The Mets Police

July 3, 2009

"Branca’s Bullpen" New York Mets Pre-Game Show?

Over the weekend I finally finished the book “The Echoing Green” which is about the New York Giants (you know the team with the NY that played in the Polo Grounds, won 10 pennants but nobody mentions) and in the book they referenced “Branca’s Bullpen?”

Anyone know anything?

The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca … – Google Books Result

by Joshua Prager – 2008 – Sports & Recreation – 498 pages
Branca had in winter left TV station WOR, let lapse both his job with Cosell and Branca’s Bullpen, a Met pregame show he had hosted in 1963. …

Faith & Fear mentioned it too…

Faith and Fear in Flushing :: The Summer Wind

In 1963, Ralph Branca hosted “Branca’s Bullpen” which went on prior to the pre-game Kiner’s Korner. In 1964, Branca’s show was replaced by “Dow …

Which brings me to two additional points:

1. Have something for Ralph Kiner at Citi Field while he’s still around.
2. SNY should show some old Kiner’s Korners. I mean OLD. I wanna see some 60’s/70’s if any exist.

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July 3, 2009

New York Yankees Fan Ejected For Entering The Moat?

Some Yankees Stuff.

Mr. Sunshine (the Yankee friend who always thinks they are going to come back, and to his credit never gave up on Torre in 2007 even after I worked the math out for him and showed him it was “impossible.”) has written this morning:

Yanks lost b/c Sabathia didn’t get to warm up effectively because of the rain delay with no tarp.

He also sends this from http://nyyfans.com/. I cannot confirm if it is true.

Around the fourth inning tonight someone fouled a ball into the “moat” corridor behind the visitors dugout. A fan tried to jump into the moat to go for the ball from the field level seats and was ejected from the park. Now I know if you go on the field during a game you will be ejected but I guess in YS the area of ejection has now been enlarged to include the “moat” area.

Meanwhile The Captain is drinking the Kool Aid. Come on Derek, you know better:

As a matter of fact, you can drop the word “new” from Yankee Stadium. It finally has the feel of home.

“It’s taken a little time, but everybody is comfortable,” saidDerek Jeter. “It’s like when you get a new apartment or a new house it takes awhile to settle in.”

I Want These Jones Beach Nike Sneakers

This is a completely self-indulgent off-topic nothing to do with anything post – but it’s my blog and I’m lucky enough to have a few readers.

Nike put out these super limited edition Jones Beach sneakers. I’m trying to find a pair in 10.5 Maybe I get lucky and someone both owns a shoe store and hates black Mets uniforms. Worth a shot. Hit me at [email protected] if you know of such a pair to be in the wild.

Newsday has more about the sneakers if that interests you. The four stores you’ll find if you google them are sold out except for men’s 8’s.

We now resume complaining about baseball.

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July 3, 2009

Mets Police Apologize To This Man And His Cool Cap

Last week when I recapped my latest trip to Citi Field I mentioned this guy’s cap and shirt.

I love the shirt. It’s a “Hawaiian” shirt with all Mets stuff and would make a nice present if you ever want to buy me something.

Then I cracked wise about the cap, saying that we should keep it away from the Wilpons because it looked “Dodgery” with a white NY on a blue cap. I feared that the Wilpons would further Dodgerize the club.

Boy was I wrong! It isn’t Dodgery at all…in fact it is a …

New York Giants 1936-39 Cooperstown Fitted Cap
by American Needle Own a little piece of history with American Needle’s New York Giants 1936-39 Cooperstown Cap, a precise replica of what the legendary pros once wore.

This dude is super-cool and I apologize for goofing on his hat. He has a kicking shirt and a groovy Giants cap on!

What’s also interesting is not one reader nailed me on it. You know why? because nobody knows anything about the NY Giants because this whole darn town is Dodgers obsessed. Of course you don’t know what the Giants wore in ’36, how would you? By looking at the Mel Ott rotunda?

I bought the Ott jersey for my self. It’s too nice looking. If you see a dude in Citi Field with an Ott jersey, heck if you see anyone on Earth in the 21st century with an Ott jersey I’m sure it is me – come say hi.

One of my goals for the weekend is to start accumulating all mentions of the New York Giants to this site. There’s very little out there about them, I have no claim on them (before my time), and I don’t really know anything about them – but stuff should live on the internet somewhere so why not here.

If you’re in a Giants mood now, here’s an old link.

Mr. Cool shirt and classic Giants cap, I am sorry. I hope you are there the next time I actually use my weekday tickets instead of stub-hubbing them, and I will come shake your hand.

(By the way, if you’re about to send me some link from mlb.com that this is indeed a modern New Era Mets variant don’t crush my dreams. Let me live the lie. His blue is a little lighter isn’t it.)

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July 3, 2009

Steve Phillips Signs Lou Gehrig To 1939 New York Mets

Back in the Steve Phillips days I used to joke about this with friends…had the Mets existed in 1939 they surely would have signed Lou Gehrig as a free agent. (Yeah I know there wasn’t free agency..roll with the bit, ok?)

I can picture it now….Steve and his prized free agent standing in front of a black Mets logo at the Polo Grounds. The Mets selling us season tickets based upon the idea that we’re going to start winning now…the Iron Horse never misses a game, hit .295 with 29 home runs in 1938 etc….

I mean no disrespect to Mr. Gehrig, but it seems exactly the kind of signing this franchise has a tendency to make.

I think it’s cool that baseball is replaying the speech tomorrow…I hope someone broadcasting the Yankee game gets in a good dig about how “it was just over there across the street where…”