What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
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I guess Pete doesn’t want to be in camp with his teammates as the Mets try to defend their World Championship. He’d rather be all like UFSA! UFSA! while the rest of the gang works on fundamentals with Buck.
FLUSHING, N.Y., August 16, 2022 – Carlos Carrasco underwent an MRI this morning that revealed a low-grade left oblique strain. A typical timeline for an injury of this nature is 3-4 weeks. Additional updates will be provided as appropriate.
Wow I can’t believe baseball is losing popularity, when cool caps like this are only $56.
Also isn’t this really a New York Giants cap with a Mets pin?
Anyway, even @mediagoon only bought two at this price point, and immediately headed off to a nearby storage facility where it joined his Game Used Third Base and his Juan Centeno jersey.
Hey man, the Mets took the series from the Phillies and are playing the Braves. Stop asking questions!!!!
TheCity.NYC wrote about The Casino….some excerpts…
New Green Willets has paid $120,000 so far this year to Moonshot Strategies and Hollis Public Affairs to press city officials on Willets development, including a potential casino, lobbying records show. New Green Willets itself has also spent more than $98,000 lobbying City Hall and other elected officials pertaining to development in and around Willets Point — on everything from creating hiking trails along Flushing Creek to building more housing, along with the casino.
Of course to some people spending $98,000 is like you dropping a ten. Also the hiking trails are back!!!
The current plan is to build 1,100 units of affordable housing, new businesses, hotels and a new public school by the end of the decade.
Time out…
…yeah let me know when the affordable housing is done.
There are also nearly 40 acres of privately-owned land around Willets Point, but Cohen would have to buy that land out — and likely require more years-long environmental remediation before construction could even begin, experts said.
“Even if Steve Cohen succeeded in getting state alienation, and a casino license, the Mets will still need to comply with their lease agreements regarding the number of parking spots,” said a person familiar with the lease agreement.
“It’s not so easy to just say you want to build a casino in a city parking lot.”
Oh and this is fun too…
In the deal hammered out by former owner Fred Wilpon in 2006, QBC agreed to maintain more than a dozen parking lots in and around the stadium in connection with its approximately $650 million bond financing, according to officials with the EDC and documents reviewed by THE CITY.
The lots include those spaces around the stadium as well as ancillary parking lots inside Flushing Meadows-Corona Park that are used for railroad commuters and for other events, including the U.S. Open, according to the financing deal.
A 2017 audit by then-comptroller Scott Stringer found the Wilpon family had underreported the amount of the previous year’s revenue from managing parking lots by nearly $300,000, out of about $8 million total.
Anyway, there is a lot more to the article in TheCity.NYC and I encourage you to read it!
One person familiar with the original deal noted that it could be possible to get around the lot space problem by building stacked-level parking.
And think about how easy it is to get out of Citi Field’s lots now….then imagine the X years where it’s a construction site….and then the fun of leaving the game from a tiered parking lot. Ever do a Yankees game?
“Steve views owning the Mets as a civic responsibility, and has made investments in the team, the ballpark and the community his number one priority,” Tiffany Galvin-Cohen, who is not related to the Mets owner, told THE CITY in a statement.
Maybe Steve will build us the hiking trails even if he doesn’t get a casino? It’s a civic responsibility right?
Guys, guys, guys. tap the brakes and come to your senses
Apparently SNY (channel 11) showed Diaz walking in last night and everyone thought it was cool
Now while it may have been a cool experience, and apparently a lot of you thought it was, let’s remember something.
SNY almost definitely isn’t just doing this to be cool. They have unsold inventory and they decided not to run filler
If you watch games you will notice that a lot of the things that air during the commercial breaks are not commercials.
Believe me, if they could band money filling that spot with four ads they would. But it appears to me that the game was undersold so they were able to free up that break, so they did.
Which brings me to a larger point. If baseball isn’t selling out the games of a first place team in New York City, then maybe there is too much commercial inventory available. Since pace of play is an issue, why not shorten the breaks?
Finally, you guys are funny how you all love Diaz now. Was he not part of the Cano deal? Was he not disliked when he first got here? He’s yet another example of if you play well then all is forgiven. Like Lindor and so many others.