The Mets Police

Quick stuff because it's a rare night to turn Mets brain off:

1.  I admit to sometimes being stupid.  I couldn't find the link to the Sweet Caroline poll.  Sparks let me know:

The sing-along poll is at the bottom of the Mets.com home page, just to the right of center, in a box labeled "Mets Poll."

If you can't see it, it may be because you have a browser app masking it.





and Adam adds

Yep - it's the poll at the bottom, second box from the right.

Back to stuffing the ballot box for Curly Shuffle - I mean, Meet the Mets. 

Either is fine with me.  I'm casting my vote to Meet the Mets because I think it has a better chance of winning.  My personal choice is Curly.  We used to win championships with that playing.



2.  As I said I don't wanna bog down so my quick take on Franco vs. Wright is that Franco just goofed himself out of being a member of the organization, John Franco Day or whatever else he dreamed of.  Now he's in the Gary Carter club.

I'm too lazy to write more so y'all can read about it here:

Wright dismisses Franco's comments

ESPN - ‎2 hours ago‎

AP MILWAUKEE -- The New York Mets already are riddled with injuries and struggling to win. Now former teammate John Franco is piling on -- but Mets third ...

Ex-Met Franco says team lacks leadership

Newsday - David Lennon - ‎5 hours ago‎

MILWAUKEE - John Franco has traded his captain's C for a special advisory role with the Mets, but that didn't...

Franco: Mets lack leadership

New York Daily News - Adam Rubin - ‎6 hours ago‎

John Franco weighed in on the Mets' woes on the MLB Home Plate channel on SIRIUS XM Radio with hosts Kevin Kennedy and Jeff Joyce. ...


I'm heading back upstairs before Mrs. Mets Police yells at me for always watching baseball and being on the computer.   I bet some of you can relate.


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Yesterday I explored some candidates for the best Met of the 1990's.   There were some really poor candidates.   Bobby Jones?   Todd Hundley and his .240 average?   The despised Bobby Bonilla?

Nope.

The um "greatest" (cough) Met of the horrible 1990's is...

John Franco!

Yes the ever not-so-reliable John Franco is the greatest Met of the 1990's.  

You could always count on John to come in, walk two guys, get a double play, give up another hit to make it interesting, and then get the save.

The great John Franco who left the Reds just in time to let Randy Myers win a ring with the 1990 Reds.

The great John Franco who was so great he had to give up his number to another player.

Why John Franco?

268 Saves baby!

268 saves is the only stat accumulation of any kind for a Met during the 1990's.   John was the only player to play ever season of the decade (and I believe joins Ed Kranepool as the only Met to play a full decade).

Todd Hundley's 124 HRs and 397 RBI's just aren't enough - especially because he lasted about five more minutes as a Met once Piazza showed up.

Congratulations to John Franco and everyone in the Mets front office that made the 90's such a rousing success!

Thanks again to Mets Walkoffs for crunching the numbers.