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Mets place Tatis on the DL, Valdes up

METS PLACE INFIELDER/OUTFIELDER FERNANDO TATIS ON DISABLED LIST

RECALL LHP RAUL VALDES

FLUSHING, N.Y., July 5, 2010 – The New York Mets today announced that they have placed infielder/outfielder Fernando Tatis on the 15-Day Disabled List, with a right shoulder AC joint sprain and recalled lefthanded pitcher Raul Valdes from Buffalo (AAA) of the International League.  Valdes will wear #22 and will be available for tonight’s game vs. Cincinnati.  Tatis will undergo further testing at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery tomorrow.

Valdes was with the Mets from April 11-June 24.  He went 2-2 with one save and a 5.10 ERA (17 earned runs/30.0 innings) in 20 contests with New York.   Valdes earned his first major league save hurling 3.0 shutout innings on May 25 vs. Philadelphia in an 8-0 win.  He notched six strikeouts over 5.0 innings to earn the win in a 10-7 triumph on May 20 at Washington.

The 5-11, 190-pounder made two starts at Buffalo after he was optioned on June 24.  He allowed one run on seven hits over 9.0 combined innings with one walk and 13 strikeouts.

Tatis was hitting .185 (6-41) with six runs scored, four doubles, two home runs, six RBI, six walks and 19 strikeouts in 41 games for New York.

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Still no Reyes, Thole in at C

Monday, July 5, 2010

Mets vs. Reds

16        Pagan             CF

13        Cora                2B

5          Wright            3B

29        Davis              1B

44        Bay                 LF

30       Thole              C

12        Francoeur      RF

11        Tejada            SS

34        Pelfrey           RHP

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NY Post report speculates on what could cause Wilpons to sell the Mets

Perhaps you missed this one on July 4th, I sure did.  I struggled with what to title this one, so let me set the tone with a quote from the article:

Investment bankers who sell sports teams believe the Amazin’s owners, the Wilpon family, are so cash-strapped that they will have to sell the Flushing franchise if the team has a losing season or two and attendance falls.

I’m no finance guy, so I will leave it to others to interpret but according to the Post:

  • The franchise is losing $10 million a year.
  • Attendance is on pace for 2.6 million (we knew that)
  • SNY is profitable but “owes money equal to roughly six times its earnings before interest.”

I’m not sure how much of this was new or why it popped up yesterday, but it’s a fairly strongly worded article.

As I have said before, I would fear new ownership.   There’s another millionaire family in these parts that needs cable programming….ask some Knicks and Rangers fans if they’d like to have the Wilpons buy the garden.

Unless Howie Rose wins Lotto, I’ll stick with what we’ve got.

Read more about this in the Post, definitely worth the look.

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Mets Stubhub Ad

Well I have finally made it to the outdoors portion of Mets Police HQ.   The thermometer says it is 95 in the shade, and I’m baking in the sun as I like to do.   I think me, the raft and some Coronas have a pool date after I do my noon-time internet rounds.

Here’s a puzzler.

Remember the last two weeks the Mets advertised “Better Seats, Lower Prices” or whatever the proper phrasing was?  This was the ad campaign at the stadium, on TV and over email that encouraged you to buy tickets directly from the Mets?  I took the campaign to mean that the Mets wanted us to believe buying directly from them was better.

OK, might make sense…..so why does this get emailed to me from mets.com?

If the Mets have better seats and lower prices why are they sending me to Stubhub?

Perhaps it is the exceptional service Stubhub is said to provide.  Perhaps you go to Mets.com for great seats and prices, but only “really good” service, but if you’d like exceptional service with ok seats and slightly higher prices you go to Stubhub.

I’m not smart enough to figure this one out.

Someone will likely let me know that “all the teams do this” – that’s no defense.  Nearly half the teams don’t let their pitcher bat, it doesn’t make it any less stupid.

Maybe some day someone will figure out how to combine prices,location AND service – then we’ll be on to something.

Man, I worked up a sweat just typing this.  My small palm tree on the other hand is quite happy.