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SNY and Sovereign Bank are giving you the chance to tour Shea Stadium, attend batting practice and join Ron Darling in the broadcast booth as he prepares for the game.
For more information on how to enter the sweepstakes, which ends Friday, click here.
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What happened to the new one?
So I spend like a half hour looking for a cool profile picture, get one, upload it, come back to the blog only to find out the old format is back.
I am so confused…..
So much for the Avatar experiment.
Matt was just begging for a trainwreck with that one.
But I enjoyed my bucker avatar. Some people ruin it for the whole team.
What a total letdown…
Somethings happening here.
What it is ain’t exactly clear
Matt, now you’re just messing with us.
I feel like Leonardo DiCaprio forced to put on that stupid mask…
The contest page says it ended July 5.. Did they extend it another week?
Repost!
Likely outcome of me winning:
Me: So, what’s going on?
Ron: I’m preparing for the game, sit tight, and stop talking.
Me: How do you throw an effective slider?
Ron: How do you not understand ’stop talking’?
Me: Is Keith’s mustache as full and magnficent as it is on the TV?
Ron:
+1
repost!
Keep it simple.
With a World Series ring and a Gold Glove, you might just want to call him the complete package.
Yeah. Good question…
It does say it ended 5 July but then it lets you enter anyway. So wondering if the date is a mistake? I would think if the contest ended, it would not allow you to enter.
I was +8 too. I was ready to level up!
Haha, see… Too bad I can’t give you a point. :-(
For serious, I was also at 8. :shakes fist:
The page was reloading very slow though.
Who would have thunk we’d be longing for the days of yore?
12:30 was the days of yor?
MajorLeagueSarcasm already has the name….
Make up your mind Matt… seriously the Mets go on a winning streak and you have to go and make us all upset about something else…
:,(
Thats a bummer.. I dig the avatars
I’m thinking of entering my mom in that sweepstakes, but I’m afraid she’d have a heart attack if she won.
Guy Love?
Jerry Manuel revealed his affection for Matt Holliday, who extended his hitting streak to 12 games. “It’s kind of a ticklish situation. If you go and get Holliday, I can take that. I think I can find him a spot,” he told Newsday
The dude is hitting .260 away from Denver. He’s hitting .313 at shea, but with no power over 50 ABS.
matt,
are you going to give the troops an explanation?
just curious
Thinking the same exact thing… It’s one thing to revamp a comment section and change it back, but he also deleted a lot of comments, at least let us know what’s up!
sanchez tonight? five game streak? anyone?
I hope we score some runs for Johan. The guy is gonna feel jinxed
seriously…he could easily have 12 wins going into the break. And Sanchez has been pitching pretty well, too…hope tonight they hit their way out of the mini-jinx for him.
I wonder if he’s pissed about not being selected for the AS game, particularly as it’s in the city he pitches in. you knowhe has AS bonus clauses. So much for that new bently you had your eye on, Johan…
Finally I can log in. I was having problems with the new format logging in, but I really liked the idea of having my own avatar. For those guessing it would have been one of John Maine :) Oh well.
Oh and I would love to meet Ron Darling, but I never win contests, or lotteries :sigh:. Just being in the booth would be awesome although it would be cramped with four guys in that small space.
My Avatar was Benny Agbayani giving the 2nd our ball to the fan.
if we had the other comment format you could have fixed your error so it read ‘2nd out ball’ not ‘2nd our ball’
That is a classic moment in met history. Comes close to this one:
Throneberry hit a triple in a game against the Cubs, but was called out for not touching second base. According to the legend, manager Casey Stengel came out to argue the call, but was told by the umpire “Don’t bother arguing Casey, he missed first base, too.”
Well it’s probably moot now but you had to make a new account with that site to login.
I was kind of liking the new comment section. The only thing I think needed to be changed was the size of the font, and making the comments a little less cluttered looking.
Also the fact that you would get an email every time someone replied to a post you made.
FYI, You had to re-register for the new comments. You could use the same screen name though.
Too much man love, as Ronnie says. :P
btw there is a game tonight Matt. Start a thread so we can support our boooyysssss
The Total Package- Ron Darling. What a treat, My mother would be all over this contest.
Mine too. Provided she didn’t have a heart attack, she would probably bring food.
Might not get the game in tonight, lock at the radar, lots of rain headed this way.
Where ever I go, I like to be comfortable. I guess you can call me the whole package.
I’m holding out for next month’s promotion. Check out this amazing prize, you guys:
You get to sit in Gary Cohen’s car while he orders coffee at the Dunkin’ Donuts drive thru on the way to the game.
Sign me up!
And then the one after that: You get to drive around Queens with “Johnny Bandwagon,” looking for someone who will make him a pizza with nine slices.
Oh come on, make it sandwiches from Mama’s!
Let me just add, for what it’s worth… my post above notwithstanding, I’m not mocking this contest — Ron seems like a swell guy; he’s smart and insightful and fun and was a great pitcher (well, except for all those walks) and I would love to have an opportunity to meet him and talk to him about just about anything.
But whoever it was in SNY’s (or Sovereign Bank’s) marketing department who came up with this contest, or at least the wording of it, ought to be sent back down to the advertising minors. Send me to a ballgame with Ronnie, or dinner, or tell me he’ll come to a barbecue at my house and give me and my pals tips on how to throw a good slider. Or fine, let me hang out with him before a game, but “join him as he prepares for the game?” Wow, that sounds like an action packed afternoon, doesn’t it? Watch Ron prepare. The very word, “prepare” — kinda sends chills down your spine, doesn’t it?
OK, I’ll stop now. :)
Yes, NYP-BOS-NYP, but remember, wherever he goes, he makes sure he’s comfortable.
I keed, because I love. FWIW, Ron Darling won me over as a fan for life twenty-four years ago, when he chatted with me for almost twenty minutes, and was just the sweetest kid you could imagine. He spreads a lot of good will.