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G-Fafif wrote: I don't precisely recall if St. Pete was ditched on merit, save maybe for having to share with the Cardinals. I loved it over there, both as an attendee in my college days and just absorbing it via TV and the papers. St. Lucie was pitched as bigger, better, ready to grow, all ours...and now they need a new cohabitant. My vote is for the Twins! Port Charlotte sucks and its' Red Sox nation down there!

What was the impetus for leaving Tampa anyway? Or was Tampa not real nice back then? it's kinda nice that you can run into and interact with the players all around the PSL 'nightlife' but they'd do better attendance-wise too in a real place.

it's a long trip for practice. The Mets occasionally play some of those teams..they played the Red Sox last year. I was there, and I made the trip to PSL afterwards too. It's long. Even the Astros/Braves isn't exactly down the road. This is even written into the Mets lease. If other teams leave, the Mets have an out. I do wish the teams would move to one side of Florida or the other though. Maybe they can entice the Pirates to join them (Bradenton is a dump) although the Red Sox (not happening, new park) or Twins would be better because it's not really a problem to play an AL team 6 times. They don't even usually play the Tigers a lot, because that's practically as far as the Yankees and Phillies. Although they do sorta play the Yankees this year, but it's the day before Opening Day. (The Yankees open in Tampa on Friday) I'm not sure what the answer is. I mean, the workouts and running and all the other stuff (promo shots, photos, medical tests, etc) is important too. You don't want to pick up the whole club for a roadtrip to the west coast for a 3-4 day swing to hit a couple of those teams either.

G-Fafif wrote: Tomorrow's game gonna run live on MLBN at 5 AM ET. Apparently they got the message. That's something at least.

On SNY. Mike Pelfrey will pitch. He'll probably have a Ham and cheese sandwich at around 3:30, because that's what he does on game days. TBD will pitch for the Astros. He's historically been unpredictable. Sometimes he pitches a gem, other times he's knocked out in the first inning.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Forgot about Sixpoint. LOVE the Sweet Action and the Bengali Tiger. One quibble: "available at Delta Club" is "unavailable to 95% of paying clientele;" it's silly to pretend otherwise, really. oh oh, definitely. sweet action, ommegang, sierra nevada, magic hat #9, Victory Hop Devil for some of the ones only available inside last year. This year i'm 99% certain that all those, and others, (except Victory and Ommegang) will be at the three craft beer stands.

Edgy DC wrote: Down 2-0 with one hit through four innings. Can somebody elbus please start one of these things? I think the I started last week were a win and a tie. But I forget when they're not on the radio cause I can't watch. I'm umm..thinking maybe you should deleted your Opening Day IGT though.

Edgy DC wrote: It speaks of the larger issue of concourse competition --- something that every new ballpark seeminlgy opens with the promise of, and that promise pretty regularly fades with the reality of the value of an exclusive marketplace. I'm going to get back to Philly this year, but they do it right. There are some other good parks out there as well. I think the Mets made the right first step by designating a 'craft beer stand' (3 of them) so that it's outside of the other stuff. If Budweiser wants more taps, they can have them. If they want the space, the craft beer can move. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Also, there's Bluepoint, which should ALWAYS be your first beer at the park, if you can help it. Yeah, and they've added two more (or so) varieties. Also moved some of the better stuff outside the Delta Club. Sixpoint Sweet Action is another awesome local brewery. And a 'good neighbor' in Brooklyn. I'm going to a Sixpoint event this weekend supporting the ASPCA. (Beer for Beasts) This is basically my focus, because Sixpoint this offseason started canning their beers. perfect for the ballpark.

At least we'll pretty much start from the second half next year, we'll know what we're doing, maybe Niv will have fixed some bugs, and we'll have a longer period of time to do the auction (like late February/early March instead of the night before the first game)

yeah, and thanks for all the spam you worthless robot!

I sent Niv an email to ask, but I'm not sure what can be done. Apparently lineups can't be set until the draft is finished.

looks like we have to set them manually post 'start of season' so everyone that has A's M's should probably do that for tomorrow.

I'm always suspect of wine people that claim to like beer but then only review it once in a while. Although i'm surprised he's even aware of this: It was scarcely better at Citi Field, where the big breweries buried an initial effort to sell local craft beers. Likely true, although unconfirmed by anyone. Brooklyn Brewery's Twitter told me that they were basically priced out by the Mets. The assumption has been that one of the big breweries told Aramark "We'll give you $$$ for those taps." There are stories about macro beer companies doing this in other places, walking into bars and paying to tap out a beer and take over a tap. There was a show on Discovery about craft beer that was supposedly canned by Big Beer. But I digress. I'm not sure what the purpose of linking beer to baseball in a porter review either besides to fill space because he doesn't have enough to say about the beers themselves. It seems like a stretch. "Hey, night games! night is dark, and Porter is dark! perfect!" ..Like summer evenings in NY aren't often sticky and hot. Which isn't exactly the best time to drink a dark rich beer. Porters are practically meals themselves, it's more of an after party beer in my opinion. I could see a good porter being a nice post-win beer. Savor the rich taste of success. But drinking a couple during the 3rd inning in the hot promenade is a heavy task. The timing of this is odd, since I _just_ posted yesterday about the new beers at Citi Field. I'm sure Asimov doesn't read Optimistic Mets Fan, but a week before the season opens and his assertion could change ,it couldn't have hurt to do a Google search about Citi Field Beer Lists. He's not totally wrong, the Mets are not where Philly is with beer at CBP, but they added a couple of new beers this season AND three craft beer stands devoted to it. The entire Big Apple Brews stand is distributed by Anheuser Busch, but some of those, like Kona, ,Widmer (They had Widmer at Shea), Redhook (which is in Brooklyn) and Goose Island (now owned, but perhaps not operated, by A- are still craft breweries. This is vastly superior to Yankee Stadium.

G-Fafif wrote: 9 AM tape delay on MLB Network...because the kind of people who would be salivating for this live shouldn't be superserved by a network presumably designed to superserve them. That is so shortsighted it's not even funny.

G-Fafif wrote: Times wine critic slums to do beer as it applies to baseball, takes too long to get to the point, then slams Citi Field selection. In New York, the situation has been dire. The selection has never been good at Yankee Stadium, where you were lucky to find a Guinness Stout among the mass-market brands sold at absurd prices. It was scarcely better at Citi Field, where the big breweries buried an initial effort to sell local craft beers. Aren't there two sizable concessions, one beyond center, the other in the Promenade food court, devoted to selling all kinds of crafts and imports, including some local representation? WTF's with "scarcely"? oh, this is going to make my day, thanks. I'll go into detail when I get to work. (those concessions you mean are ALL Aneuseuer Busch distributed btw)

Edgy DC wrote: I hear you, but, I'm laying off guys who aren't on the roster or in camp. What I'm really trying to prick my ears for is any reason I should continue to include Loewen and Rottino over Baxter, May, Johnson, or even Valdespin. Four spots --- two in the pen, two in the outfield --- looking pretty wide open. I saw the quotes float by on Twitter about Baxter over Loewen, Torres probably being ready and Batista probably the long man, but I imagine those decisions probably get pretty finalized soon.

and not freaking on TV. how lame and un-american is that? Gonna gameday Audio on the way to work in the car via my phone for my fix.

metsmarathon wrote: so what would be the point of me putting a plyer into my minor leagues? I'm not really sure. Does it do it automatically maybe just so you can see how they're doing type thing and don't accidentily sub them in?

Batista for Olson, Torres for Rottino, Baxter for Loewen, is what the word on the street seems to be.

I'm feeling a little out of it, so if It's like 8:45 and I'm nowhere to be found/non responsive...

Edgy DC wrote: Hey, start your own thread, Mr. I-Can-Read-a-Calendar. Anyhow, Mets go down 7-5, rallying in the ninth, but only plating one run and leaving the bases loaded as Thole goes down looking and Dudie flies to left. I have a feeling slow-starting is part of Thole's MO. And he could find himself getting some boo baths some time this spring. Well Thole had a good spring last year and came out of the gate like a racehorse..with three legs.

Frayed Knot wrote: Ummmm, 5/23/12 ??? hah, that's not even close. That's a getaway game in Pittsburgh on a Wednesday.

SNY debuted a new graphic, supposedly, with a pitch count. And someone left the gate open.

Edgy DC wrote: Sounds like we're both right. Anytuck, I do it all the time too. Well aren't we Mr. Optimism? I blame the NY state education system. And my lack of focus on things [crossout]like grammar and proofreading[/crossout] on everything.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Edgy DC wrote: When I'm typing quickly, I oft embarrassingly find later that I've mistyped a homonym in place of the word I meant to put there, but I really like the more nuanced meaning that comes out with Ceetar's feel/fail booboo above. Funny. I actually thought Ceetar left out some words and was trying to say "Movies very often feel the need to bridge that gap." I do crap like this all the time. But you're both wrong. I was going to write fail but thought feel the need and ended up doing half of each. oops.