Gary Cohen to MTV

[Elster88]

I have never heard Darling do commentary. How did those National broadcasts sound, DC peeps?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

What's your criteria for "assassin"?

I might be able to SQL out the top ten.

[Guest Beenso]

seaver sucked
o'brien sucked
healy sucked

i liked ted...

but thank god matt loughlin is gone. i mean, whats better than having the camera on matt loughlins stupid face while he conducts some sort of useless interview while the game is still going on.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Smart, but a little sleepwalky.

Maybe like the early years of Keith. He'll get more polish, I guess. Not surprisingly, analyzed pitching mostly.

[Elster88]

]And to Cactus86 - sorry - I stopped being a wingman at age 40! -)

HAHA. I guess Cactus wants help picking up girls in bars.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I would have liked to have seen Cactus' question.

Tony Gwynn vs. the Mets

Not too shabby.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Before we give away too much more, how about a query, based on a reasonable minimum PA, of highest BA & SLG against, and most HRs against.

How about all stats? Like, most SB against?

It's gonna take some creativity to get through this next month anywhoo.

[Guest sharpie]

His '98 season vs. the Mets (long past Darling's departure) was unreal with at least 2 hits in each game.

[Guest sharpie]

We did a similar thing a few months ago, in terms of most hrs vs. Mets, most stolen bases etc.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

We did?

I have to stop smoking so much crack

[Guest Edgy DC]

Where did we leave that?

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Burrell's got to be on any list you come up with.

[soupcan]

Willie Stargell's got to be in the top ten

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edgy DC wrote: Where did we leave that?

http://cybermessageboard.ehost.com/getalife/viewtopic.php?t=1298

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Looks like Darling did some of his best pitching at The Astrodome.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

That's funny. That whole thread took place while I was whale-watching in Nova Scotia.

[Frayed Knot]

Back to M(ets)TV news, from Bob Raissman's Tuesday column:

"While execs at SportsNet New York have yet to give a launch date for the new TV home of the Mets, cable industry sources say SNY likely will debut on Thursday, March 16. As of now, SNY has carriage agreements with Time Warner and Comcast, who are partners with Fred Wilpon in SNY. The network is still in the process of trying to cut carriage deals with Cablevision and satellite providers such as DirecTV and Dish Network."

[Guest cooby]

Oh sure, since we dumped our dish...

[Elster88]

That was a fun game. We should pick it up again on these slow January and February days.

[metirish]

I wonder what impact if any this will have on the 25 Mets games WB11 was going to air..

New TV Network

[Guest abogdan]

Anyone know if RCN cable will be carrying the channel?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I don't know for sure but pretty certain they will. I don't believe RCN is in position to be throwing weight around: They took YES without a hassle.

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: I wonder what impact if any this will have on the 25 Mets games WB11 was going to air.. New TV Network

Almost certainly none; the Met games are just an arrangement between the new network and the local ch 11 affiliate. Since that station was already connected with WB having a new corporate father isn't going to change this arrangement.


btw, they've officially targeted March 16 as the launch date which'll include the Met ST game that night. What remains to be seen is how many systems will be cleared by that point. Even some of those who do clear it won't likely do so until closer to opening day - and some of the carriers ...

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Every system is different of course but it would be cool if they arranged to put the Mets on say, channel 41. I think that's a hom shopping channel where I live.

[metirish]

Thanks Frayed Knot, that makes sence.

[Guest sharpie]

Mets should just call the channel Channel 41 and force everyone to use that number.

[patchyfogg]

Last night, we had on Newsday�s Neil Best who is now penning the �Sports Watch� column which focuses on sports media and sports business. He also covered the football Giants for 10 years, and recently wrote a big article on Team Message Boards likes ours here.

Here is the link:
http://hosted.filefront.com/patchyfogg

The interview runs for exactly 40 commercial-free minutes. I hope you find it informative. SNY was our stepping off point.

Here are some of the topics that we covered in the interview (listed in the order in which they were discussed and with some expounding wherever possible):

--The new Mets Network Sportsnet New York (SNY)
--launching 3/16
--no agreements yet in place with Dish Network, DirecTV or
Cablevision, but they are �talking�
--confident that they�ll make Opening Day 4/3, since the
market is already set with YES.

--Sports applying upward pressure to cable bills.
--The Thurs/Sat NFL package will really force the issue
--Distributors don�t like ala carte channel arrangement

--The new SNY Mets analysts (Cohen, Hernandez and Darling)

--The Jets� relationship with SNY

--Neil�s take on NFL coaches not allowing assistants to speak to
the media

--Movement on the new stadiums (stadia?) in the Bronx and
Flushing.

--The Super Bowl/Playoffs matchups and ratings

--ESPN Radio�s weak signal

--Tiki Barber�s �outcoached� comments

--Neil�s memories of Wellington Mara (as well as Mr. Tisch)

--Sports Message Boards
--including Neil saying that �It is a fact that beat writers
look there every single day.�

--Roy Simmons

--The snacks on �Mike�d Up�

--Sid Rosenberg

--The final game of the ESPN Sunday Night football crew and the
new pairing for MNF

--The Islanders

--Eli Manning, including the press coverage of him, Ben
Roethlisberger, Terry Bradshaw and the Mannings, Ron Dayne over
Shaun Alexander

--Differences between covering media people vs. covering athletes

--James Carville getting a Sports Talk show on XM

[Frayed Knot]

So you got into a discussion of fan message boards and don't once bring up the CPF?!?!!?

[patchyfogg]

Well, the first thing that he said was "So, you've got too much time on your hands." I wasn't going to affirm his negative.

[Guest abogdan]

I contacted RCN, who said they had no information about this channel being added in Queens in the near future. They pointed me in the direction of their NY channel request form, where RCN customers can request they add a channel to their lineup. If there are any other RCN customers on the board, I'd suggest they fill out the form.