Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Rumor: New York Mets Museum To Rotunda?

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Let me remind all that the Mets Police site is not news, it's just a
fun site where Mets fans can gather and exchange fan related ideas.
I'm thankful that readers feed me ideas and stories, but I remind you
I'm just a regular fan like you and not 60 Minutes. That being said...

I got an email from someone who has fed me stuff in the past that has
been accurate. He says he was in the Mets store in the rotunda and
heard discussions about half that space becoming the Mets museum. He
said he asked another employee from a different depatment and that
person confirmed it.

Is it true? I don't know but I hope it is.

My question to you is: what would you like to see in such a museum?

We'd all like "more Mets less Dodgers" so let's skip the cattiness and
try to come up with a list. Players, items etc.

I wonder if they could acquire the Buckner ball?

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3 Responses to "Rumor: New York Mets Museum To Rotunda?"
Dana Brand said :
September 24, 2009 at 10:04 AM
I'd like to see a section that commemorates the culture of Mets fans: the craziness of the New Breed in the '60s, the banners, characters like the Sign Man, Doris, Cowbell Man, the rituals at different points in our history, the total fan experience. Having said that, I'm worried that this wonderful rumor may not pan out. That store looks mighty profitable.
kjs said :
September 24, 2009 at 11:36 AM
I remember taking an older friend to Wilpon's Folly for the first time (he visited Ebbetts Field on his first trip to NYC in the early 1950s). On the rotunda: "I'm underwhelmed," he said. And it is underwhelming.
I've pointed my cynicism toward WHY the rotunda exists, and why Jackie Robinson. My cynicism has concluded that the Mets realized they had a strong white and Latino fanbase, but very few African-Americans are Mets fans. The Mets have had a "racism" tag on their backs since the days of underwhelming FA George Foster. The number of African-Americans attending Mets games this year has gone up quite a bit from my nonscientificic observations.
But: EUREKA! That ode to the great Jackie Robinson, my cynicism concludes, is a marketing tool to expand the fanbase. And they're not going to screw with that at this point as every fan with even a novice knowledge of baseball is jumping the Good Shop Wilpon.
DyHrdMET said :
September 24, 2009 at 3:10 PM
I started that rumor. just kidding.

I like Dana's idea. I actually don't think that the Rotunda is big enough (at this point, they kind of owe us a museum the size of Shea). I'm not sure we'd be happy with just a couple of photos or murals behind the stairs (remember that a good deal of the space in the Rotunda is used to traffic people). But they could get creative and use that space as well as the space at the top of the Rotunda stairs. The museum could be scattered all over the ballpark (every turn you make, something else to see, big or small).

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