Thinking Out Loud About Mets Books

[Guest AG/DC]

Now that one of the best Mets books ever is out, I've been thinking about what hasn't been written and what I can add. The book that needs to be written, that I can't write is The Last Year at Shea, with the author attending each of the 81+ home games this year, interviewing staff and such.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I had this idea a few years back to rip off the guy who wrote Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography. Not a story of the last year of Shea, but of the death of the whole idea behind Shea -- the multipurpose stadium that was about modern convenience and utility and the masses, beaten dead by the idea of exclusivity, faux retro charm and luxury.

[Guest AG/DC]

That was exactly going to be my subplot.

[Willets Point]

I think you could write a book called "Stalking Obscure Mets" where you randomly show up at Josias Manzanillo's family reunion and hide in the back of John Pacella's car. The book will write itself!