The Mets Police

The Newsday article linked here is “Mets expect Citi Field attendance to increase in second half.”  First the quote then my take….

“I think we can grow attendance regardless, as long as the team is competitive,” DePaoli said. “It doesn’t have to be a 100-win team. It can’t really be a 50-win team . . . We’d like to think even if the team [record] just stayed status quo our attendance is going to go up a little bit by the end of the year.”

via Mets expect Citi Field attendance to increase in second half – Newsday.

I don’t have access to the data they do, but I do have eyes and I am not seeing it.

Now sure if the Fake Pennant Race goes well more people will come out.  But to me it sure feels like fewer people are going and less buzz in the ballpark than ever.

A post All Star Game west coast swing has historically been awful for this franchise. That doesn’t mean that it has to be awful this time, but everyone needs to calm the bleep down after one good week.  This team was 11 games under .500 ten days ago, so let’s not act like the 1986 Mets are back.

Time will tell, but I will bet a dollar on the Mets kidding themselves and/or Newsday on this one.

 

 

 

The Mets have brainwashed the entire tri-state area that Murphy is going to become the highest paid player in baseball if they don’t get him out of here.  You guys all go along with it, then will be the first ones to call the team cheap.

Why would an offensively challenged team move it’s best player?  I can name 24 Mets plus one guy in AAA that were not All Stars.  This is maddening.

As for Murphy, it’s strange that the Mets’ lone representative at the All-Star Game may not even be on the team by August. But the argument to deal him may just be too compelling for Alderson to pass up — peak value, a big arbitration bump this winter and a waiting replacement in Wilmer Flores, who is raking at Triple-A Las Vegas with a .368/.405/896 slash line over his last 10 games, including six homers.

via Sandy Alderson must decide whether he will play the trade market – Newsday.

#50 AC Milan – In Photos: The World’s 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams 2014 – Forbes.

Hmm did I miss a certain baseball team as I clicked through here?  I saw some other baseball teams such as the #4 Yankees and the Cubs and the Giants and I think I saw the Phillies.  Please tell me I just am glazing over as I click this stupid slideshow 50 times and I am just missing a certain someones.

 

Nice effort by these folks. I hope they somehow get a team.

Normally these are on the sleeve. It looks nice both ways.