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In a poll on MetsBlog.com earlier today, 86 percent of the more than 3,000 readers who responded said they support Carlos Delgado’s decision regarding yesterday’s curtain call, adding, “He can do whatever he wants.”
Only 14 percent said he should have acknowledged the fan’s request.
…if any one feels like calling Mike and the Maddog with this minor fact, i’m sure they’d love to hear from you…
…Update…4:45 pm…
…naturally, Mike and the Maddog spent 40 minutes ripping Mets fans, never once mentioning that a) most fans support delgado and b) never once mentioning that delgado has only granted two curtain calls, despite hitting 432 home runs, during his 16 year career…
…good thing there is a knowledgeable Mets voice on the show to step in and, oh, right, there isn’t…oops…
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I think it was the way it was presented. I thought it would have been wise for him to acknowledge the crowd, but I didn’t think he was obligated. I “support” his decision in that sense, even though it wasn’t what I would have done.
This was interesting topic as I devoted time on my radio show this morning (Id do a spots radio show heavy on the Mets daily from 9-10:30 AM Mon-Fri., not Mike and the Mad Dog but much easier to get through and chat) and I go to say that most of the fans I spoke to panned Delgado. Three out of four about said it was a bad move on his part.
Anyone check on the Daily News blurb about MetsBlog… Raissman didnt have anything nice to say about the site’s relationship with SNY
post link or text pls
I don’t have the link, but this was definitely discussed in Raissman’s column. WIth all do respect to Matt and the site, this needs to be addressed if it is in fact true (yes, the link to the Smith video was removed — buy why?).
Here is what Bob Raissman said…
Mets blog-out
“Is Matt Cerrone’s entertaining and informative MetsBlog.com (One Team, One Million GM’s) losing some edge - and independence?
Prior to the start of the season, Cerrone joined forces with the Mets and SportsNet New York in a deal to have MetsBlog.com appear on SNY’s Web site. This was followed by a lot of yap-flapping out of Metsville (and MetsBlog) about MetsBlog being able to continue doing its thing.
On Thursday, MetsBlog posted a YouTube video of Joe Smith going mouth-to-mouth (”You ain’t s— … I’m in the big leagues you idiot”) with Cubs fans. Spies say when a Mets official was made aware of the video’s presence, he had it immediately pulled off MetsBlog.
For MetsBlog, and its fans, that’s called livin’ in a corporate world.”
Well in other news, after the Mets sweep the Pirates we should get another Willie Confidence Poll…
Honestly, who cares? If anything, making the mets look good is perfectly fine to me….i’ll leave the dumb criticism to the idiots on WFAN mid day show…
actually, I care. What makes (made?) this site unique is its warts-and-all discussion by fans-in discussions framed by Mattt –of our favorite team. If this is true, then…well, it’s troubling.
Salfino mentioned over at the BBTF primer that the video was removed due to a MLBAM issue regarding the use of video in ballparks.
I’m much more willing to believe that than 3/4 of the lazy hack “writers” in this area…
you know, you’re right…mlb has removed anything resembling footage of its teams in the last few months. pshew, makes me feel better about my fave blog
So why is it still on youtube?
At least it was earlier if it isn’t now.
I can’t answer that, but think it would be reasonable for Matt to address the situation.
Even if Raissman were right, I fail to see what the huge deal is. Some of you are making Matt sound like this is Larry Flynt being censored.
CERRONEGATE!
No, it really doesn’t bother me in the slightest…I wouldn’t care one way or the other if Matt was asked to remove it — it is his site and his living, so who am I to judge his decisions. I do not, however, think it is unreasonable to ask that the situation be addressed (addressed is different than, say, re-linked or remedied) given that Matt has written that SNY and the Mets do not have any editorial input when it comes to content. If they really do, fine; if they don’t, even better…but it’s still fair to ask, and I think we should know. As a loyal reader and a donor to Metsblog, this sort of small potatoes won’t bug me all that much, but we should still know what we’re reading and who is controlling it. That’s all.
One of the Newsday guys took a shot at Cerrone also:
“A popular formerly independent Mets blogger downplayed it, but that makes sense since he’s now cashin’ checks from the team’s network.”
weblogs[.]newsday[.] com/sports/columnists/jimbaumbach/blog/2008/04/debate_carlos_delgado_and_the[.]html
just remove the brackets around each period.
I left them this on their comment board:
“Wow..journalists are calling out Cerrone..never woulda thought. Considering he is the only one that doesn’t get paid by how many people buy his paper, or listen to his radio program. (Considering he still gets 1million hits/month in the Johan free offseason, I highly doubt one [post] will have a significant effect)”
He gets paid by how many hits the site generates, and any additional income from the SNY partnership. Cerrone has made it no secret that Metsblog is his primary source of income. It is also naive to think that SNY censoring Metsblog content will not have a significant effect.
It is also naive to fault Cerrone for this, as I doubt any of the independents that do not live in their parents basements would place “blog integrity” 100% over making a profitable career out of a hobby. It also isn’t as if he’s going to turn this blog into a rose-colored glasses festival. But he definitely will be forced to toe the corporate line if he wants to maintain his relationship with SNY.
stupid comment, considering it was the SNY guys that belabored the crap out of this non-event on the air.
i like how everything on SNY is often critical of the mets, but because SNY is in business with matt and metsblog, it’s supposedly having an effect on metsblog’s editorial opinion.
Game, set, and match. It’s not like SNY is a YES propaganda organ.
Of course, this thread is also filled with M&MD complaints, knowing what their standard fare is.
Wow, that was a undeserved cheap shot at Cerrone. I wonder how many shots that guy has taken or will take at Newsday whose checks he’s cashin’.
is it on the website, or only in the print edition? I can’t find it on the website.
although it was a nice surprise to see the lead story about Clemens also being an adulterer (and more than that, a *pedophile* adulterer). All of a sudden I’m in a great mood
I know, that is really funny. A 15 year old? (Actually I guess that’s not very funny at all.)
Its just because the average Mets fan probably takes Cerrone’s opinion more seriously than any DNL or SNY writer. Those guys can eat the leftover scraps at the Bronx Zoo any day if you ask me. I’ll take good ol’ fashion discussion fan-to-fan any day. Even if the site has gotten a bit of a corporate makeover, the tone is still the same and the guys here have their finger on the pulse of the team and the fans WAY better than the traditional media.
what do you think the odds are that the fans at the game tonight give Delgado a standing ovation and chant his name just to show that this curtin call story is completly overblown?
I’d like to see that…hopefully they will get the game in.
I knew that this would be the story all day today when he didn’t come out.
It shouldn’t be…they took 2/3 from the bravos without a pitcher completing six innings of work…
If we are going back to relying on poll results, does that mean the Willie Randolph approval rating is coming back?
Francesa even made it part of the lead story on Mike’d Up last night. Ridiculous focus on trivial matter by the pompous one.
Agreed. It was incredible to listen to those two go off on this triviality. And they did they’re best to bring David Wright into “the fray.”
But if it was a yankee (other than Arod) it would be a non-story.
Delgado was on the money for not granting the curtain call. He owes nothing to the fans. I agree with Mad Dog 110%. Francesca is dead wrong as he usually is. Delgado is not looking for a fight, he simply could care less. If he goes out tonight and jacks another 2 the curtain call will be there again and he can simply refuse again. People get too hung up in this nonsense.
i agree…this story has been blown way out of proportion…and they were trying to say Wright was sitting there saying don’t go and saying he won’t admit anything trying to spin Wright into all of this nonsense…I think the vast majority of Mets fans could care less…it all comes down do what they do on the field, that’s what gets cheered, and that’s all that matters, all I want is for Delgado to come out tonight and keep hitting, that’s all i care about, besides curtain calls are way overdone now too…let’s stop complicating every little issue…let’s hope they go out and perform and let’s cheer and get behind our team
LET’S GO METS
delagdo is a good person. had the balls to not stand for the national anthem, which i admire based on his reasons. and he has had a great career.
but…
he is done and will hurt the mets all year. fans should boo him, but more so to show managemtn that they messed up by not acquiring some decent 1st base plan B. They should have eaten half his contract and just have been done with it. anyone who knows the game knew he was done last year.
and he shouldn’t respond after one good game with a curtain call. i don’t understand the big deal really.
It. Was. Not. The. National. Anthem.
Please stop.
what was it?
God Bless America