/waitresses. They live and die by tips. Some people may find them annoying if they come by to often. Id rather be asked how everything is 100 times then have to look around and wait forever for a refill or an extra napkin
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So you want to teach your children about the history of the Mets. Should you…
a) go to Citi Field?
b) go to outer space?
Obviously the answer is (b) space where you can more easily find items from Mets history than you can at Eastern Dodger Stadium.
Astronaut Mike Massimino, a New York native and avid Mets fan, brought a home plate from Shea Stadium with him aboard STS-125, the final Hubble Space Telecope servicing mission by the space shuttle that is scheduled to return on Friday.
(Cheap shot at the Mets by me…too bad, it’s funny.)
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If you’re bothering to read a site called Mets Police you are probably hip to the Mets defensive woes this season.
I don’t think piling on Jerry Manuel is fair. Someone has to play first base and we all agree Murphy has to play somewhere, and with third base being his best position you kind of have a problem.
I think the Mets should consider bringing in baseball’s first defensive coordinator and it should be Davey Johnson.
Now it’s time for another episode of How I Met The Mets.
Kids…let me tell you about the time Davey played a big fat guy at shortstop and won the world series. If you are under 30 why don’t you go google a picture of Kevin Mitchell (I’m mobile, I can’t he’ll you). I’ll wait ’til you get back….
…Yeah that guy. Big roly-poly guy. Davey figured out which of his pitchers were fly ball pitchers and on the days that he didn’t expect too many grounders he’d stick the fat guy at short to get his bat in the lineup. He got away with it every time. I can’t think of a single “bad error” by Mitchell although I bet the Mets Walkoffs blog guy is about to email me some.
Kids…let me tell you about the big fight in Cincinnati. One night the Mets and Reds didn’t get along. Several players got ejected. Davey, master of half-ass defense, stuck Gary Carter at third base. He got away with it, and I even remember Gary making a great play late in the game, maybe even extra innings (Walkoffs I need you…)
Davey even platooned pitchers. Jesse Orosco and Roger McDowell took turns hiding in the outfield and pitching. It was a whole new level of lefty-righty. Davey got away with it.
Kids….my mind is foggy about this one now that I’m old but I think it was also Davey who shuttled Rusty Staub between left field and right field one sunny afternoon (cough, Walkoffs help…).
Rusty was another large fellow and whatever the hell happened, he spent the afternoon shuttling between left and right depending on what type of batter was up It took about half an hour for Rusty (mainly a pinch hitter at the end of his career) to switch positions.
So we need Davey. Let Davey sit next to Jerry and call time out after every play. He can put Tatis where he thinks the ball will be hit, Reed in the likely outfield position and he can hide Murphy batter by batter. Plus we’d have an 86 Met around, it will tick off the opposition, and it will be wildly entertaining.
Jerry if you don’t believe me, ask your hitting coach. Kids, let me tell you about the time Howard Johnson became the Mets starting center fielder. Now that was a disaster….
