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Over at Always Amazin’ Matt Artus posted some cool “old” Mets videos.

Good morning Mets fans,

Not much to say on the baseball front. I am sad they lost but I love that Santana just pitches games by himself now. Screw everybody Johan. This guy has my respect, on the Top 5 Mets I respect list that I just made up. (Seaver, Keith and I will get back to you with two more.)

This Mets vs. the union soap opera should be fun, especially if you have a blog and realize April is a long long way away.

I have gotten a few emails this week about the “ice cream caps” – something is the air about that. I need a good weekend of blog catch-up…fell asleep the chair last night at 9:15. It’s halfway OK to type text on the bus but to start manipulating photos is harder.

Some links of interest:

Jerry Izenberg wrote a nice piece about what it was like to be a Giants fan.

The SF Giants have yet to win, makes me continue to wonder if I will see another championship in Queens before I die.

Carton was saying something about individual non-PSL football Giants tickets going on sale at 10am via Ticketmaster. I cant find any details but you may want to check that out.

Why relocating a team isn’t as easy as just picking a city.

Metsphotos shows us how they make the Mets logo stencil on the mound.

Remember one day I mused about my personal rankings of the Akers announcers over the years?….

….ok see where it says “Akers” – I typed Mets and the iPad spell “corrected” it to Akers. Hilarious. Injoy the floating feeling.

…where was I, oh yeah the Mets announcers? A year ago AmazinAvenue did a cool Tournament of Announcers. Who do you suppose won?

Seems Howie is off. Lukas should work hard on his Fire Wayne Hagin site this week.

There was a closet-quake in my house and the rod fell out of the wall. Mrs. Mets Police is gonna clean up that mess today, and she’s likely to notice that I have bought quite a few jerseys this summer. Heh heh.

A few of you actually seemed to miss the podcast (I couldn’t do one this week) – we’ll be back in the normal Sunday 6:30pm slot this week. You can always punch “Mets Police” into the iTunes store podcast section to subscribe. We’re not that good at radio but getting better – and I’d rather hear from you guys anyway than have me blather away. More on that as the week moves forward.

My email contact is Shannon@metspolice.com

Media Goon can be reached at mediagoon@gmail.com – he had the good suggestion that I share his address since (a) he stays up later than I do and (b) has more of a slacker job than I do – so if you see news break it may make sense to copy him on things.

Thanks for all the stuff y’all send in. I’m trying to keep up, which is a great problem to have. Those of you who get annoyed when Cerrone is slow to reply at Metsblog, I can only imagine what his inbox looks like. Matt’s a good dude.

It’s very hard to blog on a moving bus.

Strong. You go Mets.
(This may duplicate what Goon posted below. This is the complete release direct from Jay.)

METS PLACE RHP FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ ON DISQUALIFIED LIST
AND NULLIFY GUARANTEE FOLLOWING SEASON-ENDING INJURY TO THUMB

FLUSHING, N.Y., August 17, 2010 – The New York Mets today announced that they have placed pitcher Francisco Rodriguez on the Disqualified List for conduct in violation of his Uniform Player’s Contract. In addition, the Mets notified the player, his agent, and the MLB Players Association that it has exercised its right to convert Rodriguez’s contract with the club to a non-guaranteed contract.

The Mets’ decision follows the season-ending injury to the thumb on Rodriguez’s right pitching hand as a result of an altercation following last Wednesday night’s game at Citi Field.

Rodriguez will not be paid or accrue major-league service time while on the Disqualified List.

Dr. Andrew Weiland of the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan this afternoon performed successful surgery to repair the torn ligament in Rodriguez’s thumb this afternoon.