What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Here’s a cool site….Hit Tracker
Curious what the “true distance” of Adam Dunn’s home run was the other night? Why 447 feet of course. What was the speed off the bat when Murphy hit the Subway sign? Why it was 102.4 of course!
And curious to see how many cheap home runs there are at New Yankee Stadium? They have cool graphics like the one on the left.
Cool site, check it out.
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Wow. I have no idea if this is true but it sure is interesting. Alex emailed the Mets Police this morning…
I know the text is hard to read (I had to shrink the photo). The caption is “from home plate to the base of the stadium it looks to be approximately 390 to 400 feet (127 x 3 plus a little error). Therefore it does not appear the bases are in the correct spot since we all know that it was 410 feet from home to the centerfield wall at shea..and the wall (typo) was what looked to be at least 20 feet from the stadium.”
Below is the letter Alex sent the Mets Police. Is he right? Am I being punked? I’m just a dopey blogger, I’m not an engineer nor a mathematician, and Mets Police ain’t 60 Minutes. So with all apologies in advance if this is much ado about nothing…it is still interesting to examine “Are the Shea Stadium Markers Misplaced?”
Looking at pictures of the base markers for shea, I do not think they put the markers in the right spot. I thought something was wrong the first time I looked at this pic from 1010 wins:http://www.1010wins.com/pages/
Now for the comparison. First off, using this next pic from behind home plate, you will see that a straight line extended from home plate thru the mound and second base leads you into the last arch of the Rotunda: http://www.flickr.com/photos/
Now looking at this pic of the markers http://sports.webshots.com/
Next up, actual distance from the stadium.
Using the above aerial photo above, I took the bases as they were laid out in the lot, repeated them (copy and paste) until I reached the stadium. Using the fact that home to second is 127.3 feet and this is repeated a little more than 3 times, it looks like home plate is less about 400 feet from the stadium. Because home to the centerfield wall was 410 feet and a good distance from Citi, we know that home plate is not where it was. I get the fact that this is not completely accurate, but I think it is close.
Granted I have not visited the bases in person and measured the distance, but looking at the pictures, I think they are wrong.
Thanks,
Alex
So – what does everyone think? Alex is crazy? The Mets made an honest mistake? Is it a “who cares anyway?” topic or is another one of those little things they never get right.
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Here is a list of New York Mets players.
Jose Reyes
Carlos Delgado
Carlos Beltran
Alex Cora
Other players on this list are K-Rod, Putz, and Oliver Perez.
What is this list?
It’s many of the Mets who played in the WBC.
I can sense people getting mad right now that I’m throwing this out there – but with all the talk of lack of fundamentals and now a curious list of injuries – maybe it’s not a great idea to let 16 players out of your sights in March. Just sayin’
Quick – who won the 2009 WBC?
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So to be fair to the Mets, they do have pennant flags on the poles. As for the pennant logos that used to be on the fence in RF at Shea…here is where they (or lookalikes) have landed.
The iphone is a wonderful device, but the camera lacks any sort of zoom so these aren’t the best pictures.
This picture makes the placement look a lot cooler than it is. There’s really not any reason to use the bullpen gate – you likely parked on the other side of the stadium, or took the 7.
The bullpen gate is also where they have hidden the original much cooler apple.
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I think this gives you a better feel for how invisible these are. You wouldn’t notice them if you cross the bridge. I am leaning over a railway on a staircase to take this shot.
“NLDS Champion” is a lame thing to brag about. Just say division champions.
So, instead of offering three plans of 13 games each, they offered four plans of 15 games each, with each getting a few weekdays. In the grand scale of greed, it’s not the most egregious example, since there’s clearly more of a market for 15 game plans than could be handled just by 3 plans. What I fail to understand is why they didn’t make the game on Memorial Day part of the weekend plan, since it’s technically a weekend date, but not a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
The other thing that strikes me as interesting is the manipulations of the Sunday plan relative to the Jewish calendar. There are a significant number of observant Jews who have had the Sunday plan for years, in part because they want a plan, but are religiously prohibited from attending a game on Friday evenings or Saturdays, as well as certain Jewish holidays. If some of the Sunday home games were going to be excluded from the Sunday plan, it might have made sense to exclude games that would be on one of the few Sundays that overlapped with the holidays, which this year are September 20th (Rosh Hashannah) and October 4th (Sukkot). They got it a little right by excluding the game on October 4th, although Rosh Hashanah is much more widely observed. What’s then odd is that they included in the Sunday plan one of the weekday games that fell on a holiday on which observant Jews could not attend a game — April 16th. It’s not so much overly greedy as not understanding one of the things that makes the Sunday plan attractive to a couple of thousand plan holders.
