2k13 NY Mets: Shea it Ain't So

[Don Quixote]

Thereby ensuring that Hornsby cannot lose his ill-fated "Ike Davis versus Paul Goldschmidt" bet that we had going before the year, since Ike will not reach the requisite 500 PAs. Not being able to stick Hornsby with a horrendous avatar for two weeks: just another reason that Ike Davis sucks.

Did the PA requirement specify major league PAs only?

[mjl]

sadly even with that he's about 40 short.

for what little it was worth, Davis was slashing .286/.449/.505 after the all-star break.

[revo]

Is this such a loss?

Since his return from the minors, he was batting .267 with a .430 OBP and .872 OPS, with more BBs than Ks.

[Don Quixote]

Since his return from the minors, he was batting .267 with a .430 OBP and .872 OPS, with more BBs than Ks.

Fair enough. As a non-owner and a non-fan of the team, I wasn't tracking him that closely. One thing this does is give the Mets a chance to look at the in-house alternatives more, not that I'm that taken with the likes of Duda, Satin, and/or Lutz.

[Judge Jude]

Or Flores.

[Hornsby]

Thereby ensuring that Hornsby cannot lose his ill-fated "Ike Davis versus Paul Goldschmidt" bet that we had going before the year, since Ike will not reach the requisite 500 PAs. Not being able to stick Hornsby with a horrendous avatar for two weeks: just another reason that Ike Davis sucks.

Hey, I'll take the avatar anyway...I was so horrendously wrong, I deserve it regardless.

[Erik]

Maybe you can give Hornsby a mildly horrendous avatar instead of a severely horrendous one?

[Don Quixote]

From Rotoworld--

"Bobby Parnell (neck) remains shut down from baseball activities.
Parnell has said that he'll make a decision on possible surgery in mid-September, so it's possible we'll have a resolution with his status this week. The closer has been sidelined since late July with a herniated disc in his neck.
Source: Jorge Castillo on Twitter"

[revo]

Shea it ain't so!

"The Mets are leaving WFAN and the Yankees reportedly are nearing an agreement that would move the team’s radio broadcasts from WCBS to WFAN, beginning in 2014. If a deal is reached, it would bump the Mets to another station after their games were carried by WFAN since the station’s creation in 1987. Mets COO Jeff Wilpon called the report “fairly accurate.”

http://nypost.com/2013/09/10/mets-out-at-wfan-yankees-moving-in/

[Don Quixote]

Shea it ain't so!

"The Mets are leaving WFAN and the Yankees reportedly are nearing an agreement that would move the team’s radio broadcasts from WCBS to WFAN, beginning in 2014. If a deal is reached, it would bump the Mets to another station after their games were carried by WFAN since the station’s creation in 1987. Mets COO Jeff Wilpon called the report “fairly accurate.”
http://nypost.com/2013/09/10/mets-ou...ees-moving-in/

Enlighten us. Any idea WHY the Yankees want to move? Is WFAN a better spot than WCBS? Is this just a money move, or possibly a negotiating tactic by the Yankees?

And if the Yankees move, where are the Mets likely to land?

One thing I liked in the Post article is that the abominable Suzyn Waldman is said to not be guaranteed a spot on the Yankee broadcasts. Not that I'm a big fan of John Sterling, but that crone's voice, ye gods. Seriously, Sterling is bad enough, but Waldman goes beyond "we like her because she's OURS" or "she's part of our tradition".

[revo]

Enlighten us. Any idea WHY the Yankees want to move? Is WFAN a better spot than WCBS? Is this just a money move, or possibly a negotiating tactic by the Yankees?

And if the Yankees move, where are the Mets likely to land?

One thing I liked in the Post article is that the abominable Suzyn Waldman is said to not be guaranteed a spot on the Yankee broadcasts. Not that I'm a big fan of John Sterling, but that crone's voice, ye gods. Seriously, Sterling is bad enough, but Waldman goes beyond "we like her because she's OURS" or "she's part of our tradition".

WFAN is on both AM & FM, so the audience and reach is far superior than on WCBS. In addition, the on-air hosts would promote the team throughout the day, unlike on WCBS.

[Don Quixote]

WFAN is on both AM & FM, so the audience and reach is far superior than on WCBS. In addition, the on-air hosts would promote the team throughout the day, unlike on WCBS.

I see. Thank you for being more enlightening than the Post, which is either poorly written, assumes the readership knows these things, or both.

My old college journalism professor, long deceased, used to say, "You don't have to tell the reader 'why' something happened or may happen, only 'who', 'what', 'when', 'where', and 'how'. However, the reader may appreciate it if you do tell him or her that." I'll grant that he was from a far different era of journalism, one that included weird things like "accuracy" and "objectivity", but I think his statement still holds.

[Sharky]

How humiliating for the Mets. What crud.

[revo]

I see. Thank you for being more enlightening than the Post, which is either poorly written, assumes the readership knows these things, or both.

My old college journalism professor, long deceased, used to say, "You don't have to tell the reader 'why' something happened or may happen, only 'who', 'what', 'when', 'where', and 'how'. However, the reader may appreciate it if you do tell him or her that." I'll grant that he was from a far different era of journalism, one that included weird things like "accuracy" and "objectivity", but I think his statement still holds.

ANd here's some more:
"The Yankees have been carried since 2002 by WCBS Radio, which, like WFAN, is owned by CBS.

Their current one-year contract is believed to pay $13 million to $14 million. The new contract likely will boost that figure to well over $15 million per season.

The Mets are believed to earn about half what the Yankees do in rights fees but have been a money-loser for WFAN, which inherited the team when it took over WHN's 1050-AM signal in 1987. The Mets then moved down the dial with WFAN to 660-AM in 1988."

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/source-yankees-close-to-deal-to-move-to-wfan-in-2014-1.6044600

[Don Quixote]

How humiliating for the Mets. What crud.

I'm not sure which is more humiliating--for the Mets, that they are worth only half the rights fees of their cross-town neighbor, or for Mets fans, that their team's ownership doesn't seem to be inclined to be at all competitive.