Mere hours after the Post’s Joel Sherman raised the spectre of Fred & Jeff Wilpon having lost so much money in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme that signing Eric Hinske wasn’t economically viable (as opposed to being a lousy idea purely for baseball reasons), SNY.TV issued the following press release (link swiped from Repoz and Baseball Think Factory). How long before Citi Field’s parking lot is turned into an open-air flea market?
USCOINS.com, an official New York Mets partner, is hosting a major two-day gold-buying event at Citi Field. On Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., you will have the opportunity to enter and view the stadium from the Modell Clubhouse, take pictures, meet former Mets players, get a free photo and autograph and sell your unwanted gold items at today’s high prices. Entrance will be through the Bullpen Gate located along 126th Street.
On Saturday, Mookie Wilson (11 a.m. to 2 p.m.), Ed Kranepool, Ron Swoboda, George Foster (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) will be on hand, and on Sunday, Darryl Strawberry (11 a.m. to 2 p.m.) will be available to all sellers. USCOINS.com is paying the highest prices for your gold coins, silver, gold jewelry, rare coins, currency, diamonds, sterling silver, entire collections, Rolex Replica and other vintage watches and Tiffany items.
Don’t miss this opportunity to sell your valuables and meet the Mets. To be admitted, you must have at least $300 in merchandise to sell. Screeners at the Bullpen Gate will assess your merchandise.
Foster’s appearance is appropriate enough seeing as he’s no stranger to flogging unwanted jewlery.
I find it just a tad hilarious that a Mess fan would think that adding Eric Hinske would somehow downgrade the team. OK.
As for the autograph sessions, I’ll wait for Nails so I can punch him in his tobacco-chewing, cancer-surviving face.
point taken, Rog. Though Hinske tends to strike out twice as often as he walks, he’s got experience at a multitude of positions and unlike Francoeur, wouldn’t have cost the Mets a (slightly) valuable bargaining chip in Ryah Church. Had the Mets found the spare change under the Wilpon sofa required to pick up Hinske, I sincerely doubt I’d have been jumping for joy, but he’s more deserving of a place in the everyday lineup than several of the guys who’ve been passed off as major leaguers in Flushing this year. On the scale of former ROY’s, I cannnot possibly say, for instance, that Hinske wouldn’t have been a more impressive addition than Angel Berroa.
I’ll always be a Hinske fan for taking out Jorge Posada on a play at the plate a couple of years ago. On the game the night before, there was a play at the plate where David Ortiz weekly slid in feet first and got tagged out about 5 feet from the plate. I was pissed. If the catcher has the ball waiting for you, there’s only one play: dislodge the freaking ball by force. That’s the only play. Fast forward one day and Hinske does just that. Posada held on and Hinske was out, but Posada had to earn that out. The comments section at CBS Sportsline was filled with whining Yankees fans and there’s no pricetag on that.