The Mets Police

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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The Newark Bears are filing for bankruptcy. Why? They're in Newark.

I like the Atlantic League. Hit a LI Ducks game sometime, it's tons of fun. In fact you pull into a big giant free parking lot and walk 10 feet into a park that still feels band new. The game is less important than the fun between innings. Kids have a ball.

Meanwhile in Newark you get to drive to a crowded aging still scary city (sorry Corey). There's a tiered lot – everyone loves those. Sure you're encouraged to take mass transit. The NJT system is horrible enough at rush hour. You want to wait 59 minutes for a train if you don't time things right?

Meanwhile a few blocks away the Devils have announced they don't want to pay the rent. That's what Newark gets for building this new unneccesary arena. You know that $2.1 million the Devils were going to pay? Pysche!

A few miles up the road an unnecessary football stadium is being built – with no rail link. There's a giant parking lot sitting there day after day but no rail link to nyc.

The Giants get their blood money in PSLs. The Devils get their fancy new building on which they don't pay rent. As for the Bears – sorry, nobody cared. Good try.

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