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  1. Gwreck
    4th 72-90 No wild card No playoffs
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    Unrelated. The Cubs were another of the teams that, like the Yankees, wanted to opt-out of the Stubhub deal, and they sell with Tickets.com.
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    Ceetar wrote: Supposedly when they switched from Paciolan if that's what it was it was supposed to mean less fees, although they've seemed about the same to me just a little more spread out. The fees have most certainly not gone down since switching. (Perhaps ticketmaster pays the Yankees more to be used by them? I hate Ticketmaster, a lot, although the select a seat thing is real nice) Exactly. Ticketmaster's business strategy is to sign clients to long-term exclusive contracts. In exchange for a big pile of cash, Ticketmaster gets the rights to sell all tickets to events held at their facility. My guess is that the Yankees' contract with Ticketmaster predated the decision to move to a new stadium and there was some successor-facility clause in there. The presumption is that whenever that contract ends, they'll become a Tickets.com team too. I can't remember the exact split but I think there were only about 12 Tickemaster teams and 2 Paciolan teams (Philadephia and San Diego) left.
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    Ceetar wrote: tickets.com has been around a while, though the mets switched to them last year. Not that the Mets are innocent in this, but it's really tickets.com to blame for the ticket fees. And they're always worse for single tickets due to that stupid 'order fee'. Blaming "Tickets.com" for high ticket fees ignores the role the Mets play in it. Higher "ticket fees" unquestionably means "higher revenue for the Mets." As stated above, MLB Advanced Media owns Tickets.com. They have about half the MLB teams now selling their tickets, and it's been previously reported that they plan to eventually have all MLB teams once existing contracts (ie. the teams that have Ticketmaster) expire. Did MLB make the Mets switch, or did the Mets do it because they thought they could make more money that way rather than using an in-house licensed version of Paciolan software? Hard to say.
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    There is actually a growing trend in ticket sales towards so-called "all-in" pricing, where the service fees are hidden in the price of the ticket. The truth is that one portion of the money goes to the team, while the so-called "service fee" portion goes to MLB Advanced Media, the owner/operator of Tickets.com. As you note, however, that distinction is of no consequence to you. Given how expensive the Mets' tickets already are, switching to "all-in" pricing is probably not going to happen as it could exacerbate the situation -- ie. how can they really be charging $125 for an opening-day ticket in the outfield?
  6. Gwreck
    ...and Uncle Sam is on the board, courtesy Sugarpants.
  7. Gwreck
    Dickey not doing so well in the first. Spotted our old friend Willie R. in the dugout.
  8. Gwreck
    Surprisingly accurate description, that.
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    Except Bob Seger is not playing a free show after a baseball game. If you want to see him, you will need to buy a ticket to his show in Brooklyn on April 16. (Or wherever else he's playing this tour). I saw him at the Garden in 2007. Fun show but an audience filled with people who crawled out of the Seventies for the evening.
  10. Gwreck
    That's Queens native and life-long Mets fan Nas. I just might go to that one.
  11. Gwreck
    Want to hear about the Mets finances from someone other than Howard Megdal? No problem, the Post has you covered. The team is expecting to lose more than $10 million this year, after bleeding red the past two seasons, while attendance is projected to fall for a fifth straight year, The Post has learned. Also, I found this note interesting: However, the Mets have paid only some of the $320 million in principal due lenders in 2014, making next year�s talks potentially tense if the Mets do not hit their own not-so-rosy projections, the source said. The Mets declined to comment.
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    There was one year recently (2010?) where the entire medical/training staff got booed, resulting in a huge cheer for the first non-trainer person...which was Charlie Samuels.
  13. Gwreck
    I don't disagree, and credit is due for getting the extension done, but I note that keeping Wright is not an increase in annual spending. They were already paying him $15M in 2012.
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    Ashie62 wrote: Alderson had the ok to get Bourn according to Rubins interview today with Fred. Again Medgal is wrong. I don't see that in what Megdal or what Rubin wrote. If Alderson indeed had the "ok" to get Bourn, then why didn't he? Because he didn't want to give up the draft pick? Fine, that' s a strategic decision. I actually think Megdal's best point is about Alderson's jokes about the team. It was really out of line. You're the general manager, Sandy and you don't make jokes about the team being bad, whether it's true or not. Tell me about when you expect to be competitive. When will the "core" of prospects you have acquired start winning the Mets some major-league games? What's your long-term plan for contention? How much longer do you operate at a reduced major league budget in order to build for the future?
  15. Gwreck
    Byrdak is on the DL as well, out until at least June.
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    TheOldMole wrote: Don't forget that Bourn may be better than anyone we have, but he's not all that good. That's fair. The 2013 Mets are going to miss the playoffs with or without Bourn. Can't someone pull a hostile takeover on the Wilpons? Bud Selig could've, but he was uninterested. How else to explain the loans with friendly terms. This from the man who wanted (and succeeded) in forcing the McCourts out in Los Angeles.
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    seawolf17 wrote: metirish wrote: A lot of the same people work both stadiums selling beer etc I think, at least used to anyway. I always assumed it had something to do with that and/or transit. The police, too. Same rule applies in Chicago.
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    John Stearns
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    David Schoenfield agrees that we should avoid Bourn unless he's really cheap.
  20. Gwreck
    I like this signing.
  21. Gwreck
    There's nothing unfair or inaccurate in Megdal's report, and MLB's steady price increases for post-season and All-Star Game events is very much a newsworthy story. Displeasure with Megdal's writing is well-documented. Perhaps it should be limited to situations that warrant it.
  22. Gwreck
    Dotel would make the list (1.229 career WHIP) but he's 53.2 innings short of the 1000 minimum.
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    Octavio Dotel
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    Doc Gooden
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