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<\/p>\nI am not a fan of the New York Mets — the pain of 1969, years before I was born, is still too near — but as a student of history, I am pained on their behalf by this ad that I saw on Facebook yesterday.<\/p>\n
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The Mets. 1962. Shea Stadium.<\/p>\n
Set aside the fact that it’s a hideous Hawaiian shirt — Facebook thinks I’m interested in hideous Hawaiian shirts — the image of Shea Stadium pains<\/i> me.<\/p>\n
The Mets played in the Polo Grounds in Manhattan in 1962.<\/p>\n
Shea, built on the Valley of Ashes so memorably described in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby<\/i>, didn’t open until 1964<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Polo Grounds forever! Shea Stadium never!<\/p>\n\n\n
In other news, we edge ever closer to Denmark invoking NATO Article V against one of its own NATO allies, the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Denmark is “in crisis mode<\/a>” following a phone call between convicted felon Donald Trump and Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in which Trump was “aggressive and confrontational” about Greenland, threatening tariffs against Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I keep quoting Fred Dalton Thompson’s Admiral in The Hunt for Red October<\/em>: “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s end this on a happy note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are some more ugly baseball Hawaiian shirts Facebook thinks I want. I do not.<\/p>\n\n\n “Don’t miss out,” the ads say. Oh, I can totally miss these, thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Nationals shirt looks like a 1950s bowling shirt, but the cartoon image of a Nationals player is a mirror image. Everything is backwards–the logos, the jersey as a whole, everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Cubs shirt… I have no comment on that. It’s interesting, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neither of these will find their way into my closet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But at least I have more interest in these than the Mets shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am not a fan of the New York Mets — the pain of 1969, years before I was born, is still too near — but as a student of history, I am pained on their behalf by this ad that I saw on Facebook yesterday. The Mets. 1962. Shea Stadium. Set aside the factContinue reading “On a Bright, Hawaiian Mets Shirt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4509,4511,5194,179],"class_list":["post-34324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-new-york-mets","tag-polo-grounds","tag-shea-stadium","tag-the-great-gatsby","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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