What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Don Draper:
“People tell you who they are but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be.”
That line reminds me of the 2010 Mets. I believed.
If you like Mad Men and the Mets and haven’t read Faith & Fear’s Can Don Draper Save the Mets? yet you really should.
Yesterday I linked to a story from September via Metstradamus which seems to have struck a nerve from Andy who emailed me:
I think that story is a whole lotta hoopla about nothing. He posted this in September when those shirts came out in early Summer. I would expect a store in Queens to run out of Mets shirts before any of those other teams including the Yankees because retail shops generally order twice as much Yankee gear. At no point does the poster ever ask an employee if they had Mets shirts at any time. They most likely did. My local Old Navy in Scarsdale has had Mets hats and shirts all Summer. In fact I bought this spiffy one there last weekend. I think the poster is letting his own feelings of fan inadequacy get in the way of the truth.
Since it has been quiet (or at least it was before I pre-posted this and ran off to my 10am meeting) I enjoy a fight about “nothing.”
I haven’t done any research lately, but to my eyes the Modell’s on 42nd street leans Yankees (they have a business arrangements of sorts involving tickets), and they also are pushing football jerseys (makes sense.) I see a few Mets jerseys hanging on the wall, but on par with teams such as the Phillies.
So Mets fans…you guys shop. Do you see “Mets stuff” out there?
From yesterday, but my vote for “best read of the day.” Below is just a small taste…definitely worth reading!
When I look around the front offices of MLB now and see the young guns like Theo Epstein of Boston, Jon Daniels of Texas, or Andrew Friedman of Tampa Bay succeeding where the Mets perpetually fail, my first instinct emphasizes the age. It’s not because I need their agile frames to hit fastballs, but rather the youthful perspective that can ideally inject some life into a morose franchise.
However, it’s not the age that’s the problem. It’s the perspective.
Kids, you probably haven’t heard of Mike Scott.
For the 1986 Mets, game 6 of the World Series hogs all the attention, but there was another Game 6.
Mike Scott had been a scrub pitcher on the crappy early 80’s Mets, but in the 86 NLCS when the playoffs were playoffs (no fugazi wild card or NLDS crap) Mike Scott was in the Astros dugout as a better Cliff Lee than Cliff Lee will ever be.
Scott was dominant, and was in the Mets’ heads.
Was he cheating? Scuffing balls? The Mets couldn’t stop thinking about him.
There they were in Game 6, with Scott scheduled for game 7. Every Mets fan knew that 108 wins be damned, no way they were winning game 7 against that guy.
I’ll bet Greg from Faith and Fear has an epic article about that game so I will wait until he sends me a link rather than bore you with my crappy writing, but the short version is that the Mets escaped with an extra inning victory and Keith Hernandez threatened to punch Jesse Orosco in the face in an 80’s version of Man Up and Play Better.
Yankees fans are in panic mode today. They fear Cliff Mike Scott Lee in Game 7. Girardi has gone from genius to idiot. My Yankees friend Mr. Sunshine is ready to push the C.C. Panic button (ignore those 5 runs he gave up in game 1).
It’s fun to watch Yankee fans be nervous. Now we all know A.J. Burnett will pitch a gem and the Yankees will beat the Phillies in the World Series, but at least for the next 11 hours we can watch them squirm.
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Best move of the night: me! I sold early on StubHub. Ka-ching.
Worst move: real job for scheduling a long long meeting today. Media Goon is in charge for any breaking stuff, and I have a few minor things scheduled.
There were some good posts last night so scroll down.
Although racism clearly still exists, I think as a society we have progressed to the point where affirmative action can be considered disrespectful. That is why the whole “minority hiring” requirement we see going on with the Mets vacant GM position is borderline laughable and should be a perfect example of why it doesn’t work. In many ways I think it marginalizes good baseball people.
via Mike Silva’s New York Baseball Digest » Blog Archive » Is the MLB Minority Requirement Productive?.
Well said Mike. I feel bad for Dana Brown and will root hard for him to get the job. If they have no intention of hiring him they shouldn’t bring him in.
Maybe they do intend to hire him, but since his name didn’t come up until after the Fab Five interviews, and then Al Avila, well I gotta be suspect.
Clearly the Mets have been open to candidates of all backgrounds.
