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I was catching up on the always awesome Uni Watch when they mentioned this.

Say you’re a Penguins fan and want to wear your snazzy blue jersey.  When should you wear it?  On October 15th of course.  Against the Islanders.  (An aside – if I wanted to buy a fishermans jersey, and I am not saying I do, are they for sale?)

Yep, the Penguins will let you know when they will wear their various jerseys.

Imagine if this concept were applied to a National League Baseball Team.

Now, I know it’s a birthright that RA Dickey and Jon Niese should be allowed to decide what a billion dollar company uses as its image, but lets open our minds…..

…if fans knew what the National League Baseball Team was going to wear, then they could dress accordingly.  (In a perfect world this wouldn’t be an issue, we’d all know to wear blue).

I still think the Treaty of Flushing is a solid idea….look nice most of the time, have your dopey Black Friday or whatever, and Anything Goes Sundays.   It’s a reasonable compromise Jeff.  Build a brand.  Stop being all over the place.

Good stuff from Metsmerized who I hope will forgive the long excerpt…. definitely worth a read!

Sandberg is as intense as Wally Backman and more experienced, but comes without any of the risk or baggage. He is intelligent, confident and understands the fundamentals of the game like Bobby Valentine, but doesn’t have the desire to be the main attraction and center of attention.

You want someone who can emphasize playing solid defense to Wright, Bay and Reyes? Sandberg has nine gold gloves to back him up…

You want someone who can teach this team the importance of fundamentals on the basepaths and the art of stealing bases? Sandberg has 344 career stolen bases to back him up…

You want someone who can get some of our players to elevate their game and performance level? Sandberg has 10 All Star selections to back him up…

Thanks to Media Goon for sending this one my way. There’s been so little happening in Flushing that I’m close to taking pics of my 1982 Mets calendar just to keep the blog alive.

The Daily News tells us of some progress being made in Willets Point.

Hopefully that area will become a nice vibrant mixed use area. People seemed to like McFadden’s, and more bars would make for a nice experience. Sitting that close to an airport and the 7, it seems a great place for a hotel. Maybe some apartments (although I’d rather see an old style neighborhood with street level stores with one or two levels of apartments above as opposed to the typical Queens Crap type condos).

Who knows, maybe even an arena for a hockey team (as long as taxpayers don’t foot the bill).

This was just sent out and signed Jeff Wilpon.

Dear Mets Fans:

As you may know, earlier today we completed the initial round of interviews with six talented candidates to become the new General Manager of the New York Mets.

Each was extremely impressive – Allard Baird, Rick Hahn, Josh Byrnes, Sandy Alderson, Logan White, and Dana Brown. All reiterated their desire and interest in pursuing this opportunity.

We will be in direct communication with each as we narrow the candidate pool by early next week. We subsequently will invite the leading candidates back to meet with Fred, Saul, and me.

We have an outstanding group from which to select our new General Manager. We look forward to sharing more information with you soon.

This really should go on Sports Police since it’s not about the Mets but I dunno, I felt like sharing it over here.

Yesterday morning I was tweaking the Yankee fans on Twitter telling them not to look for ghosts since the ghosts are all across the street with George, Bob (happy 100th + one day) and Freddy Sez…and they aren’t happy about their house being torn down for no reason.

I also like to observe that there obviously was no way to renovate the old place.  I mean, what would they do, somehow upgrade the place?  That’s crazy talk…how could someone ever renovate a stadium that opened in 1923?  Can’t be done.

Anyway…the Red Sox continue to find ways to keep their history without building Fake New Fenway across the street.

Check out these pictures and this article.