Ceetar

I hate the "Mets @ Gnats" in the thread title. always makes me think it's an intersquad game.

can imagine the LolMets tongue lashings? Though I'm sure they exist in corners of Yankee fandom. good for him. He always had potential. That's crazy good though. crazy good.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ceetar wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'm reading. I'm not seeing them all negative. Added some myself. Most are a little of both. There are plenty of casual Mets fans that follow @mets but aren't part of "#MetsTwitter" so to speak. So they'll respond genuinely and not troll. But those articles tabulating and over-representing the snarky tweets has encouraged others to make snarky and negative comments. That's precisely how hashtags generally work. But that's just noise. Almost all of social media is just noise and a poor representative of anything really. (This goes for the Mets, or for hashtags about fraking, or climate change, or popular domestic violence (both NFL and non-NFL edition) cases..) It's a cacophony of squeaky wheels and the normal wheels just rolling along thinking "Oh, yeah, I like the Mets. Why? Oh, because my first memories are of watching the '86 series with my family and missing Danger Mouse cause the Astro's game went way long" and not noticing the squeaks. You take this so seriously. We know that there are real true blue Mets fans out there. Why, they even show up at Mets games. All 2,500 of them. no. I take very little seriously. But I like the Mets and don't need people unnecessarily piling on just because they want to vent their own personal anger.

Edgy MD wrote: I'm reading. I'm not seeing them all negative. Added some myself. Most are a little of both. There are plenty of casual Mets fans that follow @mets but aren't part of "#MetsTwitter" so to speak. So they'll respond genuinely and not troll. But those articles tabulating and over-representing the snarky tweets has encouraged others to make snarky and negative comments. That's precisely how hashtags generally work. But that's just noise. Almost all of social media is just noise and a poor representative of anything really. (This goes for the Mets, or for hashtags about fraking, or climate change, or popular domestic violence (both NFL and non-NFL edition) cases..) It's a cacophony of squeaky wheels and the normal wheels just rolling along thinking "Oh, yeah, I like the Mets. Why? Oh, because my first memories are of watching the '86 series with my family and missing Danger Mouse cause the Astro's game went way long" and not noticing the squeaks.

keep cherry picking, doesn't change the point.

metirish wrote: @Vacarro while #Jeter was idling up 162nd street meeting and greeting and pontificating his flock the @Mets were busy shooting themselves in the foot with a worthless #IMAMetsfanbecause campaign is he fucking serious? what a hack. I mean, wow.

Sara Daly Roter ?@sdrotes #ImAMetsFanBecause of my mother @bjn477 sean T lamb ?@stlamb4 1h #ImAMetsFanBecause if you're a #NYJets fan it just makes sense. metsgirl82 ?@metsgirl82 3h #imametsfanbecause my family goes back to Brooklyn & Queens and the Yankees were NOT an option when the Dodgers left. And we love Mr. Met! Abigail Gullo ?@NYCBaby 3h �@MacCocktail @Broethius: #ImAMetsFanBecause I can't help it. Just born with a better soul, I guess. Simon Harrow ?@simonjh 5h #ImAMetsFanBecause Some kid at school came back to UK from holiday in NYC with a Mets cap. what, you're saying Social Media is all a bunch of noise and you can generally find whatever confirmation you want? 1. Mets engaged fans. That's good. 2. Mets promoting Mets pride, which is good. 3. There's the "all press is good press" thing too, which the trolls are only feeding here. So what's the results? -bitter mets fans get sarcastic on Twitter, but do that anyway. -Writers pushing narrative get to play the #lolMets card. fine. they were going to do that anyway. -a few fans feel genuinely pleased to be engaged by the team they love. Yup, think this worked out just fine for the Mets.

Lefty Specialist wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: You know what's ironic about eff Wilpon's now infamous comments to The New Yorker? That he's actually correct for the most part-now. Beltran had two good years with the Cards before hoodwinking Cashman for 3 more years. Reyes has never had another season like he had with the Mets. Wright is not the superstar he was, and it remains to be seen if he can ever perform to the level he was accustomed to. Maybe Fred would like to sell the team and become a scout. Disagree. baring injury, Wright HAS been a superstar since then. (never mind the ancillary stuff) Reyes didn't quite get Crawford money, but he got a big payday. and contract length. Beltran was the closest, but he had three good years after that comment, I don't know what the percentages are, but of course, the aging curve can't be avoided. that stuff is a given.

bmfc1 wrote: http://nypost.com/2014/09/22/hypocritical-jeter-always-somehow-comes-out-on-top/ He always wins. Even when his on-the-field performance hurts his team. Even when he flirts with lines he always made sure not to cross. He is that good at being a public figure. It's a fair point but it credits Jeter with it instead of discrediting the media for their partisanship. Once something real bad comes out though, it'll be interesting to see if he gets the Tiger treatment.

White Sox and Konerko finish at home on the 28th, fwiw.

seawolf17 wrote: MFS62 wrote: I'm wondering which broadcast team Jeter will be joining to cover the post season. Later Holy crap, I didn't even think about that. Surefire way to torpedo ratings. He doesn't seem like one of those guys that would be interested in that. There's a particularly nasty write-up on him in NYMag that has the usual painting his arrogance as a positive trappings

Frayed Knot wrote: What is it do you suppose leads them to think that Teufel will make a good hitting coach? If this ends up being true I imagine it'll be because something like "A couple of the players were talking to Teufel about some things and what he had to say really helped them." I mean, he IS right there after all.

G-Fafif wrote: Former pitcher/current writer Dirk Hayhurst not a fan of boys-will-be-boys nonsense. No? I couldn't tell if he was for or against, if he enjoyed himself or felt permanently humiliated. or both.

Tim Marchman: Tim Marchman lambasts the commercial, and the media for promoting it for free

seawolf17 wrote: Wonder if we could convince Darren Meenan to make a private batch for us. (Or, better, to produce them en masse and give Z a cut.) He'd probably do it. go schmooze him at the Calendar Release party at the end of the year. (or more conventional methods) He's worked with others ideas before though I don't know the numbers behind it.

d'Kong76 wrote: I thought this would be a bigger story, but maybe I just missed something? http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/09/21/mets-owners-management-admit-getting-into-enormous-debts-with-little-to-show-for-it/ That it never happened I think is what you missed?

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, reaching second place isn't nearly the climb that reaching .500 is. And if they did manage to reach .500 I think it'd be something like a 260 game stretch they could claim that over. It's not necessarily super meaningful, but it's a nice big springboard for next season "We've been .500 for a while, you should've expected us to suddenly take that next step"

you forgot the picture of the ugliest scoreboard. All I see is Citi Field's. It's ESPN. I'm sure it's stupid. The fan experience is pretty top-notch imo, definitely not practically the worst.

here's something. K/9: (2014 MLB average 7.71. of starters, 7.34) deGrom 8.98 Wheeler 8.93 Harvey last year 9.64 That's a lot of balls NOT put in play. Perhaps defense is less important on the Mets than other teams. This might give Flores a leg up. Of course, he still needs to, you know, hit.

One good thing, one bad thing? (this was announced in June so kid's coming along?) bad thing..the Beltrans apparently lost their son late in pregnancy.

wait, more from a group outing to Andy Cohen's show.

second from right.. Allyson Satin?

Sweetwater Brewing Company?

bmfc1 wrote: Holy crap, there's a 90 second Gatorade commercial where Jeter, in part, cavorts with regular people, as we hear Frank sing "My Way." At the end, he tips his cap at NMFYS. I didn't watch the whole thing because I couldn't. I won't link to it on principle. Have you noticed how all of the most promoted Jeter moments this year have all been about advertising and selling things?