Benjamin Grimm

I think I remember who it was. Someone currently associated with a different team, right?

I have a Gour-Mets cookbook from 1982, along with the 1983 insert. I'll have to dig it out one of these days. Maybe I can post Lorn Brown's favorite recipe. I remember my sister cooking some of those dishes. Ron Hodges' "Chicken Easy" was tasty. Darryl Strawberry's "7-Up Cake" was a disaster.

Beltran? Isn't he the Met with hair?

No biggie. You didn't really have to give me credit, and you can remove that if you like. A stolen joke is a compliment, not a cause for complaint.

You stole my halo line! If I had an attorney, you'd be hearing from him! (Or her!)

And I can't see Jeter's halo.

Are they technically "mistakes" if they're intentionally Photoshopped into the picture?

And here's what the UMDB currently has on Shake Moore: http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=3J88 It ain't much, I'm afraid.

The Golden Spread Region???

Edgy DC wrote: Cute. The Nickeas page links to the Victor Diaz page, but the Diaz page doesn't link back. So far, no pages (other than this one) link to Mets minor leaguers who haven't played in the big leagues. Once I open things up, Diaz will link back to Nickeas. Edgy DC wrote: It'll be fun to see if some never-made-it would-be Met (like Shake Moore!) gets memories posted to his page from fans in Jackson, MS, or Little Falls, NY. I'm still undecided whether or not I'll open that particular can of worms. It will literally allow for memories of thousands of additional players to be shared, and I don't know whether or not I want to take that on. A memory of Shake Moore would be neat, though.

A sneak preview of what's still behind the curtain at the UMDB: Fernando Martinez Carlos Gomez Mike Nickeas I'll probably open some of this stuff up to the public around Opening Day, although the minor league stats won't be nearly complete by then, if ever.

I currently have his name in the UMDB as "Stephen" Moore, but you can be sure I'll be changing it to "Shake."

Ladies and gentlemen, your 1981 Jackson Mets!

Someone at the RCN Corporation in Manhattan spent eight minutes at around 7 p.m. last night continually reloading the page, and then went to a different PC at around midnight and spent another hour reloading Joe Heitpas' page. My anti-Billy Wyne logic allowed only 20 of those clicks to count towards the total, but I guess it was enough to put him over the top for the day.

Well, if Gomez is the real deal, he doesn't have to be dealt. He'll be 26 when Beltran's contract runs out. One scenario is that he could spend a couple of more years in the minors and then a few as a major league fourth outfielder.

seawolf17 wrote: ="Yancy Street Gang"]Mississippi is one of only eight states that I haven't been to. The others: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oregon, Oklahoma, and Alabama. Is that a guess? You got three of them right. I've actually been to Oklahoma three times, Alabama twice. Nebraska once, on a cross-country drive when I was a kid.

Mississippi is one of only eight states that I haven't been to.

In what state is Hattiesburg?

So it's a 23 and 2 situation? I doubt that the Yankees are signing low-talent jerks so that they can befriend their highly paid superstar. But if that's how they want to make roster decisions, I'm okay with it.

Definitely agree. You can certainly make more money by chasing fans away with piles of vomit than you can by selling them tickets, parking, hot dogs, and beer. It costs more to clean a mop than you'd get back in revenue from paying customers.

I just referred to my collection of Sporting News Baseball Guides. In 1992 they switched to a new format, and started listing ballpark information. For Yankee Stadium, it says: First game played: April 18, 1923 (Yankees 4, Red Sox 1)

There's only one thing seriously wrong with Shea that can't be easily fixed: the rear seats in the Loge and Mezzanine that are obstructed by the overhang. The other main problem is that at first and third base, even the front row seats are far from the action. Beyond that, if you're in some of the outfield seats you have to sit with your head turned for the entire game because the seat faces the outfield grass and not home plate. Plumbing can be fixed, though, and vomit can be mopped up. Restrooms could be improved and expanded. They found room to add a lot of retail selling space at Shea. I'm sure they can add restrooms as well. I wish that Shea was staying around. I'm not in favor of the new stadium. However, I suspect that if I was still living in New York and going to more than one or two games a year (at the most) I'd feel differently. At this point in my life when I go to Shea it's as much for nostalgia as for any other reason. Citi Field won't do that for me. In fact, I think that once they're in the new stadium I'll be less motivated to make the trip to Flushing. If I was still going 20 times a year, I'd probably be excited about the new place. I remember when I moved out of the house I grew up in, every time I went to visit my parents I felt like I was at home. Then my parents moved to a new place, and now when I visit them, their place is comfortable and familiar, but it's not home, and never will be, unless I inherit the place and decide to live there. Citi Field will be like my parents' new place, while Shea Stadium is the home I grew up in. Unless I move back to New York, Citi Field will never be my baseball park like Shea has been.

I was once able to convince a Yankees fan that Hubie Brooks was better than Graig Nettles, but that was never the common wisdom. You may be remembering one fan who liked Shea better than "The Stadium" but I'm sure most Yankee fans felt that they had the better ballpark, especially after 1976.