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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 17, 2010

Dolan over Wilpon? Not for me

The awesome Mike Vaccaro today ranks the owner-nepotism of the NYC sports franchises, and ranks Jim Dolan over Jeff Wilpon.

Wow, are things that bad. That’s a pretty strong statement. James Dolan has been ripped as a buffoon for years – and by the way how are the Knicks and Rangers doing this century – so far Mike to put Dolan ahead of Wilpon as an owner. Uh oh.

Vaccaro is around the team. I suppose he’s met both men. I’ve met neither, I’m in the Promenade like you, but from way up here where I can only see 8 players, Jim Dolan looks horrible.

Is Jeff worse than that? Jeff’s a young man, he isn’t going anywhere any time soon. I hope Vaccaro is wrong this time.

If you’re interested in Jeff Wilpon’s career as a pro baseball player, check this out.

Construction Update: at some point the site will look weird/lamer than usual/maybe not even have any content. I’m working on a site redesign that will go in several stages starting with “just up and running with few graphics.” Could happen an hour from now or in a few days. Waiting for two computer companies to shake hands. Until then, I’ll operate at the normal pace under this design.

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

2010 New York Mets Batting Practice Caps

Thanks to NyPfdr for watching my back this morning and letting me know the new 2010 batting practice caps have been released.

This is a league wide thing so we can’t just kill the Mets on it.

Let’s for a second suggest that the black shouldn’t be on there. We may have something then that looks like this Giants cap (thanks Uni Watch)

We might wind up with a normal looking Mets cap with just some weird pop-up line thing on the brim.

I don’t totally hate it (if they insist on having black for some reason, and what is that reason again?) but I don’t get the brim.

Instead of piling on our poor beaten down Mets, lets focus our annoyance on the Yankee who have decided to have road…

…and home caps. You can see all the teams here, and be thankful you’re not an Orioles fan today.

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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