Ceetar

I'm without a doubt TIVOing that first broadcast. SNY.tv still lists the 2011 tv schedule though.

Fman99 wrote: That is so not getting it done for me. I need action, live video. When does SNY release their spring training TV schedule? First radio broadcast is 3/5 at 6pm. Should have Howie, since he's got a game on LI the night before and then has until the 8th to get to Newark.

TransMonk wrote: I'm jonesin'.... poke around Metsblog and twitter.com/mets lots of pictures today.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: OK, I'm in too. Took a while to find where I could sign up. Yeah, guess you have to have a fangraphs account too, and then join Otto Neu?

http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/209/home is the league home page. the password is Hietpas http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hietpjo01.shtml

Nymr83 wrote: ok, i'm as long as its on a night where i can make it to the auction. We all do have to make it, otherwise it doesn't quite work. So that should be no problem.

metsmarathon wrote: i think the point of that is not necessarily to give the boot to your best player, but perhaps your most underpaid player. if you have albert pujols for $1, we're probably gonna vote him off. but if you have him for $100, well, if that's how you wanna spend your cap space, who are we to argue? i like it, especially for the first year as we try to figure things out. besides, maybe we'll all be gentlemanly, and vote for noone, or agree in advance to vote for noone, and if anybody violates it, then we shun them and give 'em the stinkeye. We certainly have like 11 months to decide on that.

Can that "feature" be turned off? I don't like the idea of the league forcing you to drop your best player No, unless we trusted all owners to vote 'no one'. It's supposed to maintain competitive balance. You do get a $5 discount on this player though, a hometown discount. If you successfully re-win the player at auction, you get him for $5 less than you paid. This is a post about the auction draft: http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/ottoneu-how-to-the-auction-draft/ Basically take turns nominating a guy, 15 seconds for everyone else to change the bid and reset the 15 seconds.

Frayed Knot wrote: According to Wikipedia (so you know it's true) Lewin was born in Rochester, grew up outside of Boston, went to college in Illinois, and got his big break doing hockey in Detroit - so it'll be interesting how he explains his NYM fandom. Not that I think it matters really, I just think he'd be better off NOT trying to claim it unless it actually is true. It's an open question, but that comment about WFAN gives me pause. Hey, FAN was not only the first but is Masterpiece Theatre compared to most sports talk radio. Not unreasonable for his parents to be Mets fans in Rochester I guess, if he started doing minor league games at 16 (Orioles affiliate) it implies he was back in Rochester prior to '86. Seems like he'd have ended up a Red Sox fan (or Orioles) but maybe not.

Nymr83 wrote: Prefer 5x5 over 4x4... No thanks on the more complicated system mentioned above. If I can see how my players did by looking at the box score on my phone I'm likely to be less interested as the year goes on. I'm firmly a "maybe" at this point... Waiting to see what the draft situation (logistics) will be and the keeper rules. If no keepers we should just go back for another season of yahoo instead of everyone creating an account and having a new website to check Can keep as many guys as you want. Can cut guys for free in the offseason. I believe you also lose one player that gets voted off your team by the other owners.

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metsmarathon wrote: i think the auction is tied to the league. while that's a novel concept, it would only work with either a custom application, or an offline draft. yeah, tied to the league. We can pick a time and if people need to bail we can always suspend and pick it up another day. We do all have to get legal rosters through the draft I believe, but we can fill out the ends via free agency bidding, which is basically the same auction/bidding logic just drawn out over 2 days allowing other owners to outbid you. I'll set up the 4x4 tonight/tomorrow, and we can see if we need to add a couple of teams and pick a draft date.

G-Fafif wrote: Ceetar wrote: the day they traded Beltran they were 2 games (with 3 to play) behind the team that would win the Wild Card. Where was this information about the Cardinals in late July when it could have been useful? At least Joe Posnanski called the World Series in late August (sort of). Mets had a better record at the 2010 All-Star break than the team that won the 2010 World Series. Shows one team made the most of its opportunities and one didn't. Not sure that hindsight standings indicate 2010 Mets were better than the 2010 Giants or 2011 Mets were nearly as good as the 2011 Cardinals. Clearly, in hindsight. Maybe the 2012 Mets make the most of their opportunities. I don't think it'd be more or less surprising than the Cardinals or Giants.

G-Fafif wrote: If Sandy needs to frame the Mets as net-bolstered by the prospective returns of Davis and Santana, versus where they were at the end of 2011, it doesn't come off (to me, anyway) as incredibly crazy or insulting (Reyes's departure notwithstanding). But the best way to get a "message" across is with Davis hitting, Santana pitching and the Mets winning. Everything else is going to slam into a wall of "prove it" until then -- and not wrongly so. And I think we need to take it as the offseason message that it was. In a week Santana is going to stand on a mound, Davis is going to pick up a bat and we can be off and running.

G-Fafif wrote: At their midseason peak, the Mets were never closer than 6-1/2 out of the Wild Card. the day they traded Beltran they were 2 games (with 3 to play) behind the team that would win the Wild Card. Yes, of course it doesn't always result in the top team collapsing, but what if last year the Mets had chosen to keep Beltran and ADD a pitcher? Just saying anything can happen, and just because things look insurmountable on paper doesn't always mean they are.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm with Vic. Sure we're all (including myself) going to hope for that miraculous season where everything breaks the right way and the Mets win the World Series, but it's much more realistic to expect a fourth- or fifth-place season. Yes, the Mets have a decent shot at being better than they were last year, but that's not setting the bar very high. I anticipate that this is going to be a mostly gloomy season dominated by David Wright trade rumors. I hope I'm wrong, but hoping won't make it so. simply a little better could mean 84ish wins and 'battling' all season. Mets were only 2 behind the Wild Card when they traded Beltran last season. Add Ike and Murphy to that and who knows right? It's also a long season and the Mets have more prospects at the higher ends of the minors. Wouldn't be the most surprising thing in the world if someone comes up and really helps. Sandy's typically preached leaving himself room for adjustments, and that he likes to make trades midseason. so if the Mets really were flirting with it, financial sidebars be damned, he's going to tweak some things. I'm not sure it's deluding or reasonable to not keep an eye out for these things.

apparently he's a hockey guy too. Should make Howie happy.

34 (i think, i already forgot) crappy, but I'm not good recalling those guys from old days. Only Embarrassed by a couple.

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Brian McRae capped a four-run first inning with a two-run single and Rick Reed returned from the disabled list to toss six effective innings as the New York Mets remained hot with a 5-3 victory over the Houston Astros. http://web.archive.org/web/20000229233643/http://mets.com/ Trying to find out what day tickets went on sale in 2000.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Thin starting pitching + poor defense is going to make winning difficult every single night. Over the course of a long season it will show. I like the O on the other hand. I don't really care about what Sandy says. we'll see about the starting pitching. may surprise us. Plus August/September may see some prospects, who knows. I think the defense is getting a little bit of a bad rap, but everyone's going to start out playing the positions they're planning to play all season, so that should help at least a little.

Edgy DC wrote: I believe the Mets will be better in 2012 than they were in 2011. and if Sandy didn't believe that, even if it's only publicly, he wouldn't exactly be doing his job.

Quote: �It�s a perception,� Alderson acknowledged Sunday. �But I don�t think anybody in the division could add any more talent to their roster than we can. We�re talking about adding Johan Santana. We�re talking about adding Ike Davis. Daniel Murphy was the fifth-leading hitter in the league when he went out with his injury. David Wright missed two months. [All are expected to be full participants in spring training.] We�ve substantially improved our bullpen. �So, did we add talent? I think we did, the fact that we didn�t sign someone for $100 million notwithstanding. � It�s an uphill battle getting that message across.� Feel free to forgive Sandy for any moves/non-moves if you feel his hands have been tied, but I refuse to excuse him for saying stupid shit. You know why it's an uphill battle? Because it's a dumb thing to say. From a year ago, we've lost our two best players (Reyes and Beltran) and our best reliever (Rodriguez). We've replaced them with crap. Just rebuild. Stop insulting our intelligence. The bullpen looks good, and Duda is replacing Beltran, and none of that looks like crap. For all the talk of payroll drop, it's possible that the payroll on the field could be the same as last year. The "It's a lock for the Mets to finish last" comments out there are dumb things to say. I thought 2012 Payroll was down 54 million? Mets 2011 Payroll of players on the field: $97,202,602

Quote: �It�s a perception,� Alderson acknowledged Sunday. �But I don�t think anybody in the division could add any more talent to their roster than we can. We�re talking about adding Johan Santana. We�re talking about adding Ike Davis. Daniel Murphy was the fifth-leading hitter in the league when he went out with his injury. David Wright missed two months. [All are expected to be full participants in spring training.] We�ve substantially improved our bullpen. �So, did we add talent? I think we did, the fact that we didn�t sign someone for $100 million notwithstanding. � It�s an uphill battle getting that message across.� Feel free to forgive Sandy for any moves/non-moves if you feel his hands have been tied, but I refuse to excuse him for saying stupid shit. You know why it's an uphill battle? Because it's a dumb thing to say. From a year ago, we've lost our two best players (Reyes and Beltran) and our best reliever (Rodriguez). We've replaced them with crap. Just rebuild. Stop insulting our intelligence. The bullpen looks good, and Duda is replacing Beltran, and none of that looks like crap. For all the talk of payroll drop, it's possible that the payroll on the field could be the same as last year. The "It's a lock for the Mets to finish last" comments out there are dumb things to say.

Thought we had a thread for random stuff related to the Mets not deserving of it's own thread. No? well then. Somebody printed the 2012 Yankees schedule to the printer next to me. I wrote in "L" next to all the Mets games