What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
I kinda dig this one Randy made…but it can’t stay as is.
Why?
Black dropshadow. Â Kind of hard for me to kill the Mets if my own website has dropshadow.
Tomorrow will be the last day of it (70’s week is over) unless Randy is kind enough to Ditch the Black.
Here are your New York Mets
Friday, July 16
Mets line-up at SF:
Ruben Tejada-SS
Jason Bay-LF
David Wright-3B
Carlos Beltran-CF
Jeff Francoeur-RF
Ike Davis-1B
Rod Barajas-C
Alex Cora-2B
Jonathon Niese-P
I’ll be posting more tonight. Â The late night posts during the game got some traffic last night, let’s see if it works again.
Paul Lukas from the great UniWatch has started Fire Wayne Hagin at http://firewaynehagin.blogspot.com/
I’m mobile so I can’t format the link above or the paragraph below properly, but here’s Paul and then I will jump in.
Paul (from the site): Hagin occupies the less important seat in the less important broadcast booth of New York’s less important baseball team, so his work has largely escaped the notice of New York sports media scribes like Richard Sandomir and Neil Best. But Hagin is plenty important if you have to listen to him every night. It’s no exaggeration to say he makes my life worse on a daily basis. This site will be dedicated to raising awareness of his on-air miscues, in the hopes of raising awareness and, eventually, having him replaced by a more competent broadcaster.
Shannon:
I’m sharing this with mixed emotions.
I don’t seek to get people fired. You’ll notice that I will razz Dave Howard. I invite him to the uppers to enjoy the thrill of plexiglass. I mock his monetization plan for Old Timer’s Day. I try to provide suggestions. I don’t call for his head.
What about the manager? That’s somehow different. It just is. If you voted for McCain or John Kerry did it mean that you were a bad American? You just thought the other guy could manage better and you knew McCain, Kerry or Jerry Manuel or Bobby Valentine would work again.
On to Wayne. Look how I led off this morning. I miss Howie Rose. It took one inning. Really, half an inning.
I started this blog to be the voice of the frustrated Mets fan. To give you a chance to be heard. Francesa and Kay aren’t going to talk about Banner Day, plexiglass or Wayne Hagin. That’s what Mets Police is for.
I haven’t done much “policing” this season because the organization got its act together and hung afew banners and got out some blue paint. That’s a good thing. I’m not looking to bitch. I like when everything is great in Flushing.
Howie put of the lineup is like when any star is out of the lineup. It will expose the flaws on the team.
It’s one thing when Wayne is the #2 starter and Eddie is available for long relief. The Mets’ booth is without the ace. I suspect folks will notice. Lukas has started a blog. I bet we will find it interesting.
Here’s some crazy talk for you….
…I was talking trash with some Braves fan and I obnoxiously said that David Wright is one of the Top 10 third basemen of all time!
Seems nuts, right?
Well let’s hear your list….you’re gonna rattle off like 4 and then have to start looking people up. Â Yes I know there will be some other blogs calling me an idiot but this is all in fun…..ok, let’s hear it. Â 10 better than five time All Star David Wright.
I will spot you Schmidt (the best ever). Â 9 to go. Â Go.
(..and yeah we were arguing about Larry Jones)
Remember Nick the awesome jerseys guy? Â He hooked us (thats you and me Mr. Reader, not a royal “we”) with this….
Shannon,
I thought I’d provide you home and road pics from that 2-button pull-over era (front and back of each jersey).
Home: Kelvin Chapman
Road: John Pacella
Some interesting tidbits about this style —
All were made by Rawlings.
1978: Only year of this era where no names were worn on the backs of home and road jerseys. This is the LAST road jersey the Mets would ever wear on field withouta name on back (in 1999, the team experimented with the number only on the back of home jerseys, but kept the names on the roads)
1979: Names on backs were added to both homes and roads. The jerseys featured nameplates for the first time.
1982: The road jersey changed (to the style most associated with the 1986 championship year) but the home jersey remained the same 2-button pull-over style. Two notables for this final year of the 2-button pull-over… 1. the font on the back of the jersey was altered, and the size of the nameplate changed. 2. the skyline logo sleeve patch was removed from the jersey. Skyline patches would later return in 1993.
Very awesome. Â Yeah we cheated and slipped into the 80’s a bit. Â Believe me 1979 and 1982 were the same: awful.
What I learned this week is there’s a lot of Piazza Generation readers of the blog, and all this stuff is lost on you. Â Maybe next time I will do 00’s week.