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I always imagined that the Wilpons were secretly scalping unsold Mets tickets on Stubhub and the like for their own personal gain through secret accounts and trusted family members acting as shills.

=MFS62 post_id=174962 time=1728498866 user_id=60] The person selling that Mickey Mantle card he got for 50 cents for, say, $100,000 (A conservative guess) would have to pay up to 20% long term capital gains tax on the difference ($99,999.50). I'm not sure what the tax considerations are for reselling tickets (possibly at short term rates).

Yes. Also. you're unlikely to see the 5th starter get a start. Teams can even get by, for the most part, with a three man rotation.

Edgy MD wrote: New York, not so long ago, had laws prohibiting charging more than 10% above face value for resold tickets. I imagine the laws became largely unenforceable in the Internet age, but I'm not sure where the notion of scalping being an unseemly and exploitative practice went. I guess I can put it beside commercials for hard alcohol, advertising on uniforms, and gambling in the box of things MLB would seemingly never allow themselves to be associated with, that they now embrace wholeheartedly. The issue is not so clear-cut and there are very good arguments to be made on both sides. Some states have no scalping laws whatsoever and a ticket owner in those states is free to do whatever the hell he wants to do with his ticket. There are no Federal laws directly regulating the resale of tickets. Why shouldn't a ticket-holder be able to scalp his ticket to his heart's delight? Someone who bought a mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card 60 years ago for a quarter and preserved the card's condition all these years later is free to sell that card for more money than he'd get from selling his house. Anybody who wants to buy Steve Cohen's Mookie/Buckner baseball, assuming Cohen offers it for sale, might have to pay millions of dollars for a ball that was once worth just a few bucks. What's the difference?

Edgy MD wrote: It's the playoffs. Nothing's gonna come easy. Even the occasional blowout .... It's the same game that they play in May and June, but hyped up to the rafters so that the owners could get double and triple the price for the same game-ticket. Pitchers are trying their best to get batters out and batters are trying to hit the ball as well as possible, just the same as always. If anything, playoff baseball is diminished baseball because everybody's hurt and the pitchers are worn out from throwing innings all season long. Some of these players are, no doubt, harboring minor injuries that nobody but themselves know about. You're as likely to see a blowout now as you are in April.

=rchurch314 post_id=174609 time=1728330715 user_id=195] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=174588 time=1728319594 user_id=68] I have no idea what the fuss or sour grapes are all about with the ticket prices. If I owned a pizzeria, and customers were willing to pay me $50.00 for one slice of pizza, I'd be charging $50.00 for a slice of pizza in a heartbeat. Isn't that how everything works? Or is everybody supposed to be able to own a Rolls Royce? What the hell are youse whining about? When people stop paying those prices, those prices will come down. Newsflash! It also costs a heck of lot more money to sit two rows behind home plate at field level than it does to sit in left field, 475 feet away and 60 feet higher than home plate. Duh.

Edgy MD wrote: But thank you for acknowledging that you have some idea of what I'm referring to. I know exactly what you're referring to.

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not entertaining a delusional fantasy. I don't know why you would write this when you're proposing $50 pizza slices. Fifty bucks? I'd charge a thousand bucks a slice if the public would pay. That's how things work.

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not entertaining a delusional fantasy. I don't know why you would write this when you're proposing $50 pizza slices. ??????????

Edgy MD wrote: If your restaurant was one of only two permitted to sell pizza in New York City, you might well be able to charge $50 a slice. That's right. I already said that. If my customers were willing to pay fifty bucks a slice, I'd charge them fifty bucks in a heartbeat. And if the queen had balls, the bear would shit in the woods.

Edgy MD wrote: It sure otherwise reads like you have an idea of my point. Yes, there certainly would be market effects lowering prices if MLB didn't have a tight control on the number of teams, and territorial exclusivity. If your restaurant was one of only two permitted to sell pizza in New York City, you might well be able to charge $50 a slice. First of all, it's the playoffs. So the product is limited. Lower supply means higher demand means higher prices. Secondly, if teams could glut a market to the point that profits are reduced, teams wouldn't glut the market in the first place. Thirdly, this is a ridiculous delusional fantasy that you're entertaining. Call your congressman.

Edgy MD wrote: An industry run as a cartel is not how everything works. Even if you're right, it wouldn't matter. I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. But you're bringing up tangential and irrelevant issues. You think that if we had relegation and the freedom for teams to move and locate wherever and whenever they wanted to, ticket prices would be cheaper?

I have no idea what the fuss or sour grapes are all about with the ticket prices. If I owned a pizzeria, and customers were willing to pay me $50.00 for one slice of pizza, I'd be charging $50.00 for a slice of pizza in a heartbeat. Isn't that how everything works? Or is everybody supposed to be able to own a Rolls Royce? What the hell are youse whining about? When people stop paying those prices, those prices will come down. Newsflash! It also costs a heck of lot more money to sit two rows behind home plate at field level than it does to sit in left field, 475 feet away and 60 feet higher than home plate. Duh.

=Gwreck post_id=174560 time=1728306614 user_id=56] Now, on Tuesday, when it's NL-only, I cannot figure out why the Mets had to play at 5. With the west coast game starting at 9, Mets should be starting at 6. (How could a 5:00 start time out-draw a 6:00 PM start time?)

=Gwreck post_id=174539 time=1728269622 user_id=56] The Phillies bullpen has been thoroughly exposed as unreliable and the Mets proven repeatedly that they can hit any of them.

=whippoorwill post_id=174526 time=1728257702 user_id=79] Long hot afternoon of grandkids' youth football (both teams won!) stopped for dinner and this game was on. Mets up 4-3 when we left and when we got home a few minutes later it was 6-6. We'll get ‘em Tuesday!

I think he's gone. I think that some other team will give him the money, more or less, that he's asking for. It only takes one owner. He's an all- star and presumably, a big draw, a marquee name. And some team will be looking to make a big splash with their fans after coming off a disappointing season and so will pay Alonso what he wants. But it won't be the Mets. I think that Stearns will evaluate Alonso in a cold and calculating manner, very much devoid of all of the emotional attachments at play here and the gap between what the Mets offer and what some other team offers will be too large for Alonso to stay here. Me personally, I have no idea what I prefer.

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was there for some bad ones, including Terry Pendleton in 1987 and Mike Scioscia in 1988. This could be the opening post when we do a thread on the worst HRs hit against the Mets.

=ashie62 post_id=174100 time=1728153237 user_id=90] Ventura Pratt and Agbayani just because I was there for all three

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Proud to have attended the Piazza 9/11 game, the Todd Pratt game, the Mo Vaughn game and the Brazell-Diaz game. Been to all of those games other than the Brazell-Diaz one.

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Hobie Landrith's only Met HR -- a come from behind walk-off game winning HR against future Hall-of-Famer and future Met Warren Spahn. Ol' Case interrupted Landrith's at-bat to approach him at home plate and whisper in Landrith's ear: "Go and hit a HR". And Landrith did. From wikipedia: Landrith's only home run as a Met came when he pinch hit in the bottom of the ninth inning with the Mets down 2–1 against the Milwaukee Braves and all-time pitching great Warren Spahn. When Landrith reached the batter's box, Stengel called time out, going to the batter's box and whispering something in Landrith's ear. On the first pitch, Landrith hit a game-winning two-run home run. After the game, Stengel remarked, "I told him to hit a home run." In typical Mets form for the inaugural season, the win was almost voided when Rod Kanehl, pinch runner for Gil Hodges, failed to touch third base after the home run. Third base coach Solly Hemus gave Landrith a sign to slow down, then escorted Kanehl back to third base. If Landrith touched third base before Kanehl, Rod would have been called out and the Braves would have gained a win on a walk-off home run by the opposing team. [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54045234110_5f2de42c97_c.jpg[/FIMG]

Mo Vaughn more than halfway up.the huge Shea scoreboard. Maybe not so momentous or impactful, but the HR itself was huge, distance-wise. And so was Mo. Other famous tape measure jobs-- the Agee blast that garnered a seat marker. The spring training Dave Kingman bomb. Kingman on Waveland Avenue.

Didn't Ramon Castro have a big HR,? The Castro Blastro, maybe,?