MLB.com, as is its wont,* is allowing fans to vote on their All-Time Nine for each team.
Rules are you pick one season from each guy at each position, and then imagine they were all on the same Mets team at the same time having that season.
And then you imagine you had season tickets that year and got to watch ‘99 Rickey Henderson lead off followed by 2006 Reyes, and then 2007 Wright would hit a double to score two, and then 2000 Piazza would step up to the plate, and they had to pitch to him because ‘98 Olerud and ‘86 Keith Hernandez were due up, and 2000 Piazza would wink at you and you would know deep down that he loved y….. Read more »
Today, we take an educational turn as Roger McDowell and a young (yet balding and mustachioed) Howard Johnson teach us how to give our teammates a hot foot. Don’t know what a hot foot is? Well, grab a cigarette, a book of matches, some bubblegum and get ready to be the funniest guy in your office. And, after watching the video, this blog will make more sense.
Enjoy Roger’s culturally sensitive comic stylings, HoJo’s unbridled enthusiasm and other amazingness.
Lest you think that you are alone in supporting The Wright Stache, I am here to assure you that you are in enthusiastic stache company. There are others like you. Believers who understand the whimsical powers of the mustache. I present to you Eddie L. and his unnamed platonic costume partner who dressed up as HoJo and Keith for Halloween. But their stache support goes far deeper than some simple alcohol-fueled shenanigans. Eddie wrote,
My friend and I have been growing moustaches for Halloween for the past few years and after the mets FIRST collapse we decided to summon the powers of yester year and go as Keith and Hojo. We got the full 1986 uniform and real staches to match.
Our idea is that whenever the mets make the post-season again we will go to the game in our 1986 gear with full on real moustaches.
Now that’s some mustache magic that I can relate to. And with support like this, you can bet that the next postseason the Mets see will be in 2009! Check out some “behind-the-scenes” action from Eddie’s costumed hijinx after the jump. Read more »
Here at The Wright Stache, we like us some good old fashioned debatin’. And not the kind that ends in hand shakes – the kind that ends in fist fights. So when we all sat down and tried to plead our cases for our favorite Metstaches of all time, things got ugly. Names were called. Fingers were pointed. Mets memorabilia was shattered. Broken glass was….well, everywhere. So we figure the only way this is ever going to get settled is if we get our readers’ opinions. So, here goes:
Even a young HoJo knew the benefits of proper grooming.
What better way to kick off The Wright Stache’s Better Know a Metstache series than with D-Wright’s mentor, Howard Johnson? Perhaps the finest mustache to grace the hot corner in Mets history, HoJo’s stache was a part of both the 1986 World Championship team and the 1988 NL East Champions.
HoJo was a 30/30 man back when 30/30 (and mustaches) meant something. In fact, he accomplished that feat three times (1987, 1989 and 1991). He led the NL in home runs in 1991. He’s a two-time All Star and Silver Slugger. And he is the only Met to ever lead the league in RBI.
HoJo provided pop and speed in a lineup that was scintillating and explosive. While he may have been overshadowed at times by Straw and Doc, his stache played second fiddle to no one.
When Ray Knight left as a free agent after the 1986 season, there was no need to panic. Sure, Knight was a cornerstone of the 1986 championship, but third base was in good, strong hands with HoJo. He took over the position full-time in 1987, went 30/30 and came in 10th in the MVP voting. Not too shabby. He’d man third base at Shea for six more seasons, finish in the top-5 in MVP voting two times in that span and cement himself as one of the finest sluggers of the late 1980s.
Now, HoJo is the hitting coach for the Mets, teaching today’s stars how to slap the ball to the opposite field, advance runners, and, of course, hit for power without the assistance of performance enhancing drugs. Because who needs steroids when you’re already a virile man with the stache to prove it?
With HoJo’s whisker tutelage, the sky’s the limit for a David Wright mustache.
"A mustache sure would help you hit to the opposite field, David."
In between downs at a superbowl party this year, I asked Tueffel’s Stubble if he’d seen the fluff piece on Mets.com about how David Wright planned to spend this glorious American holiday at HoJo’s house. In his infinite wisdom, Teufel Stubble remarked that HoJo was probably just spending the entire time trying to convince David Wright to grow a mustache.
And the idea for this site was born.
Countless late-night brainstorming sessions, full-on fist-fights and a case of Olde English 40 Ounces later, we present to you TheWrightStache.com. Join us in our season-long quest to get David Allen Wright to become the latest and greatest in a long line of mustachioed Mets. He will do it. We will make it so. ‘Cause the mustache has mojo. Ya gotta believe!
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MLB.com, as is its wont,* is allowing fans to vote on their All-Time Nine for each team.
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September 11, 2009 5:43 pm | 
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