Reader Comments: Unis, McCartney, Sheppard

Some good stuff came in last night once everyone was done with turkey…


Student of The Game has left a new comment on your post “McCartney At Citi Field On TV Tonight“:

Gotta love Time Warner. Official description on the guide: “The singer performs some of his favorite songs at Shea Stadium in Queens.”



That’s awesome.   I noticed the Daily News float in the parade mentioned “Shea Stadium.”   My kid pointed out the float was just guys in Yankees uniforms.


John has left a new comment on your post “The New 2010 New York Mets Pinstriped Uniform“: 

Black = a punk, ghetto, gangsta, thug, HORRIBLE image.

Get rid of the black ANYWHERE on the unis and hats and STOP with the frigging Dodgers look.

Get rid of the Robinson shrine. Dump the name “Robinson Rotunda” and honor great M E T S players. You two dopey Wilpons have to come to an understanding that the Dodgers JILTED you 50 years ago and left you with a set of blueballs that lasted 5 long years and get over it.

Get RID of the GREEN seats. The only reason I can think of for the green seats is taht Ebbitts frigging field must have had green seats.

I hate the way the Wilpons have tried to turn thew look of this team into the Dodgers.

Pinstripes should be worn at home for at least 70 of the 81 games. Grey on the road with block style “NEW YORK” blue trimmed in orange. If you must have an alternative jersey, do like the Indians do and go sleeveless and put “Mr Met” or interlocking NYM on the left chest with player # on the right. If need be go with the old Oakland A’s sleveless look in combinations of white/blue/orange.

NEVER mix/match pinstripes pants with solid jerseys

and Finally Wilpons, GET RID of the stupid looking batting helmuts they started wearing a few years ago.

SOME of us actually were around from the jump beginning with game ONE at AL Lang Field in St Petersburgh in 1962 and despise what you have done to the traditional look of the team. 

I don’t see them ripping out 50,000 green seats until the 2040’s.  I think we have to live with that one.  That’s awesome that you go back to that first game, and also interesting to me that you clearly don’t care about former NYC NL teams…Fred needs to let that go.

Jay has left a new comment on your post “The New 2010 New York Mets Pinstriped Uniform“:

I LOVED the black jerseys when they came out in 1998. I immediately purchased the jersey when I was a senior in college. However, the old colors, just blue and orange, are so wonderful now (I always wear my racing stripe Seaver jersey) that I would have LOVED this retro jersey if they went without the black shadow. In fact, I agree, lets go back to no black. 

So is that a 1983 Seaver?  Kinda cool.

David has left a new comment on your post “The New 2010 New York Mets Pinstriped Uniform“: 

As usual, the Mets STILL can’t get it right.

SNY played the 4 games the Mets won in the 1969 WS once again. Games 3-4-5 are in color. There’s the uniform the Mets NEED to go back to. Simple. Unadorned. Like the team in the Bronx, whose home uniforms really haven’t changed much since they put numbers on them 80 years ago. And they don’t seem to have a marketing problem; that version of the interlocking NY is seen all over the world. Why do the METS have to do a minor league move yet again?
PS – Also seen today as part of a family film festival, The Odd Couple, which in its movie version is all full of Mets and Shea Stadium.

Look for the pictures of Mets on the walls of Oscar Madison’s apartment, including L.P. Berra.
“A triple play, Madison and you missed it!” 




There’s a Met Yogi on the wall?  Really?  Will check that out.


DyHrdMET has left a new comment on your post “Bob Sheppard Has Retired“:

If Yankee Stadium (1923-2008) was baseball’s cathedral, then Bob Sheppard was the voice of God. 









ceetar has left a new comment on your post “Court Upholds Willets Point Redevelopment Plan (Ti…“:

I’m really looking forward to having nightlife around Citi Field. I think the bullpen entrance is a really cool area, and is lost because of the dumpy area back there. What would be better than a pennant race game in September, filing out of Citi Field after a win and watching the competition lose ina roaring bar full of Mets fans afterwards?

I’d love if the Islanders moved there. I think I might even be leaning towards hoping for that over the lighthouse project these days.



You’re right, that bullpen entrance deserves better.  Maybe the Islander fans can wave at the real Apple.


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The New York Mets Gift Finder

Here’s one to kick of your holiday shopping season.  I love the daily MLB.com spam, I mean direct marketing, and last week they were kind enough to send me the Gift Finder for my holiday planning (this was written before the uni announcement).

What serious handyman wouldn’t want to use this NY Mets screwdriver?

You can also feel secure knowing that whatever you are building is level with this handy tool.

Were you ever walking through the forest and thought to yourself, nature needs more Mets stuff?  I know I do.   Here is a forest face.  The tree has better taste in caps than Charlie Samuels the equipment manager.

Mrs. Potato Head is available in traditional Phillies-esque colors.

I wish this said Est. 1883 so I could wear it as a Giants jersey.   Then it would be cool.  As a Mets short it fails because of the color scheme.

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Five Questions For An Average Mets Fan (Fan #37)

As excited as I am to have the first pictures of the new Mets jersey out-in-the-wild, and before Mrs. Mets Police asks what I’m doing on “the computer all day”, here’s another response to the 5 Questions.  If you’re new to Mets Police we’ve been working this in a few times a day around the normal items…will do a few today and all weekend.   


First up on Ditch The Black Friday is Sparks.

1. When did you start following the Mets?

I watched and rooted for them in the ’86 Series, but I didn’t actually begin following them until mid-’87, when they faced the huge deficit coming out of the All-Star Break and stormed back to take the division race down to the final week.

2. What is your favorite Mets memory?

Darryl Stawberry’s game-winning HR in the bottom of the 10th against the Cardinals in 1988.  I was listening to the game from my bedroom in South Louisiana on KMOX St. Louis.  Straw hit that ball, and instantly–despite the broadcast emanating from Queens and arriving on AM radio via St. Louis–I knew the ball was gone just from the sound it made.  I know better, but I would’ve sworn my speakers shook.  Jack Buck’s call of “Swing, and a home run!” (just like that, with practically no hesitation) remains etched into my brain to this day.

3. What is your worst Mets memory or experience?

I’m going to have declare a tie between two moments in the ’88 NLDS: Scioscia’s HR off of Gooden in Game 4, and that horrid 2nd inning of Game 7.  The former was deflating, the latter was enraging.  Even the ’07 crash doesn’t compare because that at least happened over time and one was able to see it coming.  The Scioscia HR happened in an instant, and I can show you the very spot I was standing in my parent’s house when it happened.  The bad inning happened in what seemed like the blink of an eye, and I didn’t even watch the middle innings I was so mad.  Both were just quick, hard kicks in the stomach.

4. If you could change one off-field thing about the franchise what would it be?

I’d give it competent ownership that actually views the team as a sports franchise and not just another investment.

5. If you owned the team starting tomorrow, what is the first thing you would change?

Omar Minaya would be relieved of his current duties.

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Picture Of Actual New New York Mets 2010 Retro Jersey

Here it is….the first known shot of a new Mets “retro” jersey out in the wild.  

Everyone give a standing O to Peter for getting out of bed, heading off to buy one, and sending this over.

Peter says:
shannon i got the new cream jersey. it looks better than what we have seen on the net.


I guess this jersey doesn’t photograph well, it looks same old to me.  $132 when all said and done.

Here’s a Wright version.

Replicas on sale for $79.99
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