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  1. Lefty Specialist
    Ha. They booed the Wilpons and cheered Doubleday.
  2. Lefty Specialist
    Time for a pre-game snack.
  3. Lefty Specialist
    John Sterling is one of the few reasons I feel sorry for Yankee fans.
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    Put it in the whipped cream can!
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    Magic number for elimination: Roger Maris.
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    Jerry did okay; the fun thing is that he's a REAL fan, not some guy who watches a game now and then. He lives and dies with them just like we do, and that fan-ness is something that is refreshing in the booth. GKR have to be professionals about it (and they are), but it's fun to occasionally have someone who bleeds Mets blue and remembers that Duffy Dyer was a weak-hitting catcher. Jerry wasn't there promoting a movie or TV show, he was just there because it's cool to hang with Gary, Keith and Ron and talk about baseball for a couple of innings. I think he should do it every year.
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    Wonder how bad SNY's ratings plummeted the minute Jerry left the booth.
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    Henn lays an egg. 5-4 Jints.
  9. Lefty Specialist
    Seinfeld is bad luck so far.
  10. Lefty Specialist
    There was also the Barry Bonds version- "My Boyfriend's Back is Covered with Acne".
  11. Lefty Specialist
    My wife worked for Doubleday Publishing back in the day. He sold the book company to Bertelsmann in 1986 so that he could concentrate on his polo ponies, the Mets, and drinking, not necessarily in that order. He wanted to own the Mets, but he didn't want to [u:3lzczo08]run[/u:3lzczo08] the Mets. He wasn't driven to do it like Fred was. Nelson first thought of Wilpon as an annoyance, but as the loss of his control became more apparent, he grew hostile to the Wilpons. Fred didn't want to sign Piazza, Nelson did, and he did it as much to stick Fred with the bill as anything else. Nelson finally cashed out in 2002. Doubleday was a little like Mrs. Payson- he thought of the team as a rich man's toy. Not that he didn't want them to win, but he didn't like getting his hands dirty in the day-to-day. Fred, for all his faults, was a self-made guy and wanted to know the details. Nelson inherited his family's company and sold it off because he couldn't be bothered running it. If only we could be so lucky with Jeff.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: Have a contest for a fan age 12-18 to wear a uniform, take batting and fielding practice and sit in the dugout for a game. Yeah, I know it's technically against league rules, but work it out. Keith Hernandez's head explodes. Only if it's a girl.
  13. Lefty Specialist
    Does Keith have his baseball card taped to the wall of the SNY booth? Look over his right shoulder.
  14. Lefty Specialist
    Cut ticket prices in half. You'll make it up in concessions and parking. Full up those seats behind home plate every game by selecting people from the upper deck to come down in the third inning. Have GOOD giveaways, not crap. Everything's an ad for someone anyway, so the only cost incurred is extra personnel to reach into a box and hand it to people when they come in. Have a contest for a fan age 12-18 to wear a uniform, take batting and fielding practice and sit in the dugout for a game. Yeah, I know it's technically against league rules, but work it out.
  15. Lefty Specialist
    Well, my son was in the Mets Fan Club once, and when an 8-year old says, "What's all this crap?" you know you have a problem.
  16. Lefty Specialist
    The continuing failure of the marketing department. They simply don't know how to market this team. When's the last time you saw a good commercial for the Mets? (2005- the Mr. Met ads.) When's the last time they had a decent giveaway that was available to all who attended (not the first 18,000 or 25,000)? When you look at the promotions other teams do, you wonder what the hell they're paying these people for. What are they doing to get kids involved? And on and on. You can be innovative even with a bad product on the field. They don't even seem to try.
  17. Lefty Specialist
    Well, WCBS became a huge Yankee-rooting station, popping Yankee tidbits in there as 'news'. "Our top story this morning is that Mark Teixiera is out for the season...let's go to our reporters for fan reaction. Oh, and that Syria business, we'll get to it after traffic and weather together."
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    The question will be- will the FAN become a complete Yankee cheer squad, where no dissent is tolerated? If so, the Schmooze is doomed. They'll just re-run Francesa to fill the time.
  19. Lefty Specialist
    Edgy MD wrote: It is doubtless that the Mets will find a broadcast partner. How much is there on the radio that anybody listens to any more? There's political partisanship, religious paritsanship, and baseball. Their new radio station combines all three.
  20. Lefty Specialist
    Shake Shack and the craft beer kiosk. Outside of that I got nothin'.
  21. Lefty Specialist
    themetfairy wrote: Why doesn't New Era market MLB sanctioned agency caps, with a portion of the profits going to 9/11-related charities? Wouldn't that solve the whole damn thing? I see Titleist golf hats with the Titleist logo on the front and the Mets logo on the side, Yankees, too. Here's one, even resting on a patriotic golf towel, no less. (Now you can wipe the mud off your ball with Old Glory.) They could do the same thing with agency caps if they wanted to.
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    MFS62 wrote: When I'm near home, WFAN-FM is sometimes overpowered by some teen pop station on Cape Cod. Do you twerk in your car when that happens?
  23. Lefty Specialist
    This poll is about a year early.
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    If they get into the playoffs, their season will have been saved at various points by the likes of Lyle Overbay, Mark Reynolds, Alfonso Soriano, Vernon Wells and Travis Hafner, none of which anybody would have given a dime for before the season started.
  25. Lefty Specialist
    Remember when the teams had their own websites? Bud put an end to that nonsense and made sure that the Red Sox site looked exactly like the Mariners site, which looked exactly like the Pirates site. MLB prefers patriotic vanilla. That means flag hats instead of personal statements. And Fred is so happy that Bud let him stay owner that he'll do anything up to and including wearing a leash and barking like a dog, so don't look for him to ever stray on this issue.
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