So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

[MFS62]

Probably in partnership with someone like Jerry Seinfeld. (or a group of real Mets fans who have the money)

What are the first three things you would do?

Later

[Centerfield]

MFS62 wrote: Probably in partnership with someone like Jerry Seinfeld. (or a group of real Mets fans who have the money) What are the first three things you would do? Later

1. First Responder hats: See the other thread. I forget which one.

2. Now that the Mets are freed from crippling debt, open up the payroll and allow Sandy to have the resources needed for a competitive, big market team.

3. Get the fuck out of the way.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I agree with 2. and 3. My other choice, instead of the caps thing, would be to rename the stadium. Pay off Citi and let the Mets have a home that doesn't have a corporate name.

[Guest cooby classic]

Well I would never buy a ball team: I have enough of my own bills to pay....but since we're 'tending....

1 Agree with above sentiments about getting rid of all corporate naming rights. It's Shea Stadium again.
2 Abolish whatever the TV channel is that they are on and put them back on a independent station that anyone can pick up. Perhaps shell out a little money to my local Comcast station to pick it up
3 If after Comcast rapes me, I have some money left, nonono! I know! Make it necessary that all the Mets marry their high school sweethearts that were there for them back in the day, instead of pole dancers

[Guest cooby classic]

Oh! Oh! No full beards!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

1. Rename Sterling boxes "Payson Boxes"

2. Install microbrewery on Promenade level

3. Restrict field-level ticketholders to access Promenade

[Ceetar]

am I spoilsport if I point out that powerball's not enough to buy the team, nor buy it AND clear whatever debt exists on the team?

[MFS62]

Ceetar wrote: am I spoilsport if I point out that powerball's not enough to buy the team, nor buy it AND clear whatever debt exists on the team?

That's why I said partner with other rich Mets fans. Gotta' have operating capital.

Later

[Guest cooby classic]

Yeah, but who wants partners? hehe!

[Guest d'Kong76]

He did say probably in partnership with some other fans.
I have to think about it, but I don't think I'd really like to blow all my
lottery winnings on buying a piece of a ball club.

(ooops answered slow)

[Ceetar]

MFS62 wrote: Ceetar wrote: am I spoilsport if I point out that powerball's not enough to buy the team, nor buy it AND clear whatever debt exists on the team? That's why I said partner with other rich Mets fans. Gotta' have operating capital. Later

I'm not sure the take-home from the Powerball is enough to even be the deciding partner that gets to make these decisions.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Forbes had the Mets valued at $1,350,000,000 last spring, so theoretically you should
be able to buy 51% with one's winnings.

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: Forbes had the Mets valued at $1,350,000,000 last spring, so theoretically you should be able to buy 51% with one's winnings.

I guess since we're stretching credulity anyway, we can go with that number and also pretend you'd have even half the that with the Powerball winnings after taxes.


First thing I'd do is construction to Citi Field. I'd open up the roof of the Mets offices (That building behind the Bridge that connects to the Pepsi..err, whatever...) and turn it into a biergarten where you can watch the game. I might do a similar thing to the Left Field promenade outfield seats. flatten it out. Then I'd figure out how to add seats, another deck? preferably 10k or so.

Second I'd contract a group of 'superfans' to be a sounding board for fan outreach for cool in and out stadium promotions and celebrations.

[seawolf17]

cooby wrote: Make it necessary that all the Mets marry their high school sweethearts that were there for them back in the day, instead of pole dancers

This made me laugh out loud.

[bmfc1]

Obviously spend more money on player acquisition and...

1. Tear down the existing scoreboards and reconfigure Citi Field to have a great scoreboard without ads hanging from the side.
2. Take 500 or so seats, charge $10 per ticket, and make them only available on the day of the game. (On that note, have a Mets cap available for $10. It might be of lower quality but the Angels did this one year so every Dad could buy his son/daughter a cap.)
3. Make giveaways available to all and not just the first 15,000.

[Guest themetfairy]

I'd ban the camo uniforms.

I'd add more areas where fans could congregate outside the stadium before games.

I'd commission a statue of Tom Seaver pitching to Mike Piazza to greet fans as they arrive at the stadium.

And I echo bmfc1's proposal that ALL fans should get giveaway items. It sucks to be stuck in traffic, late for a game AND to miss out on a giveaway.

[Lefty Specialist]

Not just let everybody have a giveaway, have BETTER giveaways. The Mets have the lamest giveaways of any team (Especially since most of the cost is paid for by, say, Gold's Horseradish or some other sponsor)

Re-do the Rotunda. No offense to Jackie Robinson, but that should be a Mets-centric entrance. That it's not is a Wilpon-thing that must be purged. Jackie can be honored somewhere else, just not at the main entrance.

Oh, and bring back bullpen carts.

[Farmer Ted]

You know the summer camp days where the kids all wear their color-coordinated shirts and relegated to the upper-est levels of the upper deck on the hottest god-awful days of the year no less? Fuck that. Put 'em in Delta Gold behind home plate, dugout to dugout.

[Fman99]

I'd build the Tom Seaver Rotunda and ship all the #42 stuff out to the Cyclones park where it belongs.

I'd also add a top deck to Citi so that it could hold another 15k fans.

Lastly, I'd make sure to go out drinking and partying with the guys on the team so as to be able to bang MLB hanger on pole dancing types that some of my board mates here would so frivolously discard. BASTARDS.

[Guest cooby classic]

LOL.

[dgwphotography]

1. I'd hire a group composed of some of our favorite bloggers, install Greg as VP in charge of Fan Experience, and let them fix things.

2. I'd obviously increase payroll, and then get out of Sandy's way. I consider myself to be a knowledgeable baseball fan, but I'm not a baseball man. That one letter makes miles of difference.

3. First responder hats as CF said. Not only on the anniversary of the attacks, but on any day we damn well pleased.

4. I'd invite Rachel Robinson and discuss changing the rotunda with her. This should be a tribute to Mets history, not a for a player, however important, never played for the team. Apparently, my grandfather knew Jack (that's a story for another day), and maybe I could handle this delicately enough where it wouldn't blow up in my face.

5. Have the field reconfigured to match Shea's dimensions, which seemed fair to both pitching and hitting.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'd blow up the whole stadium and start all over. Because that's what baseball really needed -- another soulless inferior Camden Yards knockoff -- 25 years after Camden Yards opened. I guess Camden is the only baseball stadium architectural style out there . Rolls eyes some more. Plus, then I wouldn't hafta explain anything to Mrs. Robinson. Where have you gone, Jackie Robinson (Rotunda)? Far away from Mets Stadium. I'd keep the food vendors. Citi Field does a pretty good job of stadium food. My new stadium would be modern, not retro. Like the new ones in Miami and Minnesota. It'd be groundbreaking and polarizing. And I'd let this forum post pictures that include the Mets logos and wordmarks. I wouldn't enforce my copyrights here. Even though I could.

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[Centerfield]

I think the rotunda is here to stay. I agree that it makes no sense to have a tribute to Jackie Robinson at Citi, but now that it's there, removing it would be a PR nightmare.

I don't like the camo either, but I like the idea behind it. Maybe figure out some way to keep the sentiment.

Absolutely on the campers. And you give them a tour of the stadium and let them meet some players. Hell, this is probably good business practice. Make some fans for the future guys. Before last year, my son was only one of 3 Mets fans in his entire grade.

[Guest cooby classic]

and maybe I could handle this delicately enough where it wouldn't blow up in my face.

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Good luck with that. If somebody had put up a tribute to Mr cooby in say, Bangkok, or somewhere else he had never been and we had no idea why they'd do it, and suddenly three years later want to take it down, I'd be mad.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ceetar wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: Forbes had the Mets valued at $1,350,000,000 last spring, so theoretically you should be able to buy 51% with one's winnings. I guess since we're stretching credulity anyway, we can go with that number

I'm gonna stretch some credulity upside your.... uh, never mind.
You believe in royal blue skies and orange clouds but you find Forbes not worth
of your belief even $25mil here or there?

I wonder what the NYC park land under Citi is worth. Do the Mets pay rent on that land?

[Centerfield]

By the way, the above answer is what I'd do with the team.

Me, personally, I'd be wearing a tracksuit and shades cruising around in my batmobile doing laps around CitiField blasting 90's rap.

Rollin down the street, smoking indo, sippin on gin and juice (with my mind on my money and my money on my mind).

[Guest d'Kong76]

Never mind the Batmobile, I'd have a Metsmobile made by Rolls Royce.

[Centerfield]

Right? We'd be such badasses. We could wear gold chains and medallions.

Until my wife calls, then I'd have to pick up the dry cleaning and go get the kids from school.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Unconfirmed rumors suggest camo may be out in '16, so save your $$

[Guest cooby classic]

One line item out of metfairy's budget out magically!