en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/481476 Comments by dykstraw http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19497387 and very little of any of that has anything directly to do with ownership. this isn't a discussion about relative bullpen strengths or good free agent signings or playoff performances, it's about how much effort a team's management is willing to put into preserving the history of its franchise. baseball, more than any other sport, and arguably more than anything else in this country, is about history, about connecting the past with the present. sure jackie robinson and ebbets field is an important part of that history, but so are the giants and the polo grounds and shea and everything about the mets. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:00:15 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19497387 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19496668 ever been to citizen's bank ballpark? Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:43:57 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19496668 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19496645 nice language! next time make your post a little clearer. and that sucks about the vandals. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:43:15 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19496645 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19496056 if you're going to make up BS, at least read the original story Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:28:45 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19496056 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19495782 how ridiculous. could you IMAGINE this happening in the bronx? fred & jeff: it's not the losing that makes us the laughingstock of baseball Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:22:36 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-gooden-confused-fans-annoyed/#IDComment19495782 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-mets-to-erase-docs-signature/#IDComment19487267 i could understand if citi field payed equal attention to the mets, dodgers and giants, but it doesn't. it's a big tribute to the dodgers, with a hint of tiger stadium, because that's what the wilpons like, and they don't really care about what the fans like. and maybe they shouldn't have to, but let's call a spade a spade. and i'm a guy that has shed tears over the brooklyn dodgers despite being born 20+ years after they left, but this is a little ridiculous. citi field has great food and nice cupholders and stuff but i'm tired of hearing about how our championship trophies are in storage (!) and they just couldn't figure out a way to make blue paint stick to chairs. give me a break. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:20:47 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-mets-to-erase-docs-signature/#IDComment19487267 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-mets-to-erase-docs-signature/#IDComment19487262 wow, matt, i have to disagree 100% here. you've been to philly...that's a franchise that until a few months ago won ONE championship in about three hundred years. still that park is literally dripping with nostalgia. you could eat a schmitter there, or dine at harry the K's (RIP). and up in one of the higher decks there's a bar that pays tribute to phils' starting pitchers of the past...and i mean like all of them, or at least the ones that were around for a certain number of years. the walls are covered in their names, pics and stats. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:20:30 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/20/note-mets-to-erase-docs-signature/#IDComment19487262 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/14/opinion-day-1-in-citi-field/#IDComment18742255 it doesn't take a masters in hospitality to figure out that our singalong song should be "summer of '69" Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:33:05 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/14/opinion-day-1-in-citi-field/#IDComment18742255 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/03/news-mets-sign-sheffield/#IDComment18104683 i nominate "chemistry" for the metsblog comment section filter Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:33:02 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/03/news-mets-sign-sheffield/#IDComment18104683 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/03/nyp-mets-close-to-signing-gary-sheffield/#IDComment18102968 this guy will earn all of his 400k in our first brawl with the world champs Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:17:41 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/03/nyp-mets-close-to-signing-gary-sheffield/#IDComment18102968 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/03/nyp-mets-close-to-signing-gary-sheffield/#IDComment18101626 OMG we might finally have an acceptable RH bat on our bench Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:45:41 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/04/03/nyp-mets-close-to-signing-gary-sheffield/#IDComment18101626