What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
This guy (Santana) has to wonder what he has to do. It’s amazing how they just won’t score for him.
Shocking was Chan Ho Park holding the Mets to one hit. I thought Jerry had a good plan getting the scrubs in against him. He got away with it, but not in the 7-1 way both Jerry and I thought.
The Mets’ trouble on the field may not be the only headache for the team; higher interest rates may be on the horizon, too.
If they are downgraded to below investment grade, or junk, the team may have to pay higher interest rates if it issues new debt.
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In a statement the Mets said: “This is related specifically to Ambac and is not reflective of anything else related to club business or the strength of the underlying credit. It has no impact on our operations.â€
Full story in the Times.
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I love quality chop-busting. Well done fellas. Click for the story.
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(From yesterday, saved it because so much was going on)
Another take on what it’s like to attend a Mets game, this time by Denis Hamil of the Daily News who mentions
And you can leave feeling broke, defeated and exhausted. At Shea, everyone swiftly exited down wide winding ramps while the pretty new stadium is designed so that everybody sitting in the nosebleeds must gather like a mob trying to squeeze through 10-foot-wide doorways leading to endless flights of down stairs.
Read more: “Ballparks strike out with families”
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Published: September 7, 2004
But with the Devils Rays in the house, a long day’s journey was finally progressing toward a baseball game. It was a day that really began in the Bronx at 11 a.m., when the gates opened and several hundred people took their seats, not knowing what lay ahead. Shortly after 3 p.m., the Yankees announced that free hot dogs and drinks were available. And the Yankees decided that fans could get a rain check, whether or not they used yesterday’s tickets.
Compliments came the Yankees’ way. “They have been extraordinarily cooperative under extremely difficult circumstances,
read the full story here.
I recall the George Steinbrenner Yankees doing rainchecks for games played quite frequently. One Old Timers day (2006??) there was a delay and when the game was not played they not only gave the necessary raincheck but an additional ticket to a future game for the remainder of the season, or the next season.
Yankee bloggers, I encourage you to unite and shame the Yankees into rainchecks….and newspaper reporters, we could use your help on this one. It’s a good story, and you guys should be able to easily pull up examples.
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