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Kerel Cooper of On the Black has submitted for the reader’s consideration some film footage of the 1962 New York Mets.

In the event that you’re unfamiliar with this iteration of the Metropolitans, here’s the first thing you might care to know about them: they were bad. Like, really bad. The club finished with a 40-120 record, worst of the 20 major league teams playing at the time, and a full 19 games in back of the next-worst Chicago Cubs.

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The San Francisco Chronicle’s website, SFGate.com, has a gallery of photographs of Giants fans up right now. Click here to see the whole set.

Take an incredibly photogenic city with a beautiful park and a colorful local population, fold in the palpable anticipation of a half-century-overdue championship, and you get some pretty great pictures. Congrats again, Giants fans!

Kerel Cooper of Mets blog On the Black has recently shared with the public some photos from his tour of Citi Field.

The photo tour, it must be said, is an important genre. For those of us who self-identify as “indoorsman,” it allows us to experience the world without having to, you know, experience the world.

Having said that — and with all due respect to Cooper — there are some images that are conspicuous by their absence. Images such as:

• Paul DePodesta installing Linux on all the front office computers.
• Paul DePodesta convincing the stadium operations department to display WAR on the scoreboard.
• Paul DePodesta — uh, I don’t know. Paul DePodesta’s a nerd, is the point I’m trying to make.