You can root for the Mets without being convinced of their doom
Banner day is Sunday before the game against the Padres. You should head to the game and help convince the Mets you want them to do Banner Day every year. Seriously. Make a banner, go to the game, take pictures, tweet pictures, talk about the banners.
I’ve mocked up a little design that I think would make a cool banner, or at least part of a banner. Or even a t-shirt. So, celebrate the Mets 50th anniversary with a banner and have some fun on Sunday!
As you probably know by now, Hofstra held Dana Brand’s 50th Anniversary of the Mets conference last week. I wrote a paper on the new age of Mets fans, like myself, who have not seen a Mets World Series Championship. I talk about the differences in rooting for the team without remembering them going all the way, without that light at the end of the tunnel. I emphasize how different it is for us not to have lived through all the great stories told about the ’86 and ’69 teams and how a lot of the changes to baseball like the Wild Card or black uniforms are things we’ve pretty much always had.
Check out some of the other bloggers who were there, particularly Greg at Faith and Fear in Flushing who put a lot of work in making it a conference Dana would’ve been proud of. On the Black. A Gal For All Seasons. Metstradamus. The Eddie Kranepool Society. Mets Police. And probably a bunch I’m forgetting this morning.
You can read my paper in its entirety here.
You’ve probably heard about this conference, running from this Thursday through Saturday. If not, here’s a link to Faith and Fear in Flushing and Greg Prince, who’s done a great job as a liaison between Hofstra and us bloggers in memory of Dana Brand, who’s brainchild this conference was.
I’ll be part of the Brown Bagging in the Bullpen with the Blogosphere lunch panel on Thursday and Saturday with some notable Mets bloggers. I’ll also be speaking in a panel on Saturday entitled “Metmoirs” and Memories about the plight of the New Age Mets Fan who’s never consciously lived through a Mets championship.
I encourage you to check it out, as it promises to be a fun couple of days and the Mets are headed out of town to Colorado anyway!