What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Junior and his friends are arguing about who the best Met ever was.
Billy says Darryl Strawberry. It’s nice to know Straw resonates.
Junior knew that Billy’s answer is incorrect…but couldn’t think of the other guy.
He know it is Tom Seaver…Seaver like receiver. He uses a football mnemonic.
Who do your kids think is the best Met of all time?
While I hit the Unnamed Donuts Chain…Keith and Mookie sing at 1:47 and yes this will be stuck in your head all day. Mrs. Mets Police is singing it now.
Look what Rich got for Christmas
To be fair to Osh41 he actually sent this to me Monday night, but if you think I was gonna waste a week of Seaver posts in the middle of winter after I already worked on them, you’re crazy. Here’s Osh… (Click on the photos especially the Bamberger one for better looks)
Opening day, April 1983 – high excitement at Shea Stadium. Seaver returns after a 5 plus year status, the Mets beat Steve Carlton and the Phils and there was cause for even more excitement – new uniforms!!!! The Mets took the field wearing the uniforms we now call – the ‘racing stripe’. The uniforms remain pullover however they have lost the collar/sleeve blue orange blue trim and the Mets logo on the left sleeve.
The ‘racing stripe’ look actually appeared a year earlier – the 82 club road unifroms featured the racing stripe style.
I remember being excited that the team had a new look. Metspolice and I were a few short months away from meeting but I am sure he approved of them as well – he’s a dork like me. The 78-82 uniforms represented a terrible era in club history. New uniforms, new start. And indeed the new uni’s did see a new era of Mets success punctuated by the clubs 1986 World Championship.
Footnote – although Seaver never wore the 78-82 jerseys ‘officially’ he did wear them for a photo op – these must have been taken over the winter of 82 after he was reacquired.
I’m late on this but I’d feel bad if I didn’t let you know. On the 21st (Friday) the trophy will visit the site of The Polo Grounds.
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Saturday), the Giants will display the trophy at the Hilton New York, where fans can have their photograph taken with it. From 3 to 5 p.m., the trophy will visit Finnerty’s in the East Village, which calls itself the largest San Francisco Giants bar in New York.
via Fifty-Six Years Later, Giants Bringing Trophy to New York – NYTimes.com.
