Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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 won’t. I doubt that they will meet the price. I do not think they can. I believe they are taking meetings with Scott Boras in order to say that they have and then they can say that they tried or whatever other mishegoss they think the fans will believe.

Fans have been getting their invoices for full season plans. (NOT partial plans! Do not comment that you have a partial plan and haven’t heard from them yet. Call the Mets if you’re worried.) The so-called price decreases are yet more bullpucky. Taryn at My Summer Family relates that it works out to about a dollar a ticket over the course of the season. (She has a plan in Promenade Reserved.) There was, as expected, some creative math involved.

When I dared to suggest at the end of the season that I’d believe the ticket price decrease when I saw it, I was hammered pretty hard. I don’t want this to be “I told you so” because it’s not like I’m happy about the fact that the Wilpons are broke, terrible owners, hate baseball fans, and only want to sell to two kinds of customers: 1) Full season plans owned by corporations and 2) fans that go to one or two games a year. It’s just silly to sit here hoping that they’re going to change, that they’re going to open up the Acela Club to anyone who has a ticket to the game, that they’ll let people go find their friends on the Excelsior level if they don’t have a ticket for it, that they’ll open up batting practice on the entire field level.

So now I know I will get these kinds of responses:

“WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE I LOVE THE METS DON’T GO TO THE GAMES WE DON’T WANT YOU”

and

“YOU ARE SO STUPID TO GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY YOU ARE STUPID”

and

“WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, YOU’RE NOT A REAL METS FAN”

I have made those so if that was what you wanted to say, please move along.

We are going to be cancelling one plan and using that money to travel to see baseball instead, a fairly massive 10 day West Coast roadtrip. And we’ll buy some tickets for when the Twins and the Tigers are in town. We’ll still end up seeing about 25 games, probably.

There is nothing they can do to change the organization for 2010. They had their chance and they didn’t do it. They’re not going to start pulling out the checkbook and rebuilding the organization and showing some humility towards fans all of a sudden. Let’s get real.

At least Bobby V. didn’t go to the Nats. There is still hope on that account.

Aren’t you glad you asked me to update?

I am on Twitter again now that the World Series has ended, so you can always find me there. When there is something to talk about, I promise I will be talking about it here.