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SULLY BASEBALL: Teams haunted by 2006

An extremely slow day, and I don’t feel like writing about patches yet again, so I come to you with a premise:  You don’t know baseball like you used to.

I’m going to ask you some simple baseball questions.  15 years ago you would have rattled these off and laughed in my face about how easy they were.

1.  What is the current number of home runs needed to become the all-time career home run leader?  You have no idea do you?  You know it used to be 755 and it was 714 once, but what’s the number now?

2.  Remember 2130?  Of course you do.   Now Cal Ripken is baseball’s all-time Iron Man.   In how many consecutive games did Cal play?

3.  I will make this a little easier.   What is the current single season home run record?   72?  73?  74?  You tell me.  Are you sure?

4.  Who is currently the American League leader for most home runs in a season and how many did he hit?

The 2013 Hall of Fame ballot sure will be interesting.   Will the writers ignore Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens, and continue to ignore Pete Rose, Rafael Palmeiro (3,000 and 500) and the most popular post-strike baseball player Mark McGwire, you know the guy that restored baseball as America’s Past Time?

Amazing how things change.

(762, 2632 , 73 and 61 by Roger Maris).

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Citi lost $8.29 billion last quarter.  $45 billion in government loans.  A $20 million check to the Mets.

Yes a deal is a deal, a contarct is a contract, but good business partners help each other – and I think the Mets would be wise to offer a statement announcing how they’ve reworked the deal with Citi to allow their good partner to get their feet on the ground without worrying about stadium naming rights.   Let Citi pay $21 million for 19 years or whatever needs to be done.

I actually couldn’t care less about Citi or the Mets balance sheet.  As a fan what I don’t want is to have the Mets play one year in Citi Field, three years in Barclay’s Stadium, a year in Mets Field, six months in Jackie Robinson Park and then some time at the Coca-Cola Grounds.  That’s why I hate corproate names. 

I still call buildings “Candlestick” and “Comiskey” and I still use terms like Triborough Bridge and West Side Highway.   Name something and stick with it.   Wrigley is a gum.   Doesn’t bother me.   Name it, keep it…and I worry about this deal the Mets did.  

A bad deal in Flushing?  Nah, never happen.

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I was just on Mets.com and looking at the ticket plans.  There’s not much left for weekends, excuse me I mean “weekends” which in Flushing includes days such as Tuesday, and the weekday plans are sold out.

Then this caught my eye:

“A $25 service charge will apply to each Plan purchase.”

Before we get to why there’s a charge….I’m confused by the $25.

They charged me $40. 

Why would they charge me, a returning ticket holder $40, and some newbie $25.

Maybe I have my facts wrong and they are charging the newbie a $25 “service charge” plus the $40 “order charge” plus the $25 “delivery charge.”   

Just curious.   If anyone orders tickets this weekend please drop me a note and let me know what they tack on.

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