IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT. [9-6-09]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
The invoices were waiting for me in the mailbox when I came home last night. There’s a price drop but it’s miniscule, the difference being a week of lunches or something trivial, not enough to make any impact or any difference. They are not extending the partial plans beyond the current locations; they are not offering us any new perks. Unlike our old, trusty Tuesday-Friday plan, we don’t get to see every team that comes to play the Mets unless we buy two plans, which we’re not doing. We’re keeping one and we’ll let the other one go. We’ll still spend the same amount of money on baseball, but the other half of the budget will go to games we care about being at and going to see

YET ANOTHER PESSIMISTIC POST ABOUT THE 2010 SEASON.
Someone wrote in earlier demanding that I update the site, talk about the Hot Stove, and who I think we should get. While I appreciate the enthusiasm, I’m not quite sure when this site was ever a news and information blog, but I figured I might as well update. Regarding the Hot Stove: As someone noted on Twitter earlier today, “According to my sources, every player in Major League Baseball is available via trade.” I do not buy the Matt Holliday bubbehmeises for one half of one second and you shouldn’t either. The Boras Client Goes For The Money. Period. End. There is no argument. It is just plain fact. If the Wilpons meet the price we’ll have Matt Holliday. If they don’t, we

AND THAT’S A WRAP.
And we’re done. I have been watching, despite saying I wouldn’t; many nights I would just hop on Twitter and get caught up, or check progress on At Bat or Gameday. I am going to advocate the strong position that you do not need to root for anybody in the World Series. By all means, watch the games, enjoy baseball. But this nonsense that Mets fans “have” to root for the Yankees or “have” to root for the Phillies is just that - nonsense. There is no requirement that you have to root for a team in order to watch a baseball game. Zero. Zilch. Nada.  Maybe for fans of other teams they can temporarily take a side. But not these two teams for Mets fans. I mean, obviously, do wha

WE DESERVED ONE OF THESE.
The Minnesota Twins took out this ad in the local papers (and made it available on their web site). Sure, they’re promoting Target Field. But there’s no “call to get your tickets now” or “you can be here too, here’s the phone number”. It’s just a thank you. Thank you for being fans. Thank you for being there. We are grateful for your support, and we are sorry that we let you down.  (And the photo of Carlos Gomez in mid-air made me a little misty.) Maybe the Mets have done this in the past (have they?), but we’re owed at least three since when I came on board. And don’t point out the hastily cobbled-together “We’re sorry” video footage at the games, not ev

SOMETIMES RULES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN.
I could never do it, but I couldn’t not take a picture.