The Mets Police

The Jets should retire Brett Favre's number right now.   He is a Hall of Famer.  He is one of the best ever to play his position.   He is the best at his position to ever play for the Jets.

Do you think that's a stupid suggestion?  Then go back to the sentence above and replace Brett Favre and Jets with "Mike Piazza" and Mets.     It's still a bad suggestion.  That's my point.

I'm heading out to the Mr. Mets dash with Mets Police Junior and he dressed himself.  He is wearing a black Mets shirt and the blue/black hybrid hat.  I'm choosing to congratulate him rather than berate him over the organization's marketing scheme.    But if you see us at the game roll your eyes and make fun of our hypocrisy.

Newsday wrote a nice piece about Kelvin Torve, best known for wearing #24 after Willie Mays.  As much as I give Wilpon crap about ignoring the Giants, there is no reason the Mets (who are not the Giants nor are they the Dodgers despite evidence to the contrary at N'Ebbetts Field) - there's no reason the Mets should not issue #24.  They give out 17 to anyone and everyone, and that was worn by the captain who had a ring.

Speaking of captains, can we just give the C to #5 already?

Speaking of captains, will Jerry be shaking Gary Carter's hand?   Will the Mets have Gary Carter back?  Oh yeah he was a Dodger in 1991 so they will.  Then again he was a Giant in 1990 so maybe they won't.

Speaking of Giants, the Football type are evil money grubbers for screwing their fans with PSLs.  I have nothing new to add but I don't like dropping the subject.

Speaking of PSL's - the Jets haven't announced theirs yet.  Something tells me the arrival of Brett Favre just made your seats more expensive.

The Little League World Series is evil.  There is no reason to subject 12 year olds to the pressures of playing on ESPN.   What's wrong with being the champion of your town.  Your county.  Even your state.   Why do we have to have an international tournament.    What does it mean when teams will use a 16 year old to win (I've had that happen to me - it wasn't Danny Almonte - but someone used a 16 year old against my 12's.  Why???)    These aren't even real teams, they are regional all-star compilations.   It's just offensive.  Go win the county championship and let your town have a parade.   Enough.  Done.

It's starting to look like my September 21st Yankee tickets will be quite valuable since there won't be any games in October,   Conversely I was looking to sell my September 7th Mets-Phils tickets so I could watch football that day, and they are going for nine bucks on stubhub.   There's no demand what so ever for Mets tickets even thought they've sold more tickets than ever.  I think it's the old "Howie Rose 40,000" again.  For you newbies, Howie often counts high when estimating the amount of people in the stadium.

At last look $336 gets you into the final game at Yankee.  $127 gets you into Shea on the 28th of September, but as well all know there will be games there in October.  I wonder if Seaver can be bothered to come.

Chris Carrino sounded great doing the (evil) Giants game on WFAN the other day.  Of the young sportscasters named Chris around these parts he's the best and I'll leave it at that.  Hopefully he gets some more chances.

I loved the Olympic bike race yesterday.  6 hours?  150 miles?  Those are real men.  Swimming is cool.   NBC's coverage seems to lack the nauseating 'up close and personal' nonsense and it's more events focused.  Nice.  Now someone tell them there are other countries too.  

Mets Police are big Misty May (sigh -Treanor) fans and so is President Bush!
 

Finally, this has nothing to do with sports but don't clone your dog.  There will be four million dogs "put to sleep" this year.  Your dog might look similar, but it's not the same dog.  Go hit a shelter.