METS $31 MIKE PIAZZA TICKET PACKAGE

PURCHASE YOUR $31 PIAZZA PACKAGE TODAY! The popular Piazza Package is returning for 2016! With Mike's induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, along with the Mike Piazza Weekend (July 29-31) where we will retire Mike's #31, this year's Piazza Package is going to be more popular than ever! Groups of 15 or more can enjoy Field Reserved seating all season long and each member of the group will receive a Mike Piazza Replica Jersey. Packages start at only $31, so be sure to bring your friends, family and co-workers out to Citi Field by purchasing your Piazza Package today!

First time the Mets are giving away a Road jersey in one of these type of packages. Interested? Click here.

COOL CUSTOM MOOKIE/BUCKNER BAT

This is pretty cool... UP FOR SALE IS BEAUTIFUL SIGNED CUSTOM COOPERSTOWN BAT "CURSE OF THE BAMBINO", SIGNED BY MOOKIE WILSON & BILL BUCKNER. THE HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE 1986 WORLD SERIES GAME 6 PLAY! BOTH SIGNED IN BLUE AND MOOKIE DATED! REALLY NICE RARE COLLECTIBLE! CERTIFIED BY LEAF AUTHENTICS. HAS MATCHING LEAF HOLOGRAM AND COMES WITH LEAF CARD. BAT WILL SHIP PRIORITY MAIL. ENJOY! BID WITH CONFIDENCE, ANY QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS PLEASE ASK. THANK YOU FOR YOUR BUSINESS!

METS: BOOTLEGGERS ARE GETTIN CRAFTIER

The Knock off guys are now claiming the knockoffs as custom jerseys, not authentic... ITEM: Wilmer Flores Custom Jersey Sewn Numbers Sewn Letters Great to wear or to have signed great for any Mets fan Highest Quality custom jersey Jersey does not come with MLB logos or team logos Brand new but does not come with tags

METS: WORLD CHAMPS FLAG

Found this on Ebay. Don't know if I would buy it for myself.

MY EX WIFE IS...

This makes no sense to me. Did she become one because she hates you so much? Does she despise you that much? Or were you silly enough to marry a Phillies fan?

GIL HODGES COASTERS

Funny enough I don't think Gil ever coasted with anything.

COOL METS TIE

Found this on Ebay too... I hate to wear ties, but if I did, I'd grab this...Love all the diff logos.

WHATCHA GONNA DO.....

WHEN METSMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU....Found this on Ebay..Wonder if Hulk Hogan would have worn this.

METS BATMAN HAT

Hmmmmmmm....

METS BOBBLEHEADS: HARVEY AND deGROM

Another random bobble head with deGrom and Harvey.

NEW BOOK: HOWARD MEGDAL

Howard Megdal has a new book out about the Cardinals. Bergino Baseball Clubhouse is having an event for it. The St. Louis Cardinals have experienced the kind of success that is rare in baseball. They not only win, but do so with an apparently bottomless pool of talent, one that is mostly homegrown. “The Cardinal Way” -- a term that has come to represent many things to fans, media, and other organizations, from an ironclad code of conduct to the team’s cutting-edge use of statistics and analytics, and a farm system that has transformed baseball. In the spirit of Moneyball, baseball journalist Howard Megdal takes fans behind the scenes and off the field. Megdal reveals how the players are assessed and groomed using an unrivaled player development system. He tells an in-depth, fascinating story about a consistently good franchise, the business of sports in the 21st century, and a team that has learned how to level the playing field, turning in season after successful season. Join us in the Clubhouse on Thursday, March 3. RSVP required to attend...

TWITTER CONVO WITH KEN DAVIDOFF ABOUT LUCAS DUDA FAN "HATRED"

Had a twitter conversation with Ken Davidoff. I still don't get where he has talked to Mets Fans that hate Duda. The other thing is it seems he really hates the7line. I really don't get the persona these beat writers have on twitter with fans. I wonder if Walter Cronkite would have been like some of these guys if he was alive for twitter.

METS FANS HATE DUDA?

I have been seeing a lot of tweets about that NY Post article that supposedly everyone that's a Mets fan hates Lucas Duda.

We all do? I didn't know that. I do know that as fans a lot of us might get frustrated with how streaky he is and how he sometimes makes a bad fielding play now and then but I don't think there is hate for him.

Furthermore, the reporter(not going to mention his name) that even asked Duda about the fans hating him is clearly trying to get a story out of a non story. Why? Because main stream news media sucks. There is rarely any journalistic integrity being displayed by the press nowadays. Whether it has to do with politics or sports, it's all about tabloid news now and not reporting real news.

Rant over about that, back to Dudahategate. I like Duda. I also love the wefollowDuda on Instagram run by Granderson. I have not met one fan that hates Duda. I actually know quite a few that love him. So, in my opinion that reporter is dead wrong. I hear everyone hates the Post Reporter. I wonder how he feels about that.

Duda is never going to be a superstar, but he will be a streaky player who plays hard during his career. And by the way did anyone notice last year Duda didn't seem like he is lumbering around the base paths when he is running now? Not quite gliding but not lumbering.

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DID I SHOW YOU THIS ALSO?

Can't remember if I showed you guys this or not. Yep. It's another 3d rendering of the Goon. Had my fav scanned at the World Series and was able to keep ordering cool things like this. And yes when I was writing some of these posts, it was quiet in Metsland. I got home from work at 7am from working overnight. Hopefully, when I pass out, no crazy stories happen.

DID I SHOW YOU GUYS THIS?

Can't remember if I showed you guys this or not. Yep. It's another 3d rendering of the Goon. Had my fav scanned at the World Series and was able to keep ordering cool things like this.

MiLB ISOTOPES PROMO NIGHT: BETTER CALL SAUL

I started collecting minor league jerseys a few years ago, mostly Star Wars but also have Ghostbusters, Zombies, and some superhero ones. This just popped on my Goon sense. I don't know if I would grab this or not. The Isotopes are doing a Better Call Saul Night with jersey.

"Fans of Albuquerque-based "Better Call Saul" better circle August 6 on their calendars, as the Isotopes will don special jerseys featuring Jimmy McGill (aka Saul Goodman). Fans will have a chance to go home with these unique jerseys by participating in a silent auction."- from the Isotopes website.

METS: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS JERSEY?

And go.......

NEVER SEEN ONE OF THESE BEFORE

I think I might have seen everything now.

METS: NATIONAL ANTHEM TRYOUTS

WHAT: The New York Mets will host their 2016 Anthem Search with the winner performing the National Anthem on Tuesday, August 2 during the Subway series. The first 100 contestants to arrive are guaranteed an audition to sing a song of their choice – excluding the National Anthem – a cappella.




WHO: Singers of all ages (18 and under must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian)
Celebrity Judges: Skeery Jones (Z100’s Elvis Duran and the Morning Show radio personality), John Muller (Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor of the PIX11 News at 5 and 10), and Judy Kuhn (Tony Award nominated singer and actress in the 2015 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical – Fun Home)




WHERE: Press Conference Room, Hodges VIP Entrance – First base side of Citi Field







WHEN: Tuesday, March 22
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Media should arrive between 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.



NOTE: Judges will select finalists to advance to the final round of auditions at Citi Field which will take place at a later date during the regular season. For more information, visit Mets.com/AnthemSearch

METS COWBOY HAT

How old is this thing? Looks like the marlboro man smoked a whole truck while wearing this. I could see @lagranderusty wanting to buy this for some reason.

METS:THREE MAN BOBBLE HEAD

I haven't seen this one before. Looks like it is a limited edition. I am shying away from grabbing it. I actually am thinking about selling my bobblehead collection.

THOR, Dark Knight and deGrom.

METS: OPENING DAY MIGHT BE OVERSOLD

I was perusing through twitter last night and one of my buddies was saying how the Mets screwed him over. There is a page group of fans that bought a whole bunch of 20 game ticket packages to sit together and now their rep is telling them that the Mets had oversold Opening Day and they will be split up. My buddy swears the ticket rep told them that wouldn't be the case when they bought the plans and they would be all sitting together. Fast forward to today and my friend got a letter that said they families that bought tickets together would be split up from sitting with each other. Now, the Mets do say when you buy you plan that there is a good shot that you aren't going to be sitting in "your" seats come opening day, but you will have seats that are of similar value. This is another thing that isn't happening in this case. The email said some of the plan holders have to be downgraded seat wise and that their accounts would be refunded the difference in the amount of the seats. Mets if this is true and it was me that this was happening to, I would be going ape sh*t on you guys. You offer a product. I pay for that product. You and I enter into a contract for use of that product. You change the rules of using that product. That seems to me a breech of that contract that we had. That isn't cool of you to breach that contract, especially if it's on a mistake made by you guys. I am waiting to see the outcome about this issue and hopefully it gets resolved. So, before I do my usual COME ON METS!!!! I am giving them a few days to figure this out. Mets might be watching Empire Strikes Back a little too much.

MONDAY: FEB 22, 2016

It was a beautiful day on Monday,wasn't it? The birds were chirping, there was hardly a breeze, the sun was just warm enough that you can tell spring is just around the corner. The weather made me antsy. I wanted to throw around a baseball at work with some of my coworkers. I wanted to be in Flushing sitting with some friends talking about the game we were watching. I wanted to be playing a pick up game of softball. I just wanted to hang and do something baseball related. I was thinking back to the time when I worked as a vendor at Shea. I sucked at it. You had to call a number each day to see what color the game was going to be. RED meant it was a small crowd, so they didn't need a lot of vendors.Yellow meant it was crowded and needed some additional vendors but without seniority, there was a chance that you wouldn't work. Then there was green, which meant all hands on deck. I always wished for yellow. It would give me an excuse to show up to Shea and when I didn't get picked to work, I would go buy a ticket and go watch the game. That's how I have been feeling out work the last few days. YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW. I'm at work in body but not in spirit. I am just thinking about the Mets right now(not 100% true.NY Rangers are on my mind also.)I have been just wanting to toss a ball around at work and just soak in the sun and camaraderie. I really can't wait for games to start up here in April. This should be fun..

A METS COMIC BOOK?

I am obsessed with the Mets in comics and I have no idea how I never knew this existed. Why didn't you tell me? WHY??? I did just order it off of eBay now so I can see what craziness is going to happen in it. From DiGiorno Pizza? Was it given out in the ballpark? Was it with the pizza? The truth is out there. Who knows about this giveaway?

METS LEG

Patrick F. just sent this in. It's his new prosthetic leg. Looks pretty cool and a lot of work went into it. Thanks @pattyleg082913 for letting us check this out. He is also raising money for Camp No Limits. You can donate here...