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EQUIPMENT COLLETION DRIVE:

To support the growth of youth baseball and softball, the Baseball Tomorrow Fund (BTF) has teamed up with Major League Baseball Clubs to organize equipment collection drives across the United States. This season, the Mets will once again team up with the BTF to assist local youth baseball and softball organizations by collecting new and used baseball equipment prior to the game on Saturday, August 27.

During the past five seasons, the Mets have collected bats, gloves, balls, spikes, uniforms, catcher’s gear for the Greater New York Sandlot Athletic Alliance, who distribute the donations to area youth baseball organizations. This year, we hope to increase our donations significantly with the help of our loyal fans.

Please bring any equipment that you plan to donate to Citi Field when the Mets host the Atlanta Braves on August 27 at 4:10 p.m. Donation stations will be open two and a half hours prior to the start of the game outside of the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. On behalf of the Mets, we thank you for your support.

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We’ll keep an eye out to see if the Mets reschedule any of the games and will post the info, but if you see it first let me know [email protected] or @metspolice (where I will likely see the other 5 billion tweets)

…the Atlanta Braves were still waiting to hear if their weekend schedule in New York would be altered. “We are in constant contact with the Weather Channel,” cracked manager Fredi Gonzalez, as the team packed up for a scheduled three-game series against the Mets. Sunday’s game would be the one affected, so they could play a doubleheader Friday or Saturday and beat the storm out of town.

via Hurricane Irene forces Phillies, Red Sox into doubleheaders.

On his home-field advantage, a group of fans who formed The K Korner

“That was fun,” Gooden said. “When they would throw the ball around the infield, I’d peek up to see how many strikeouts I had. It helped because if I got two strikes, on anything close, the hitter was going to swing, or the umpire was going to ring him up.”

via Dwight Gooden remembers his glory days – Mets Blog – ESPN New York.

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