The Mets Police

As always Mushnick got it right today with this article about announcers who scream too much.   He correctly mentioned Chris Carlin but left off Iron Eagle (THIRD AND NINE FOR THE JETS!) and the suddenly missing Fran Healy.

Meanwhile it’s nice to see that the mainstream media finally starting taking the side of the fans when it comes to PSL’s.   The Daily News:

Most Giants and Jets fans have suggested, through their outrage and protest of PSLs, that they would rather pay their current ticket prices and stay in Giants Stadium as opposed to moving to the new building and paying for the PSLs.


After all the numbers are crunched and all the new fans who Johnson claims are clamoring to get into their PSL-padded seats in 2010 “understand all the aspects,” did the Giants and Jets really need the seat licenses to build this stadium?



Thanks News, but where the hell were you before they sold em.  Thanks for nothing.

I missed this one a ways back – MLB wrote about Keith Hernandez

An honor that somehow has eluded Hernandez was afforded Tom Seaver in 1988. Seaver’s uniform number was retired; his 41 was put in mothballs. And the ceremony that surrounded that salute is what Hernandez embraces 20 years later.

“The greatest thing I’ve ever seen at Shea,” is how he identifies it. It moved him, and it had stayed with him.

“Tom was so eloquent in what he said,” Hernandez recalled recently. “And when he did what he did — take off his jacket, throw one last pitch and then bow to the crowd — it was so appropriate, and appreciated by the fans. They went crazy.

Hilarious…if you click here you go to the Santana page on baseball-reference.com  

The hilarious part is Phillies Nation has sponsored the page, and their ad is “The Mets are a Joke.”

We’ve got nothing to say for ourselves again this year.  See you in April, Phillies.

Thanks again to Mets Walk-offs for the lead.

Any time anyone asks me about Mr. Met, I go off on a rant.

“That’s NOT Mr. Met.  That’s Mr. Met Two!!!”

People think I’m insane, but I’m not.

Mr. Met II is a corporate shill who endorses black uniforms and every rude thing the Mets do to their fans.

Dan Reilly, the first man to wear the costume of iconic mascot Mr. Met, watched the bittersweet festivities at home on TV like an ordinary fan. But the longtime Soho resident and author of the new book “The Original Mr. Met Remembers,” is anything but.


“I’m disappointed they didn’t invite me back, but I’m not angry,” said Reilly, who played the Mets mascot on and off the field from 1964 through 1967, the first three of his nine years with the club. “Seaver, Koosman, Swoboda, all those guys were my buddies. And I figured they’d like to see me again, too, just to say hello, a few handshakes, keep in touch. They all still call me Mr. Met.”

I like the new World Series format and I vote they keep it.

Fox can continue to start games at 8:40 to ensure that Phillies fans in Los Angeles don't miss a pitch (because Phillies fans in LA are all home by 5:40).

When a team has won three games in the series, any potentially clinching game will be played in two parts. The game will be suspended after 6 innings, then the next night (or the next night that doesn't compete against football) the Series Shootout will resume at 8:40pm.

I loved it. I got to see the end of a playoff game for the first time since about 1980. Fox got their late start. The Phillies got to jack everyone for parking twice. More beer and hot dogs were sold. Phillies fans in Los Angeles had a convenient start time. Barack got to have his own tv show. Everybody wins!

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