SLACKISH REACTION: Hey, there is actual Mets news today. I had mentioned that I didn’t want to bang out Morning Laziness columns day after day just to tell you there was no Mets news, but today we actually have some.
The superstar couple is working with managing director Eric Menell, the bank’s co-head of North American media investment banking, said the people, who were granted anonymity because the matter is private. Menell didn’t respond to several requests seeking comment.
How exciting. Now your sports talk show on the radio doesn’t have to talk about Michael Jordan today and you can talk about this!
Then there sis this. I find everything about this annoying on both sides.
A pair of fans in New York sued Major League Baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred and the 30 teams, asking for their money back for tickets and for certification of class-action status.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by Matthew Ajzenman, who said he bought a partial season plan for more than 20 Mets games; and Susan Terry-Bazer, who said she purchased six tickets for a May 9 game at Yankee Stadium against Boston.
“Baseball fans are stuck with expensive and unusable tickets for unplayable games in the midst of this economic crisis,” the lawsuit said. “Under the pretext of `postponing’ games, at the directive of MLB, teams and ticket merchants are refusing to issue refunds for games which are not going to be played as scheduled — if ever.” (Via NY Post)
So on the one hand, yeah I have mentioned before that the owners seem to me to be holding an interest free loan for product not delivered. On the other hand, a big noisy lawsuit over six tickets…what’s really going on here? Is this just a lawyer going deep sea fishing?
And, baseball is now talking about three labor camps – one in Florida, one in Texas, and one in Arizona, because God forbid you don’t have a baseball game to watch on TV.
“Nobody comes to the stadiums,” Fauci said, talking about fans. “Put (athletes) in big hotels, wherever you want to play. Keep them very well-surveilled, but have them tested like every week and make sure they don’t wind up infecting each other or their families and just let them play the season out.” (via SNY)
You know what, let’s do it. Make Pete Alonso sit in a hotel room for four months so Jeff Wilpon doesn’t lose any more money. 100%. Start this today.
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It was nice to have actual Mets news. I hope you have been enjoying Coronavirus Filler.
Sports Websites must be getting destroyed. Traffic here is dowwwwwnnnn, especially since April is usually a big month. Part of that is me writing less, and worse…and not fueling it on twitter all day…..but the reason I am not doing all that is because forced content is just an attempt to drag a website uphill (someone tell the Amazing Apple Insiderized Mets Blog that…or maybe the people at Content Farm Corporate already know and the layoffs are coming)….what will bring the numbers back is Actual Baseball and what will spike the numbers is Winning Baseball.
And if layoffs do come from Content Farm Corporate I sincerely hope that those affected immediately find better paying jobs in completely new fields and that they find everlasting happiness in a world without churning out crap Mets articles and spamming search engines. You guys can all still talk to each other on the message board.
