As promised…catching up on comments
James has left a new comment on your post “Mission: 3 New York Mets Championships in the 2010…“:
The Wilpons are the reason why this franchise has not won a World series in 23 years and why they will not win another one for a very long time. They “Coupons” will never take that extra step to secure a great team. Look at how they keep the same awful regime with Minaya just because they are owed a ton of money.
A logical person would think that seeing the yankees and what they have done now that the Wilpons would be embarrassed beyond belief and working right now around the clock to get us to that point. But they’re not and they never will.
I hate to be so negative but that is the truth..
James I have no idea what goes on behind closed doors, but you would hope that they do some sort of competitive analysis, and realize they have most if not all of the advantages the Yankees have…and they sure have advantages over say 26 teams easily. Maybe some of the legacy teams might be up there…and Jeff does like to remind us that they had a high payroll, it just never all seems to come together.
DyHrdMET has left a new comment on your post “Does Citi Field Make You Feel Less Connected To Th…“:
I do not feel connected to the Mets at Citi Field. Maybe it’s because I have something hanging in my bedroom that we’ve been asking to have hanging inside the Mets new stadium, but I just don’t feel that connection. Maybe it will come over time, but the memories were at Shea, and even coming to see Shea’s chalk outline in the parking lot, I don’t feel that connection anymore. You know what felt like home to me at Shea? The area outside Gate C waiting to get in early for BP with the brick base of Shea and the fading blue siding. That felt like home in a way. I don’t feel that in the infinite abyss outside the Rotunda.
I think that you are correct, is is that the memories are at Shea. When I think of “the Mets” I never think of the new place…well I guess now I’m back to the point of what I wrote. Citi is a shopping mall with a baseball game nearby. I bet New Yankee feels pretty legitimate on opening day. That didn’t take long.
seplotnick (http://openid.aol.com/seplotnick) has left a new comment on your post “Does Citi Field Make You Feel Less Connected To Th…“:
A slightly different take. I had season tickets for years at Shea, and I viewed them as something special. I’d ask for an upgrade every year, and once every four years the slightest upgrade (slight shift closer to home plate) would be received. Now, I am no longer surrounded by the same box holders I was with for years. Every section has empty seats. If you are willing to pay, you can drop out for a year, and next year you will be in the same area you started. At Shea, being a season ticket holder was special. No more.
I am likely out. Unless some charming customer service rep pulls some magic, I don’t see any reason to buy tickets in advance. They won’t sell out, and there’s even stubhub. Instead of laying out $1200 in the winter again, I bet I can go pretty far on that money.
paulsrandomstuff (http://paulsrandomstuff.wordpress.com/) has left a new comment on your post “Does Citi Field Make You Feel Less Connected To Th…“:
I think it’s unfair to expect a Shea Stadium-type connection to Citi Field after one season — particularly a season like 2009.
I have a lot of good memories at Shea Stadium. At Citi Field, I’m remembering losses, injuries and a triple play.
I think in a few years, things will be different. It does take time to break in a new home.
Well, unless you spent your money on two pitchers and a slugger. Hint.
kjs has left a new comment on your post “Does Citi Field Make You Feel Less Connected To Th…“:
Upon which Wilpon’s Folly is based on: Greed, Limited Seating, Overpriced tickets, “Exclusive” Clubs, the Brooklyn Dodgers, a $9.75 thimble of vino, that minor-league park will NEVER be home.
The first time I walked into Shea in 1970 I felt at home. Forty visits to the Big Ad for CitiBank in 2009, and I still shudder with disgust when I enter it.
As for the rest (the aesthetics, the sightlines, the insipid OF), I give up. Good luck, future generations. Maybe you’ll have a real owner and a great ballpark when I’m twenty years under the ground.
I guess if we all live long enough it will feel like home. It’s hard to picture that this morning. They really blew it with the rotunda and the lack of Mets stuff. It didn’t help at all. I am not knocking Jackie Robinson…but he wasn’t a Met and the Dodgers didn’t fold. It all feels contrived nostalgia rather than a celebration of a great man.
jerezrid (http://openid.aol.com/jerezrid) has left a new comment on your post “Does Citi Field Make You Feel Less Connected To Th…“:
Its a new stadium for the team, I had the same feeling, like this is where the Mets play, I had to remember that lol Shea was around for years, you sort of get accustomed to everything there, like if you lived in a house for years then you move to a new house, its gonna feel different,
Part of it may be that “the Mets” (lets say that is Wright, Reyes, Beltran, Delgado, and Santana) didn’t play much there. K-Rod is nice and all but he isn’t exactly Ed Kranepool yet.
Jason C. has left a new comment on your post “Remembering the 1986 Ticker Tape Parade“:
Thank you for posting this! These pictures are great and make me completely nostalgic for the good old days. By the way, I am with you and predict another Mets parade within the next five years. Then two more in the last half of the 10’s. LGM!
Whoa Jason, I didn’t predict championships – I just think it should be the mission. I never hear that the goal is a championship. “Meaningful games in September” says to me that they want us to buy tickets.
Whatever you think of the guy – Joe Girardi is focused. He will change his uniform number to #28 with the mission of winning the World Series. Not the pennant or a wild card or selling some seats in September. Ring. One mission. One that I have never heard the current regime say is the mission. Jeff mentions “championship caliber.” That to me sounds like positioning, as if the team would have won if only for….injuries/manager/bad luck.
Win. The. World. Series.
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