The Mets Police

Good article in USA Today about Citi Field being the anti-Yankee Stadium when it comes to home runs.  

1.7 HRs a game at Citi as opposed to 2.2 at Shea.

Chipper Jones:

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I spent Thursday afternoon at the ballpark with Mets police Junior….took 100 or so shots, I was surprised the actual Mets police didn’t stop me from taking so many photos in the team store, but in the upcoming days I will give you a break from the Wrigley stuff (still have tons to cover there) – so starting next week we’ll check out the team store, then some of the menu items.   Rather than start that series on a Friday, here’s some random shots from Thursday afternoon.

A packed house for a Thursday afternoon!   Blue sky too! Remember those?

I need an engineer to explain to me the difference between Citi concrete and Shea concrete.  It felt like 100 degrees around 12:30 today, and it wasn’t that hot.  The actual Promenade underneath was a good 25 degrees cooler.   Wait until it is actually hot.

By the way, who is buying the “lemonade?”  Looks like a cup of water with a lemon floating.

If you want to get me something for my birthday, I wouldn’t mind this Mets themed “Hawaiian” shirt.

Take a close look at that hat….

….I don’t know if you can make it out – see the guy with the shirt I like – he was wearing a “Mets” hat with a white NY.  Sure looked Dodgery.  Don’t show Fred Wilpon that one.

Excuse me sir, you bought a black hat with a black NY.   You realize we can’t see the NY right?

Good job out of Junior.   I told him I’d buy him a shirt.   He picked a blue and orange one with an Irish guy on the back.   Son, some day, this blog will be all yours.

$22 at the Team Store.

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Caught this on Uni Watch. The Mets are tracking their performance by what they wear. Check out this picture showing the numbers on the scoreboard at New Shea.

Through the first 67 games, here is how it breaks out for caps:

The Mets Police preferred blue cap: 9-5 (wow, that’s only 20% of the games played)
The despised all-black caps: 7-7
The hideous blue brim/black cap: 17-21
The 1-day MLB promoted red cap: 1-0

Forgetting for a moment the Memorial Day cap, the Mets have a winning record only when they wear the traditional blue caps!

As for the uniforms:
Pinstripes: 2-3 (really? Only 5 times this year?)
All White: 14-8
Home Black: 4-1
Road Black: 3-6 (I derived these from the overall black uni record of 7-7)
Road Gray: 12-14

Wish I could report that the black jerseys were bad at home. Of course this is a small sample… (yeah I’m looking for a reason to discount that winning record).

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Matt writes…

As a Mets fan stuck here in Connecticut, I’ve come to despise all
things Red Sox, especially their fans.

However, unlike Sweet Caroline, here is something we need to rip-off from them.

http://www.soxstickers.com/index.php

There are a ton of creative & cool stickers there.  I’m hoping you can
put the call out to your readers to find someone much more creative &
artistic than I that can pull something like this off.

Thanks!  Matt 

Seems cool.  I could see a few 41s and 57s on some local vehicles.  Maybe this exists and we just don’t know about it.


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