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January 17, 2010

Shea seats still unsold

From the Post:

Plastic seats plucked from the old Shea Stadium remain warehoused after seat-sales slumped like the Mets’ inaugural season at Citi Field. Meanwhile, the Bombers’ seat-sales are soaring.

The city says 10,311 seat pairs out of the 16,000 Shea seats put up for sale in August 2008 have been sold at $869, a number representing the team’s World Series-winning glory years of 1986 and 1969.

Read more: in the Post

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January 16, 2010

Construction Alert

Heads up to the faithful, the site might go down, or you may come by and find a placeholder site. I’m working on a redesign and I’m in over my head and bobbing in the waves. It’ll all work out but just wanted to warn everyone before the oddities happen. Tonight I am waiting on some stuff over which I have no control, I need various internet companies to send each other emails.

January 16, 2010

Meet the Mets bloggers….24 Hours From Suicide

Continuing the Meet the Mets Blogger Series

Who are you and what’s the name of your blog?
We are 24 Hours From Suicide…A Day In The Life Of A Met Fan
(www.longislandmetfan.blogspot.com)

The site mainly consists of two writers:

Long Island Met Fan
metsfan73

What kind of things can we find on your site?
Unlike the majority of Mets sites, we offer the entire history of the Mets. We do not just cover from 1986 to the present, or from 2000 to the present. We deal with current Mets news, opinions, as well as anything else related to the Mets. We cover this team from it’s inception in 1962 through present day. We have such topics as Where Are They Now: bringing fans up-to-date with Mets from the past, Talk Me In Off The Ledge: which allows us to rant about something that irks us, and we have periodic posts called A Fans Fond Memory: which recounts special memories we have of times at Shea, Citi, or even watching from home.We believe in the history of this team, not just present day, and we try and show our readers more than what they might read on line or in the press.

Expectations for 2010?
The jury is still out. If Omar bolsters the pitching staff in the coming weeks, along with signing a catcher, plus a little more bench depth, a play-off spot isn’t out of the question. Of course, the health of the team will be the big question, especially after 2009. If Omar doesn’t do anything the remainder of this off-season, I see the Mets, at best, finishing third.

(btw – David sent this to me pre-Beltran.)

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January 15, 2010

More on MLB’s new media policies

JMP with a great one from Consumerist:

You expect MLB to let you embed video? You obviously haven’t read this:

After watching the Diamondbacks-Astros game Aug. 23, I decided I’d like to describe the game to my friend Tyler, who was too busy to watch it. But mindful of the oft-repeated disclaimer, “Any rebroadcast, retransmission, or account of this game, without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, is prohibited,” I wanted to square my plans with league offices first. I thought my chances were decent. After all, it’s been done before.

The next morning I shot off an e-mail to MLB with my request and heard back within hours from Valerie Vieira, from the business development department in MLB Advanced Media. She asked me to call her.

For the rest of the amusing story…Consumerist

January 15, 2010

Would MLB go out of business if they let us embed video about Mets helping kids?

The past few days I’ve brought up that the Mets do a lousy job of communicating when they do nice things, like having kids out to Citi Field.

This morning the Mets emailed the database about it. Smart move considering how awful yesterday went for the franchise.

I’d like to easily tell you about it, but MLB or MLB.com or whoever has decided that their business would be unsustainable if they allowed dopey blogs to embed video. I understand the desire for webhits, I even understand the annoying thirty second ad you make us sit through before we get to learn about your deeds…but if you let me easily share it you’d get your word out better, and more people would see the ad. This is community service, not some rare triple play or a guy on steroids hitting his 74th home run.

Here’s the link if you want to sit through the ad.

Note the “kids” logo on the t-shirt has the dreaded underline “swoosh.” That’s interesting to me.

Back on Beltran after I take care of some other stuff.