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We had a chat with a friend I’ll just call Juanny Futbol about the merits of the MLS vs MLB:


Juanny Futbol:  Metspolice.com  needs to write about how not only the Mets as well as the rest of baseball is a dying sport. The upcoming economic disaster is going to be the demise of baseball in which just baseball revenue won’t cut it anymore. Building new stadiums to continously jack up ticket prices and charge $7 to $8 for beers does not make a successful business model.


I see less and less kids at the few games I end up each year. American Football IMO is now the all American sport. Young people, those in High School or younger don’t watch baseball, play it or care. And there are more soccer jerseys being worn out there everyday………While I am at it, the NHL is hurting and will eventually contract in league size.





Cyclones Fan (from the Mets Police):   Disagree that it’s a dying sport – take a look at attendance numbers, particularly among the 200+ minor league teams.  Over the last 10 years they have set attendance records each consecutive year.  More people see professional baseball games now than football, basketball, and hockey combined

According to the latest issue of the Sports Business Journal published by Street and Smith’s (now the parent company of the Sporting News incidentally)  MLS TV ratings are about as bad as can be imagined. ESPN2’s Thursday night rating fell this season and thetelecasts averaged a 0.2 rating and was watched in an average of 251,000 homes weekly. ESPN 2 has achieved higher average ratings in prime time for such sports as Poker and Bowling in the last year

Despite the signing of David Beckham, MLS averaged less viewers in 2008 on ESPN2 than the league did in 2006 before Beckham was signed and before the new TV deal took affect.  But even more worrying is that MLS games averaged according to BNet a 0.5 rating on ESPN and a 0.3 rating on ESPN 2 for the 1998 season. MLS also averaged a 0.9 rating on ABC that season, when the network broadcast 13 regular season games.  The lone ABC telecast this season between the league’s two most successful clubs historically, garnered a 1.1 rating as a lead in to the Euro 2008 final which achieved a 3.2 rating. So in essence a smaller percentage of TV viewers nationally are watching MLS in 2008 than did in 1998, despite the league having more of a mainstream media presence and having two more franchises.

Newsday had this up. I give them full credit, I’m not that clever. It’s so cool I wanted to make sure more people see it. I don’t know why it cuts off.

Then I found this

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So last week I wrote about this:  View From Out West: Racist Angels Fans?  which led to an anonymous poster writing:

Jeff Miller is an imbecile that can barely formulate sentences. OC Angels fans were so disgusted with this baseless article that thousands of fans contacted the Register to file a complaint. I personally cancelled my subscription to the newspaper due to an ongoing slew of trash journalism that finds its way to print at this rag. Don’t believe me? Read the comments section regarding this pitiful article.

There are a myriad of reasons why OC fans said so little on the departure of FR–which met fans will unfortunately find out. Oh, it should be noted that Arredondo will most likely be our next closer and Angels fans are more than happy about that. Strange…coming from such a “racist” fan base that Jeffy suggests.

So while I don’t claim to be anything but a loudmouth with a blog, and by no means 60 Minutes, I decided to look around the comments section from the Miller article: 

The real reason is, THAT Frankie is just a poser in a closer’s uniform. He’s not a TRUE closer… He benefitted from all of the Angels success, and the close games that they had in the last few years… especially last season. True closers are LIGHTS OUT… Think of Mariano, Lidge, Papelbon, Eckersly, and even Hoffman, Percival and Gagne in their prime. They were untouchable, unhittable, wouldn’t budge an inch, and most of all, they all are, or were, lights out. They don’t give up walks. They don’t give up a double or two, they didn’t muster up that feeling of “I don’t know”, and most of all, they didn’t go out trying to show up the other team with that cocky attitude that Frankie has. He’s been lucky that he didn’t play in the N.L. all of his career. He would’ve been plunked on numerous occasions if he had to bat. Nobody, especially pro ballplayers, likes or appreciates a player that shows off an attitude like Frankie has… But now he’s on the Mets, and I only hope that he doesn’t get hurt with a beanball, or with that god-awful delivery of his, if you can actually call it a delivery… It’s freekin’ painful to watch that crap, falling off the mound, with no chance of ever being able to field a come-backer. 

My only sentiment to K-Rod is, God Bless Him… The N.Y. media is going to eat him alive when he fails, and that’s gonna be a whole bunch, most likely.

It looks like a lot of fans were upset by the article, and said they were glad to get rid of him not because of his heritage, but because he puts guys on, which I warned about here:  7 Things Mets Fans…

What’s really interesting is that Miller has not backed off his statement.  In fact Miller even quotes an anonymous Angel:

A prominent Angels player contacted me to thank me for writing my original column that ran in Wednesday’s newspaper. Since identifying him here could cause him problems, he will remain anonymous.

“As a player, you always have to watch what you say,” he told me. “But thankfully you have a platform to talk about things like this. You don’t have to worry about the things we have to worry about.

“I really liked what you wrote. You were right on. People identify with their own kind. That’s human nature.”

If you’re waiting for me to back down on this one, all I can say is sorry. Contrary to what so many of you have suggested, I didn’t write that column to generate reader reaction. I wrote my opinion, what I believed — and still believe — to be 100-percent accurate.

Wow now that’s interesting.  It’s almost LoDuca in reverse…as if Pedro or Delgado had said something when a lot of Mets fans were questioning Omar’s alleged marketing plan.


I don’t know what’s in the soul of an Angel fan or not.  I do sense that they don’t care that he left, and I keep thinking about how Philly fans felt about Rich Kotite coming to the Jets (they laughed).   I think it was the right move for Omar to make (they needed a closer, he got the best one available).   If K-Rod can blow fewer than 27 saves this team will be improved from last year’s debacle.

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One of the interesting things that came out of ESPN’s telecast of the 1958 NFL Championship Game was how it’s clear the modern player hits replay.  

I feel the NFL should get rid of replay.   It not only slows the game down, but winds up ruining the game when coaches take stabs at hoping a replay turns into the reset button.

I need you to watch something from yesterday’s Falcons game.  I know a touchdown when I see one, and this is a touchdown.  I had nothing riding on the game.  No money, no fantasy players, and I couldn’t care less about the Falcons, but this is a touchdown.

I’d embed the file, but I guess the NFL will go bankrupt if we all start sharing highlight clips, so the best I can do for you is a link:  This Should Be A TD   Go watch that and then come back.

OK, now isn’t that obviously a touchdown?   Why review that?   I know a TD when I see it.   That’s a touchdown.

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These kids today probably have no idea who Jerry Koosman is.  To you slightly older Met fans, old enough to be adults but young enough that you have no idea what it’s like to see the Mets win a World Series – he’s Ron Darling.   To younger fans he’s…..I dunno…..John Maine someday if he turns out to be as good as we think he is.  Never the ace, but always a solid clutch pitcher.

Where Are They Now Jerry Koosman

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