Ceetar

also, sounds like Collins expects Beato in the bullpen.

Woah, how'd the Angels sign away Matt Harvey? that sucks! (You swapped him and Izzy)

I apparently went with 2012: The Big Tease

8:30 start a problem for anyone else? Do we want to put a end/postpone time on it if we're not done, or push through until we have ~30 players? Mon 3/12 and Thursday 3/22 so far are the days we're all free (though someone still missing)

metirish wrote: Mets looking at Pudge......maybe http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/02/mets-consider-signing-pudge-rodriguez.html Not that that one hasn't been shot down a million times, but Rubin shot it down again tonight.

out-class? Come on, this is the Yankees we're talking about, they take the team photos in a high end...bathroom?

think max is 12 anyway, although I fail to see why it can't go to 30 other than no one really wants to have to draft Willie Harris. There were more than 6 of us here that wanted in right? *pokes around* hey you! Let's give them a couple more days/this week to sign up, then we'll fill out the league with outsiders (And maybe convert them to insiders?) Do we want to target a draft day one night during the week of March 12-16th? say..the 15th at 8pm? or how about this: http://www.doodle.com/xp637kg2xn65mnn3 I blocked off the two workweeks in mid-march, maybe we can find a time we're all free?

http://www.espnmilwaukee.com/common/more.php?m=49&post_id=7037 Statement from the collector.

"Perhaps we shouldn't have setup the backstop in front of Jeff Wilpon's window."

TransMonk wrote: Well, if their not a good baseball team, they can try to sell tickets by impersonating a circus. Or Byrdak can come charging out of the bullpen, body slam Roy Halladay and tag in Francisco to pitch.

Maybe the appeal isn't successful without it being leaked and the public perception. The bottom line is he took something, and he should probably just shut up at this point, let it go, and switch to something they don't test for like everyone else.

dinosaur jesus wrote: I dreamed last night that the Mets had given the first base job to a giant piece of lasagna. I was considering whether to draft it in my fantasy league. Baseball Prospectus wasn't too high on it, but with the fences coming in at Citi, it should be good for fifteen or twenty homers. could you imagine all the cheesy headlines if they did that?

It's always all gibberish and doubletalk. I doubt anyone asked followup questions though, they got their quotes and they'll fit into the narrative as appropriate.

These are good, I need to get in on this one night when I have time.

Edgy DC wrote: When did we get from being disgusted by the Mets' management and refusing to go as a principled statement to the games being too gosh-darned expensive to go to... when we want to... which we don't? When Wilpon mentioned attendance/revenue and how they need it. I'm not sure when anyone was making a principled statement about refusing to go. That's a personal decision that I want no part of. edit: feel free to split off the ticket discussion if you like. I find that stuff kind of interesting, tracking the dynamic pricing and the promotions and whatnot.

metirish wrote: Gwreck wrote: If this had been handled properly, nobody should have even known about the alleged positive test. if it had happened this way who's sample would that have belonged too?, Braun claims that that sample wasn't his right? The sample that was sent in was positive?, not even sure if I am making sense......to me the technicality has proved very opportune for Braun. It's sorta win-win for everyone. Braun's got years to work on his reputation, and you don't exactly hear A-Rod getting flak every day for steroids. He doesn't get suspended, MLB gets to look like they're taking a real hard line but don't actually have to suspend the MVP.. This stuff gets out. I mean, how many people have been named in that 2003 pre-testing report? A-Rod has the exact same gripe. Isn't Bonds public guilt largely due to leaked Grand Jury testimony? We would've known he was involved with Balco, but not how clearly. All that Cream/Clear stuff..

metirish wrote: Kids free in September was a great promotion last season.....will that happen again? I hope not. (In that they don't have the tickets available to do so) I suspect we'll get all sorts of those promotions though, and good or bad there will be tickets available. Talked with the person in charge of those things in December and she seemed pretty serious about it. Also said the BJs Clubhouse didn't do so well and seemed to take offense when I told her Left Field Landing is the worst section in the park.

Ashie62 wrote: The price of the tickets are reaonable. Its all the other crap that runs my bill up. If I lived in the neighborhood I'd probably go to most games. Beats cable and the interweb anyday. Port Authority bridge toll increases hit me hardest. It's virtually the only downside to having moved from LI to NJ.

Gwreck wrote: Ceetar wrote: They've lowered prices at Citi Field every year. And volume of affordable tickets much less than just about every other NY franchise (in all sports) Dynamic pricing is looking interesting. Looks like they'll be able to better capitalize financially on hype (OD already up about $10). Jury still out on if the corresponding price drop for midweek and crappy games compensates. That they have lowered prices each year doesn't mean the tickets are now priced correctly. Dynamic pricing would be interesting if it was true dynamic pricing, but it isn't, as there is an artificial price floor. There will be no market-value price drop for midweek/early season games because the Mets committed to not dropping the price below the season ticketholder price. Similarly, Stubhub sales also have an artificial price floor because of the minimum $5/ticket service charge and $5 delivery fee. All the dynamic pricing does is allow the Mets to make more money on in-demand games. This is not a consumer-friendly measure. I'm not sure anyone knows what 'priced correctly' is. Yes, $53 after fees for Promenade Infield is a bit steep. They gouge you on platinum games and dynamic pricing will kill you on games you really like if you're not proactive. It is a business after all. On the other hand I can get in to most weekday game for less than it costs me to get there, or about as much as a regularly priced movie ticket.($13. Never mind IMAX or 3D) Two beers at many bars in the city(often $5-6, not including tip). Even for the top non-platinum tier, the ticket to get in is only $3 more than the Met, which is $25. The Intrepid Museum is $22 (the price of many weekend games). And to me the experience at Citi Field is worth so much more than what I get at those other entertainment options. And those are the cheap options. How about the Circus? Broadway? These are the entertainment options the Mets are competing with.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I think Twitter made it look worse because 3/4 of the jokes made online are funnier than anything-- ANYTHING-- they put on screen last night (and honestly, AMPAS and NARAS and the NFL should thank GOD that Twitter and real-time social-networking exist-- they're the only reason live-televised events still draw decent ratings). The truly shocking thing about his Sammy Davis impression isn't that it was in blackface-- it's that he was aiming to get laughs with a SAMMY DAVIS JR. impression. I'm pretty sure I heard a J. Edgar Hoover drag joke in there, too. Put another way: when you start longingly wondering what a post-1980s Eddie Murphy and Brett F*cking Ratner would've done with this show, you know you're watching something poorly conceived. oh, not just this one. Things that I think are at least passingly interesting get routinely slaughtered on Twitter. It's like amateur hour. There seems to be this sense of obligation to these events that don't exist any more. Many people watching (me included, although if my wife didn't put it on, i wouldn't have) hadn't even seen half the movies. Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I imagine it stems from the people interested in a particular part of a show aren't tweeting about it, they're watching, and the people that don't find it interesting use that time to complain.

metirish wrote: Billy Ctystal in black-face and then Octavia Spencer winning was inspired....... awful show made tolerable by having a laugh on twitter....the sound was awful too, what was up with that ABC? I think Twitter made it worse, though I couldn't stay way. In fact, I have yet to come across any 'popular' TV event that's not routinely sarcastically criticized on Twitter.

when in this world the headlines read of those whose hearts are filled with greed who rob and steal from those who need to right this wrong with blinding speed

Gwreck wrote: I found this bit remarkably self-aware, and yet still maddeningly frustrating as he fails to acknowledge they are charging NY prices for a Pittsburgh-quality team: But we have a diminished population coming to Citi Field. We need that revenue. We just can't do it on air. We need that revenue to support. And the only way we're going to get that revenue is if we have a competitive, interesting team on the field. Otherwise, they're not going to come just because they love Citi Field. They've lowered prices at Citi Field every year. And volume of affordable tickets much less than just about every other NY franchise (in all sports) Dynamic pricing is looking interesting. Looks like they'll be able to better capitalize financially on hype (OD already up about $10). Jury still out on if the corresponding price drop for midweek and crappy games compensates.

sure he'll get flak for the jokes. Of course, he'll get criticized for whatever he says or doesn't say at this point so he might as well say what he wants. Glad he clarified the All-Star Game thing. NYC Red Tape, gee, who would've guessed that that slows things down? Of course, this means that this information was readily available to all the beat writers who chose instead to say "It's basically official" and spend their time breaking down who arrived to Spring Training when.

will be in 512, row 2 for Opening Day. Also 520, row 8 for Saturday June 23rd Subway Series game. Unfortunately, I may bring some enemies/family.