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I don't care what anybody says I want EYjr on the club next season. Nice lead off double. Do not strand him. Please.

Ashie62 wrote: A Swoboda avatar.....They had bat day in the late sixties at Shea and I drew a shiny banana colored Swoboda model... Yeah! oh kool!

Frayed Knot wrote: After all, it's not like, after a half-century plus now, that both the orange NY logo and especially the Mets/Skyline/Baseball logo aren't highly recognizable and iconic symbols. Best freakin' logo in all of baseball. Don't question it.

I thought we got the call there but no, that was a legit and very nice DP.

To phrase it that way Gary, that The Mets played the Fish "at the wrong time" and that's why they have pummeled us is a very generous assertion. Be at the bag Murph.

Ha! Solano sucks whatevers on FFs menu for a Met loss tonight.

Bob Botz's back.

I think we all would prefer it your way bats. Even the Met fans here who are okay with the JR set up (I would think) would agree that having something a little smaller in another part of the stadium would be fine. We gotta start a board lottery pool and if we win we buy the team. Our group here could run it better than an old nostalgic Dodger fan.

I like what I'm seeing.

You're Fkn kiddin me. Stanton home run.

oo,cleanup. i like. Who was calling for more Brown? Ya got it. Hope Niese is as sharp as he was 5 years ago today.

dinosaur jesus wrote: dinosaur jesus wrote: Something like this? Oh good God, that's ghastly. As much as I would love a return of the shingles, I just don't think it would work with that brick facade... Yeah, the orange is too close to the color of the brick. It would have been better to make the brick itself blue and orange. Worked for Nebuchadnezzar. I actually think that's a great start. Citi Field sign looks good like that. Keep the orange and blue in the windows and change the color of the brick to something that would accent the blue and orange well. An off white of some kind.Creme white, blue white? Black is possible but not desirable. I did a few mock ups of the panel look for the card blog. This is an unused one but it does display the colors that would invoke Shea. dinosaur jesus wrote: This intrigues me.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: metsmarathon wrote: regarding the confetti, i think that could work. or it could end up awful. one of the two. i think mostly it would be a juxtaposition of two so very different architectural themes that would be simply awful. but somebody should digitally mock it up just in case. This sounds like a job for Zvon! As it stands now, without changes and going with the facade the way it now exists, I can say without a mock up that it would look pretty awful bad. I just think the bricks don't suit it. But I still will make one when I find a little time just to see how bad, and I could be wrong. I'd like to see how it looks if they took a section of facade, maybe one gate or a decent square section along the outside (not at the grand entree), and replicated a chunk of old Shea . In detail, from top to bottom. Just a lil patch of Shea there for us. Edgy MD wrote: They can add this and add that. But they're not getting rid of the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. They're just not. Yea, it's almost funny how they are now stuck with that because who's gonna stand for pulling a rug out from underneath Jackie. A rug that he should not have been standing on, but, there it is. The media would have a field day if they ever pulled the plug on the JRrotunda.

Ceetar wrote: Perhaps the Neon players could replace the silhouettes above the entrances? They could also be hung there the same way the panels would. In other worlds, you don't have to close out those openings to achieve displaying something in those dank looking empty spaces Edgy MD wrote: I'd start by making that Citi Field sign blue and orange. You don't really have to work for the Mets to do that. Some tight, black clothes, a few gallons of paint, and it's done in a night. Back in the 70s, maybe even 80s, I would have done it personally. And snuck back and redone it every time they fixed it.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: G-Fafif wrote: metsguyinmichigan wrote: VHF in the NYC area was six working channels 2, 4, 7, 5, 9, 11 and 13. And in the pre cable era, that was about as good as it got. Oh man, and in the pre-remote control days, there was that dial that my sisters would spin through so quickly that it would eventually break and we'd need pliers to turn the knob! I remember 2 was CBS, 4 was NBC, 7 was ABC, 9 was WOR, and 11 was WPIX, with 13 being public television -- which Billy Joel immortalized in "Pressure," one of his cool New York references. But what were channel 5's letters? WNEW. Channel 5 was Creature Features and Horror Hotel, the scariest movie I ever saw as a seven or eight year old. _4Mb60KMOJc That's a surprisingly great quality copy of the theme. Christopher Lee is the only name I could read in the credits. That other one can't be Jill St. John, can it?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: What was so great about the early 1970's? Tom Seaver, All in the Family, Mad Magazine, The Rolling Stones and Shea Stadium. And the guy up above? Like most Met acquisitions of his era, he was better before he got here. You might say that he was in decline by the time he suited up in the orange and blue. I wanna say Gene Clines for that one.

themetfairy wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Change the fa�ade of Citi Field so that it looks more like Shea than Ebbets Field. Lighter colored bricks, and big corrugated tin rectangles. And what the heck, some neon baseball players too. This idea isn't so far fetched, and to a degree, kinda do-able. They could remove random bricks from the existing facade and replace them with pastel colored orange blue and green bricks that match the colors of the old Shea shingles. Those shingles varied in size. The Mets could mimic this effect by installing several bricks of the same color next to each other to create pastel colored rectangular sections of brick in different sizes. On second thought, I don't know that the replacing bricks idea would work so well. Most of the existing facade is windows and openings instead of wall and surface. Would replacing some of the glass with orange and blue panes work? Original Shea had those orange and blue panels suspended from vertical wires. Don't know how it would look mashing with the current architecture but that can be done in virtually any spot in the stadium. I'd start by making that Citi Field sign blue and orange.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Believing they can win sympathy and support if they only open up to the media -- only to see those efforts explode in their faces time and again when they are truly revealed: As in the Francessa interview in 2004 or the New York magazine disaster of 2011. Never learning a thing. This is another thing that gets stuck in my craw. What kind of owner would diss his franchise player (chosen so by the fans, not him) in an interview like that, out of the blue. I wasn't too thrilled with Fred before that, but after that foghettaboutit! He is out of touch with everything to do with this team. Fredo ain't much better.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: In my mind, this fringy Met never escaped the Minors, even though he actually did play for the Mets. Above, he's standing at the Sadecki Spot years before it would be named for the versatile early '70's Met hurler. Just came across a '68 card of his. That's Larry Miller. I pictured him, from that photo, to have a full head of hair. He doesn't.

At least we got innings from Harang. If he's hungry to pitch we have innings to feed him.

That's the oldest channel 9 I could find out there.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: A Randy Bobb sighting! On the Mets 32 man roster! I love seeing shit like that^ Something like that Edge. I have an old TV guide somewhere. Bought the one for the week I was born, on the in O.C. boardwalk for a few bucks.

Edgy MD wrote: Zvon wrote: Hmm. Interesting. FF plunks Werth, probably intentional. Shaddup and go to first Werth. It's the only contact Beardo has had all day. Seriously, Francisco. What in the world? If Terry were really trying to make an impression to get re-signed, would he be pitching this guy? How much of TCs planning do you think is, not dictated, but suggested to him by the Alderson side of the camp? It could be he has been told that certain players need to be seen, or looked at. Showcased? If this were earlier in the season I would agree with you.

Ronnie says that should have been FFs last pitch in a Met uniform. You go guy. Nice play Lucas.

Duda didn't hesitate, I'll give him that. Be careful Tejeda..