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Santana 4.5 Beltran 1.5 Tatis 1.2 Castillo 1.0 Putz 1.0 Parnell 0.8

Church 3.3 Cora 2.6 Beltran 2.5 Reyes 0.6 Wright 0.5 Parnell 0.5

METS!

damnit! how many more times are we going to line into double plays with the runner(s) in motion?

it took us a few months before we started hanging things on teh walls - we wanted to make sure the pictures were in the right spots relative to where the furniture was and how we were going to use the rooms. not that i'm convinced at all that that's how the metsies were approaching it.. but still...

to be clear, that'd still be the case if shea were standing and citi were a parking lot, right?

Reyes 2.9 Murphy 1.9 Santos 1.8 Green 1.4 Parnell 1.0 Beltran 1.0

Santana 4.8 Rodriguez 1.6 Santos 1.4 Putz 1.1 Reyes 1.0 Cora 0.1

Delgado 2.7 Castillo 2.1 Reyes 1.6 Sheffield 1.6 Castro 1.0 Green 1.0

Delgado 3.9 Rodriguez 1.7 Castro 1.4 ODay 1.1 Feliciano 1.0 Castillo 0.9

="Swan Swan H":rt9ginvn]I also thought the sound of the PA would be better. There are speakers everywhere, so hopefully it just needs tweaking. For now it sounds like the speaker at a Taco Bell drive-thru.[/quote:rt9ginvn] im also a bit disappointed by the PA. i think they opted for something well suited to playing music in acoustically neutral outdoor spaces, (perhaps like a large garden or small park) but not for making announcements and being heard over crowd noise in very active, difficult outdoor spaces. they'd've been better off with a bunch of powerful horns and such rather than a series of smaller cone-based speakers throughout the place. plus, the ones i was below on saturday sounded buzzy already. metsguyinmichigan Apr 20 2009 07:45 PM Gwreck: Things that are worth writing about: 1. Obstructed view seats - railing/plexiglass blocking views for Promenade Reserved seats (I think you'd have a crack at this only if you are a season ticket holder who paid for those seats not realizing they were obstructed) 2. Lack of Mets history/hall of fame (agreed) 3. Tarps obscuring bullpens (This might be a safety issue mandated by the league. Would be nice to know, though.) 4. New restrictions to batting practice access (agreed) 5. Lack of urinal dividers in restrooms (Flaunt it, man! But seriously, these might be coming. If you were looking for stuff that you can add slowly during the season, this would be one. worth mentioning in a letter to make sure they're aware. Some of the older parks, but the way, have a common trough. Nasty old school stuff.) 6. Deceptive promotion of club access (Go get 'em!) Things that are not worth writing about: 1. Jackie Robinson rotunda 2. Color of outfield walls (Agreed.) Not sure: 1. Inability to see parts of the outfield from seats in the outfield. I haven't sat there. (I don't plan to, either). Also am unsure about how that could even be fixed.

the dodgers thing would be minimized somewhat had there been a polo club to help offset the ebbets club. at least then the rotunda and the black walled field could be seen as somewhat in balance too, leaving jackie free to transcend the game. the absence of overt ny giants reverence makes the b'lyn dodgers reverence stand out so, and helps to focus attention on the dearth of mets history (whether or not they've planned all along to include it) but i don;t think you're going to get anywhere with the suits if you pound home the "there's too much dodgers shit" side of the equation, as opposed to focusing on what you really want - more mets shit. but so help me, if they start slapping blue and orange paint all over the stairwells, i'll kill the whole lot of yous.

i've got my 29-word entry submitted.

on the one hand, i can totally understand the reaction that, "c'mon, its a brand new fucking building, and you have to go and write on teh damned wall because some schmuck asks you to?" but at the same time, jeez, fucking roll with it you morons.

hmm... maybe i shouldn't've built my fantasy teams around hte hope that i'd get some cheap saves out of joel hanrahan...

yeah... in my head, i've been giving them a mental pass on the memorabilia thing. but the way they've handled the issue of the mets hof has me tending more towards jcl's thinking... i still don't think the ballpark needs to be swathed in blue and orange paint everywhere though, and am perfectly fine with the color palate.

also, i wish the mets were savvy enough to say something like "we've planned all along to include a mets hall of fame, but wanted first to see how the flow of traffic would circulate around the stadium. naturally, we want the hall of fame to get maximum exposure, but at the same time, we don't want it to contribute to what might already be a natural choke point. much like you never really know how the winds will behave in a new park (ahem - ys3), you never really know how the fans will circulate until you open the doors and get a season's worth of baseball under your belt."

during batting practice on saturday, ramon castro hit a homer into the apple enclosure. i couldn't tell if it glanced off the apple or not, but it definitely cleared half-an-apple's-width left of straight away center.

left field reserved, 136

how romantic! he proposed near the gate to the stadium! is it really a first if its just on the property, and not inside the actual stadium? if he was really good, he'd've arranged to have it on the scoreboard when he asked.

Perez 4.2 Delgado 1.9 Beltran 1.3 Parnell 1.0 Murphy 0.9 Reyes 0.7

i'm curious what wally's opinion of the place will be

do you suppose the crowd is full of life, loudness, and cheerfulness, down nine runs in the bottom of the 7th...?

lets see... which one looks more like a mausoleum...?

Wright 4.8 Rodriguez 1.3 Murphy 1.2 Castillo 1.1 Green 1.1 Reed 0.5