What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Chris who helps us out over on Sportspolice.com found this lil gem over on ebay. Nice looking ticket. Hopefully in the near future we can actually get to use the tickets for the World Series and not have to sell them on ebay as a “cool” collectors type item.
And when I say “cool” I mean makes me angry to look at it.
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On twitter today (@metspolice) I joked that Bert Blyleven did more the Mets than Robbie Alomar did. I was reminded of the below (via Baseball Reference). Go slow, it gets confusing…
Traded as part of a 4-team trade by the Texas Rangers to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Atlanta Braves sent Willie Montanez to the New York Mets. The Texas Rangers sent Tommy Boggs, Adrian Devine and Eddie Miller to the Atlanta Braves. The Texas Rangers sent a player to be named later and Tom Grieve to the New York Mets. ThePittsburgh Pirates sent Nelson Norman and Al Oliver to the Texas Rangers. The New York Mets sent Jon Matlack to the Texas Rangers. The New York Mets sent John Milner to thePittsburgh Pirates. The Texas Rangers sent Ken Henderson (March 15, 1978) to the New York Mets to complete the trade.
Let’s go slowly. Because the Pirates wanted to win the World Series, the Mets gave up Jon Matlack who won 17 in 1976 and would win 15 in Texas in 1978. The Mets got Willie Montanez (most of you haven’t heard of him), Ken Henderson (only Greg from Faith & Fear and I remember him) and Tom Grieve (a nobody) and they also lost John Milner.
I take it back. Alomar sucked in New York but he didn’t really cost the Mets anything meaningful. I think having Jon Matlack on the 1978 Mets would have been better than having Willie Montanez hit .247 in two years as a Met.
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Wow I think I lost everyone. This post dropped a lot of names that mean little to anyone. Greg Prince I bet you’re still here. Got a Ken Henderson article tucked away on Faith & Fear in Flushing?
Some of you (wait I thought only Greg made it this far) may have noticed the poll in the center column which asks which generation Mets fan you are. The results thus far…
Marty Noble spoke with John Franco who is disappointed he didn’t get more HOF votes.
John seems like a nice guy and as we have discussed previously he is the Best Met of the 1990’s.
However, at no point in any Mets game did I ever once think either (a) “Now there’s a Hall of Famer” or even (b) “Here comes Franco, this game is over.” He was rarely 1-2-3, more of a 1-2-3-4-5 save kinda guy. Mix in a walk and a double to keep us listening to Fran Healy.
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I haven’t forgotten about The Worst 50 Mets of All Time nor Make Our Own Old Timers Day. Real Job has required me to actually work at work. It happens.
Tonight I’m just polishing off some existing posts and quite sleepy.
Meanwhile, Sports Police is finally coming together thanks to Chris who has been rocking it out this week. We’re applying this formula to all the local teams – if you like hockey or the Jets there’s plenty up there for you this week. Any big time Knicks fans looking to blog for the fun of it? Hit me up at [email protected]
Osh41 continues his series of looks back at Mets uniforms.
Inspired by ‘Mets Yearbook’ 1976 I present another look at Mets jerseys from the past – the 76/77 home and road.
Best way to describe the road version – WEIRD. The Mets script looks very different from the 74/75 versions (see yesterday’s post). According to the excellent MLB Game Worn jerseys of the Double-Knit Era (by William Henderson) the Mets changed unifrom manufacturers for the 76 and 77 seasons.
Maybe the new company wanted to put their own unique stamp on the uniform? They sure did.
The jerseys look terrible. Not as bad as the black but pretty close. Another word to describe? SHABBY.
The home jersey thankfully was unaffected by the manaufacturer change.
Some notes from 1976 – on the home and road jerseys the Mets had a black armband memorializing the offseason passings of original team owner Joan Payson and original manager Casey Stengel. The team had previously worn black armbands during the 1972 season in memory of Gil Hodges who passed away from a heart attack just prior to the seasons start.
The team also wore bi-centennial patches on the right sleeves of the home and road jerseys. They also wore pillbox style caps throughout the season.
Next, the year was 1978 and the Mets were entering the first season of the post Seaver era. So what did the Mets do? That’s right they changed their uniforms!!
The 1978 -82 home and road 1978 -81 uniforms were a drastic departure from Mets uniforms from 1962-1977. Gone were the button up jerseys, they were replaced by a pullover style for home and road with two buttons at the top. The sleeve edges and collars were graced by a blue/orange/blue border.
Hey it could have been worse, at least they kept wearing belts and not the awful snap pants like many other clubs of the era.
In 1979 the Mets introduced (much to my dismay) names to the backs of both road and home uniforms. The names were stitched to a nameplate and then stitched to the uniform backs which looked kind of awkward on the home pinstripes.
The rest of the MetsPolice and I are big advocates of the no name on back style at least at home: if you don’t know your team by uniform number alone you should rethink your fandom. And hey Fred and Jeff: make people buy scorecards!
For fans of MetsPolice and my generation these uniforms represent absolute futility. Arguably the worst era in Mets history. Trust me on one you fans born post 1986. The early Mets of the 60’s were at least lovable. They were an expansion team after all. They were expected to be bad. This uniform experienced no glory at all, just punch lines.
Retire 12!
Alomar’s productivity came to an abrupt halt after a trade to the Mets before the 2002 season,
via Alomar and Blyleven Elected to Hall of Fame – NYTimes.com.
