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As part of the new design I’ve been trying to keep the non-Mets stuff off this site.

I frequently retweet items of interest @metspolice.  You may choose to follow me on twitter, or just read the sidebar on the right.

The non-Mets stuff is going on Shannon’s Other Blog which I’m treating as my casual blog.  It doesn’t have a real design, or a proper name, but for now it’s “where the stories that don’t belong on Mets Police wind up.”

I may use it more heavily during Super Bowl and Olympics, we’ll see.

In the meantime you may want to check out the SOB for the following stories:

– New Stadium Insider’s Yankee Policing, a ticket agent was feisty with a non-renewer.

– a good idea to move the Negro League Museum to Cooperstown

– something I really support: Save Yankee Stadium Gate 2

and some other stuff related to sports and media (how to save sports sections, the FCC changing the rules so Cablevision can’t horde MSG-HD)

check it out if interested in any of those.

Yay, Reyes looked good in a workout today. Whew.  It has been so long since good news that I don’t know what to do.  Yes, I have been quite pessimistic about Jose, and I am glad to be proven wrong.

A friend and I were talking about this whole Rays to NJ thing that Peter Gammons started.

Depending on where it is, Rays Stadium might be easier to get to from Mets Police HQ than Citi Field is, the Rays might make for a fun team to passively follow.  I’d still get SNY in my house and could still buy my zero season tickets for Citi, just like 2010 and always love my Mets.  Every 50 years the Rays will play the Mets in the World Series and I’d root for the Mets, but a random Saturday afternoon with an hour less driving?  Could be tempting.

I wonder if the market is viable, or if they would just be the Devils of baseball.  Probably both.

If I’m the commissioner of baseball, I’m stacking the schedule every year to make the Rays play the Mets and Phillies  in interleague every year.  Sorry if that makes the schedule unfair, but it would be too cool to pass up.

The NJ Rays would play the Yankees and Red Sox the standard 9 times a year as AL East opponents…you could be looking at 24 sellouts out of the gate if MLB adopted my stacked-interleague plan (the Sox sell out Philly easily, and there’s even a lottery to get Sox at Phils tickets this year.)

The briantrust had some other suggestions:

“Swamp Rays”

“Devil Rays” (Steal the hockey team’s NJ logo)

“Original Rays” complete with a pizza box logo. (I think that’s been done).

Would you go to an NJ Rays game more than that first time to see the stadium, and the three games where the Mets visit?

From time to time I will mention that I think Paul LoDuca was a missing piece from these recent Mets teams.   Paul is up there now so I’m not saying he’s the magic potion, but this excerpt from Metsblog’s interview with John Maine caught my eye:

Matthew Cerrone:  Was there a specific catcher you liked working with?

John Maine:  I liked Paul LoDuca, just because when I’m out there he got of my attitude.  Brian Schneider was more technically sound than him, LoDuca just had this way about him, this attitude about him.  You’d feel bad to let him down… It was like, if you don’t go out there and do your job he’d chew you out.  I like that.

If you missed it, Jane Jarvis the long time organist for the Mets has died.  This takes some time to load but it’s an organ version of Meet the Mets.

Still popular from last week, here’s some pics of the Mets museum construction and the orange stairwells.  I don’t want to overpromise, it’s mostly boarded up windows and an orange wall.  Osh41 took some pictures from the club level at CitiField

Someone asked me on email, I don’t think the bar at Citi Field (McFadden’s) has been officially announced yet, but I hope it’s cool.

I think the Mets have a rudderless brand.

Comparing the characters from Lost to the Mets.

Mets Yearbook 1976 was great, leading to the question: what the heck happened after ’76

Joe Piscopo is a known Mets Enemy

Here’s what the 2010 batting practice caps look like on actual players.

Here’s what Lenny Dykstra looks like in a 1973-ish road jersey.

I still say I’d rather have 45 year old Gooden over 42.8 year old Smoltz

This regularly gets clicked:  It might make financial sense, but it sure is annoying to think Bobby Bonilla will get $1 million a year from the Mets from 2011-2035.

Pictures from the 1986 Tickertape Parade

The Mets respond to a letter from The Mets Police

Coming up this week:  Charles and Tom both wrote at length about the Mets in the late 70’s, and Osh41 will take another look at Mets uniform history.

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If you have a Mets blog and would like to be part of Meet the Mets Bloggers just answer the three questions below and send me an email at [email protected], and since you are a fellow blogger you’ll understand it makes my life easier if you format it nicely.

Hey, Shannon!

I figured since I write for Mets Merized Online and have my own Mets blog, Studious Metsimus, that would qualify me to answer your questions. I’m technically the sole writer of Studious Metsimus, but I have a “colleague” who co-blogs with me. His name is Joey and he’s a teddy bear. Before you recommend a blue and orange padded cell for me, Joey blogs about the Mets from a bear’s point of view. For example, recently he blogged about Mets grievances (such as the one filed by Yorvit “The Frog” Torrealba and the possible one filed against Carlos Beltran by the Mets). Then he decided to file a grievance against me for not letting him blog enough.

That’s pretty much what Studious Metsimus is about. It’s completely about the Mets, but taken from a completely different angle. Anyway, here are the answers to your questions:

1.) Who are you and what’s the name of your blog?
My name is Ed Leyro, but some people call me Bear Man. Perhaps it has something to do with my co-blogger, Joey, who is a teddy bear (and the most animated inanimate Mets fan you’ll ever meet). Joey and I are the co-owners and court jesters of Studious Metsimus. I’m actually fairly new to the Mets blogosphere. I starting writing for Mets Merized Online in May 2009 and then decided to create Studious Metsimus a few months later, trying my best to destroy every pre-conceived thought you had about what a Mets blog should discuss and how it should be discussed. Depending on who you talk to, I either succeeded or failed miserably. But at least I never dropped a pop-up or went on the DL.

2. What kind of things can we find on your site?

You will find breaking news that was broken long before I wrote it. You will find opinions, opinions and perhaps if you’re nice, more opinions. You will find copious amounts of pop-culture references that somehow relate to the Mets. You will find nicknames for just about every player in the book. (i.e. Jason Bay is “Sgt. Bay of The Yukon”, Bengie Molina is “Funky Cold Molina”, etc.) You will have special reports by Joey (in his “Joey’s Soapbox” and WWJD: What Would Joey Do?” segments). Basically, if I can poke fun at it, consider it poked. You will also find lots of pretty pictures.

3. Expectations for 2010?

I expect that the Mets will be a top-five team in the NL East, but I’m not guaranteeing it. As far as individual players go, I expect Jason Bay to hit as many home runs as newspapers have clever headlines featuring a play on words on his last name. (Perhaps I should patent “Sgt. Bay of The Yukon”.) I expect Oliver Perez to walk a batter or two (hundred). I expect Omar Minaya to use the phrase “that being said” as many times as Ollie throws ball four. I expect not to expect champagne unless if this dang team wakes up and stops letting every free agent pitcher sign with other sub-.500 teams (Marquis to the Nationals, Sheets to the Athletics, Garland to the Padres).

As far as Joey’s expectations go, he expects more variety in the cannoli selections at Citi Field and more stands that sell chicken nachos. He also expects that he will catch his first home run ball, have the player who hit it sign it, and watch that player go on the DL with carpal tunnel syndrome.