Hi,
I expect this to be UNPOPULAR and you guys will tell me I am a fake phony fan, but I wanted to share a new breakthrough with you which speaks to a larger thing when it comes to the Mets and their product.
Now before you start telling me I am a fake fan, I’m in my 41st season and I will still be here in August when you’re wearing your #99 jersey in the Bronx so I don’t want to hear it.
Yesterday I had some time between soccer games and was out on Better Than Wright’s Deck 2.0 for an hour. In the past I would have grabbed my phone or radio to listen to the game. Yesterday, I decided not to bother. The audio on WOR is crap, the audio on the App is crap. It’s been well discussed and nobody cares and nobody fixes it, so if they don’t care why should I.
So I hung out poolside, and around 6pm checked the score. Hey, the Mets won, that’s nice.
I had already Take(n) Back Saturday Night from baseball. I’ve made it into Movie slash Video Games slash Socialize With Friends night and I think it’s the best thing I’ve done in years.
I’ve also decided to stop chasing games past 10pm on weeknights. I’m starting to see national blogs and Big Time Broadcasters like Ron Darling talk about how horrible the end of games are now. So I have cut them out of my life.
All these have been good changes. In the past I gave up Monday Night Football and then Sunday Night Football and then the now-unwatchable 4pm NFL Window. I can enjoy Red Zone ADD action from 1-4:30 and then I go on with my life. Now with baseball, I got my weekends back.
Now these are bendable rules. If I want to watch on Saturday night I will. If I want to listen on my deck I will. Right now I’m looking forward to watching tonight and tomorrow out on the deck (I have soccer and volleyball on Wednesday).
So, that’s where my head is. The Mets’ product, and at a larger level that of MLB, is losing the battle for my most valuable commodity which is TIME. This has nothing to do with the team’s record. As I have told you guys before I went through 1986 with half the games not on TV and blew off Cablevision’s outrageous Sportschannel fees in the late 90s – and I watched all of 2009-August 2015 when half of you didn’t. So again, I don’t want to hear that I took a Saturday night off.
I’m not suggesting you change your behavior or take any action here. This is me just sharing a piece of my life. LGM.
