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To: TEDennis who wrote (1279)6/27/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2770
 
Re: The NY Metrics

Intresting you brought that up. Most people seem to think "Mets" is a shortened form of "Metropolitan". Little do they know that ex-Mayor Koch had them change their name in the early 80s to bring awareness to the "dimension bug". Apparently some 14 year old kid had some bright idea that if everyone just switched over to a standard way of measuring things...

- Jeff