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Today at Citi Field from 10 AM to 5 PM the New York Mets in partnership with New York Blood Center will be holding their winter blood drive. To participate go to the Caesars Club Hodges VIP entrance of Citi Field.
At 12 Noon there will be a photo op with Mr. Met and fans donating blood today will receive a voucher for a pair of tickets to a select Mets game at Citi Field in April 2013. Your voucher also gets you a 15 % discount at the Mets team store as well.
If you are in the vicinity of the Citi Bank branch at 1022 Broadway in Thornwood, NY you’re in for a treat, as former Mets Ed Hearn and Dave Kingman ( I can’t remember Kingman making any public apperances as a Met) will be meeting, greeting and giving out autographs to fans today from 12 PM to 1:30 PM. Hopefully Hearn will be wearing his 1986 World Championship ring.
I know we are a day away from opening day, and believe me if it were up to me I’d camp out in the Citi Field parking lot tonight, but others in my family don’t share my overzealous Mets fandom, but I must digress from the Mets for a moment to revel in the NY Rangers clinching the #1 seed in the NHL Eastern Conference (some fans are a bit confused, the Rangers are not the Eastern Division Champs, at least not yet) with a rockem’-sockem’ win over the Filthadelphia Flyers last night.
It’s been awhile since I enjoyed a Rangers season as much as this one and I can not wait for the Stanley Cup tournament begins . The Rangers have a great shot at wining the Stanley Cup and yet it won’t be easy but no matter what all Rangers fans know one thing, this team will not be out work or out prepared.
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I know we are supposed to be all hopped up for baseball, with opening day just days away (I am very anxious to get to Citi Field early on Thursday) but I have to take time out to salute my NY Rangers on win #50 last night.
This has been the best Rangers season in years. This may not be the most talented Rangers team ever but it may be the best loved by the fans, with the exception of the 1994 Cup Champs. Even the most jaded of Rangers fan has a tough time criticizing anyone on this team, oh they try by getting on Dubi or Boyle or Richards but they look foolish doing it.
I have no idea what will happen in the Stanley Cup playoffs, I will be rooting my ass off for a Cup and a parade but right but I don’t want to get ahead of myself.
But before the playoffs start I want to thank the Rangers players, Coach Torterella and a guy I have been nasty to for years Glen Sather for giving Rangers fans a great season and for bringing us a team we are so proud of.
The video I posted gives me goosebumps every time I see it when I’m at MSG. I had NY Rangers season tickets from the mid-70′s to about 1990 when kids and a mortgage made me shift my time and money obligations but I still make sure I watch every game on TV and try to get to at least 10 games a year.
Like the message in the video says “I AM A RANGER”
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Tomorrow at Citi Field, the New York Mets will conducted a winter blood drive. Between the hours of 10AM to 5PM at the Caesar’s Club. Those you do step up and give blood will receive a voucher for pair of tickets to a select April Mets game at Citi Field and a 15 % discount on merchandise at the Mets Team Store.
Fans can enter the ballpark via Hodges VIP with complimentary parking available in Lot G on 126th Street off Roosevelt.
One time Brooklyn Cyclone (he has his number retired by the Cyclones) Angel Pagan will have his bobble head doll given out to fans at MCU Park on Monday as the Cyclones take on the Aberdeen Ironbirds at 7PM. Tickets are available but get there early. The Cyclones have great giveaways and the Angel Pagan bobble head looks like a winner.
Remember when I had to clean out a closet for my daughter, so I had to relocate my baseball cards and memorabilia? Well I took pictures of some of the items:
The NY Daily News were selling these pins for a buck back in 1969. My father went over to the News Building to get me a couple of these pins. My dad worked downtown so he had to head to midtown on his lunch hour to get these for me. I miss that man everyday.
Check it out Jets fans, 2 tickets from the 1968 AFL Championship Game played at Shea Stadium Jets 27 Oakland Raiders 23
The first game EVER for the Colorado Rockies was played at Shea Stadium and I was there allllllllllll the way up in the Upper Deck Reserve. Check out that price less that cheeseburger at Shake Shack
This the look of a CHAMPION
This is the look of a DOUCHEBAG
If this Highlander fan were still alive, heds tell all his brothers in pinstripes to “hang in there”
“A-Rod blows”
Maybe “Dandy” might have made a difference. There are Highlanders fans asking themselves,”who the hell is Dandy” well you have all winter to learn about the team history you’re a so-callled fan of
Season tickets for the 2011 NY Highlander season are now on sale, your prompt payment is appreciated to we can go out and spend more to try to buy a championship
Actual pictutes of Mets heros of the past on the wall ? Video boards installed for the fans to better follow the action? Championships duly noted with banners on the wall for all to see? Are these the New York Mets we’re talking about? Amazingly, yes.
I can’t wait to check out the new and improved Mets-centirc $iti Field. I’m still puzzeled by those throwback unis fromlasr night. If they used the Mets inter-locking orange NY in a small version on the left breast with the Mets round logo on one arm with the Mr Met on the other that would be a cool uni.
Bravo to Bobby Parnell for that great start last. If Parnell can finish the season this strong look for John Maine to be late inning reliever in 2010.
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