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Frayed Knot wrote: Two things I seem to care a whole lot less about compared to most baseball fans 1) uniform minutia 2) stadium food offerings It's a function of attendance. If you're a go-to-the game person, that matters a lot more than if you're watching/listening at home.

Yeah, but is Hunter's injury another conveniently timed incidence of back spasms?

Every year there is glowing media coverage of how great the new food items are…and every year, they disappoint when actually purchased in-stadium. It makes sense, of course. It's a tightly controlled media event that doesn't bear any resemblance to 6:30 PM on a Saturday ahead of a big game against the Braves. Steve C. has fixed so many other things already that I can't be sure he hasn't also fixed this one. But my experience is that the concession stands and those who work there just don't have the ability and capacity to do all of these great items at a consistent quality and speed.

The blue and orange seems to fit better. Are there rules for these things?

Edgy MD wrote: I feel like this is the first time they went out and got the top Japanese player coming over. Kaz Matsui?

=kcmets post_id=121259 time=1680475969 user_id=53] With all due respect Gw, that thing was ugly...

I can think of something… https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_w1024/mlb/lwq72koloco4rck2gx65.jpg>

1. 102-60 2. First 3. Yes 4a. #1 seed; 4b. to the WS; 4c. 4 games 5. Mets 6. 43

Presumably MLB is doing this because they want the money but it is still a mystery to me what sort of extra subscription bump Apple will actually get. How many people are paying extra for the two or three games their team has on Apple TV? (Or the Peacock games?) It can't be that many, right?

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: and it will affect HRs to right field. Do we know if they change the physical dimensions of the old space? If it's just a renovation of the existing space, it seemingly wouldn't make a difference.

=kcmets post_id=119587 time=1678494724 user_id=53]I didn't know we were in the era of schedule requests. Nutty keeps getting nuttier...

A couple of notes: MLB dropped one exclusive ticket provider for another exclusive ticket provider. That's not at all accurate. MLB switched their “official resale partner.” The deal with SeatGeek is not at all exclusive, whether for primary or secondary sales. Edgy MD wrote: I think he means competition between multiple agencies vying for the sweet MLB contract. So yeah, MLB enjoys the benefit of people competing for them, but get a protection from being accountable for their own anti-competitive practices. Big boo. Competition for contracts is generally a good thing, yes. But I actually was observing that there is a competitive element here that benefits the consumer. Primary ticket sales have long been a take-it-or-leave it proposition for the consumer; it's not unique to MLB. Especially since tickets are not fungible — unlike, say, running shoes, for which I have 10 different brand options. In the secondary market, however, there are several different players vying for the business of both the sellers and the buyers. And there, the benefits of competition comes in on price. StubHub had enjoyed the privilege (because they paid for it) of being MLB's “most favored nation,” for resale. MLB in turn made it easiest for ticketholders to resell there and guaranteed that the tickets being sold were legitimate. But 15 years of that goes by (with Stubhub now enjoying brand awareness with the consumer that they're a good place to look for tickets) and they've gotten lazy about their user interfaces (it's hard to buy tickets, they're hiding the ball about their fees) and also raised their fees. Stubhub is nowhere near my first choice to buy tickets as a consumer. SeatGeek getting the new MLB deal may result in the same thing happening over time, but it may also force StubHub to evolve, or it may lead to new upstarts in the market such as SeatGeek (itself started to compete with Stubhub) or more recently, TickPick. That competition is generally good. Frayed Knot wrote: On the primary market, meanwhile, you still need to pretty much (if not entirely) go through the Ticketmaster Mafia and their add-on fees. This is not true at all. MLB teams have been progressively moving away from Ticketmaster as those contracts expire. The vast majority of primary MLB ticket sales are done by the teams themselves through a platform developed after MLB bought the former Tickets.com.

Interesting piece of news today: MLB has a new deal with SeatGeek as its official resale partner. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jabariyoung/2023/02/27/exclusive-seatgeek-wins-100-million-deal-to-resell-mlb-tickets/?sh=5dcfdd6a31cehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/jabariyoung/2023/02/27/exclusive-seatgeek-wins-100-million-deal-to-resell-mlb-tickets/?sh=5dcfdd6a31ce Preliminary takeaways: -Competition is good; Stubhub got complacent as a market leader and hadn't evolved: their fees went up, they made it harder to figure out how much you were paying, etc. -That said, it's not really clear if this makes any meaningful difference for fans. MLB clubs were already leveraging years of StubHub data to figure out what the market would bear on ticket prices, so doing the same with SeatGeek probably doesn't change anything there.

=nymr83 post_id=117903 time=1675865657 user_id=54]I would say the transaction is 99.9999999999% likely to be based solely on the allegations. He was arguably

=nymr83 post_id=117766 time=1675560129 user_id=54]ripping up an existing contract and punishing a guy not convicted of anything.

Frayed Knot wrote: Turns out that removing McC's contract will actually save the Mets more in lux tax money than the chunk that they're giving to the O's -- acc to DiComo on MLB.com Being as high over the limit that they are, I found that hard to believe (understand) when I heard someone echo that on the radio. Show us the math NOW, Anthony!! Mets are paying a 90% tax on payroll amounts above $293M. Eliminating $12M from what counts towards the tax limit (McCann's contract) means that there is $10.8M in CBT tax savings. So, when the Mets traded him, even if they are still responsible for $9.5M each of the next two years, it's less than the CBT tax they've avoided.

After arbitration, Bauer's suspension was reduced from 324 games to 194 games. This covers 144 games of the 2022 season (already served), plus a 50-game “time served” credit from when he was on paid administrative leave (not playing but getting paid). He is reinstated, but docked pay for the first 50 games of 2023. He is under contract with the Dodgers at $32M for 2023.

Irrelevant now but interestingly, the White Sox were one of the 5 teams that McCann had on his no-trade list

=metsmarathon post_id=115378 time=1671727759 user_id=83]for accepting many more buckets of money than my team was willing to pay him, and than i may have thought prudent

Tough for me to call the infield “clogged” when there are all-stars starting at each position. Seems fine to me that a Baty or Vientos (1) gets low-pressure time to develop in AAA or (2) gets some bench time and occasional starts if Buck rotates the DH spot around.

“What the heck's the difference? If you're going to make the move, make the move.” -S. Cohen

Bobby V and his experience in Japan probably helped push the number higher. Japanese players on Bobby's teams: Nomo Kashiwada [CROSSOUT]Ishii[/CROSSOUT] Yoshii (Oops!) Shinjo Komiyama

Looks like they are removing the surrounding ads and just making the centerfield and rightfield scoreboards huge. This has the potential to be the most meaningful upgrade to Citi Field…ever?

Kevin Appier's 2001 might also have been stronger (albeit for a weaker team overall).

=roger_that post_id=114627 time=1670878744 user_id=128] I think the article claims no homies in the regular starting rotation, not in the emergency starter role.