So once again no news in Mets land. I found this and have been saving it for a rainy day.
Skip about 2:30 in, and enjoy the vintage home video. The fans are kind of annoying but the video is worth it.
NYC Drops The Arrogance: Doesn’t Need Skyboxes
Yay sometimes the good guys win.
From the Boston Herald:
State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who accuses the city of conducting the stadium negotiations behind closed doors, said the Bloomberg administration is clearly worried about how it looks to be haggling over luxury boxes now that the city is grappling with dramatic budget cuts, job losses and tax hikes.
“This whole thing has been an embarrassment,” Brodsky said. “I think they were scared about the public reaction to this entire fiasco.”
The luxury box deal was announced as the city and teams prepare for a public hearing next week to discuss additional support for the stadium projects.
Now if only the teams will stop asking for more money. Puh-leeze. When the Mets are asking for more bond money they can let everyone know what the $40 “order charge” on my tickets went for.
The Yankees are asking for another $259 million in tax-exempt bonds and $111 million in taxable bonds, on top of $940 million in tax-exempt bonds and $25 million in taxable bonds already granted for its $1.3 billion Bronx stadium.
The Mets are requesting an additional $83 million, after the $615 million already approved for their $800 million Queens park.
Mets Delivery & Order Charges
I know I’m spitting in the wind here but I ordered my tickets today and being the Mets Police I just have to mention the lame fees they tack on.
“Delivery Charge” $25. I guess they want me to pay the FedEx. Ok fine.
“Order Charge” $40.
What exactly is an order charge? I did it over the internet. Did I use $40 worth of microprocessing?
It isn’t just the Mets that do this, it’s every team every sprt and every concert but it’s still wrong.
Photos: Shea Is Dead
I’m tempted to write a “Go Get Andy Pettitte” posting but I did that already so I’ll just leave you with some pics of a dying Shea Stadium. There won’t be any NFL teams moving here, no Metrostars games (I know) nor any more concerts:www.metspolice.com
Gammons on Young Teams
A pretty good Peter Gammons column the other day that included this observation (useful to GMs that like 41 year old outfielders).
Dave Studenmund has a great piece in this year’s Hardball Times Annual about how the game is getting younger. Studenmund points out that the decline in average age between 2007 and 2008 was the largest in major league history and that 24 of the 30 teams got younger between 2007 and 2008. The Twins were the youngest team in the major leagues at 25.5, and won 88 games — one fewer than the New York Mets — without the great Johan Santana.
Also:
The Yankees are going to be really good, but as Joe Posnanski points out, for all the talk of a salary cap, only twice in the past 30 years has a team won the World Series with a $100 million payroll: the 2004 and 2007 Red Sox.
In those 30 years, 20 different teams have won World Series titles, and it would likely be 21 without the 1994 strike that cost the sport’s best team — the Montreal Expos — a chance to win it all. In those 30 years, 14 different teams have won the Super Bowl, 13 have won the Stanley Cup, nine have won the NBA championship.
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