Tuesday, December 08, 2009

WINTER WONDERLAND.

Twitter has started to make its mark on the Winter Meetings. If you’re on Twitter, and follow beat writers, your head is spinning. I follow beat writers for a handful of teams so I am starting to feel like like an owl. In between all of this are bloggers trying to make their mark, and whose desperation is so far resulting in stupid rumors being written about and Tweeted instantaneously, without any attempt to run down veracity. The ability to follow along in real time is seductive, and it’s fun, if you care about the behind-the-scenes machinations. It’s also frustrating, and infuriating, and heartbreaking, as the image above illustrates.

The Yankees get Curtis Granderson, and the Mets, to paraphrase Charlie Brown on Halloween, so far have a series of rocks. Jerry gave a statement today to Baseball Digest that the catcher position had to be sured up, so that’s why they went after catchers. They namedrop Torrealba and Molina and expect this to impress us. I am waiting for this episode of the Emperor’s New Clothes to end so we can get started with the baseball already. At least when this is all done I can still go watch baseball.

We have not yet decided if we are renewing one of our ticket plans or not. I very much appreciate the dialogue here over the past week and I think it has been helpful to a lot of folks. I will compile the responses shortly, but roughly 85% of people who commented said they would not be renewing, for a whole host of reasons (most of which have nothing to do with offseason roster moves).

Good articles:

• It pains me to say this, but the Phillies are 1,000,000 better than the Mets in selling tickets and treating their fans right.[via @howardmegdal]
• Great photos from last weekend’s private tour for Season Ticket Holders ONLY [via @nymetropolitans]
• “Luis Castillo has been offered to every team but Miguel’s Taqueria softball team.” [via The Eddie Kranepool Society]