Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

This is Francisco Lindor, basically telling Mets fans they can hose off.

The Mets have some marketable people.  There is that Polar Bear guy, and Max Scherzer, and Verlander and McNeil….and they keep picking the worst choice possible. Here is the Mets’ new overhyped ad…

 

Something Amazin’ awaits!

2️⃣/1️⃣2️⃣/2️⃣3️⃣

Be the first to get access 👉 https://t.co/UweYKixAxZ pic.twitter.com/jH5XSaJ3NV

— New York Mets (@Mets) January 28, 2023

Folks were all excited about the ad running durig football….it’s basically a This Is Sportscenter knockoff…and it’s just trying to sell you tickets. Maybe even with that lame annual “it’s now baseball season” thing that losers do five seconds after the Super Bowl.

Anyway….another poor choice by the Mets, but what else is new?

If Matt Harvey was goofing around at a hockey game instead of focusing on making sure his organization won a World Series while nicely dressed, you guys would be mad at him.

If you’re looking for a snazzy low crown Mets cap that both says that you miss the old stadium and that you might get run off by 6 Padres Fans if it’s cold, you have to work tomorrow or the buzz is off because the Braves won the division – this is the cap for you!  I’m sure @mediagoon has two!

Available at fine purveyors of t-shirts near you!

 

 

So, uh, Doc….you say you visited 2023.  How many more World Series have the Mets won? Probably a lot!

None Marty.  None at all.

None at all?  But what about Gooden?  He must have easily won 300 games, right?  How did they not win with him on the mound all those years?  Did he get hurt or something?

Drugs, Marty.  Drugs.   He played 16 seasons but he didn’t even win TWO hundred games.

That’s crazy, Doc.  What about Darryl Strawberry?  He must have hit like 500 home runs!

Strawberry left for Los Angeles as soon as he could.   He only hit 335 home runs, but he did win two World Series with the Yankees!

The Yankees??? That’s terrible.

Gooden was a Yankee too!  He threw a no-hitter for them!

Come on Doc.  A no-hitter? You’re killing me.  Did ANYONE ever throw a no-hitter for the Mets?

Yes!!! A man named Santana.  He was VERY good.  But they let him throw too many pitches and it ruined his career.  But we did get cool t-shirts!

Was he a home grown player?

No.  We haven’t had too many of these.  There was one guy, but he left for Miami as soon as he could…and the other one, he was really good for a while, the team Captain, but…well… he had spinal stenosis and things didn’t work out.

You’re telling me that it’s been 35 years and they didn’t win anything and they barely have any home grown stars?

There was a pitcher!  Long flowing hair!  Two Cy Youngs!  But he went to Texas as soon as he could leave.  And they did win two pennants between now and 2023!

Well that’s good.  At least they made the World Series. Who did they lose to?

The Yankees.  

The Yankees?

The Yankees.  And it happened at Shea.  Then there was a second pennant but they lost that one to the Royals…. people stopped talking about that one after a few years.  There was a kid on that Mets team they called The Next Seaver

The Next Seaver? He must have been really good!

Actually he finished his career 50 and 66 with a 4.42 ERA

What happened to the actual Seaver?  Did he ever get his statue?

He died during the pandemic…

The WHAT?

Oh yeah Marty, there was a world wide pandemic and everything shut down, you couldn’t even leave your house.  Unfortunately, Tom passed away before the Wilpons put up the statue.

Doc, did ANYTHING good happen before 2023.

No, Marty, not really.

 

From Cord Cutter News….

Today it is being reported that Sincalir’s Sports Channels are preparing for bankruptcy. This would include the Bally Sports RSNs.

Sinclair will likely seek to end some contracts with teams and cut back on payments to others.

Now let’s take a look at the pretty map.  I see a lot of baseball team logos on there,

What’s going to happen when the baseball teams either do’t get paid, or get paid a fraction of the original deal?  Say you owe Carlos Correa $200,000,000.  What then?

What happens if the RSN decides to broadcast the cheapest version of the game?

Maybe you try and get out of the contract with the RSN….and take your rights, where exactly?  Everywhere else isn’t New York where you might have options.

If you DID have an option how much would the new option pay you?

And sure maybe someone starts a local Baseball Streaming Thing, the price of which seems to be around $20.  YOU might give the baseball team $20 a month, but how many people will?  I would not pay for MetsVision right now, no matter how many people Steve signs – weekend games are useless to me, as are the weekday day games….and I barely watched last season even though they won 101 games (modern baseball is quite boring.)

And once again, the baseball team’s revenue has gone down.  Also remember that someone has to actually produce these games for BaseballStreamingVision

This is about to get VERY interesting as teams possible maybe perhaps don’t have the income they planned on.