Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

An excerpt from a must-read over on Paul’s Random Baseball Stuff

In response to an audience question, Lewin talked about his typical day. From about noon to 2:30 p.m., he works on putting together material he might use for that night’s broadcast before heading over to the ballpark. He arrives around 3:15 p.m. to put his notes in order. During the winter, Lewin spends time compiling information about every team in the major leagues so he’s not starting from scratch at the beginning of every series. Once he arrives at the ballpark, Lewin talks to the players, managers, people from the public relations department, etc. Before noon and after 11 is his time.

“Being on the air is kind of like an oral exam every night. You don’t know exactly what’s going to be asked of you, but you can kind of get a sense of what’s going to be on the test,” Lewin said.

via Better late than never: a recap of Monday’s social media night Q&A session « Paul’s Random Baseball Stuff.

Good morning.  I don’t feel like writing about chickens and I assume you had heard of R.A. Dickey before last weekend.  There’s nothing new out there in the Metsosphere this morning so I’m going to dip into the generic pile..

…moving the A’s to New Jersey or Long Island or Brooklyn would solve another of baseball’s thorniest problems. The Yankees, by virtue of being in a media market vastly larger than anyone else’s, can bid up player salaries into the stratosphere with the assurance that it will get that money back with TV revenue. (The Mets should get the same benefit of the NYC media market, but have been held back by a factor that’s hard to legislate: incompetence.)

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Splitting the New York market among three teams instead of two would dilute that advantage and help make for a more level playing field league-wide. This, of course, is why neither the Steinbrenners nor the Wilpons would allow the A’s to move to New York. (Unlike the Bay Area, which MLB has split into discrete A’s and Giants territories, the Mets and Yankees both have veto power over other teams moving into the New York metro area.) The Mets’ owners, ever protective of their territory, even rejected a much-needed payoff that would’ve allowed the Yankees’ top minor-league club to play in Newark for a year, leaving the team wandering homeless this season as the Empire State Yankees.

via Oakland A’s, San Jose move: Forget the West Coast. The A’s should move to New York..

Let’s for sake of argument put the New Jersey A’s in the AL East.  Bounce Toronto to the Central and I guess KC to the West (the Astros will be pleased).

The A’s would draw well in their division games vs. the Yankees and baseball could always force some interleague between the NJA’s and the Mets and the Phillies.  That’s 25 home games with pretty good crowds..better than many teams get now.

Location-wise I’m not sure where you’d put it.  Meadowlands?  Newark?  New Brunswick?

“We don’t fight, what are we fighting about?” said Strawberry. “He’s talking about, ‘What’s holding you back right now? What, you got handcuffs tying you down, you can’t pick up a bat?’ “

via Darryl Strawberry Insists NY Mets Great Tom Seaver Meant No Harm With ‘Handcuffs’ Comment « CBS New York.

as the King of I Told You So…I told you so.

 

“We think it’s working very well,” said Dave Howard, the team’s executive vice president for business operations. “The way I look at it and describe it is it’s the next step in the evolution of market-based pricing.”

via Mets get in the game of floating ticket prices.