The owners of the Long Island Ducks and the New York Mets have pitched competing proposals to build a minor-league baseball field in Nassau County.

Oh, man. I should mention for those who don’t know that I grew up about ten minutes south of Mitchel Field, the proposed site of this Minor League baseball field. I worked close by at Nassau Community College for a while, and I used to go to the batting cages at Eisenhower Park all the time. It’s well within my frame of reference, I guess I’m saying.

And it’d be sweet to have Mets prospects playing full-season ball someplace so accessible. I don’t know if it makes any sense economically, and I imagine there might be plenty of pissed-off taxpayers if the proposal goes through. Plus the article makes the Mets’ proposal sound more like a last-minute counter to the Ducks’ than anything else.

But it’s fun to think about. The South Atlantic League now stretches as far north as Lakewood, New Jersey, so I suppose it’s possible the Mets could try to convince that league to let them move a club to Long Island. That club’s road trips would be brutal, though.

It seems like a Double-A Eastern League team would make more sense logistically, since the Eastern League has teams in Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. The Mets have been affiliated with Binghamton since 1991.

Also: Full-season Minor League clubs start playing in early April, and this stadium would be practically next door to Nassau Coliseum. If the Islanders were ever to advance deep into the NHL Playoffs, any night both clubs were home the traffic would be unreal. But then… well, easy punchline.

I’m on vacation. I meant to have more cued up for this week before I left, but time did that pesky thing it often does. There will be posts all week, but it will be slow. I’ll be back in a week, rested and (I hope) with several new sandwich experiences to share.