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John Harper In The Daily News

I think you will like the vibe of John Harper’s piece in today’s News.  He is with the rest of us that the Mets have to spend the money, or they’ll just be losers again.

And let’s not forget that $500 million, or $25 million a year, the Mets are getting for the naming rights to their ballpark. That alone would go a long way toward landing Lackey and Holliday.

Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2009/11/11/2009-11-11_harper_mets.html#ixzz0WxTKpNHW

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Daily News Article About Dwight Gooden

If you are a younger Mets fan, say 25 or younger, you probably do have a handle on how good Tom Seaver was.   You don’t understand Gooden.  I know you think he was this really good pitcher who flamed out over drugs.  I’m sure you can fathom the numbers from 1985 and understand that he was good.

What you don’t understand is how electric Shea Stadium was on a late 80’s Friday night with Doc on the mound.   The Piazza years never touched it.  The Subway Series never touched it.   Santana can throw a no-hitter in Game 4 of the World Series to win it all (sucks that the NL lost the All-Star Game in my made up scenario) and it won’t touch it.

Gooden on Friday night was an event.   He was dominant in a way few pitchers ever are.

When you have 60 wins at 21 years old you’re a no-brainer firest ballot Hall of Famer/   He was young, he was ours, and he was going to be around a long long time.

The Daily News has a long piece about Doc (he was better when he was still “Dwight”) today.

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Alternate New York Mets Caps Day 30

Today’s alternate Mets cap comes from Fitted Hawaii.  They do a lot of neat custom color jobs.   This one isn’t horrible.  I could complain about the red, and it would probably look bad on a human, but in the picture or on your shelf, kinda interesting.
Available here.

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More About Kiner Koaching

Greg from Faith and Fear in Flushing (he should be on the Mount Rushmore of Mets bloggers since he actually got a book published!) send over this note…it was friendly not a shot at me, a personal email I asked if I could post.

Shannon,

Ralph was just helping out in the offseason. There’s a spread of great
doings in the Florida Instructional League in the 1972 yearbook (the
print edition, that is), and Ralph is right in the middle of it (with
his logo cap and everything).

I’m surprised you never heard of Danny Frisella. He was a splendid
righty complement to Tug in the early ’70s and a master of the
forkball. Was part of the deal that brought Felix Millan to the Mets.
Sadly, he died in a dune buggy accident on New Years Day 1977. (Don’t
they teach this stuff at the Mets Police Academy?).

Take care,

Greg

As for my question yesterday asking if Ralph ever left the booth as was suggested in the NY Times story (scroll down the site) it looks like that never happened.

Paul Lukas who runs the great Uni Watch sent me this link which shows Kiner in uniform.   Neat to see him in a Mets uniform.

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