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Fun stuff here comparing the number of words each baseball announcer uses per minute.

Michael Kay and Gary Cohen are on the low end.  Vin Scully is the chattiest.

What does it all mean?  Nothing.  The Mets are like 17 games out, I’m down to overanalyzing Citibank Mets ads and sharing stuff like this.

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This morning’s MLB email blast is inviting us to buy fan bricks.  As part of the email they included the Citibank ad again (see left).

Look at the father and son…now I really think they just photoshopped in Generic Stadium Crowd because why would Citi and the Mets use actual Mets fans at Citi Field?

Anyways…

The Citi Field Fanwalk is expanding outside the Jackie Robinson Rotunda to include a new offering of bricks that will be installed along the first and third base sides of the Rotunda for the 2010 season.

Order your brick TOMORROW at 8:00am on 

I’m not sure how many of y’all read Deadspin (even though it’s one of the biggest sites out there) but this is fun:
The 2009 Mets: A Season Of Failure – it’s a collection of photos and videos to remind us all what an awful season it has been.

Among the fun is this “walk off error”

Speaking of 2009 – does anyone still care?  I’m noticing that comments are way down – and why that may be a function of my site being lame, I notice they are down on Metsblog too.  Has everyone headed off to the NFL?

Also from Deadspin, don’t miss last week’s Why Your Stadium Sucks: Citi Field.   Don’t worry, they do it for everyone.

Notice how the Yankee Stadium home run problem went away once the Yankees opened up a 7 game lead? Now it’s “part of their game.”   I was chatting with Mr. Sunshine the Yankee Fan and we were talking about how nobody complains about the 3 of 5 ALDS in the years where the Yankees win, but when they lose to the Angels suddenly it needs to be a 7 game series.  I think the DS should be 7, and each team should just schedule two Sunday doubleheaders to even out the schedule.  They could play one of those doubleheaders on the Sunday into the All-Star break and it would not be disruptive.

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Over in the News Adam Rubin says the Mets plan to keep Citi's
dimensions the same for 2010.

That's good. Just build a team to fit the park.

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So look, I know I’m annoying but this kind of stuff annoys me.  If you sign up for any MLB related mailing list you get bombarded with sales pitches every single day.   Yesterday I got one for Citibank.

So what caught my eye was the father and son in the ad.   Those are odd Mets hats they are choosing to wear.  I guess they are pushing the hat that comes in the offer.  

But what stadium is that?  Are they at Citi Field, or are they photoshopped in in front of a generic stadium crowd?  I don’t know the answer – but like I said, I am annoying and this kind of thing makes me start asking questions.

Nobody else in the crowd seems to be wearing a Mets hat.  Maybe they are and I just don’t see it.  It doesn’t look like a Mets game to me.  I could be wrong.  Is it possible the Mets and Citibank were too lazy to take a picture at say CITI Field?

So, if the banking ad interests you, check out the above and get yourself a hat and a pen.  I’m going to obsess over where these guys are sitting.

Yeah this is silly, but it’s what I do.

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