The Mets Police

DyHrdMET has left a new comment on your post “Padres File Complaint Against Mets Citi Field“:

do you think now the Mets are going to let Gary, Keith, and Ron broadcast a game from the stands like they did last year?


Absolutely, and they’ll be placed in a good spot where they can see, so they won’t know.  More on that in a second….

And lay off the Padres. You wouldn’t want to start 2 games 24 hours apart on different coasts/time zones either. We had that last year going to San Francisco. It wasn’t fun. Lay into the idiots who scheduled the Padres for our home opener in the first place. 



While it was dopey to schedule the Padres (if you’re going to have a SoCal team in for Jackie Night why not have the Dodgers?) I don’t feel bad for people who fly charters and have to play a game at 4:05pm as opposed to 7:05.    Sometimes I have to travel for business.  I close my eyes on the plane, suck up the 6 hours sleep, and then get over it.  It was dumb.








Brian has left a new comment on your post “Padres File Complaint Against Mets Citi Field“: 

Steve Somers is a smart guy, and no shill. So, even though I wasn’t listening lasnight, I’m sure he was being sarcastic–probably at the expense of pro-Citi media as much as the Wilpons and the Mets themselves. 

I actually had heard him do it on other nights before I mentioned it.  He really believes we’re being whiny.  I don’t think Steve is evil, I just think he doesn’t have the information.  He’s on the air when the Mets are home, it’s quite probable he’s never been to the Promenade.

Similarly I don’t expect that Keith, Ron and Gary are walking up to the Promenade and sitting in the third row.   They just don’t know what’s going on.   Keith barely wants to finish the game some nights, I doubt he’s going home and reading Mets Police.

Steve’s monologues are some of the greatest radio around.  Very amazing stuff (no pun).

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Not only are the Mets wearing horrible black uniforms, they aren’t even wearing NEW YORK on the road.

The uniforms say Mets, like it’s 1978.
(Correction – in the earlier draft of this posting I said there was a Citi patch.  That is inaccurate.  As a loudmouth I will not cover up my mistake, but I will apologize for it.  Unlike David Howard.  Picture now added.)

I can’t explain it other than there must be some exec who thinks they’ll sell some idiot a black mets jersey.

Howie Rose we need you to comment on this today on-air. You should steal Kay’s old uniform schtick but do it in an evil sarcastic way. “The Mets are dressed in black with Mets across their chest. Of course.” Just do it Howie.

If they really want to sell stuff, they’ve sold black crap for 10 years, why not bring back the early 80’s blue road jerseys. They are also a poor choice but at least they are blue.

I like how the Dodgers obsession doesn’t cross over into the uniforms.

Today Sheffield (in left), Cora and Santos start…and Wright bats fifth with Beltran third. Day game.

As I keep pointing out, because it gets late early, especially when you tend to fall one game short, the Mets are 6 and 8.

Jerry I love you but if this team isn’t at least 9 and 9 on Sunday night I will be dusting off my “Lee Mazzilli for manager” articles.

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Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day


Saturday, May 2
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Part of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day gives fans of all ages an opportunity to participate in a variety of hands-on, interactive, sports-related games, demonstrations, clinics, performances, meet-and-greets, and giveaways on its very own city block (North Moore, between Greenwich and West Streets). Together with the Family Festival Street Fair, Sports Day will take place on Saturday, May 2, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Brooklyn Cyclones
Sandy the Seagull is leaving Brooklyn for the day to meet and greet fans in Tribeca! Be sure to test your baseball skills with their pitching machine!

New York Mets
Mr. Met will be on hand to celebrate the Mets’ inaugural season at Citi Field.

Most of the NYC teams will be there.  No Yankees, no Rangers.  Here’s a full rundown.

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The folks over at Centerfield Maz are kind enough to let us post their cool content.  Give them some hits for this piece.

Centerfield Maz is a cool site you should check out.  I use it when I’m too lazy to type about old Mets myself.

Other cool sites (for lazy bloggers like me) are Mets By The Numbers which is a great resource if you’re looking to see how many people the Mets have given #17 to.   I also enjoy Mets Walkoffs who help me out when I have dumb questions like “who got the most his as a Met in the 1990s” and I’m too lazy to look it up myself.

Today In Mets History: 1970- “The Franchise” Tom Seaver Strikes Out 19 Padres

On April 22, 1970 Tom Seaver received his 1969 Cy young Award in a pre game ceremony at Shea Stadium. It was Toms 1st Cy Young of the three he would earn in his career.

He took the mound against the San Diego Padres that afternoon day to Shea crowd of just under 15,000. Many were school kids on class trips, it was also the 1st Earth Day to be recognized.

Seaver would be historic on this outing as he would tie the single game strikeout record by fanning 19 Padres. On top of that he set a record that still stands today, by striking out 10 consecutive batters who were also the last 10 batters of the game. Four of them struck out looking, just to show you how good Seaver’s stuff was that day.

In addition to the last 10 batters striking out, he had retired the last 16 batters of the game as well. Seaver threw 136 pitches in the game, 81 fastballs, 34 sliders, 19 curve balls, & only 2 change ups. The win was his 13th regualr season win in a row, dating back through the 1969 season, he was 3-0 at that point for 1970. Interestingly, Seaver’s 19 strikeout performance broke Nolan Ryan’s record of 15 which he had been set five days earlier against the Phillie’s at Shea Stadium.

Tom Terrific only gave up two Padre hits that game, one was a HR by Al Ferrara. In the ninth with two outs, Ferrara was up again and Seaver was on the brink of history. Seaver threw two sliders and two fastballs past him to tie Steve Carlton’s record.

Quotes: TOM SEAVER: “I was still worried I’d make a mistake and Ferrara might hit it out,” Seaver said. “But when I got two strikes on him, I thought I might never get this close again so I might as well go for it.”

“Everybody congratulated me when I got No. 16 in the eighth inning,” Seaver said. “I just told them, ‘Let’s get some more runs.’ All I could think of was that Carlton had struck out 19 of us and still lost.”

The Mets won the game 2-1, in the 1st inning Bud Harrelson singled then scored on a Ken Boswell double. In the 3rd inning Tommie Agee singled and Bud Harrelson tripled to right field scoring Agee. It was already Harrelsons third triple & 5th RBI in the young season.

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