What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
As I’ve said before, it’s so easy for the blog to go negative – and that’s not the goal.
Here’s a nice story in Newsday.
The New York Mets and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society joined forces at yesterday’s fourth annual Kids Day at Shea where 39 children from New York and New Jersey like Gavin switched gears from hospitals and treatments to pitching and hitting alongside the big boys.
Very sad to see that Bob Sheppard has told the Yankees he will not be able to return for the All Star Game. Best wishes to you Mr. Sheppard.
Fake mustaches? Really? If the Mets had done something like that I’d have 50 posts about it. Next time someone brings up ‘tradition’ remind them of this.
Mets are rocking. I worry today would be a loss they’d be ok with. Weekday day game, been playing well, it’s just one game. Don’t go there – the formerly NY Giants are the walking dead, it’s time to go on a big run. Show up today gangstas.
Yes I spelled it wrong on purpose.
David Lennon writes about some new food options at Citifield including a Shake Shack. $18 burgers don’t excite me.
http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/blog/2008/07/is_citi_field_open_yet_im_hung.html
Some reading for the rain delay on Loge 13: A 1964 article about Shea.
Click: http://www.loge13.com/2008/07/memories_of_shea_stadium_popul.php
Hey SNY – where’s my cool rain delay films. Dust off some more of that Seaver one hitter newsreel.
Yesterday we told you about a rumored baseball team that called itself “The New York Giants.” We here at the Mets Police do not believe this team actually existed, because if they did, surely the Mets would not have totally ignored them while constructing Citifield.
However, some do believe, and are going at great lengths to perpetuate this fraud.
Look at this carefully created World Series program from 1954. Are we really supposed to believe that this alleged “New York Giants” won the World Series in 1954, and they are never ever mentioned in the new Citifield design?
Are we really to believe the Mets NY logo is not really their own, but borrowed from these alleged ancestors?
Next, look at this pennant. Again, another phony trying to trick us into believing there was ever such a team in New York.
This photo on the left alledges to be of Willie Mays. All Mets fans know that Willie was an old outfielder with bad legs, surely not someone to be honored at a ballpark. Some claim he hit 660 home runs. Ridiculous! Everyone knows he only hit 14 as a part-time player in two seasons.
Finally we have this relic, recently uncovered by famous archaeologist Indiana Jones. It was found near the site of the former Mets stadium, the Polo Grounds. If it said Mets I might consider it to be authentic, but since it says Giants it has to be be part of this conspiracy.
This is all very silly. The only team that played in New York before the Mets were the Dodgers, and as everyone knows they folded in 1957 and there is no place on earth where the Dodgers legacy can be honored. Thank goodness we have Fred Wilpon looking out for the defunct Dodgers, and thank heavens the Mets do not fall for this “New York Giants” unicorn-like nonsense.
