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I offer the following plan to the New York Mets, with love.

The Mets have taken a lot of grief these last two weeks.  Whether it’s the Rotunda or Gooden-gate, it comes down to the Mets fans wanting to honor the Mets.  It’s very simple…

Announce a date for Oldtimer’s Day.   I propose Saturday June 20th.  The game is scheduled for 4:05 for Fox.   Start the ceremonies at 1pm on SNY.

It’s already Cap Day, so we can know your intentions are pure, and although the opponent isn’t ideal (Tampa) it’s far enough in the future to plan, but not so far away as to seem like it will never get here.

You already know who to invite – you got this one right at Closing Day at Shea.   Anyone who has read this far knows the right names to invite.  Invite them.

During the ceremonies have Howie Rose formally announce a few things:

• The Mets Museum will open in April 2010 with (specific details).
• The numbers 16, 17 and 31 will be retired later this season. (crowd erupts)
• Announce the dates for Hernandez Night, Gooden Night and Piazza Night – and have them in that order.
• Announce a statue of Tom Seaver will be placed halfway between the subway stop and the Rotunda.  (This will create a cool “Meet me at Seaver” location.)

In the meantime either get the “Mets stuff” out of storage or go buy some on ebay (did they sell it all?   Why didn’t they keep Seaver’s locker?)

Very easy.   Win your fan-base back.  Today.   You drew 36,000 this weekend in a brand new stadium.  Take my advice.

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Here’s one of those things I save for the day after an off day. A fan video from Opening night.

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Every Monday I write a weekly column over at Flushing University. This piece originally was posted over there yesterday.






Good morning! The Mets are 5 games out on this fine Monday.
I know, I know, they are 5 in back of the stupid Marlins. I mean, the Marlins are a joke. What did they ever win? (Do those two world series rings really count? They dismantle the team every time). Plus they are 11 and 1, they won’t do that all year, they will come back to earth, right? Right?
As I look back on the past week, I realize that the Mets and we fans are the same. We’re of a .500 mentality.
We have pitching now! Of course we’re all expecting Santana to lose 1-0 every time he pitches, and don’t you expect “the bad Ollie” to show up this week? John Maine and Pelfrey are shot, woe is us, right? However, we’re Mets fans so we know that Livan Hernandez is going to win 20 games based upon one and half good starts.
The lineup, well it couldn’t be better! We have the Carlos Brothers, and Murphy is hitting, and we all love Reyes and Wright, and even Castillo and Church are hitting! Even this catcher from nowhere had two extra base hits! That’s all nice, but the record is 6 and 6. 
I guess the problem must be the manager. Let’s criticize Jerry for…..um……that bad decision he must have made when he……
So it’s not the pitching, not the hitting, not the bullpen….yet they are 6 and 6.
What would you change Mr. Amateur Minaya reading my column? Is 2009 going to be the year where the team gives up on a key piece, the way the Red Sox eventually gave up on Nomar? Will it take trading, say Jose Reyes, to shake this team to its core? Who will be this generation’s Keith Hernandez? I don’t think he’s here yet unless Gary Sheffield has a personality transplant.
Then there’s our beautiful new ballpark. It’s great…well except for those pesky obstructed views all over the Promenade. Even with a great new home, we Mets fans can’t be happy with what we have.

Maybe we want what the Marlins have? Two rings since 1987 and a first place team. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? The grass is always greener.

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I heard Steve Somers say Jeff Wilpon said the Mets would move the Gooden signature to some sort of “wall of signatures” in center field.  With Somers I’m never sure if he’s kidding…and I don’t see any mention of this on-line.

I bet one of you listens to WFAN and can clear this up.

UPDATE:  Mets Blog’s Matt Cerrone has posted similar information, so I guess it’s true.  Funny that it took Dwight Gooden to shame them….at least now we’ll have a cool graffiti wall which will have a cool origin story.

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Hey Mets, really…here’s what you need to do.  Anytime you hear any criticism or controversy, go to Google.  Type “Mets” into the search engine.  Select blogs.  Whatever is being said there (and I don’t necessarily mean here) do that.  Again…you read this wrong.

The Daily News reports

One of the guys that worked there asked me to sign one of the walls, so I did it. It wasn’t like I was walking around with a sharpie in my pocket,” Gooden told the Daily News on Monday. “They asked me to sign the wall as a favor, as something for the fans to see. I was in there watching batting practice and they had fans taking pictures with me by my signature and I thought it was a fun idea.

“I definitely didn’t think it was going to turn out to be this big deal. I didn’t do anything intentionally for the Mets to get upset. I was just doing it for the fans. I don’t see what the big fuss is. Honestly, I don’t.” 

About a Mets museum…

“I think it’s great that they’re talking about it doing now, but I would’ve thought it would’ve been there already.

“You’d think they’d want to connect to the ’86 team as much as they can, and the ’69 team, because those are the only times that they won (the World Series). Most stadiums you go to, even if they’ve never won anything, they have that.

“So I would think you would have something in there to show the fans that you appreciate that history, and to show the former players, as well . . . I think the former players expect that. I think the fans want that. They want to share it with their kids. I know I want to share it with my kids, too.” 

Doc, next time wear a Dodgers hat.

rest is here.

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