Ceetar

Whatever, ignore the person who wrote it and focus on the facts: The Mets froze season ticket prices if you renewed early (not mentioned in the article). Apparently they are going up if you buy a new plan now. Nothing reported re: single-game prices. Any raise in ticket prices is absurd at this point, for obvious reasons. The idea that the Mets had "steep cuts" in prices in recent years is a red herring because it fails to acknowledge the "steeper increases" that immediately preceded them, with the switch from Shea to Citi. most of those steep increases were supply/demand raises in 2008 actually. I pointed out this out in June, when they mentioned the 'lock in your season ticket prices'. People flipped out that they wanted money early, but what they were clearly doing was offering you a chance to save some money by paying early. I would've jumped at it, as some people did. The jumps he lists are not even high. 1-1.50 a seat in most cases. This could simply be reflected by a larger number of more premium games (although probably not, since the top level, OD and SS, are down from 4-3) Due to dynamic pricing, releasing single game ticket prices is only part of the story. The Mets did a pretty good job with flexing prices and offering deals this season. Presumably they will again. Hell, they offered some buy 3 get 4 deals that would negate the price increase if they did again. The people they sell season plans to, for the most part (particularly in the '12-'13 season), are not bandwagon fans looking to see winning baseball, they're Mets fans looking to see the Mets. They've lowered prices for 3 consecutive years, and now presumably the data (which they have access to, and we don't) suggests that a slight price increase is in order. They run all sorts of analysis on this stuff, so it seems ignorant to claim they're acting cluelessly or egotistically. They're doing the same thing every sports franchise does every single year. adjusting prices to the place they think will result in the highest revenue in sales based on market data.

dinosaur jesus wrote: If you're looking for reasons to hate the Nats, that one seems like it would be pretty far down the list. I'd start with Bryce Harper and leave it at that. I'd start with "play in the NL east" that's good enough for me. Granted, they're my second favorite NL East team, but I still despise them.

metirish wrote: Jeez, the same GM's would be killing them if Strasburg pitched yesterday and blew his arm out.... of course, there would likely be no correlation. That's the main thing. I don't why rival GMs care though. Isn't this all born from a desire to over-protect high-priced commodities? I'd love to hear (And maybe we will) what Nats players think of it, particularly the ones that might not be there next year.

I said 12, which of course was Willie Randolph's number. It just seemed so right. The producer said I seemed so sure. I thought I heard him say to someone else after "that was pretty good" and thought that meant for sure I'd get on, but I managed to spot the episode once (It's at a beer festival on Governor's island.) and I wasn't on it. alas. I was the first person to go that day. I'd barely walked in and they flagged me down (I was wearing a Mets shirt, obviously, it was Subway Series weekend. Santana I think.) and asked if I wanted to be on the show. I hadn't even had beer yet. They brought me over to the side and had me sign the waiver stuff or whatever, and then we were off. took like 15 minutes tops. Was introduced to Amber or whatever her name was and off we went. (coincidentally, prettier in person)

Yeah. All in all, pretty easy questions. (the producer guy actually asked if I wanted full history or just recent stuff. He also asked if I wanted the 3 questions or the lightning round style, so should've gone for the other..) The third question is pretty easy too, even if you don't pay that much attention to numbers. I kicked myself immediately afterwards and realized the right answer, but alas. 3. What number did Bobby Valentine wear as Mets manager?

Question 2: Which two players on the 2006 Mets homered from both sides of the plate in the same game?

Memories of Joaquin Arias ended rather abruptly, with Ceetar never following through on a tease about his shot on Beer Money. would you believe they cut my clip as well? bastards. I guess I'm not appropriately photogenic. Okay, questions first, and then the story. (I may be muffing/paraphrasing this, it was a while ago) Question 1: "This member of the 500 home run club hit #500 as a Met"

http://theropolitans.com/2012/09/mets-move-triple-to-las-vegas-inherit.html

MFS62 wrote: Its the start of "Firm Up Your 40 Man Roster Before the Rule V Draft" Time. It is the second favorite season of year for baseball fans. (Well, maybe tied with second with the free agent signing and trading seasons.) Later Those guys are already on the 40 man. I guess it's probably just notekeeping "these guys are going to major league camp" etc.

Matrix and Fight Club probably are near the top of my list of just about any category they qualify for, never mind 90s. Of course, I haven't seen a lot of these.

Edgy DC wrote: 10/04/12: New York Mets recalled Kirk Nieuwenhuis from Las Vegas 51s. I guess that makes it all real. What's the philosophy on that. I saw that recalled some guys from Binghamton too. what's the difference which roster they're not playing on this winter?

disappointing, because if the Yankees do advance you'd like to have Verlander for 1-4-7 and you won't now.

my calendar page today applies: "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." -Kin Hubbard

Also, do Yankees fans/people/writers realize that game didn't win the World Series, the Pennant, even the division series?

Frayed Knot wrote: Fman99 wrote: How insufferable is my Facebook feed these days. I wish I knew less Yankee fans. You could always just kill them all. I was going to say that. Actually, I was going to use 'we'.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ceetar wrote: like I said ,it's like the old guys playing on the kiddie field. Just loft one into that jet stream over the short porch. A child could do it. I mean, you know where I stand on the us-versus-them, our-true-playing-versus-their-bandbox issue. But man, that was [crossout]practically[/crossout] into the second deck. yeah yeah, but coming down. so what? 30 feet beyond the fence maybe? a double in half the parks in the country, at least. plus no one seems to talk about it any more, but seems to be a bit of a current out in the gaps at that place. whatever.

like I said ,it's like the old guys playing on the kiddie field. Just loft one into that jet stream over the short porch. A child could do it.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Caught looking? That wasn't very Endy of Endy. yeah, usually he's more of a soft fly ball to centerfield off Suppan guy.

G-Fafif wrote: Ceetar wrote: Aaron Small and Shawn Chacon winning like 18 of 20 games they pitched in..2007? 2005 -- also when they pulled washed-up Marlin Al Leiter off the scrap heap and drained useful innings out of him. I'd forgotten he pitched for them that year. actually, looks like not well.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: It may be this Armstrong stuff I'm reading now but I have a good idea of what's happening there. Are you suggesting that the greatest city on earth and the team with the highest payroll might know the best ways to get an edge? What also helps, at least for the hitters, is that when you want to give the old guys a handicap, just like you would a child, you move the walls in. Getting to play at Yankee Stadium is like playing on the kiddie field.

'not a pay raise' seems like a perfect place to open a negotiation. "We want you here, let's keep paying you what we're paying you."

Frayed Knot wrote: Like I said, winning teams almost always have one of those - it's part of why they become winning teams. But, yeah, that doesn't change the fact that I could go on and on (as could most of us here) about the MFYs getting out-of-nowhere contributions exactly when they needed it from guys who were never as good either before or after but I try to avoid it because it sounds too much like sour grapes even though I'm convinced they got more of it than anyone. Gooden having his only good stretch as a Yanqui match up almost perfectly with Cone's absence when he had his aneurysm surgery is just one example. Aaron Small and Shawn Chacon winning like 18 of 20 games they pitched in..2007?

G-Fafif wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: That's Sam Page, late of Amazin' Avenue, no? Same. Still writes for AA on occasion. And is in college. College. And I never realized he was that young either. Stupid young people.

on R.A. Dickey, good read. http://deadspin.com/5947192/what-the-best-pitcher-in-baseball-taught-me-about-prep-school-socrates-and-the-art-of-not-selling-out

I wonder if the Vegas environment plays in to who they sent. what 'level' is this league considered?