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If you’re like me and bought a (cough) Saturday plan you find yourself stuck with Mets tickets for Monday (Memorial Day) night.

There are tons and tons of tickets available on stubhub for super-cheap prices.  This post won’t help me sell mine (sorry, can’t deal with bridge traffic that night) but you might be able to go on the super cheap.

And Mets – thanks for the Monday holiday game.  Awesome.  Just what I wanted.

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Thanks again to Craig Carton for the shoutout on WFAN yesterday morning (tell Boomer I love him but he’s welcome to come upstairs with me and sit behind some plexiglass before he calls me whiny)….the shoutout led to lots of new visitors.

The topic this time around – the uniform survey

How did you come across this survey? Is there any way to cast your vote or do they just send them out at games? Personally, I like the idea of an interlocking NY alternate, although the ones they have are not what I was hoping for. I think even better would be a snow white jersey that says “Metropolitans” on it. 

I’m not crazy about the Metropolitans idea since the nickname of the New York Metropolitan Baseball Club is Mets not Metropolitans….for the survey try here however I notice the URL has a custom tracker at the end so if everyone uses that link they may void it.   On the other hand, they’ll probably notice that a lot of people care about this.  It went out to people who have had season tickets for several years as a Flushing Flash.  Not everyone got the survey.  

David writes:

I just heard about the Mets survey on uniforms. I don’t know if it’s too late to participate, but if you could add my thoughts to their survey, I would be grateful. As a long-time Mets fan, I’ve found the black uniforms so distasteful that it was hard for me to watch. Black may be fine for the Raiders and marketers, but please keep them off the Mets! I’m a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to these things – the home pin strips and road grays with old fashioned lettering – were what I grew up with and enjoyed the best. The Yankees do some things quite well – one is that they remember their traditions and honor them. One of those traditions is their uniform – home and away – you can always count on it


I can only agree with half of the next response:

Honoring the New York Giants is something that they are doing by donning black on the hats and jerseys but I love the Willie Mays idea! It’s about time they should definitely do something cool like that. 


And only some of this one


Bring the blue jerseys back, keep the black jerseys and if your going to have orange jerseys once in a while then I’m game but keep the hats blue and the pants white! 

I like the next suggestion a lot…it would be a nice way to honor a long-time Met…not everything has to be about hall of fame numbers.  What do people think the Mets should name the bridge in center field?

Ed Kranepool Bridge. The guy has never received his due. Look at the numbers
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Regarding the bridge in center, i suggested they knock it down and build a new one that looks like the one on the logo. 

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Heard about your site on 660 this morning, Boomer and Carton. Craig mentioned it with relation to Mookie Wilson’s complaint that the 86 Mets are not represented at the stadium enough (or barely at all?). I completely agree – but it’s worse than that. Don’t get me wrong I love the stadium, but it is so generic, one can barely tell whose home field it is. The exterior has some mini fuzzy black and white pics but I don’t recall anything noticeable that says ‘NY’ or ‘Mets’. On the inside there is what looks to be a tacky, minor league, laughable cardboard cut out under the diamondvision that in tiny letters says ‘Let’s Go Mets’. And where is the blue? How about a little blue? Not to mention the lack of history (outside of the Jackie Robinson rotunda which I am really pleased with, but let’s face it – he’s not a Met). Where are the 69 Mets? Clendenon, Jones, Agee, Hodges? I’ve only been once, so maybe I missed some things but from what I am hearing it seems others feel the same way. I would like to see the Mets organization put a little more of a Mets stamp on the stadium.

In the end I think it’s great that the Mets are asking the fans what we want.  Even if my opinion comes out on the losing end of the black debate, the point of this blog has always been to be an advocate for the fans.   At the end of the day the Mets Police love our team and want nothing more than for them to win the World Series every year (while dressed in blue).

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Vegas Rich’s piece Thumbs Down To ESPN struck quite a nerve with you guys, some of the comments are below.


Miller/Morgan/Phillips makes me appreciate the MLB Package that much more. I had the option to watch and listen to Gary, Keith and Ron and it was more proffessional. I get the away games too, and the Marlins, Braves and Nationals are horrible. Dibble may be the worst. Mets broadcast gives credit where credit is due-does not matter what player, from either team does. Other broadcasters look at questionable calls from 3 games ago as an excuse as to why they lost a game and not consider the reason is that they suck. Payroll is no excuse anymore–look at the Rays last year and Colorado the year before. 
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I had to mute the TV last night after listening to Steve Phillips drone on and on about clubhouse “leaders”. Matt Cain is in the middle of a shutout of one of the best teams in the N.L. and this idiot goes on and on about who’s a leader and who isn’t for the Mets. Who cares?. How did he ever get into a broadacast booth? He adds nothing to the game. Idiot. 
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Some different opinions about Miller’s pronunciation of Beltran:

Yeah, to be fair, Beltran’s name is actually properly spelled Beltrán, the accent mark meaning the last syllable gets pronounced. Sure, it’s not how most people pronounce his name, but I really have trouble faulting a guy for pronouncing it right. 

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i’ve heard carlos beltran pronounce his own name. and he says it the same way everyone else says it…except jon miller. 

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First time poster on here, but Jon Miller actually makes an effort to pronounce players’ names properly. Carlos’ last name is indeed pronounced Bell-TRON…Thats what led to the Onion’s “Carlos Voltron” article from last September. 
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I didn’t hear it but we’re told…

Did you hear Howie on The Fan at the start of tonight’s game? He said, and I quote roughly, “The Mets are wearing their traditional grey uniforms and less than traditional black and blue hats. The Dodgers have on their traditional blue and white, classic, clean, and beautiful.”

It was a pretty obvious insult at the Mets desire to make their hats look like a bad acid trip.

We love you Howie, keep fighting the good fight.

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No I'm not that clever, those are the words of Vin Scully.

I have the great MLB app for the iphone and was checking out the video highlights of last night's game….and they used Vin Scully's call of the final play which was simply "Marv Throneberry lives again." (This was TV, not Scully as Sterling.)

I read three stories about the game (none mentioned tha Redding was good, at least his line was – I blew this game off) and none really capture how awful Jeremy Reed's throw home was. Put it this way, the Mets might as well start Gary Dell'Abate at first tonight.

Scully wrapped it nicely, "This was a nightmare game……it wasn't a bad game, it was a nightmare game for the New York Mets."

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