Category: mets

One of the fair criticism’s of this site is that I complain.  I’d like not to complain.  I’d like to go to a World Series game and see a nice team wearing pinstripes, but hey we can’t have it all.

Recently, Hot Foot wrote about what’s worth complaining about.

An excerpt from a fine article:

Not worth complaining about

I’ll get killed for this but here it goes: ticket prices. The Mets will charge exactly how much you are willing to pay for these tickets. If you keep buying the tickets and going to the games at the prices they’re charging, you have nothing to complain about. It sounds like the Mets are having trouble unloading these tickets, according to fans who are being shaken down by various ticket agents. Their behavior, worth complaining about. They can’t question our loyalty, but you have to question your own resolve if you’re complaining and still ponying up for it rather than take a stand and force them to correct the market.

I think it’s a great point.  You don’t want the tickets, don’t buy them.

From time to time someone suggests I organize a fan boycott.  I don’t think boycotts work, and I think each fan needs to decide on their own if they want to support the team.  At a personal level, the goal of this blog is to help the Mets, through ideas and an open change of information.  I do not in any way want to hurt the franchise.

Another series I’m pleased to resume now that I’ve made it to the new design is Meet the Mets Bloggers.  If you’d like to tape part, just answer the three questions below (and as a fellow blogger you’ll know it makes my life easy if you clean it up so I can just cut and paste).  Here’s Taryn.

1.) Who are you and what’s the name of your blog?

My name is Taryn Cooper, but you may know me as Coop, The Coop or The Coopinatrix (as the fellas over at Brooklyn Met Fan have been known to call me). I started the site My Summer Family in the offseason of 2007. MSF is a passionate narrative from a die-hard Met fan who spends WAY too much time at the ballpark(s)* in the summer time (*not just CitiField but following the Mets around as well).

2. What kind of things can we find on your site?

You will find a little bit of everything. Game recaps, feelings on the team and players, traveling (I did a West Coast Trip last year that got me many followers on Twitter), pictures, events. The only thing I don’t claim to be is a stat head, though you might find some elementary number crunching to support my theories. I am a passionate fan, so I’ll call out anyone from fans to media to players themselves. You may hear about my “fan girl crushes” as I talk about freely, which include Tim Lincecum and my all-time favorite baseball player Cal Ripken. Just a note: it’s all purely professional. I do the Roll Call each year which is devoted to the special people I am able to meet because of our Mets community (hence the whole “summer family” thing). I also have a mouth like a truck-driver, so my site is not for the faint of heart.

3. Expectations for 2010?

Each year, I have lowered my expectations for various reasons and after the abysmal 2009 campaign, I feel like they cannot possibly get any worse at this point. The way the line up is constructed now (after the Bay signing and assuming Reyes comes back full-strength with Beltran 100% healthy), I would say they are a “solid” third place team, which could give a legit run at some point to the Wild Card in 2010 (of course, with a floundering in September). Add a Jon Garland-type pitcher, I would say they are a legit Wild Card candidate. Add a Jon Garland-type along with an incentive laden Ben Sheets deal, and I think it’s Mets/Phillies duking it out for first place. But of course, if Omar is able to get any warm body in a Luis Castillo-deal, that is addition by subtraction right there.

As I continue to get the hang of the new site, here’s what was popular over the last week.

Here’s some pics of the Mets museum construction and the orange stairwells.  I don’t want to overpromise, it’s mostly boarded up windows and an orange wall.

The Mets had a fan gathering for season ticket holders, here’s some pics.

A Mets official reportedly said they’d get killed no matter what they do.  I commented on that, but then the next day when everyone overreacted to Matthews for Stokes, I think the exec may be right.

The Mets sent out holiday gifts, and many Mets fans got them in mid-January.

Speculation on my part, but I think Mets ticket sales aren’t going well.

There’s going to be a bar at Citi Field! Finally, somewhere to meet while we wait for a Seaver statue to be ordered.

It’s a little annoying that the Mets Hall of Fame Day is not in the Sunday+ Plan

The Japan Times had an interesting article about Bobby V’s demise.

I liked the SI article from 1970, when this was Mets-town and the Yankees had fallen on hard times.

Interesting thought from Metsmerized: is the Mets brand damaged?

Omar went to Buffalo to promise to make the Bisons better.

It might make financial sense, but it sure is annoying to think Bobby Bonilla will get $1 million a year from the Mets from 2011-2035.

Pictures from the 1986 Tickertape Parade

The Mets respond to a letter from The Mets Police