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Please note I asked “Where was Tom Seaver?” not “Where the hell was Tom Seaver?”…

…however, I keep wondering where Tom was.  Perhaps he was visiting family, feeding the homeless, taking a day of prayer, playing golf, tending to the vineyards…maybe he wasn’t invited, maybe he felt is weird since he was in the Red Sox dugout, maybe he wanted Doc & Darryl to have their own spotlight…I dunno….

…but I feel like he should be at things like Hall of Fame Day.

Does he owe us anything?  Am I trapped in the romantic aspects of baseball?  Do I need to realize that playing baseball is just a job and people move on with their lives?

More troublesome is what MetsBlog reported yesterday via Evan Roberts….supposedly Pagan, Wright, Davis and Francoeur were the only players to “greet” the Fab 4 of their HOF induction.

Maybe I’m just getting old.  There’s a bunch of people born in the 70’s and 80’s playing for “my” team and most of the fanbase seems like it was born in 1992.

It must be me.  You see that picture?  It makes me happy.  I want to feel like that every day.   If you feel that picture you understand what I’m trying to do here on this dopey site.

Man I can’t wait to get to some bloggin’ tonight. Having a half working computer is giving me blog withdrawal.

First I need to go for a run. Been hitting the unnamed Donuts Chain a little hard as of late. I also have to ditch Mrs. Mets Police who will be looking to watch Mad Men or talk or something.

Keep the stuff coming in to Shannon@metspolice.com I may hold a few items for next week when I will be at airports cursing AT&T. Just because I don’t post it right away doesn’t mean I don’t love you.

Plenty of pics from the weekend are coming, some “You own this jersey” action and some surprising submissions for the A’s Police. Im still bummed the Seaver “Game 6” post disappeared. The site is self-aware I’ll tell ya.

Monday, August 2
@ Atlanta

7 Jose Reyes SS
16 Angel Pagan LF
15 Carlos Beltran CF
5 David Wright 3B
29 Ike Davis 1B
12 Jeff Francoeur RF
4 Henry Blanco C
1 Luis Castillo 2B
57 Johan Santana LHP

The Mets are skipping Takahasi this time through.

Upcoming Rotation at Philadelphia
Friday, August 6 LHP Jonathon Niese (7-5, 3.78) vs. RHP Joe Blanton (4-6, 5.86)
Saturday, August 7 LHP Johan Santana (8-5, 3.11+) vs. LHP Cole Hamels (7-7, 3.56+)
Sunday, August 8 RHP R. A. Dickey (7-4, 2.32 +) vs. RHP Roy Halladay (12-8, 2.21+)

I feel like I have been saying this all weekend, but once again the Faith & Fear guys prove they are better writers than my half-thought out sentences.   This time it’s Jason Fry who captures the feelings in my brain as he tells another angle of The Night the Bloggers Landed.  Again, I’m not sharing this stuff because I want you to see how cool we are, but I assume you;re at least a tiny part interested in my take as a Mets fan, and yeah being invited on the field by the Mets is very very cool.   Here’s Jason:

Instead of lingering on the recent unpleasantness, I’d like to go back to offer my thoughts on Wednesday evening’s blogger visit to Citi Field, as chronicled by Greg here, Shannon of Mets Police here and Matthew Artus of Always Amazin’ here. I felt weirdly self-conscious as we made our way through the bowels of the stadium and out onto the green field, populated by big-as-life, honest-to-goodness Mets in pregame motley. Part of it was the oddity of the experience, of going somewhere I’d never been before except for the occasional Kids Dash or pregame event in which actual Mets were far away, instead of 18 inches from me. But another reason for my self-consciousness was that I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do or, frankly, what I wanted to do.

The rest is here.