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MACKEY SASSER—1988 Donruss 💙🧡 #MackeySasser #Mets #LGM #Donruss

Go HOWARD JOHNSON!! 💙🧡 —July 4, 1990 at Shea Stadium. #HowardJohnson #Mets #LGM #SheaStadium @20Hojo

@CynicalPublius @markctwo @BigPawsofTruth I live in Freehold, right next to Howell Township. The Nestle factory closed recently.

@markctwo @BigPawsofTruth Is the Charms factory still there? I remember how the whole town smelled like coffee from the Nescafe factory.

I grew up in Bruce Springsteen's hometown. His song "My Hometown" is LITERALLY about my hometown. Springsteen’s music was the anthem of my teenage years. The town is called Freehold, New Jersey. A. & M. Karagheusian, Inc. was a giant carpet mill in Freehold that was once the town’s single biggest employer. It shut down and moved away in 1964. That act of taking away a town’s jobs to move them to where labor was vastly cheaper DEVASTATED that community. Freehold became impoverished and almost a ghost town, taking decades to recover. All of the themes in Bruce’s early work about the indignities heaped upon the working man stem directly from the pain he, his family and his neighbors experienced when that carpet mill moved away to chase cheaper labor costs elsewhere. The theme of the betrayed working man streams across all of his early albums with a heartfelt sincerity that was borne of painful experience. The albums “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,” and “Nebraska” in particular resonate with the mournful howls of the betrayed laborer whose calloused hands meant nothing to the bosses who had thanklessly reaped the rewards of his pain and sweat. Early on, Bruce really and truly did speak for the working man. But somewhere in Hollywood he lost his way. Now, it’s 2026 and the singular domestic agenda of President Donald J. Trump is to bring back American manufacturing jobs from offshore and to restore the dignity, pride and wealth of the working everyman. And Bruce SPITS ON THAT to appeal to his Hollywood cronies. When you understand this background about Bruce, his behavior comes into sharp focus as perhaps the very most disgusting behavior of any pop star alive in America today. He has betrayed the everyman he once championed. SHAME ON YOU BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. The young man who once wrote these lyrics would find you disgusting: "Early in the morning, factory whistle blows Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light It's the working, the working, just the working life Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life The working, the working, just the working life End of the day, factory whistle cries Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes And you just better believe, boy, somebody's gonna get hurt tonight It's the working, the working, just the working life 'Cause it's the working, the working, just the working life"

KEVIN MCREYNOLDS—1988 Donruss 💙🧡 #KevinMcReynolds #Mets #LGM #Donruss

DAVID CONE—1989 💙🧡 #DavidCone #Mets #LGM ***Click on pic for full scale***

@mostrowski52 Doesn’t surprise me with Nolan…

@Shea_Forever I remember that. For some reason, no nicknames. And Nolan Ryan wouldn't sing.

TUG MCGRAW on the "Ed Sullivan Show"--1969 💙🧡 #TugMcGraw #Mets #LGM #YaGottaBelieve

JON MATLACK—1977 Topps 💙🧡 #JonMatlack #Mets #LGM #Topps

JERRY KOOSMAN—1975 Mets Yearbook 💙🧡 #JerryKoosman #Mets #LGM

@TheBaseballHut Consider me a Mets fan who thought K-Mac was essential to the Mets during most (if not all) of his tenure there. I believe too many Mets fans were spoiled beyond belief by the 1986 team and used it as a measuring stick for any player who entered the picture after that…

Most Underrated Mets of all time: Kevin McReynolds #mets #mlb #sports

@CiaPenny @LennyDykstra 💙🧡

@Shea_Forever @LennyDykstra Absolutely Love This

LENNY DYKSTRA at Shea Stadium-August 17, 2002 💙🧡 #LennyDykstra #Mets #LGM @LennyDykstra @CiaPenny

RAY KNIGHT at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, MO—October 1, 1985 💙🧡 #RayKnight #Mets #LGM

@redsteeze My eyes have never recovered from the endless waves of the scramble….🤣

"Dad what were you like in the 90s?"

@MarkCHealey I miss the ramps at Shea. And that scoreboard. 💙🧡

This is probably an unpopular take, but while Citi Field is a wonderful ballpark, it wasn't built for me. It was built for people who missed the Brooklyn Dodgers. Any real sense of Mets history was ignored for the most part. It's improved over the years, and the aesthetics are wonderful, but I've never felt at home there. Shea Stadium was my home, and I truly miss it.

@MarkCHealey Agreed 💯!!

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@TheStingisBack Back when anything nuclear was the Hollywood/socio-political topic du jour.

In the early ’80s, two landmark TV films tackled nuclear war: The Day After (US) and Threads (UK). Both showed the effects of nuclear fallout on ordinary people. They were grim, unsettlingly accurate, and terrifying. Neither offered a happy ending.

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Ustedes son muy chicos pero en los 80 existió una serie llamada Dinastía, donde la doméstica enceraba muy bien las escaleras.