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, and third basemen, as well as all of the Mets’ All-Star representatives. Today, we’ll be looking […]

Tags: 1962 Topps, 1964 Topps, 1965 Topps Embossed, 1967 Topps, 1970 Topps, 1976 Topps, 1979 Topps, 1980 Topps, 1982 Topps, 1984 Topps, 1985 Topps, 1988 Topps, 1990 Tidewater Tides, 1992 Upper Deck, 1994 Stadium Club, 1996 Bowman's Best, 2000 SPx, 2001 Topps, 2003 Topps, 2005 Topps, 2009 Topps, 2010 Topps, 2012 Topps, Aaron Heilman, Al Moran, Alex Cora, Bud Harrelson, Dick Schofield, Eddie Bressoud, Elio Chacon, Frank Taveras, Jose Oquendo, Jose Reyes, Jose Vizcaino, Kaz Matsui, Kevin Elster, Mike Bordick, Mike Phillips, Rafael Santana, Rey Ordonez, Ron Gardenhire, Roy McMillan, Ruben Tejada, Terry Leach, Tim Bogar, Tim Foli, Tim Leary
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Games that start after 10 o’clock? Games that end around 1 in the morning? Ugh. Fortunately, the Mets were able to hang on by their toenails last night against the Dodgers and win it 3-2. Of course since it was a close one, I wasn’t able to go to sleep until that last out was […]

Tags: 1983 Topps Traded, 1985 Topps, 1987 Topps, 1987 Topps Traded, 1988 Donruss Baseball's Best, 1988 Topps, 1989 Score, 2005 Upper Deck Classics, 2009 Topps, 2012 Gypsy Queen, Bobby Ojeda, Darryl Strawberry, David Cone, David Wright, Dwight "Doc" Gooden, Gary Carter, Keith Hernandez, Kevin McReynolds, R.A. Dickey, relic, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, Tom Seaver
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Later on tonight, I will be doing something that I haven’t done in a crow’s age. I will be sitting on a couch, drinking a beer and watching LIVE METS BASEBALL!!! Granted, it’s spring training baseball and granted I won’t be home until about a half an hour after the game starts so most likely […]

Tags: 1962 Topps, 1966 Topps, 1968 Topps, 1973 Topps, 1974 Topps, 1976 Topps, 1978 Topps, 1982 Topps, 1983 Topps, 1984 Topps, 1985 Topps, 1990 Topps Traded, 1992 Topps, 2002 Topps, 2005 Topps, 2006 Topps, 2009 Topps, 2011 Topps Heritage, Art Howe, Bobby Valentine, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Davey Johnson, Frank Howard, George Bamberger, Gil Hodges, Jeff Torborg, Jerry Manuel, Joe Frazier, JoeTorre, manager card, Mike Cubbage, Roy McMill, Salty Parker, Terry Collins, Wes Westrum, Willie Randolph, Yogi Berra
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And I’m not talking about the particularly crushing defeat of the Giants by the Packers last night. My beloved Jose Reyes, my favorite player on my favorite team, is now a former player of my favorite team. And to make matters worse, he is now a member of the team that I possibly hate the […]

Tags: 2001 Topps Traded, 2003 Bowman Heritage, 2003 Topps 205, 2004 Cracker Jack, 2005 Bowman Heritage, 2006 Topps, 2007 Bowman Heritage, 2007 Topps Update, 2008 Topps Stars, 2009 Goudey, 2009 Topps, 2010 Topps, Jose Reyes, relic
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During yesterday’s extra-inning, rain delayed game against the Marlins, Jose Reyes went 3 for 6 with a walk to propel himself back into the top spot in the National League in batting average over Ryan Braun. The day before, Jose had actually dropped into second place by 3 points, but thanks to his 3 hits […]

Tags: 1970 Topps, 1971 Topps, 1972 Topps, 1974 Topps, 1976, 2006 Fleer Tradition, 2006 Topps Update, 2009 Topps, Adrian Gonzalez, Al Downing, Andy Messersmith, Bill Stoneman, Billy Wagner, Bob Gibson, Dave Kingman, Dave Roberts, David Wright, Don Wilson, Fergie Jenkins, Greg Luzinski, Jake Peavy, Jim Palmer, Joe Borowski, Johan Santana, John Montefusco, Jose Reyes, Juan Marichal, league leader card, Luke Walker, Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, Phil Niekro, Roberto Clemente, Ryan Howard, Steve Carlton, Tim Lincecum, Tom Seaver, Trevor Hoffman, Wayne Simpson
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It’s not too often these days that I can actually feel pretty good about the Mets, but they did sweep the Marlins in a double header yesterday, and that’s put a smile on my face. And yes, I do understand that the Marlins are a team who’ve gone 4-19 over their last 23 games, but […]

Tags: 2009 Goudey, 2009 Topps, 2010 Topps, 2010 Topps Heritage, 2010 Topps Update, 2011 Topps Heritage, Angel Pagan, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Lucas Duda, Nick Evans, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada
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So Hurricane Irene has come and gone and hopefully everyone who was in its path made it through safely. I personally was super lucky in that my house escaped 100% unscathed. I think the worse thing that happened was some of my garbage cans blew over, spilling grass clippings everywhere. Things in my corner of […]

Tags: 2001 Topps, 2007 Topps Update, 2009 Topps, 201 Topps Update, 2011 Gypsy Queen, 2011 Topps, 2011 Topps Heritage, Adam Dunn, Angel Pagan, Brian Schneider, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Jon Rauch, Jose Reyes, Pat Strange, R.A. Dickey, Roy Oswalt, Ryan Howard
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Hopefully everyone saw the custom relic card that I banged out for Chris from Project 1962. Also, hopefully everyone saw the video I posted of the actual process of tearing apart the original relic card. Now it’s time to take a look at the envelope full of goodies that Chris used to entice me to […]

Tags: 2003 Topps 205, 2008 Topps Update, 2009 Topps, 2011 Topps Heritage, Angel Pagan, Billy Wagner, Bobby Abreu, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Mike Piazza, Project '62, Ruben Tejada
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It’s been a month since Brian Wilson fired a slider past the bat of Nelson Cruz for the final out of the 2010 World Series. It’s been nearly 2 months since Oliver Perez lobed an 88 mph “fastball” high and outside to Justin Maxwell to walk in the go-ahead run in the top of the […]

Tags: 1978 Topps, 1983 Topps, 2009 Topps, Bobby Valentine, Custom Cards, Jerry Manuel, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Wally Backman
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It was a pretty exciting sports weekend at the SlangKo Corporate Headquarters. The Rangers beat the Yankees on Saturday after they should have beat them on Friday as well. The Giants beat the Phillies ace in Philadelphia, leaving Citizens Bank Park with the Series at 1-1 after facing the 2 Roys. The other Giants hung […]

Tags: 2009 Allen & Ginter, 2009 Goodwin Champions, 2009 Topps, 2010 Allen & Ginter, A.J. Burnett, Andy Pettitte, CC Sabathia, Cliff Lee, Joe Girardi, manager card, post-season, relic
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