Rarely was it ever pointed out to what extent BVW was pulling the strings. While he enjoys being in front of the camera, Van Microphone was not looking to stand in front of one to take responsibility for a failed decision he, or one of his staffers, passed down to Callaway.
This only led to embarrassment for the former Mets manager when he explained decisions he “collaborated” in or decisions forced on him.
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If anyone is going to hold BVW accountable for some of Rojas’ strategy it should be SNY’s Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling and Gary Cohen. At least two of them are doing a Mets telecast every night during the season. They have the reputation of carrying a big stick — prove it.
The inordinate amount of kudos they have received throughout their tenure at SNY, and the juice they have at the network, provide them the latitude to say: 1) If they believe a decision was solely made by Rojas or came from the top down. 2) And if they do tell viewers they believe the decision came from BVW, credit him for its success, or criticize him for its failure.
SLACKISH REACTION: So it occurred to me that on paper this Fan Fest should be everything I ever wanted, everything this blog ever wanted.
And yet, I didn’t even make the slightest effort to get tickets. I never felt the buzz. I don’t feel left out. I don’t feel any regret that I am not going today.
I think this all got back to Opening Day 2016 when the Mets jacked the price of tickets and I got shut out because of all the new True Blue And Orange fans that had been diehards since 2015. Maybe it goes back a year when Igave up my ticket plan. Maybe if I still lived 5 subway stops away I would go, but I am not driving over two bridges.
Maybe the Mets did a lousy job promoting it.
Maybe Major League Baseball’s production has gotten really bad.
Maybe the way you guys all feel about The Wilpons is how I feel about this GM.
Anyway, I always wanted the Mets to have a FanFest, and here it is, and I’m not interested. Life is funny like that.
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So it turns out that if there ARE some sub-menus on the Fanfest webpage. I don’t know of a single person who knew these were sub-pages until someone told me on twitter this morning. Here’s some Actual Fanfest info.
Looks like Cano and Nimmo are joining JDG, Matz, Pete, and Rosario. Keith Hernandez says he is going. People tell me Shamsky said he is going. There’s still the Jon Matlack thing.
Anyway, I’m going to do my normal Saturday and I am sure I will do a recap post at some point but I’m not nuking my day updating things.
UPDATE SATURRDAY 8AM: @MattJakes2 on twitter has enlightened me that….see this….
That’s a menu. I don’t know what web designer did that but those are drop downs!
Here’s some actual info.
My original post is below.
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So I just got this tweet. This is responding to a discussion about their being no information about the festival.
I went to the site as they suggested. I’d love so more info.
To share with you guys, I tried to do a screen grab in one shot by making the text small but it doesn’t fit on one screen. So here’s two screens so you can see all the info.
Since that’s hard to read in the format I presented it because I zoomed out, let me zoom in for you.
OK Mets, I have gone to your website.
Does it tell me JDG is attending? No.
Does it tell me Pete is attending? No.
Does it tell me Matz is attending? No.
Does it tell me Rosario is attending? No.
Does it tell me Keith Hernandez is attending? No.
Does it mention the Mets Hall of Fame and Jon Matlack? No.
Does it tell me what the panels are? No.
It just tells me there are three sessions.
And yeah I saw the video from the other day. Maybe you sent a super detailed one as you mentioned in the tweet, if so I’d love to see it. But I am gonna guess its this one.
Does it tell me JDG is attending? No.
Does it tell me Pete is attending? No.
Does it tell me Matz is attending? No.
Does it tell me Rosario is attending? No.
Does it tell me Keith Hernandez is attending? No.
Does it mention the Mets Hall of Fame and Jon Matlack? No.
Does it tell me what the panels are? No.
It mentions “Q&A sessions” with no details.
The first minute tells me I can’t bring a backpack.
Then I get told I will enter in the rotunda.
To be fair there are some light details about the tour and that Mr. & Mrs. Met will be there.
It mentions “Current Mets Players and Mets Legends” – those aren’t details. That’s vague.
So look Social Media Intern, I’m glad they gave Will the night off since he has a busy day tomorrow. He would never make the mistake at coming at me like that especially when you don’t have the correct information about your own event.
SNY Linear TV chose not to air this live. I am uneducated in how such things work, but people keep whispering in my ear that it’s some sort of workaround to not use union workers. If anyone knows more I’d like to know more about that, or if its even accurate.
Anyway, “Get your New York Sports Here Unless We’re Showing An Old Mets Game” is their new slogan I think.
Wags came out and explained to us how this time he has chosen the right manager. He credited the Mets “Baseball Operations Department” (of which Baseball Operations Expert Jessica Mendoza would be part of) in helping make the choice.
Wags said the team is built to win “right now.” “We have culture of positivity.”
Wags then pimped Fanfest, then humble bragged about the awards JDG and Vulgar Pete won. He used the word PROUD a bunch of times. Like proudly a lot.
Rojas was introduced and the very professional crowd was restrained. It sounded like 4 people clapping.
God the swoosh looks bad.
Luis told us, in a very very calm deadpan tone, how excited he was, lower case e.
He then pronounced Wilpon as “Wilpin” twice.
“I will lead this team into success.”
I personally found his speech boring and zoned out but can appreciate a man thanking his family.
Luis used the word “accountability” both with the fans and press.
Wags did not mention whether or not Luis is trustworthy. I assume he is
The first question when to Gelbzzzz who basically asked “How did it feel…”
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