On The Twelfth Day of Christmas…
December 25th, 2012 by slangon

…my collection gave to me… Twelve Vintage Met Cards, Eleven 1960’s, Ten Non-Sports Cards, Nine Crusty Skippers Eight Team Portraits, Seven Hall of Famers, Six Vintage Oddballs, Five Mini Mets, Four Old Ass Cards, Three Guys Named Johnny, Two Keith Hernandez’s, And a Vintage Moe Berg! Merry Christmas, everyone.

Mets Through the Years: Right Field
October 3rd, 2012 by slangon

I’ve got to get this up before 4:10. Of course I had to leave right field for last. The Mets have had more right fielders in their history than any other position. Typical. Anyway… In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the New York Mets, I’ve been looking at the primary players at each position […]

Mets Through the Years: Center Field
October 2nd, 2012 by slangon

Ugh. This is going to be close. In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the New York Mets, I’ve been looking at the primary players at each position throughout the teams history. We’ve already looked at the managers, Opening Day starting pitchers, catchers, first basemen, second basemen,shortstops, third basemen and left fielders, as well as all of the Mets’ All-Star representatives. […]

Mets Through the Years: Third Base
September 4th, 2012 by slangon

Man, I’ve been slacking on this series. I still have 5 positions left to go and only about a month left in the season. We’ve already looked at the managers, catchers, Opening Day starting pitchers, first basemen and second basemen. We’ve also gone through the players the Mets have sent to the All-Star Game every […]

Mets Through the Years: The All-Star(s), 1963
July 9th, 2012 by slangon

For the second year of the Mets existence, the team was still very much composed of aging stars and cast-off journey men. The team did “improve” to a 51-111 record, though, so that’s something. Also much like the ’62 season, the Mets representative at the 1963 All-Star Game was probably there more for his legacy […]

I Guess That’s One Way to Stop a Losing Streak
June 28th, 2012 by slangon

In case you didn’t hear, yesterday the Mets beat the Cubs by the score of 17-1. In honor of that feat, here are 17 Mets cards that were part of a massive, 109 card order that I picked up off of Sportlots recently. Enjoy. And just to be fair, the Cubbies did score one run, […]

Happy Memorial Day
May 28th, 2012 by slangon

Enjoy the barbecues and beer, but let’s not forget them that’ve given their lives in the service of this country.

Mets Through the Years: First Base
May 18th, 2012 by slangon

This is the fourth post in this series. We’ve looked at the field generals, the men who’ve donned the tools of ignorance, and the guys who’ve thrown the first pitch of the season. Today we’ll be taking a trip back through time to see who’s covered the first base bag for the Mets throughout their […]

That’s a Bunch of Games
May 11th, 2012 by slangon

Tonight the Mets will play the 8,000th game of franchise history. In the 7,999 games prior to tonight, the Mets have won 3,829 and lost 4,162, which is good for a .479 winning percentage. They’ve won 4 pennants and 2 World Series. There’s been a total of 928 players that have worn a Mets uniform, […]

2012 Heritage Look-Alikes
March 21st, 2012 by slangon

Well, the blogopolis (as opposed to the blogosphere, which I believe is a different country altogether) seems to have been gripped by Heritage Fever. Although I haven’t bought a pack of baseball cards in just about a year (when I bought a few packs of last years Heritage) I was a little curious and decided […]