Comments on: Opinion: Stop Leading with Your Chin

By: Trumpzilla

Trumpzilla — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:28:13 +0000

Oh, and then lets discuss just why the Mets are the #2 team in their new ballpark?

By: Trumpzilla

Trumpzilla — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:27:26 +0000

About time someone said it. I’m tired of the team acting like a rinky-dink bunch. That “rap” song last year was fricking abysmal.

They put out a horrible rap song, Mets fans have to take sh*t. They put out a dumb slogan, Mets fans have to take sh*t. Do you realize that they’ll be hanging “the team, the time, the collapse” or some version of it on the mutts for years to come, until they actually win something?

There’s a reason why a good majority of the fanbase actually hates the organization.

By: chicowalkersucksballs

chicowalkersucksballs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:30:58 +0000

Every…body….crapyourpants….

poot-poot-poot-poot-poot-poot-poot-poot

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:57:07 +0000

Are you wearing a helmet right now?

By: Ken Dynamo

Ken Dynamo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:22:21 +0000

i love everybody clap your hands. it sing it to myself all the time. its fun. i seriously effing love it.

then i heard that commercial with mc hammer and his kid and realized it was a song by mc hammer and i downloaded it right afterward. im going to listen right now.

every body clap your hands

ha hah!

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:52:48 +0000

It’s the “baseball (or other sports) as carnival” theory, which posits that the “experience” is what makes people attend rather than just watch TV, and the “experience” includes all of that ridiculous hot dog gun/ dancing on the dugout/”Cotton-Eyed Joe” crap. They think that there are family members or friends who would otherwise veto a trip to the game that are convinced too attend because they’ll be “entertained” even though they don’t like baseball. I think this theory is fundamentally flawed, but they have record attendance, and it’s tough to make the argument that the figures are up IN SPITE OF the peripherals (even though I think that’s the case.)

By: Tidewater

Tidewater — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:25:00 +0000

‘73

By: the_other_matt

the_other_matt — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:19:47 +0000

Hard to shake the “Clown” image when the owner’s son is a graduate of Clown College.

By: the_other_matt

the_other_matt — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:18:23 +0000

Edit: We Are Definitely Going To Win the World Series (fine print: Maybe, don’t hold us to it.)

or…

2008 Mets: A baseball season is a terrible thing to waste.

By: chicowalkersucksballs

chicowalkersucksballs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:12:33 +0000

This has become a huge issue in all sports today…teams think they know what the fans want to make the experience more enjoyable, and yet they completely miss the big picture: if you give them a superior product, the rest takes care of itself. I grew up attending a ton of Lakers games in LA in the 80s, and there were no t-shirts being fired into the crowd, no digital screens that implored people to make ‘noise’ (actually, the scoreboard was always missing a few lights, and only kept track of the most basic stats)….and, because the team was so entertaining, the atmosphere was electric. One of my favorite baseball spectating experiences happened two years ago while watching a Giants game in San Francisco. In the third inning there was a ballpark-wide power failure, which killed all the scoreboards and PA systems, everything except for the lights. Somehow, the crowd knew when to cheer, and the only sounds were actually created by the crowd, the ump and the game…it was beautiful!