The Mets Police

@newyorkmets tweeted this and I am speechless. Awesome. Note pins.

The best looking of the Mets bloggers, Kerel from On The Black agrees that How I Met The Mets needs to get made.

He says so here.

I have the “2000” episode ready to fire off tomorrow night.  My goals for the weekend are to make “1987” and re-cut the skipped “1986” (I have a version but I think I can do better.)

If anyone has any 1987 stuff laying around shoot it over to me at [email protected]   I’m looking for stuff from the Terry Pendleton game.

Seems to be a linky morning, which is fine because traffic drops off from Friday afternoon until Sunday night.

Next, it’s the 20 greatest hitters in Mets history. I like the list because Lee Mazzilli is at #18.

The folks over at River Ave Blues wrote this:

Simply put, Yankee fans don’t hate the Mets while Mets fans absolutely abhor the Yankees and their fans.

via River Avenue Blues, A New York Yankees blog.

It bugged me.  Not in a “ruined my day” way, but enough that I send them over a guest post yesterday morning.  I didn’t hear back, maybe they are busy, so I thought I would post it over here.

Ben,

While I get and share the “little brother” mentality, I have news for you guys. We don’t hate you.

Oh sure there are knuckleheads in every fan base, and we have some drunks at Citi Field who will break out a Jeter chant for no reason, but for the most part we just don’t care about what’s happening up there.

We can never catch up. If the Mets run off ten straight rings you’ll just hit us with 27-12.

If the Mets run off 26 straight rings (unlikely) you’ll slam us with your better marketing if your history and tell the tales of Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle and I guess Jeter.

We both know that this area has about 2 million Mets fans, 2 million Yankees fans and about 2 million frontrunners.  Eventually the Yankees will be down while the Mets are up and we’ll see where all the guys with the Joba t-shirts decide to get their baseball fix that summer.

You did cede the stadium war to Queens, and although Citi has some sightline issues there’s nothing like the ridiculousness in your bleachers. We have a ballpark, and you have something resembling a subway station.  Sure, if you can pay for the lower deck you can pretend you are at “Yankee Stadium”, but upstairs it’s really easy to pretend you are at a Staten Island game.

On the field, hey we’ll see you in June. Maybe Castillo will catch the third out this time, maybe not.  Oh, and when they do play, pop over to 66 and listen to what a game sounds like when it is accurately described.

Love the site, thanks for your time.  See you in October?

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In retrospect I wish I had gotten in some lines about the true Yankees like Clemens, Damon and A-Rod.

Here’s another one of those articles about which Mets numbers to retire.

I think it’s easy to go off the deep end on these.  Sure I can argue 31 or 17.  I can even argue 16 or 18.  When we get to Hojo and John Franco I think we’re getting a little silly.  Willie Mays even sillier.

These players can still be remembered and honored, but I don’t think the world ends if someone comes out of the bullpen wearing a #45.