Category: mets

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.

I have lost interested in who makes the baseball  museum’s Hall of Fame – after all it doesn’t include the guy with both home run records or the guy who won 350 games at the turn of this century, or the guy who saved baseball, or the guy with the most hits…so I am not even sure what we’re doing…..

…but this set me off

Oh where to start?  Let’s start here

“….whose pristing glovework at third base set the modern standard for defensive brilliance….”

Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Keith Hernandez.

Keith Hernandez, two time World Series winner.  Co-MVP.

11 consecutive Gold Gloves.  (Rolen won 8).   Keith Hernandez showed us fans things at first base that we didn’t even know first basemen could do.  Things that hadn’t occurred to us.  Until then it was a position played by a big immobile person who could maybe catch a ball but we wanted him to bat.

.296 BA in 17 seasons (Rolen hit ,281 in 17 seasons).  2182 hits (Rolen had 2077)

Did you ever once watch Scott Rolen play and think “Now there’s one of the all time greats”

Did anyone mention Rolen’s defense until yesterday?

Can you tell the history of baseball without mentioning Rolen?

If Rolen is in, I don’t see how or why Keith Hernandez isn’t.

The Post is suggesting Keith Raad is the front-runner to replace Wayne on the Mets radio booth.

That’s pretty cool because it’s someone who HAS DONE THE WORK and is FROM WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION and I think IS NOT THE SON OF SOMEONE FAMOUS.   Like a good old fashioned merit hire.  Plus he calls a good game.

Of course radio is dead to me because of the WOR wah-wah noise making the games unlistenable, and then the 4 seasons I begged the MLB App to fix the EXTREMELY LOUD COMMERCIALS but neither WOR nor MLBAM cared about either, so I got out of the habit of listening to games and it turned out I didn’t miss it AT ALL.   But hey you reap what you sow.  Great job as always baseball.

Congrats Keith.  Would you mind changing your first name? This could get very confusing.

I spotted this one out in the wild today. I wonder what the backstory is.

Maybe this fan is just still upset that the Six Padres Fans ran the Army out of the building (although to be fair, it was cold, and they had to work the next day, and anyway the buzz was off after the Braves won the division but hey they are USUALLY loyal to the last out, just not in elimination playoff games.  That’s weird.)

Stylish! I particularly think the Freedom Tower buttcrack is well thought out.