What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
SULLY BASEBALL: NEW YORK METS – ALL TIME HOME GROWN TEAM vs. ALL TIME ACQUIRED TEAM
Yeah I’m 16 hours behind all the cool blogs on this but sometimes I actually have to work at work, ya know.
Anyway – this is great. Good job outta everyone!
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Damn the Times is great sometimes. Why oh why didn’t I think of “Debits Field!”
Those mocking the deal have suggested new names for park, ranging from Bailout Stadium to Debits Field.
As irritating as the name on the stadium may have become for the Mets, a bigger issue emerged last week when it was revealed that Fred Wilpon, the Mets’ principal owner, had invested millions of dollars with Bernard L. Madoff, a longtime friend, who was arrested by F.B.I. agents last Thursday. Madoff has been accused of running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded clients of billions of dollars.
Rest is here.
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Relax Yankee fans, the Mets wear pinstripes too…you just haven’t seen them much since Bobby V and the Japanese Greg Maddux were around.
Good news: They picked pinstripes for K-Rod’s coming out party, not the dopey white no-pins, and not the awful black.
Bad news: Black shading.
Good news: Blue hat. Not a dopey black hat or the hybrid.
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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.
MLS ratings on FSC have not been as encouraging for the sport. The matchup between Chivas USA and Houston, the top two teams in the west got a rare 0.0 rating and was viewed in only 24,000 homes. Including the first weekend of the playoffs, FSC is averaging 30,000 viewers for MLS Saturday night matches.
