What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Here’s a fun story for a slow day….Strawberry says ’86 Mets  beat ’09 Yankees.
Doc would’ve destroyed them.
Doc was never really lights out in the post-season, but I think it’s fairly obvious to any rational human that the ’86ers would’ve have won the series.
Remember “Mr. Sunshine” my Yankee fan friend from last week?
He emailed me today to say that he got an brochure from the Mets offering him “season tickets” (I bet he meant partial plans). Â He even spit back the “comebacks” marketing slogan.
Sunshine says he has never bought a Mets ticket.
Is there some sort of database sharing? Â Did MLB.com email out some sort of geography based mass e-mail to “baseball fans?”
Interesting.
Update: I have updated this post to correct the information. Â I incorrectly assumed it was an email, but Sunshine got the brochure via snail-mail, there was no email. Â I Castillo’d this one.
I was working on this on Friday, then the Reyes thing happened, but I’m still fired up about this.
I had to stop watching the game on Thursday because I was getting mad.
Do Fred and Jeff look at this uniform combination and think – hey those high black stirrups look good? Â How about that black undershirt?
I sort of understand that a civilian might want to wear black, but the white and blue color scheme of the Mets is so wonderful, why do they mess around? Â I’m a fan of high stirrups, but these black ones look terrible. Â The black undershirt? Â Terrible!
I just need someone to explain it to me. Â Is it sales? Â Do wearing the hybrid cap and black socks really move the profit margins? Â I thought Jeff loved the 1980’s Mets…you’re the boss dude, just tell everyone “we’re going back to blue.” Â Just do it. Â Everyone who wants a black John Franco jersey has one. Â Sell the blue. Â I gave in on the pinstripes, now meet me half way and wear blue. Â Eve the BP version of the blue (which has black) would look better if you could lose the orange and black underarm clutter.
Thanks to Aaron Doster who has been taking great photos down at spring training, and hooked me up with this shot. Â You can find more at flickr.com/teamdoster.
Gary Cohen won the first Mets Police “impossible poll” (that’s where you make a tough choice) 64% to 36%.
This week’s impossible poll forces you to choose between Keith Hernandez and Mike Piazza. Â There is a widget on the main page which you’re seeing if you’re on the site, and if you’re reading on Google Reader or email click here to visit the site.
Uh oh.
Last night I opened up my new copy of MLB2K10 and started on my new season. As usual, I set out to make myself a pitcher on the Mets (bumped Jon Niese for the 5 spot).
The first thing that stinks is I now have to lie about my age. If I make myself my real age the game makes me old and tired and I last 3 innings and announce my retirement at the end of the season. I made myself 20. Pathetic.
That’s not the big problem. Mets Police Junior comes by and the story is very very troubling, and as much as y’all will bust my chops, if I am Dave Howard or Jeff Wilpon this should be a red frakking alert warning.
Junior watches me load the game.
“You’re the Mets?” Yes.
“Are you going to be the Yankees?” No.
“Will you be the Yankees next game?” Nope, I’m on the Mets. What’s your obsession with the Yankees?
“I like them. They win.”
Jeff you lived this in the late 1970’s much like I did. All the brainwashing in the world won’t overcome a World Series victory to a 6 year old. Perhaps I’m undercutting the entire point of my blog, and Cerrone over on Metsblog is right: just win.
Very troublesome night. Fortunately he’s 6 and if he has one fun day at Citi Field he’ll swing the other way, and the first team to hold Clone Wars night is likely to win him over for life.
Last year his highlight was that we got a Johnny Rockets shake when we checked out Fake Yankee in April. Maybe I’ll take him there on a cold night and tell him the shake place closed.
