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This guy is off his rocker….wants to ditch Fenway, and his inspiration for such a thought was Citi Field!   Really dude?  Really?

The reason Citi Field has no soul is not because it is new, it’s because Shea also had no soul. It was a terrible park built for a terrible team in the mid 1960s, it was not the shrine that we have in Boston. While the Mets fans certainly have great memories like the miracle Mets of ’69 and [gulp] winning the World Series in 1986, destroying an outfield once patrolled by Darrell Strawberry and Kevin Mitchell is not the same as demolishing Williams’ left field or the mound where everyone from Joe Wood to Lefty Grove to Luis Tiant to Roger Clemens pitched. You can’t expect a new building to have that kind of grandeur when the original park didn’t have it to begin with.

I enjoy Bitter Bill, his take on Jack Clark-gate and some of his back and forth with Mets Blog.  Cerrone (Metsblog guy) was on ‘FAN this morning but I forgot my portable listening device.  Hopefully they’ll post it.  Boomer and/or Carton can’t get back soon enough by the way.

Looking forward to the Gehrig thing that MLB is doing this weekend (all stadiums will play his speech) but I wonder if Sterling or someone will say “it was just a block from here where Lou….”   So absurd that they moved.  Fenway dude needs to visit New New Yankee before he goes taking the Sox to the Soxdome.

If anyone has time – I wonder what a “season ticket” for a Saturday package would cost at Citi if you assembled your own on Stubhub.  I intend to try to work on the math of that this weekend, but if someone else is bored at work today and wants to help the Mets Police out, send your findings to [email protected]

Thanks to Amazin’ Avenue for the link.  They are definitely one of the blogs that should be on your daily rounds….speaking of which, on the 4th I will republish the list of “Mets blogs you should check out” – if you have a suggestion drop me a note.  [email protected]

Jerry should’ve used K-Rod for at least 4 outs if not 6 yesterday.   Torre would have.  I can argue the 6, but not bringing in K-Rod in the 8th….dangerous.   If he can save a game in the dopey WBC he can save one the day after a team meeting.

Enjoy another day game!   Only 2 out…amazing.   I may have to check out the Phillies blogs to look for suicidal fans.

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Some odds and ends….first some Yankees stuff

I am still chuckling about something I saw on Twitter last night.   The Yankees press notes mentioned that the recent span of 9 games without a DH were the longest in team history.   Someone wrote that they would have guessed 1901-1972 was the longest.

Also in Yankee-land, it seems that more rank and file Yankee fans are finding out about the Hal Steinbrenner survey that Raissman wrote about over the weekend, we told you about here and the Yankees blog New Stadium Insider told you about on Monday.

My Yankees friend “Mr. Sunshine” theorized that the survey came out during the Subway Series – that maybe some Yankee types had made their first pilgrimage to New Shea of Friday and correctly observed that the Yankees now have the poorer of the two stadiums.   The timing seems tight, but maybe.   Sunshine also told me that one of the super hardcore Yankee fans he knows also dug Citi.   I like to repeat myself, so I will repeat myself by once again saying the Yankees made a colossal mistake moving across the street.  They should have gutted the loge, and expanded the concourses by building wider between Lot 8 and the first base line.

On to the Mets, this first comment is hilarious:

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “Mets Police Endorse “Meet The Mets” In New York Me…“:

Is it true the Dodgers are wearing home whites and sitting in the first base dugout next week?

Sparks has left a new comment on your post “I Finally Got My Home Grown Team Of “Mets” I wante…“:

The text poll last night killed me. A majority of voting fans wanted to trade prospects for an established bat.

The organization has crap for depth as it is, and people want to trade what little it has away on the off chance that there’s some glorious savior out there whose mere presence can somehow turn Martinez, Tatis, and Murphy into Beltran, Reyes, and Delgado? That’s insanity!

The Mets biggest problem is that there’s a whole layer of MLB-ready players missing. What is the current major league bench should be down in Buffalo and the AAA players belong in AA. I fully expect most of the young players you name to be fine. They just need be honing their skills in Binghamton or at best Buffalo right now instead of Citi Field.

I disagree with you on Sheff not being a true Met. I know we picked him up off the trash heap at the end of his career, but he’s Doc’s nephew, for heaven’s sake. I think of him as finally arriving home. 


Adam Solomon has left a new comment on your post “I Finally Got My Home Grown Team Of “Mets” I wante…“:

COMPLETELY AGREE. Not enough people do, I think. Personally, I’d much rather root for people who are going into the annals of Mets history – true blue (and orange) Mets.





Does anyone see the “vote for the 8th inning song” link on Mets.com?   I keep looking and I don’t see it.  Maybe it is staring me in the face.

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Saved this from yesterday…and at 7pm Saturday it was the top-sent article on the Times.   The blogoverse knows this already, but there’s zero demand for NYC baseball tickets.  Stubhub is the way to go to buy tickets below cost (and I’m slitting my own throat telling you this, but it’s not a state secret.)

The Times predicts for 2010 what I do:

The weak resale market has Goldman and a growing number of Mets and Yankees season-ticket holders considering whether to drop their seats next year, or to switch to a plan with fewer games or cheaper seats. The risk of being stuck with expensive tickets that are hard to resell, they said, is just too high in a weak economy.


“I figured this year would be a no-brainer,” said Goldman, a salesman from New Hyde Park on Long Island. “But it’s a buyer’s market. I get offers all the time for my tickets that are insultingly low. I don’t know that being a season-ticket holder is the right route.”


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