Dear Mets and MLB Advanced Media,
I know you don’t care at all but I thought I would share anyway.
The short version is that I got off the train well aware that there was a Mets game, one I had just been tweeting about, and then I got in my car and got home and checked twitter and realized wow – it didn’t even occur to me to listen to the game on the radio.
Let’s catch everyone up.
For several years I complained about the audio quality during WOR radio’s broadcast of Mets games. This has nothing to do with the current rights-holder WCBS who do an excellent job. But while the games were on WOR, they seemingly would add a metallic sound to the feed (google Voltair device) and it make the game very annoying to listen to. So I didn’t.
There was also the MLB App which I subscribed to for years. And for years THE COMMERCIALS WERE SCREAMINGLY LOUD and I had to dive for the volume button every half inning. I reported it to the twitter feed and they’d blame me and my phone. For four seasons. So last year I decided I wouldn’t buy the app.
The point being, you allowed me to break the habit.
You may think my blog sucks, but hey I have written about the Mets almost every day for 12 seasons. I’ve been a fan since 1977. Maybe I’m not the best fan, but surely I am a fan. And you chased me away.
You reap what you sow, and this is what you sowed. My ride home was not some sort of stance, it was an honest true “wow I didn’t even think of radio as an option.”
So I continue to warn you about the product you guys are producing. You’ve lost Generation Z to Fortnite. There aren’t reinforcements coming when my generation dies. That will be someone else’s problem, not current management’s – but in the meantime you cannot afford to lose the Me Types because we are all you have.
Oh, just one more thing – and I know you don’t care – look at this boxscore. Is this what you want to sell to people? Good luck.
