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    Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: So I heard from a good source that uni patches probably won't be a reality until the postseason, they don't have time to pull it off in part because of the lockout What about this? [FIMG=444]https://i0.wp.com/www.metspolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-03-at-6.38.09-AM.jpg?w=594&ssl=1[/FIMG] I think they are on the way but sponsor patches and helmet decals not I can't imagine what the holdup could be. I understand that applications for uniform changes, like the 60th anniversary patch the Mets intend to wear this season need to be submitted about a year before the changes go into effect. But you'd figure that this corporate advertising stuff where sponsors pay MLB millions and millions of dollars for those rights would get fast-tracked because of the guaranteed money at stake. What? Owners aren't suddenly greedy anymore and motivated by mainly making more money?
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    Ex-Met Brent Strom was the next MLB'er, after Tommy John, to have successful Tommy John surgery.
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    Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: So I heard from a good source that uni patches probably won't be a reality until the postseason, they don't have time to pull it off in part because of the lockout What about this? [FIMG=444]https://i0.wp.com/www.metspolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-03-at-6.38.09-AM.jpg?w=594&ssl=1[/FIMG]
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    Have it Your Way. I am not a crook. Ya Gotta Believe! Topps Heritage celebrates 1973. [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qsYAAOSwJTBiL-t7/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Ln4AAOSwjv5iL-p3/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kRYAAOSwD9diL8Kg/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jvkAAOSwi1piL8nT/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8GIAAOSwrhJiM51O/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LNsAAOSwHjRiMyNf/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NJgAAOSw0nViMyNg/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HrYAAOSwUiBiLUgj/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UH0AAOSwgfZiMlWb/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG]
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    Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) with a somewhat grudging tribute to the NY Mets: [media=youtube]VIX-dR2L0rQ[/media] And check out Schiff's necktie.
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    =nymr83 post_id=87213 time=1647496483 user_id=54] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=87212 time=1647496223 user_id=68] Youse'll read about this one when youse wake up. Freddie Freeman to the Dodgers.
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    Youse'll read about this one when youse wake up. Freddie Freeman to the Dodgers. That's some squad they've put together out there in Chavez Ravine.
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    Wow! Ordonez smashes another line drive single. Make that .500!
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    This just in: Rey Ordonez rips a line drive single to left. He'll probably hit .400 this season.
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    No more tiebreaking games. No more 163d games. Tiebreakers for playoff spots and seeds will now be determined by mathematical formulas.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Playing the Angels and Cubs the same number of times per year is just wrongy-wrong. It's disgusting. Its almost as bad as having 14 playoff teams. Between playing every team and the universal DH, there's no longer a point to having divisions or even separate leagues. Oh, for the days when the Mets played the Pirates and Cubs 18 time a year and you really got to know your division rivals. I guess if half the teams make the playoffs and pennant races are now watered down and dumbed down it wont matter much when the Mets inevitably play the fucking Texas Rangers in the last series of the regular season. I fully await all the drama of two 79 win teams battling it out for the last playoff spot in what's gonna pass for the new pennant races. Under this disgusting new format, the '86 Mets woulda clinched a playoff spot -- when? -- by Memorial Day?
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    Lefty Specialist wrote: Hope Uncle Steve has his wallet open. That wallet's too thick to close.
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    I didn't follow this at all, not even a speck of it, other than the posts I read on this forum. I assumed that if games had to be canceled, it wouldnt be more than two or three weeks worth of games and about that possibility, I didnt give a flying fuck about it, either way. I have no idea whether they agreed to expand playoffs, and if so, by how many teams. Other than expanded playoffs, which I Ioathe, I just dont give a shit about any of this.
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    =kcmets post_id=86689 time=1646854677 user_id=53] Well, at least you didn't call me a retard. Or retarded. Or my post retarded. Not sure how many here would get away with that for long. Myself included.
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    =kcmets post_id=86587 time=1646768964 user_id=53] I forgot about the Fb games, the handfuls of games grows larger. MLB has time to negotiate this but no time fix the season. Assclowns.
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    Frayed Knot wrote: Ongoing news: If/when a settlement does get reached I'm not going to like most of the results from it: expanded playoffs.... This expanded playoffs, to me, is a disaster. If I had to choose, I'd prefer that some games get canceled this year if it meant not expanding playoffs. Expanded playoffs is gonna be a deal breaker for me. I think I'll be watching less baseball, with less interest going forward. If they go to 14 playoff teams, I could even see myself missing Mets playoff games, something unimaginable before. Expanded playoffs looks like a win-win for the owners. Moer games, especially playoff games, means more money (stadium sales and TV revenue). And more playoff spots means the teams don't have to spend as much money on payroll. I suppose that the top-tier wealthiest teams will continue to spend as they have been. But past those top spending teams, payrolls will probably go down.
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    Willets Point wrote: I Anyway I hate it. Wanna have a say in this? Organize the fans. Like a union. Then the fan union can make it's own demands in all of this against a threat of boycotting the games and MLB merchandise.
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    Sigh. I read that the MLBPA is considering putting the 14-team playoff plan back on the schedule. They agreed to 12 but MLB gets more $ ($100 million v. $85 million) for 14 than they do for 12. If the Players are going to agree to this they should get back a lot because it lowers the bar for a team to get into the playoffs so it disincentivizes the teams from signing players to big contracts ("we don't need to sign that big money FA, we'll win 82 games and you never know what will happen"). https://sny.tv/articles/how-a-14-team-mlb-playoff-would-workhttps://sny.tv/articles/how-a-14-team-mlb-playoff-would-work That's an extra 15 mil. Divided by 30 owners. That's 500K per owner. All this for not even what a rookie on a minimum MLB salary makes.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Somebody's gonna have the dubious honor of winning a championship after finishing the season below .500, and it's a-gonna happen soon.. I'll be rooting for exactly that with all my might.
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    The players have little leverage. They have a small window to play the game. Owners, on the other hand, can own until they drop dead. (See, Payson, Joan; Steinbrenner, George). THe millionaire players are going up against billionaire owners for almost all of whom, baseball isn't even their main source of income. Baseball is a hobby to them ... a toy. If the fans can put up with the DH, with playoff slots that are gonna be handed out like participation trophies, with a 60 game season, they'll put up with this, too.
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    Edgy MD wrote: I feel like the role of "commissioner of baseball" needs to go. If he's just responsible for the interests of management, and not for the wellbeing of the game and all of it's stakeholders, is that really a commissioner at all, or just a shinier name for a CEO? Nothing new. Baseball's commish is the owner's stooge. And that's it.To absorb all the flack that should be going the owners way. Which is exactly what's happening. The owners run things. You know this. And another thing. Baseball"s not gonna get hurt by this. Demand is inelastic and its fans are as addicted to baseball as heroin junkies are to their smack. And the owners know this. Fans didn't leave when 100 games were lost to Covid. They wont leave over this either. Jesus H. Christ. Ticket prices have gone up ten fold over the last 15-20 years and revenues are still booming year over year. If that wont keep fans away, nothing will.
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    Edgy MD wrote: I feel like the role of "commissioner of baseball" needs to go. If he's just responsible for the interests of management, and not for the wellbeing of the game and all of it's stakeholders, is that really a commissioner at all, or just a shinier name for a CEO? Nothing new. Baseball's commish is the owner's stooge. And that's it.To absorb all the flack that should be going the owners way. Which is exactly what's happening. The owners run things. You know this.
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    What is it about Jeter, the most overrated baseball player I ever did see (and that's some accomplishment being that Jeter's a deservedly so, first-ballot HOF'er) that causes commentators to vomit all over themselves with vomit inducing praise (you vomited and now we vomit - because you vomited first) to dish out cringe-worthy ingratiating praise: Hot take My sources, common sense and reading in between the lines, tell me that one of our games greatest champions,Derek Jeter, is stepping away from a team with one of the best young pitching staffs in the game because ownership isn't committed to winning and spending pic.twitter.com/93my6XrLZC — Justin Turner (@redturn2) February 28, 2022 https://thespun.com/more/top-stories/mlb-star-believes-he-knows-why-derek-jeter-stepped-downhttps://thespun.com/more/top-stories/mlb-star-believes-he-knows-why-derek-jeter-stepped-down
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    Edgy MD wrote: But enough about the Yankees. Fucking philiistine asshole ruined one of the best baseball re-brands ever and what is perhaps, my favorite baseball stadium (visually only). What the fuck are the Marlins wearing these days? Black lettering on black shirts? Yeah, that makes sense. Lovely.
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