The Met Way (or lack thereof)

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

The Mets are the "one team that doesn't peddle this crap."

[Ceetar]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: The Mets are the "one team that doesn't peddle this crap."

Well sure, that's because everyone just calls it the New York way, or "you can't do that crap in New York" or some variation.

[Edgy MD]

Who is everyone?

[G-Fafif]

Somewhere in this very room from whence I type is an issue of Inside Sports with an article entitled "A Team Grows In Flushing" that expresses the sentiment that from now on (now being April 1981) there will be a Mets way of doing things...though I can't confirm "the Met Way" was uttered exactly.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: Somewhere in this very room from whence I type is an issue of Inside Sports with an article entitled "A Team Grows In Flushing" that expresses the sentiment that from now on (now being April 1981) there will be a Mets way of doing things...though I can't confirm "the Met Way" was uttered exactly.

Bah, you expect Google spiders to find the random magazine in your room? (not that I'm putting that past them..)

[Ceetar]

second result in for "the Met way" (use the quotes)

http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2012/04/14/project-met-way/

[G-Fafif]

Ceetar wrote: second result in for "the Met way" (use the quotes) http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2012/04/14/project-met-way/

As I am not an official representative of Sterling Mets LLC, I'd say my random use of Met Way shouldn't be held against the author.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: Ceetar wrote: second result in for "the Met way" (use the quotes) http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2012/04/14/project-met-way/ As I am not an official representative of Sterling Mets LLC, I'd say my random use of Met Way shouldn't be held against the author.

hmm, this is only counting employee quotes?

[Edgy MD]

Wow.

[G-Fafif]

Tracked down what I was thinking of: May 1981, "A Team Grows In Queens" (I like the title I assigned it in memory better) by Geoffrey Stokes. Passage of note:

Cashen had given minor league director Chris Kager the scope he'd previously been denied, and when the 100-odd Met farmhands arrived at the Payson complex for spring training, each would be handed a descendant of the original "Baltimore Catechism," a manual Cashen and Dalton had developed with the Orioles. Starting this spring, every player at every level in the Met system would know exactly what to do in each of 40-odd defensive "situations." These detailed instructions are any fan's browsing delight, but they may also spare Met fans the agony of watching an enemy runner sneak into scoring position on a bungled cutoff play.

I take it that manual was sort of the defensive equivalent of the hitting regimen the current regime has mentioned a time or three. I wonder if it ever gained traction. For all we know it's been in place for 34 seasons...though based on recent rundown situations, probably not.

[G-Fafif]

BUT WAIT!

From Roger Angell's April 1980 piece, "Sunshine Semester," in the New Yorker, Frank Cashen is quoted as such:

"Now there's going to be a Mets way of doing things," he said.

Knew I wasn't imagining it.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

So after doing all that research, did you contact Baseball Prospectus?

[G-Fafif]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: So after doing all that research, did you contact Baseball Prospectus?

Yes, I did; the author says he plans to update the story.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

It occurs to me that I should have titled this thread "No Fucking Way!"