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  1. stevejrogers
    To be fair, no one officially called it The Great Wall of Flushing, the way they slapped "SHEA BRIDGE" onto the Bridge out there. That was an unofficial moniker that Howie Rose tabbed it. I do agree with the sentiments though, about the faux retro trend that Citi is very much a part of. Especially the trying to fit in parts of the culture of the city that the stadium is a part of.
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    Edgy MD wrote: One can be reasonably certain. Don't know how many games they'll miss, but the Yankees currently have $67.5 million dollars worth of infielders on the shelf. Well, when you are paying for a player that hasn't been in the organization since the previous century, and hasn't played an MLB game since around the turn of the century (and more than a decade ago now), and he is one of your highest paid players, it is quite glaring as compared to simple injuries.
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    Edgy MD wrote: What inspired this post anyway?, seems rather random. The Bay-and-Bonilla thing keeps coming up. And I got the notion that it wasn't so unprecedented as all that, even if the extended buyout of Bonilla's deal is. Apples and oranges though. Santana was on the DL missing the entire season, Perez was a million dollar arm with a 10 cent head whom we cut loose. Bonillia has been an albatross on the books since 2000, and hasn't played in the bigs in over 10 years, Bay is a guy who came in and for whatever reason didn't work out and the Mets couldn't move him, and his contract. So pointing out Bonillia/Bay as a joke in the "Mets are inept at roster building" is completely different than bringing up Santana/Perez.
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    LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: You don't think the only no-hitter in Met history and the meniscus game gets him into our HoF? If the only no-hitter was done by Mike Draper, would be advocating him for Mets HOF status?
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    MFS62 wrote: I realize it will only be an American League team, but I'm guessing that Josh Thole will drop off that list in about a week. Later Ditto Mike Pelfrey, whom is due to pitch against the Mets when they head up to Minnesota.
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    Edgy MD wrote: I'm not sure I want to have that argument. Why not, not much to argue; One being the on field manager/off field team ambassador with no real function with any sort of day-to-day franchise operation in an age where the information/communication age was relegated to sci-fi/Jetsons and in the minds and dreams of scientists. The other has a job that literally requires him to have a smart phone and be in constant contact with dozens of people each day. Making decisions, helping with any and all PR related matters (good and bad) and being shown in the article that he is barely capable of using it for its actual purposes. To the point where his assistant won't return his calls because he's been hit with one too many accidental calls. Stengel = Just the face of the franchise, harmless when it comes to organizational issues. Horwitz = Head of PR department, considered an embarrassment by others outside the organization, one more "proof" people turn to when showing how much of a fucking embarrassment the Mets have become since 1987.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Why Horowitz seemingly cooperates is a matter of speculation. I guess that, like Casey, he sees value in allowing himself to appear to be an old fool. I don't know if he has the savvy to stay ahead of that angle. (I imagine he can't.) Especially considering Stengel being the fool and Horwitz being the fool are two completely different things, and effected/effects the masses perceptions of the organizations they worked/work for much differently.
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    Edgy MD wrote: If that's piling on, then pile on. It actually tells a story rather than re-assemble already-known facts into a pre-determined narrative. Fair enough, but its not very flattering, and does fit the predetermined narrative of a organization lifer who's best days have long past him. Even the fact that he is comfortable and has a good self-deprecating humor about it kind of feeds into that narrative as well.
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    Edgy MD wrote: There is nothing not fantastic about that bit of journalism. I mean, on one hand, it points (somewhat gently) to a guy holding onto his big PR chair years past his peak. On the other, it's a story a younger Jay Horwitz would've loved to have fed just the right writer --- if, perhaps, the subject wasn't Jay Horwitz. While Horwitz did cooperate with the story, it is puzzling why it's out there, and the WSJ no less. Not so subtle push out the door? More piling on by a media conditioned over the last 30 years that anti-Met articles are generally enjoyed by an audience? Seeds planted by another team's PR department to the writer as yet another way to embarrass the Mets? Its 2013, it is quite embarrassing if your job depends on using a smartphone on a constant basis, one shouldn't still be a bumbling technophobe about it after years of using one. So it is a bit surprising that Horwitz would let himself be viewed as the fool here.
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    http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2013/03/in-memoriam-former-espnabc-sports-executive-loren-matthews/
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    OH FUCK ME Posted on August 10, 2011 by Keith Reinfeld A Losing Record And Now This --- Citi Field Security Guards Sue The New York Mets for Overtime Pay Actually fuck the Wilpon hating troll on another forum that posted that link as if it was the news of the day... Read more...post less...
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    Still the offseason technically. The hits just keep coming... http://wagehourlaw.foxrothschild.com/2011/08/articles/class-actions/a-losing-record-and-now-this-citi-field-security-guards-sue-the-new-york-mets-for-overtime-pay/
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    You listed him as a fringey candidate for possible Met HOF enshrinement with Wayne Garrett, John Milner and Bob Apodaca.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Ron Hodges. Why? Just because he was the catcher in the Ball Off The Wall play?
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    Zvon wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Any plans to commemorate the 1973 Mets team this year? They always bury this one under a rug. Before '73 I was a fan, but after '73 I was a fanatic. That was the year my blood turned orange blue. If it wasn't for every single thing that happened in 1973 (even losing the WS in 7) I would not be the Met fan I am now. No, they don't actually. They gave props often for 1973, last time was in 2003. Maybe the plan was Piazza/late 1990s-early 2000s themed and scrapped when he failed to make Cooperstown or a special night planned for Met All Stars. Just nothing has been announced.
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    Megdal with this.... http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/sports/2013/02/7987921/madoff-ravaged-mets-enter-stadium-deal-amway it just looks fucking bad Fred Its on Deadspin as well http://m.deadspin.com/5986838/the-new-york-mets-latest-partnership-is-with-a-company-that-specializes-in-pyramid-schemes
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    WAIT, the phrase doesn't have a damn thing to do with that space adventure opera Star Wars? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_empire
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    I'm kind of shocked Lucasfilms, and now Disney didn't think to get that trademarked. Granted I don't think it is ever uttered once, and the actual name is Intergalactic Empire, but I mean there aren't that many who don't know that it's origins are from Star Wars.
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    LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Sean Fennessey wrote: They charge $17 for a lobster roll at said ballpark... The Mets, though, are still a team with fans and expectations and those $17 lobster rolls. Besides the point, maybe, but, well... how often has anyone here paid LESS for a lobster roll? (I've had a few dozen, and I can only think of one that cost memorably less.) I'd imagine it'd go towards his argument about why the outfield is worse than at any other times in the past. The team is charging an arm and a leg for fine dinning options, in the midst of one of the largest media markets on the planet, and yet they have less than bargin basement talent trotting out there in the outfield. Not so much that it's expensive, but the fact that it's even there in the first place.
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    Could be due to Koosman?
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    MFS62 wrote: metirish wrote: Edgy MD wrote: The buzz makes it sound inevitable that the captaincy is going to happen this spring. Only open questions seem to be who signs off on it and whether he wears a C. What would Jeter do? Utter nonsense. When Michael Kay discussed the idea of a Mets Captain a few years ago, he said the "C" on the Yankee uniforms is classier; the Mets' one was too big. Yes, he did say that. Later Are you sure that wasn't his attempt at ironic humor?
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    New York Times catches up with Piazza and talks about THE BOOK which pretty much proves to be much less controversial than some voters thought it would be...
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    Ichiro counted as a prospect?
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    metsguyinmichigan wrote: A power outage in its premier event! Yikes! To be fair, rain and snow have delayed World Series games, some years for a couple of days. Hell Game 6 got followed by a rain out!
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