Ceetar

Sandy's been busy, and will be busy. things like extensions can be worked out during a slower time.

Edgy DC wrote: I don't suggest it as an easy solution, but to mock the notion of eliminating partial plans. Well, they could turn the Promenade into a giant Shake Shack and reduce capacity to 25k. That'd help too :-D

Edgy DC wrote: There is a way: sell out the stadium on season plans. They're working on it. I dunno, didn't the Yankees attempt it and fail?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The fuck's a Dan Murray? Jon Nunnally. (I'm running out of bullets here.) I'd never haerd of Nunnally until I looked up the roster. He was 8th in ROY voting one year.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ceetar wrote: themetfairy wrote: metirish wrote: Season ticket holders is still where it's at, FU Mr. walk up fan. FU Mr. Partial Plan Holder also. Well, they haven't announced anything in that regard yet, so we'll see. I hope they realize (and judging by the way they've conducted business in the past they do) that partial plans is really where they can hope to make some money. Probably they're trying to get season tickets first, logically, and the perks for 12/15 help them analyze how many seats they need/want to make into partial plan seats, and hopefully they'll offer perks in some regard. In the 1990's I had a conversation with someone in the Mets offices who told me that the organization especially hated the partial plans in the field boxes and wished that there was a way to revoke all of those partial plans without creating a PR nightmare. I don't doubt it, even if it was a long long time ago, but with the way ticket prices and payrolls have skyrocketed since then, and the state of the economy..partial plans are the limits of peoples budgets..at best. I remember hearing rumors that the Mets didn't want to have partial plans in Citi Field at all.

themetfairy wrote: metirish wrote: Season ticket holders is still where it's at, FU Mr. walk up fan. FU Mr. Partial Plan Holder also. Well, they haven't announced anything in that regard yet, so we'll see. I hope they realize (and judging by the way they've conducted business in the past they do) that partial plans is really where they can hope to make some money. Probably they're trying to get season tickets first, logically, and the perks for 12/15 help them analyze how many seats they need/want to make into partial plan seats, and hopefully they'll offer perks in some regard.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The remaining answers are tough. One of the remaining two Mets played for no other team but the 2000 Mets. I gave up. I remember that guy, but not the other. I remember probably 80% of the roster, but not that guy who did play a decent amount of games. Kinda ashamed i don't even recognize his name.

Shot int he dark...Yoshii?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Dunston's last game was in 2002. Also, Dunston wasn't a 2000 Met. well I fail. guess that was '99. Melvin Mora

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This quiz has five answers. One guess per post. Name the two members of the 2000 Mets who played the last game of their respective MLB careers in 2000. Name the three members of the 2000 Mets who were active in 2010. Shawn Dunston

Edgy DC wrote: I'm trying to decide if rich chumps announcing the starting lineup crosses a line. Probably, but it's better than when Fox has some random backup infielder do it.

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Eventually, yes. But I think that it will only take a week or less for the long list to get down to five or six. internal candidates this week, and by internal I assume "guys everyone else thinks I should interview" followed by his guys next week and a narrow list of 3-4 that he wants seconds of?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The list may be long now, but I suspect it will shrink rapidly to about five or six people at most. I suspect it'll shrink to about 1.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Oh, I think Omar had a longterm plan. It just didn't work. Everyone has a long term plan. But things change, and Omar didn't adjust his plan fast enough or well enough. But this is why I'm not goingto get all giddy for 2012 or 2013. It's not a given that Alderson's plan will work either.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This quiz has nine answers. One guess per post. Name the four members of the '86 Mets who played the last game of their respective MLB careers in 1986. Name the five members of the '86 Mets who played MLB in the 21st century. Orosco.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: But he needed the Mets permission to talk to other clubs. Because they didn't do anything, Johnson was able to get away, but because they didn't do anything Bove wasn't able to talk to other teams? umm...

So he's heard rumors, which lead him to certain conclusions, nothing that anyone else knows and it's all circumstantial, and this either happened recently or is new information or is someone big enough to keep him out of Flushing but not out of Brooklyn?

metirish wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Matt Cerrone wrote: The Mets have announced a 5 pm conference for today with Alderson, according to the Daily News. One assumes it's not about the concession stands , OMFG, the wait will kill me. They do really need another shake shack.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Matt Cerrone wrote: The Mets have announced a 5 pm conference for today with Alderson, according to the Daily News. Does this guy sleep? Fired some scouts today, sounds like.

on a clarity level, it may look confusing but the seating and pricing page now describes which sections and rows each tier applies to. $1 more expensive for the cheapest seat, but there are more of them at that value price. Looks like a lot more tickets dropped into "sorta kinda affordable for the average guy/family" level. More reasonably priced tickets for some of the field level stuff. (Yankees seem to have raised prices, if you were curious)

It depends on how big a deal the Mets consider it, and if they're in it. There's a lot that goes unsaid that we'll likely never know. Supposedly K-Rod likes to work regularly, but is that just a way to get his option to vest? Manuel never took the guy out, even after he'd blown a save. Will the new guy adhere to the 'get back on the horse' philosophy or when he blows one and they need another pitcher will he (or she) make a move? Sometimes you get into 'big games' where you're tempted to bring in the closer for a 4-run lead. The biggest swing decision will probably be the 'closer on the road' thing of tie games. if the new guy is going to hold out K-Rod for if/when they get a lead, it's more likely than if he pitches the 9th or 10th of the tie game.

Frayed Knot wrote: Hell, I'll take Lopes as a base-running coach and whatever else he wants to do (odd that he was the OF coach after being an IF all his career). Except for probably Hale, I could see the entire 2010 NYM coaching staff looking for work this winter so it's not like there won't be holes to fill. And I bet he can tell Mets pitchers are there little hitches that baserunners run off of. Could be worth hiring him just for that.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Wilson's just as likable when he's being awestruck*. Good for all these guys. *ALSO: Chris Rose is terrible. It's like 3 minutes after the game and Rose was trying to get Renteria to say he was going to retire. Makes you wonder if maybe Brett Favre isn't really a retireaholic and it was all media driven.

Francessa, naturally, disagrees.