Dispatches from the Blogosphere 2011

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: The second paragraph is gold, the first?, those are the fans that should be cherished but they are not the ones they were thinking of when the stadium was being built, sadly.

That's the formula of professional sports these days. Profit is king and you gotta keep up with the Jones/Steinbrenners. But at least the second part represents that they do actually at least remember we exist.

They've been doing Thursday trivia stuff all season. They tried to do the first pitch thing last thursday, but the person that won wasn't actually _in_ their seat, so they couldn't find him in time to do it. They've done some other subtle stuff too, like having the '86 Met that's in the building come out and hand out the inbetween inning contest prize in person.

[metirish]

True, and I'll add that a ticket to see the Mets is very reasonable, and kids were free . I hope when the team is rising high and winning things these little things will remain.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: True, and I'll add that a ticket to see the Mets is very reasonable, and kids were free . I hope when the team is rising high and winning things these little things will remain.

I'm sure given the digital age, the tweet contests and the like might. I doubt the 'hey, bring all your kiddies free' stuff will. supply and demand and all.

[Gwreck]

metirish wrote: True, and I'll add that a ticket to see the Mets is very reasonable, and kids were free

Kids' tickets free is a nice touch but generally, tickets as priced by the Mets are still badly in need of market correction.

[G-Fafif]

metirish wrote: True, and I'll add that a ticket to see the Mets is very reasonable, and kids were free . I hope when the team is rising high and winning things these little things will remain.

Fan-friendliness seems to run in an inverse proportion to the standings, at least once it's occurred to them haughtiness and fourth place don't mesh.

[Edgy MD]

Ted Berg at Tedquarters grabbed this screencap, thrown up to demonstrate how awesome Albert Pujols is, but inadvertently telling the story of just how lazy, soft, and unreliable Carlos Beltran has been.



That's eight guys --- five hall-of-famers, one steroid abusing numbskull, Pujols, and Beltran on thop of them all by almost a hundred points.

[Ceetar]

I assume you have to scroll up to find Jeter?

[metirish]

Where is that coming from?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beltrca01.shtml

[HahnSolo]

How about #4 on that list?

[TransMonk]

It matches for me.

[Edgy MD]

From the MLB Network broadcast.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: Ted Berg at Tedquarters grabbed this screencap, thrown up to demonstrate how awesome Albert Pujols is, but inadvertently telling the story of just how lazy, soft, and unreliable Carlos Beltran has been ... That's eight guys --- five hall-of-famers, one steroid abusing numbskull, Pujols, and Beltran on thop of them all by almost a hundred points.

But he did most of that with Houston so it's not really clutch hitting.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, he hit only three homers instead of four in the NLCS with the Mets. I"ll have to talk to him about that.

[metirish]

Apologies, didn't notice it was postseason.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Steve Yeager unexpectedly destroyed me this morning at Cardboard Gods:

http://cardboardgods.net/2011/10/17/steve-yeager-2/

[MFS62]

Steve Yeager unexpectedly destroyed me this morning at Cardboard Gods: http://cardboardgods.net/2011/10/17/steve-yeager-2/

That was beautiful , man.
I can't wait to have a catch with my grandson.
Thanks.
Later