What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Once again the premise is invite three and only three living former Mets at each position to hypothetical Mets Old Timers Day (this being the 50th season at all).
Today, CF.
Mookie Wilson, Lenny Dykstra (we won’t talk stocks) and (cue the Springsteen music)
Do I have to say his name?
Master of the Universe.
King of the World.
Weighing in at 6’1 and 180 pounds.
From Lincoln High School in Brooklyn NY
Number 16….
And to think all three men were on the 1986 Mets together!
Good morning Mets fans,
I know you blew off the site the last two weeks. It’s OK. But now you’re back to work and need timekillers. Lucky for you I have plenty of articles for you to read while you’re supposedly working on projects and killing time until 5pm Friday.
Props to the Metsoblogosphere for continuing to churn out new content during the “break” whereas most of the mainstream either printed nothing about the Mets or generic “10 things something something” looks back or looks ahead.
The Worst 50 Mets of All Time discussion is sailing along. I will recap soon.
Your votes for Make Our Own Old-Timers Day at SS, 2B, C, 1B, LF, RF
Some information about the 2012 Mets Conference, and some more information.
I got a great Mets jacket for Christmas!
A Los Angeles blog called Strawberry the worst acquisition of the past 25 years.
A great picture of Tug McGraw and Danny Frisella
The 2010 Mets Police awards and Randy’s acceptance speech.
Dave Howard should steal my Undefeated Tuesdays promotion and run to the bank.
Hockey: Charles Wang floats “Queens” as a possible home and here’s what it might look like at Citi.
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Looking ahead this week there’s actually good stuff coming up. What a luxury to have posts lined up at the start of January.
Make our own Old Timers Day: CF. Oh you should know who I am inviting.
Pictures of Josh Thole dressed as a french maid. Really.
A look back at the Mets 40th anniversary (a great guest post)
A rerun of the history of Mets uniforms.
and a bunch of unscheduled items related to Lee Mazzilli, Jerry Grote, Tom Seaver and even Christy Mathewson.
Is it Friday yet?
Contiuning with the series….invite three living Mets RFers to a hypothetical Old-Timers Day.
I will invite Strawberry, Staub and Bobby Bonilla who is a leader on most of the 1990’s offensive statistics. Besides, he will be back on the payroll in July. Plus it will annoy you.
Anyone watch the Winter Classic last night? I tried but unless it is teams I care about it’s really hard to get me to stick around. I really hope we get one at Citi Field even though politically (ratings) it would make sense for it to be something like Flyers-Rangers (and I hate the Rangers.) I guess I could sit there and root against Media Goon (who made this image) for three hours, I have done it before.
Puck Daddy wrote about the game and brought this up…cough, Fred/Jeff, cough…
Retro jerseys = sales. Remember when the Capitals unveiled their Winter Classic jerseys and fans were like, “That’s nice, but I already own that one.” Then the Penguins released theirs and everyone was like, “Really? Blue? Again? And what’s up with all those stripes?” Well, despite the ho-hum attitudes towards both jerseys, they’ve been a hot seller. According to the NHL, over 38,000 jerseys have been sold and it’s been proven as you walk along every street and look inside every restaurant around Heinz Field.
No, the Wilpons wouldn’t make money off hockey jerseys, but they do make money off Mets jerseys. If retro=sales, then why not ditch the black? Then black can be the retro for Generation Piazza and the actual baseball team can look less like a softball team or Los Angeles gang.
Some of you are saying they already have the cream colored jersey. But yes my friends, those have black dropshadow. Look at this gorgeous jersey…crisp, neat, traditional, blackless. Wouldn’t you like one with say a 5 on the back (and no name) and a 50th anniversary patch on the sleeve?
Head on over to Faith and Fear in Flushing to learn about
The Baseball Equinox (it will make you happy) and what it’s like to outlive Gil Hodges.
I look at the pictures of Gil and I react the same way I do when I watch Ken Burns Baseball. These guys look older than I do. Then I look at the photos I took at the Devils game the other night and there is some old looking guy sitting there with my kids. It goes fast children.
