What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Here’s the lineup as we seem if Jon Niese can snap the “we are wearing the dopey black uniforms” streak at 5.
Friday, August 6
@ Philadelphia
Jose Reyes – SS
Angel Pagan – LF
Carlos Beltran – CF
David Wright – 3B
Ike Davis – 1B
Josh Thole – C
Jeff Francoeur – RF
Luis Castillo – 2B
Jonathon Niese – LHP
Tonight, the Braves honor the greatest Cylon (aka sleeper agent) of all time, Tom Glavine. Â Atlanta sent Tom to New York to destroy the Mets just when they needed him most – and tonight the Braves honor Tom and will retire his number.
We salute you Mr. “I bought a Tom Glavine All Star Jersey” whereever you are!
Thanks to Mo (@metsflu)for sending over.
I really enjoy Mark Cuban’s blog. Today he wrote about the process of trying to buy the Rangers. Â A solid read, and I thought you’d enjoy it including this excerpt.
(D)espite what people think, I don’t keep hundreds of millions of dollars in a checking account. I prefer that it earn money doing things for me. It is not easy to get liquid to the point of $400mm dollars or more in just a few weeks. And in those few short weeks, its not easy to go to the banks and get a loan for a baseball team. Lots of reasons. Some I don’t like, but it’s not. Second, I didn’t have enough time to do all the due diligence my folks needed to do. You don’t read every contract and get people to run numbers and advise you on what all the implications of a bankruptcy auction are in a couple weeks. I was paying people to work round the clock. I was killing my General Counsel Robert Hart to the point of exhaustion. There wasn’t enough time.
Now we’re into the age that I remember. Â Although we’re looking at Angel’s yearbook collection, I own this one myself. Â The price has crept up to $1.25 (25% increase after trading Tom Seaver, are you insane?). Â I think this one has the cool Old Timer’s Day recap – from when the Mets had Mays, Joe D, the Duke and maybe it was Mantle? Â I have to dust off my chocolate stained version of this.
Dad. whereever you are your $1.25 clearly made an impression on me. Â Thanks!
Hi Shannon–
Mets Yearbook 1976 was on SNY today and I grabbed a couple of screen shots of the Mets wearing those Pittsburgh Pirates-type caps with the stripes along the top. I can’t remember if there had been a debate on this, but it does appear they wore them at the very least on Opening Day 76 and on several other occasions that year.
Heck, I’d take THESE caps over BLACK caps even …
All the best,
Kevin
