The Mets Police

With the blog being in its 11th season I have plenty of old posts to recycle…so on Tuesday I bring you a Ten Years Ago post. Here’s one from 2/22/09 and it looks like I’m pretty jazzed about this kid Jerry Manuel is planning on playing in left field.

As it would turn out, Murphy would only play 27 games in LF, and would get 101 games in at first.  He’d miss the entire 2010 season due to injury because he got taken out learning second base so some hotshot prospect named Ike Davis could play first.  The media is very hot on Ike, keep an eye on him.  And now from 2009…..

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Jerry isn’t messing around!

Daniel Murphy will be the Mets every day left fielder.

What’s that you say?  This guy was basically promoted from Double-A last year and the Mets have yet to play even an inning of spring training?   Jerry doesn’t care what you think.

“I’ve seen it. I’m confident. The way he swings the bat I’m confident that he can handle that. I don’t have a problem with that.”


Since Manny Ramirez isn’t coming, this is a good thing.  I’d rather hope we get 15 years out of Murph in left rather than one year out of someone from the leftover pile like Tatis.

I love what a maniac Jerry is.   He’s wonderfully entertaining.   I kind of want to see him actually stab someone for not running out a ball.

What does everyone think of these jerseys?  If the Mets insist on incorporating black (and that they do) these aren’t bad.   I’m not crazy about the orange underarms, but they aren’t as hideous as the all black were.

www.metspolice.com

Yahoo has a Worst Owners In Sports list...and the stupid cheap Wilpons didn’t even make the list!  Can you believe it?

I was also surprised to see the Steinbrenners did not make the list.  Since George died, the Yankees have yet to appear in the World Series.  All that while  playing in Market 1, in a pretty new stadium, and yet they won’t spend on Harper and Machado.  When will Manfred Do Something?

I was kinda hoping the Mets would move as they are not close to that many teams and let’s face it, Arizona Spring Training is 8 billion times better. Oh well, now they are stuck until EVEN AFTER BONILLA ISN’T BEING PAID!!!! How old will I be in 2042….hmmmmm I don’t think I want to know…

Here are a few details if you care.

Also look how excited the community is….to be fair not sure I could be bothered to attend such a hearing…but wow this looks exciting.

#Mets fans talk with Paul Tagliere of the Mets before ⁦@StLucieGOV⁩ discuss renovations to First Data Field. ⁦@TCPalm⁩ pic.twitter.com/jFUDpGWX0d

— Keona Gardner (@Keona_G) February 19, 2019

Yes – The county is only spending the original budget of $55 million – which comes from the Tourist Tax (not general fund dollars). The Mets are adding another $2 million.

— St. Lucie County (@StLucieGOV) February 19, 2019

I’ve written about this before, but I think it would be cool if MLB had a league wide Pride Weekend

I poked around the internet to see if there were Pride Night fashion jerseys and I am not really seeing any.

The Mets have had a few Pride Nights for fans and from there some related merch..

And I did see this on Lids or someplace

But to me these designs make me think there could be something better.

These two below work better than the above as the rainbow pops more.

What if MLB were to do  league wide Pride caps and jerseys along side Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, America Efff Yeah Day, All Star, All Star BP, and Home Run Derby, Little League Day, Spring Training merch, BP merch, St. Patrick’s Day and Money Grab Day?   The above template might be a good start.

As a straight man, I don’t have a sense of if the rainbow is the best thing to do, or if it has become just-what-you-do like all the green merch for St. Patrick’s Day has become.  I asked on twitter, and didn’t get much feedback, but the small response I got was that rainbow is the move.

So I called my buddy Anthony and asked him.  The last thing I would want to do is make a suggestion about merch and then find out that although I might mean well, I was actually being foolish.

Anthony said rainbow is cool…and really liked how the Boston cap looks and the trick was to not overdo it and to be tasteful.  Like that Boston cap…or I guess like the soccer kits below.   (I didn’t ask him about those).

I know MLS did a Pride Night, and the Red Bulls wore Pride Jerseys (although I can’t find any evidence on the internet) – and the national teams did…

So I think it would be cool to have MLB Pride Night.  Something to think about on a Winters’ Day.  Baseball merch should be inclusive not exclusive.  I think everyone can agree on that.

SLACKISH REACTION:  I’m struggling with this team right now.  I can’t take all the hype….I actually forgot Mickey Callaway existed until they put him on display yesterday. All the marketing has been around the GM (weird, right?) – just like last winter was all about Mickey Hodges…..and yeah the new GM is so so groovy…….and the whole thing with The 7 Line is such a turn off, especially the dismissiveness of it and how it can’t even be discussed.  Not feeling any of it.

I’m also not feeling the overuse of the word Squad which appears in just above every tweet the Mets do.  Stop – that’s not bringing anyone into the sport @mets.

Blah blah for the city and the fans blah blah…this is actually the exact same answer my Created Player gives in NBA2K.  I know it’s supposed to be inspiring, but it actually has the opposite effect of making my eyeroll….

Mickey and @GMBVW addressed the full team today. The skipper shares what they spoke about. #LGM pic.twitter.com/wINSpB3WaL

— New York Mets (@Mets) February 19, 2019

Oh yeah, Dilson Herrera is back. You can never have enough guys to play second base.

You guys didn’t tell me Daniel Murphy is wearing #9 for the Rockies.  NINE?

Matt Harvey is Fully Clear.

The Spring Training march is HORRIFIC

It’s the Mount Rushmore of Mets Announcers

ICYMI the All Presidents Mets team

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— TOKYO METS NATION (@TOKYO_METS) February 19, 2019