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As stadiums week continues, some great stuff courtesy of Tom.

Today we travel to Pittsburgh’s PNC Park.

The Pirates have something called a “statue.”   If the Mets could acquire such technology, they cut put a statue of Tom Seaver between the 7 train and the rotunda.

Tom writes:  here are sample pics for the mets to look at from my trip to pnc park in June 2009. The first pic of all the baseballs mounted in the glass case in over a condiment station in the club level……..they have these cases all over the stadium like this. instead of the mets trying to sell a game used ball from shea stadium for $500, maybe they should save them and display them. Heck it’s just an idea, but then the mets won’t be able to squeeze more $$ out of our pockets……..what was i thinking…………..

All these upper decks are starting to look the same to me.

I actually liked Three Rivers (I’m the one) so I bet PNC is awesome.

Really awesome. I bet Pirates fans wish I hadn’t put the Reverse Curse Of Bobby Bonilla on them.  (That’s when you wish a team ill for sending Bonilla to your team.)

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Some quotes related to the rumored financial woes in Flushing:

David Howard on Fox Business Network:

We have set from the outset that the losses incurred as a result of the of the Madoff fraud have not and will not affect the operation of the Mets…


So Dave, is there any financial stress at all in the Mets organization?


No.  We’re doing very well.  We’ve had a fabulous opening year at Citi Field….we are selling at 94% capacity, we sold over 3 million tickets this year.  The team and the organization..well the organization is doing well.


Fred Wilpon told the Times:
“I’m fine, my family’s fine, my business family’s fine.” 


OK cool.


So my friends, if April rolls around and the Mets haven’t made any significant on-field improvements, if the plexiglass issue isn’t fixed, if there’s no statue of Seaver…it would not be because of money, right?  They are fine.  In fact, Dave Howard says they are doing “very well.”
  94% capacity.  Should be little to worry about in my opinion.   Seems like little reason to cut payroll right?  All is well.  I’m thrilled, I’m looking forward to 2010!


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Over at  Ya Gotta Believe Eddie D’Anna has an open letter to Fred, calling for the return of Bobby Valentine.

We wrote a month ago that part of the 2010 marketing plan will need to be distraction.  While V is not a favorite of mine (I don’t like finishing second), I think he’s a good choice for this offseason.  They can’t try to sell us on “everyone is healthy, really” and head into 2010 with Murphy/Castillo/Reyes/Wright/Someone/Beltran/Francoeur/Santos and Santana and Nobody.

The News also has 2010 on their minds today.

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Don’t forget this weekend is K-Rod Bobblehead Day plus another Mr. Met Dash, both on Sunday.

I took a look at Stubhub this morning…I stay away from the auctions but at 9am you could have bought “buy it now” seats for $10.

If you want to go on Saturday you could get in for $9 last time I checked.

I can’t wait to see how little I will get for the Wednesday and Thursday tickets I can’t use, and I still wish the Mets would adopt a ticket exchange policy similar to the Yankees.

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My favorite Mets executive David Howard was on FBN last night. Mr. Howard maintains the Mets will not be for sale.  Click here for the video: Madoff Strikes the Mets?

Jim Duquette also appears in the video.

I don’t know what’s true or not, but to my eyes where there is smoke there is often fire, and the Mets seem testy about this one.  

New topic:  Is Richard Sandomir in the Times an unofficial Mets mouthpiece?  Maybe it’s the randomness of my google searches, but it caught my eye that he was the one who had the “NOT for sale” story and now he’s the one with the semi-official spin on the training camp moving.

Once again, we’re talking about everything about winning baseball.  In the Bronx the conversation is playoff tickets.  We’re arguing over sales and training camps.