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I am by no means a construction expert, but I suspect it will be a long night of work at McFadden’s.

I continue to be excited about the place.

In case you are jonesing to know what it might possibly look like, yesterday I took some photos of McFadden’s at Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia.

In the meantime, here are some construction photos:

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Hello friends – I am back from Citi Field and I am VERY happy.

Citi Field is clearly the home of the New York Mets.

When you walk in you feel like the Mets play there.

All the little touches add up – driving in and seeing the parking guys wearing blue and blue caps (orange NY outlined in white).  Meet the Mets (including the second verse) on the PA!   The gate being labeled Seaver.  Now the Dodgers stuff seems minor and very cool, contextualized in history rather than dominant.

I noticed the color black has been downplayed – you’ll see the museum is blue and orange.  I noticed blue retro jerseys on sale in the store ($140 for a blue Seaver).  At times I thought I had bought the team.  That good.

And then there’s the museum….WOW.

I took over 250 pictures (my usual blurry ill-framed type), and Media Goon who is with me and is a much better photographer took more.

It’s one of the 10 nicest days we’ll have all year so I want to go outside and enjoy it, but I will post pictures tonight.  I want to break them into sections and different posts.

Overall, fantastic job by the Mets.  I’m not here to talk about the past or mistakes that have been made.  Great job by whoever called the shots this season.  Media Goon and I paused to try to come up with something to complain about (just for sport) – nothing.   Great great job.

Since I know everyone is chomping at the bit – here’s a few pictures (click “continue reading” if you are on the main Mets Police page) and I will have more tonight.

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I mean ridiculous the way my buddy Mark uses it – it’s high praise…like wow times 2.  Randy sent this my way because he noticed I tend to mention caps about once a day.

This is a ridiculous collection, and you can enjoy a slide presentation that will walk you through all the ridiculousness at Bleacher Report.

This is not in any way meant to be a bust-chops post.   Someone in the comments said that he didn’t remember Original Mr. Met’s head being that big.  I am absolutely thrilled that the Mets have included Mache Head in the museum, and it looks pretty darn accurate to me!

For more about Original Mr. Met enjoy this vintage article from the New York Times.

If you’re a comic book nerd or a Trekkie or a James Bond fan – and I am all of those – you may have heard of the term continuity.  Basically it’s the way those particular universes make sense.

Until now I felt Mr. Met continuity was to pretend that the current swishy version was the same character as the paper mache head from the 60’s and 70’s.

Clearly this is not the same person.  Mache Head hung around with Lady Met.   Swishy is married with kids (according to an ESPN commercial).

I’m guessing that the character Mr. Met has been embodied by two different people, much like Dick Grayson became Batman when Bruce Wayne died (or whatever is happening these days.  Very confusing).

Maybe Mache Head gave up when Seaver went to Cincinnati, and young Swishy decided to don the persona.

If you’re thinking, wow this is nerdy, what a loser – I’m writing it at 10pm on Friday and I am wearing a Mets sweatshirt. Really.  Oh, and yes I hope “Swishy” catches on.