SNY finally announced today Bob Ojeda will be their lead studio analyst and Chris Carlin will be the new host for pre- and post-game.
…ojeda once let me wear his 1986 World Championship Ring, while i waited 
in line to buy Opening Day Mets tickets at Shea Stadium back in 1999… back then, in the ‘old days,’ fans would line up around the stadium and be moved like cattle from bin to bin, in an orderly fashion, in advance of reaching the ticket window, where you’d lock up tickets… anyway, former players would often work the line, signing autographs, passing out hot chocolate and talking with fans… i miss that experience, as cold as it was…
Also, according to the press release, “In addition, SNY will produce a comprehensive post-game show following every Mets game this season – including Mets games on PIX11, FOX and ESPN. Darryl Strawberry will also be a contributing analyst.”
Why is Chris Carlin becoming the face of the network? He’s terrible, obnoxious and inarticulate.
Plus he’s fat
He truly has a face for radio!
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**no opening day**
1896 ????????
haha…world series ring from 1896?
It only feels like 1896
I thought only Julio Franco had a championship ring from 1896.
Nothing against Carlin as I don’t think there is anything that terrible with him, but I thought Matt Yalloff was pretty good. Am I mistaken for thinking that?
i happen to agree…i like Carlin on loudmouths, i think he’s alright on beer money, he was a good sidekick to Boomer and Carton on FAN, but i just don’t know if this is the correct role. especially following up loudmouths on SNY, i don’t see how he’ll go from bashing the team (on his show) to praising the team (in the pregame). it just seems they should have separate hosts.
I agree Matt Jackoff was pretty good.
I really hate looking at the TV when Carlin is talking,…Its like his tongue is too big for his mouth.
LOL
Yallof is no longer with the network
I must be mistaken but I thought that Carlin was not a Mets fan. I know that you don’t have to be a mets fan to host but it would have been nice. I say kick off Carlin and give me Joe Beningo.
Please no Beningo….EVER….so bad its hard to explain
+1 if you’re looking for a mets fan benigno belongs at the bottom of the list. i seriously think hes happier when the team is losing. why SNY picked these 2 jackasses i’ll never know. they sucked on the fan and they suck worse on tv.
Carlin and Schein are funny on loudmouths, i think he will be fine as pre and post host, doesnt bother me.
please not joe “the sky is falling” beningo
i hate carlin. what happened to Yalloff???
Carlin? yuck.. he tries to act like he runs everything on Loudmouths (but i guess they are supposed to act that way anyway), i guess thats b/c he was tired of being Don Imus’ b!tch
I can’t stand Carlin. He actually makes me want to change the channel. He reminds me of a baseball version of Matt Pinfield. He’s just a little too much of a slob to be that smug.
LMAO @ “baseball version of Matt Pinfield”
it’s so true
HAHAHA! But remember, at least Pinhead knows the radio industry. Carlin gets info from his a-s-s!
Matt Yalloff was great..i like him and Harolr Reynolds, H.R is gone but at least keep matt
Did anybody see the MLB TV 1986 season recap…it was AWSOME for those who didnt
Carlin has the potential to turn into Francessa, Jr. If you can picture it…..Me…”Mini” Me
Carlin isn’t mini anything, even Fatty Francessa.
I would call him “Maxi” but that might quickly degenerate into an unnecessary hygiene product discussion.
Ugh. My reaction to Carlin is like everyone else’s. He is no Met fan, and is way too obnoxious for his own considerable ‘good’.
Heard him once on the FAN tear into a caller who had the temerity to question whether Jeter wasn’t part of the Yankees problem scoring and driving in runs last year. That’s all I needed to hear. Mini Me to Francessa is spot on.
I agree with the general tenor of the thread so far. I was quite happy with Yallof. I don’t know the circumstances of his departure. As-suming he was going to leave regardless, I find Carlin a poor choice of replacement, but I will be watching the pre and post game shows until he either wins me over or disappoints/frustrates me so much that I no longer can watch.
Is he going to still do Loudmouths at 6, then “morph” into a pregame show host a minute later?
I think the most surprising thing is that Carlin is just not an anchor (no pun). Yallof, like Jonas Schwartz on DNL, is an anchor, with the ability to direct traffic and get the most of out his guests. Carlin, despite his radio experience, is much more of a loudmouth analyst. I happen to like him, most of the time, but he just doesn’t seem like the right fit.
I will say this, however. Carlin won’t be afraid to call out the team. Generally, I think that’s a good thing.
I like Matt Yallof! Nice story about Ojeda, Matt. It is really interesting all of the sagas of NY Mets, particularly from the 86 team that go out of good graces to different degrees with management and then are brought back into the fold. If I remember correctly, Ojeda left because he didn’t like the way things were being done in the minor league organization and said so publicly. Defnitely one of the heroes of 86. I still have issues with him from 88 when he was using his hedge trimmers and cut off his finger and probably cost us another championship in the process. Met luck and Ojeda stupidity.
Give the Schmooz the show!!!!
he’s loud, fat and obnoxious. what moron would choose him to be the pregame and postgame host???
Gotta agree 100% here oleo…seems like a very strange choice….other than the facts that he was already a network employee and obviously comes cheap compared to most, I cannot imagine how he got chosen….
The only possible silver lining is maybe there is some other, bigger, much better name who will come aboard next year, and they got him as an easy 1-year stop-gap? Otherwise I cannot imagine a more obnoxious choice…..
That man has a face for radio. It will be hard to tolerate watching the pre/post shows, the way Carlin talks really freaks me out.
Just keep Ojeda away from the SNY power tools!!
LOL
i can see why people think carlin is obnoxious. personally, i don’t think he’s that bad. that said, i have no idea why sny’s making him an anchor/host of this show. i see him much more of opinion-type guy than an anchor. he’s perfect for loudmouths but he’s not right for this venue
i cringed when that move was being reported back a couple months.
after a tough mets loss, matt yalloff had a great ‘bedside manner’. his attitude was slightly disappointed, curious what went wrong, hopeful for improvement.
just what i needed.
now we’ll get bombastic fatty francessa junior. what are the puppetmaster’s at SNY thinking?
UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH
Carlin is all right. I believe he is a Texas Rangers fan. Agreed that Steve Somers would be great but he’s on FAN at that hour…
Yallof was ok… I wish chris Cotter was still at SNY and not Fox Business… Cotter was the best…
Mets really need to let Burkhardt do some Play by Play if Fox comes calling this season… He’s a star in the making…
Ugh, Carlin… something to look forward to – Tor Johnson hollering at me before and after every Met game.
Superb reference, Dennis Miller would be proud!
How did Plan 9 from Outer Space get left out of everyone’s favorite movie discussion a couple days ago?
I missed that, and I’m genuinely sorry that I did, would’ve been fun.
I probably would’ve brought up “Spoorloos” which is the original, Dutch version of “The Vanishing.”
Maybe Matt Yallof is now Gary Apple??
I hope Bobby O wears glasses now, because he’s in for a steady stream of spittle from The Continent. Why do you thinks Schein wears them. I once saw this tub of lard at a Giants game doing his show wearing a white down parka. He looked like the Sta-Puff Marshallow man. If you want to know what Carlin’s opinion is going to be, then just listen to Francesa. What’s with the infatuation with all these WFAN guys. I would rather look at Steve Somers on TV, then watch Carlin try to get his fat tongue out of his piehole. Other than that, he’s ok!!
So, does that mean we get Teufel next year?
I really think he is our next manager after Jerry….seems like a really good potential manager…he was good, but not great as a player, was very tough, and was a serious guy…..
i still say oberfell or art how – oh wait lol
I’m not a fan of Carlin at all for this job either. He’s much better as a loud talking head on a Loudmouths show or as a young, “buddy” type persona on a Beer Money. Give me someone more like Yallof or Burkhardt.
hey kong if u r still here i was monitoring yer smackdown of alex aka the c%re lol – great work of dispatching him and thanks for the shoutout
hey guys lacky might be available next year
As a mini-Me there is only room for one Francessa. Or one Carlin. I mean it. There is not enough room in this city for the two….
lol i still like the tor johnson/ chris carlin comparison – best i could come up for mike would be a younger and fater pat cooper lol
ok guys gotta run – wife and dogs to tend to lol
Does Citi Field have a retractable roof?
nope
Ojeda will always be Bobby, not Bob.
I agree!
yallof was great i cant believe they are replacing him with this shlub…
Chris Carlin is unbearable.
In the entire world they could not find a Mets fan to fill the spot. Everyone should complain to SNY about finding someone who:
1. we know is a Mets fan
2. has a chin
Isn’t the Food Network hiring