The Mets Police

Faith & Fear In Flushing has a well written piece about what it means to be a Mets fan…and it’s not that they treat us well.

Paid attendance last night of 49,545.

Final weekend of the stadium.

Pennant race.

I wasn’t there either.

Now for me, I’d rather watch the game on HD than sit in rainy dreary Shea in the cold, and I don’t live next door to Shea like I once did – but I think it’s a fair criticism from the blogs who are saying we’re lame fans.

Even Tom Seaver showed up.

Unfortunately, the Mets offense and bullpen declined to show, and tomorrow is gearing up to be BooFest 2008. It will be like BooFest 2007 but twice as loud. I hope Omar Minaya enjoys his four year contract extension. Well earned Omar.

They are insane if they don’t bring Jerry Manuel back. Even as leader of Lee Mazzilli Nation, I can’t see someone doing a better job than Jerry. He’s been fielding a AA team most nights.

Hooray for The Ace in demanding the ball today. You will the hearts of Metsdom forever just by taking the hill today even if you give up 10 runs in the first. The effort and desire will be appreciated.

In the meantime there’s still a few hours left to vote for The Dopiest Moment In Shea Stadium history – check out the main page on metspolice.com.

Stumbled across this:Section Six Blog

The last thing that frustrates me about this is why are the Mets selling everything?  Are you telling me the Mets championship banners aren’t worth keeping?  Are the Mets simply going to forget Shea even existed?  When you walk into CitiField and see a statue of Jackie Robinson, who wasn’t even a Met, wouldn’t you want to also see the old banners hanging from the rafters?  Why aren’t the Mets planning on a small museum within the new stadium for the Mets history, including Willie Mays’ old locker, Ralph Kiner’s door to the press box, Tom Seaver’s retired number and the 1969 and 1986 banners?  Doesn’t it make you kinda sick that the Mets are just tossing these things aside, and in some cases having new replica’s replace them?  Well, it makes me sick, but you know what, it is par for the course, the Mets have always been a Mickey Mouse franchise.  Let’s see how the the crosstown club handles this.

And Loge 13 also asked a good question: Why did the Mets sell the 1986 banner?

Don’t forget to Vote For The Dopiest Moment In Shea Stadium History and Cool Stuff You Didn’t Know About Shea

1.  Wear white pinstriped uniforms.

2.  Wear blue hats.  Just to be clear, wear blue Mets hats.

3.   Introduce Tom Seaver last.   Last.   Tom walks out to the mound in a white pinstriped #41 (vintage, no black shadows).

4.  Have Tom Seaver throw a pitch to Jerry Grote, who is also in a vintage uniform.

5.  Focus on the 1969 Mets and the 1986 Mets.

6.  Do not focus on the 2000 Mets or the Wild Card Mets.  This is a celebration of Tom Seaver and Keith Hernandez and Buddy Harrelson and Mookie Wilson.   This is not about Todd Pratt and Robin Ventura.   They can be there but it’s not about them.

7.   Get Mookie Wilson to show up.  I understand he is mad at the Mets.  Just work it out.  $50,000 check, a job, a public apology – just make it happen.

8.  Get Davey Johnson to show up.   See #7.

9.  Don’t let the Yankees steal what little history the Mets have.  Invite Strawberry, Gooden and Cone.   They are Mets.  Don’t worry where else they played or didn’t.  Invite them.

10.  Ignore everyone’s warts.   Gooden, Strawberry, anyone else with personal issues – everyone is welcome.

11.  No matter what the weather is this week, make sure the final regular season game is the game people paid good money to attend at 1pm on Sunday.  If a makeup game is needed don’t you dare play it Sunday night or Monday.  Get out of bed and play a split doubleheader at six in the morning.   The final game is 1pm and that’s that.

12.  Surprise us with the retiring of Keith Hernandez’ #17.   You can announce that it will happen next June if you need the sellout that bad, but announce it now.

13.  Play tape of the long-time PA announcer (I don’t know his name) who sang Take Me Out To The Ballgame (on tape) in the 1980’s and beyond.

14.  Win.

15.  Don’t be eliminated.

16.  Honor Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner.

17.  No Citibank executives need to be part of this.  They can throw out the ball  at game 27 next season.

18.  Mention the Jets.

19.  Invite Joe Namath

20.  Mention the Beatles.

21.  Don’t have imitation Beatles make an appearance.  Focus on the Mets.

22.  Do not mention Billy Joel.  He is not a major part of Shea history despite what he’s been selling.

23.  Make sure all the “right” players are there.  If you are on item #23 on a blog called Mets Police, you know who I mean.

24.  Have some of the players from the bad teams.  I want to see Joel Youngblood and John Stearns.

25.   Remember that Jackie Robinson never played for the Mets nor at Shea.   No need to turn this into a celebration of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

That’s a quick 25 off the top of my head…what are your suggestions?