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This afternoon on WFAN, co-host Evan Roberts said, according to people he has talked to in the organization, the Mets do not have an Old-Timer’s Game, ‘because it’s too much work.’
…jeeez… too much work… really… i guess i understand that… it’s just, as a fan, who is proud of this team’s history, i’d love to see guys like Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Tom Seaver, maybe Mike Piazza, Robin Ventura, etc., on field, having fun, and playing again…
…although, since the Championship Banners are tucked away, hidden, facing the chop shops, and since nobody has any idea where the World Series trophies are, i wouldn’t be surprised to see this Old 
Timer’s Game played in the Wiffle Ball field in center field…
Speaking of a World Series Trophy…
The 1986 Mets World Series Owner’s Trophy sold for $32,000 through Robert Edward Auctions.
…according to the auction, this is only one of three owner’s trophies made from 1986, and i’m going to assume it’s Nelson Doubleday’s…
I think Bill Buckner bought the trophie so that he could burn it and exorcise his demons.
LMAO!!!
Our old-timers day would be the Mets vs the Dodgers as you know we would have to include their old-timers too so they could come back and see Ebbets, I mean Citi Field
Why would the Mets be there?
Fortunately Darryl Strawberry, Mike Piazza, Gary Carter, Roger McDowell, Bob Ojeda, Jesse Orosco. Todd Zeile, and Robin Ventura are former Dodgers, so maybe we’ll get to see them.
Who do we think the next inductee to the Mets Hall of Fame is, assuming the 7-year inactivity streak is broken:
A. Darryl Strawberry
B. Dwight Gooden
C. Mike Piazza
D. Duke Snider
E. Rachel Robinson
Matt,
Jeez is right!!! I want a job in their front office. So much for the money from the 248 various ticket prices……
The mets seem to be so afriad of their past and refuse to acknowledge the present. Maybe someone other then Pelfrey should see a shrink….
Ordinarily, I don’t care about something like Old Timer’s Day, but it just fits a pattern with the Wilpons about not caring about the franchise’s history.
And if they don’t care, whatever, but their paying customers do and they should care about that.
I mean, I’m sure it was a lot of work to build the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. And it’s a lot of work organizing Jackie Robinson Day each year. But they manage to do that.
Well based on the new stadium, lack of retired numbers, etc, we all know this organization doesn’t care about their history.
So no real suprise here.
32K is a lot of money for most peole, but you would think some met fan would have wanted that bad enough to pay more. It’s not like there are a bunch of them to choose from!
I would have bought it if I knew about it. That would have been awesome
Exactly how much work is it to have Gary Sheffield run out onto the field twice in one day?
Just another example of how this organization is second rate.
interesting lineup tonight…
Pagan CF
Cora SS
Murphy
Wright
Church
Reed LF
Reyes 2B
Schneider
Maybe, just maybe jerry realized defense is important rather then just saying it is….
And Nick Evans got demoted for pagan
Phew! I was worried Pagan might mess with our 13 pitcher and one-of-four bench slots being used up by useless Argenis Reyes strategy!
So we have no one to pinch hit for our awful pitchers, but plenty of pitchers to replace them with anyway.
u mean u dont like argenis reyes coming up and striking out or weakly grounding out each time? Damn i thought i was alone on that one
I actually prefer running out of bad pinch hitters in general so Pat Misch can hit for himself before being replaced by Elmer Dessens.
But you know, we JUST need to stay CLOSE guys!!!
Someone please tell me we dont have atleast 1 short stop or second baseman in the minors that could play instead of A Reyes????? Has Omar really messed up the system up that badly???
I think this move is temporary, the bullpen thanks to some less than stellar start has some guys worn out, so they need the extra arms. That said Jerry just has to have someplace that the worthless Tatis can start so of course evans goes down (shakes head in disbelief!)
I am beginning to think that we are fans of one of the worst organizations not only in baseball, but in all professional sports. Ownership does nothing for the fans, the stadium looks like any major league team plays there, the general manager does not know how to run a team evidenced by the lack of depth in the organization, the manager is a clown that says one thing and does another., and finally the players can’t hit, pitch or field.
One of the worst organizations in professional sports? Methinks you’re exaggerating just a tad. The LA Clippers are the worst organization in the history of professional sports. it’s not even close. The Mets look like the Detroit Red Wings by comparison.
I didn’t say the worst, I said one of the worst.
While I agree there are far worse organizations in general, the Clippers and their ilk don’t have nearly as much to work with as do the Mets.
What are you judging it by? Championships? Even though the Mets only have 2, that is actually more than a lot of teams, including Seattle, Houston, the SF Giants (zero since moving to SF) – what about the Cubs? Zero championships for 100 YEARS.
I’m not saying they’re a model franchise, but let’s lay off the hyperbole here. Would you rather be a Pirates fan, have your stadium dripping with Pirates history, but have no winning seasons for 17 years?
Let me clarify my point: I think the Mets are an average franchise at best. They just seem a lot worse since they play in a town who has a team with 26 championships and makes the playoffs every single year.
Ok Ditas I’ll help you out cause I agree with you for the most part….
Toasty Joe – Give me one team with the same resources as the Mets (big market, tons of money coming in, huge fan base etc.) that have failed and have made dumber decisions???? I promise you will struggle to find one. Mets ownership if you consider all the resources have been the biggest LOSERS in all of baseball… Anyone disagree???
Well it’s not a baseball team, but how about the Knicks? What Dolan/Layden/Thomas did to the Knicks over the past 10 years has been worse than anything Fred/Jeff/Omar have done to the Mets. FAR worse.
Cant compare different sports. And we’ve had the same success as the Knicks and they have a salary cap so it is harder to fix…Plus We havent won a WS in over 20 years.
The guy in the first post said “all of professional sports”, not “all of baseball,” so I was responding to that.
I know but I’m saying no other sport has unlimited payroll like the MLB and thus makes it harder for other sports to fix an organization by signing big free agents like we can. Considering our resources The Mets are a joke I’m sorry. I’m a diehard Mets fan but I’m realistic…
None of those teams you mentioned have the ability to spend 150 million on payroll and are in a brand new stadium with increased revenue… If you want to be fair compare the Mets to teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, maybe the Dodgers, Cardinals, and Phillies (mid market) and we come in LAST place when it comes to management decisions and utlizing our resources. DEAD LAST.
i don’t understand why you insist that honoring your history is so unimportant. We’re trying to have pride in our team, even in the face of what’s gone on in the past 3 years, and we’re reacting to an owner who takes more pride in a team that’s been non-existent for 52 years than his own. No, having CitiField ‘dripping’ with ‘pictures of Ray Knight’ won’t replace winning, but last I checked we don’t have either.
When you were a kid, did your parents have alot of pictures of you and your siblings around? Did they hang your school projects on the fridge? I am sure they did – it was so you would grow up feeling pride in yourself and knowing they had pride in you. How would you have felt if they didn’t?
Like a Mets fan. If the people who own the team don’t have any pride in it, why exactly should we?
I can’t disagree with you. It all goes back to ownership. I’m sure Fred Wilpon is a great REAL ESTATE businessman but when it comes to baseball him and his son both have no clue. And it sucks for us fans that love the team and its history.
How about the Pirates or Orioles – or even the Cubs who haven’t won anything in over 100 years?
Let’s keep things in perspective. The Wilpons are incompetent, but at least most (all?) of us were alive the last time the Mets won the WS.
The Pirates last won the WS in 1979 (over the Orioles).
The Orioles last won in 1983.
Not exactly ancient history comapred to 1986.
The Pirates have won the WS 5 times, the Orioles 3.
The Pirates and Orioles cant spend 150 million on payroll and dont have the same resources as us. You can’t compare a large market team to a small market. In the large to mid size category we are definitely in last by far
Xavier, I think people are (over)reacting emotionally right now since we stink due to the fact that half the team is on the DL. If the Mets had won just one more game in 2007 and again in 2008 – just one! – we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Oh, well.
toasty we lost the division by 3 games in 2008. And 2007 was the biggest collapse in the history of baseball. I suppose we should ecstatic right now…
Too much work? That’s a euphamism for “you have to pay these guys for appearances and it’s not worth it to us.”
Also included in the “too much work” column:
- The Mets Hall of Fame (no inductions since 2002)
- Mets history
- Trying to get help for the current inept ML roster
- Finding a competent COO to replace the silver-spooned dolt that is Jeff Wilpon
- Firing a manager in a nornal way
- Firing a manager when necessary
By contrast – in the ‘worth all of the effort’ column:
- Brooklyn Dodgers history
- Modeling the Mets home for the next 75 years after the Dodgers home
- Erasing the memory of William A. Shea
This really is depressing to me. I live in DC, and would try to make a special trip with my kids up to NY for an old-timers game. Why? Both my young ones are Mets fans, but living in DC, are very much interested in the home team as well.
They have watched and love the old tapes and DVDs of ‘86, 99-00, but have no real connection to them. To actually go to a game in NY and see these guys play would give them a direct, visceral connection they’d always remember. I know from experience how this kind of connection can impact a young fan.
I remember my mother taking me to an old-timers game at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium because Pee Wee Reese was playing. She marveled that he still had the same smooth moves at SS. Seeing him with my mother, a dyed-in-the-wool Brooklyn Dodgers fan, I still have a warm place in my heart for Pee Wee because of that game, and use that lesson to talk to my kids about his special place with Jackie Robinson in the anals of civil rights history.
I am and will always be a Mets fan, but when I hear stuff like this, I often wish that I could divorce this oft horribly mismanaged franchise.
Scott, bring them to New York and teach them about Jackie Robinson! And make sure they tune in to SNY this week as Mets Weekly “tours” the site of Ebbetts Field, which is nothing but a run down apartment building.
What else matters? Mets history? Huh?
What about last night during the Mets broadcast when the Dodgers were embarrassing us again, Burkhardt started talking about how The Wilpons (losers) actually got there hands on the original construction plans from Ebbets Field and followed them to create Citi Field Home of the Dodgers. Glad I had to be reminded of that when the Dodgers took a 10-2 lead or whatever it was LOL..
there’s no point in having an old timers day when all the old dodgers are dead, infirm or ralph branca
ah yes, Evan Roberts, the great all-knowing truth sayer on the most trustworthy of sources, WFAN. he’s playing to your paranoia that the Mets don’t care about you, people. GET A GRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow – I didn’t know Jeff Wilpon posted here!
Off Topic but Angel Pagan is starting tonight..
Maybe it’s a good sign we are starting to get our injured back ups back hahaha
I take back all I said earlier. Tonight, the New York Mets and CitiField bring you BIG CITI CRUNCH! A whole stadium’s worth of people crunching a potato chip simultaneously! Sweet!
Who the hell needs Old Timer’s Day?!
I tell you what, the Mets will host an Old Timer’s Day when a major sponsor underwrites it….and not a day before.
Too much work?? Are they for real??? Maybe it was too much work to sign Manny or Orlando Hudson the past offseason.
Yuniesky Betancourt was traded today from Seattle to the Kansas City. He’s definitely no Alex Cora.
I am glad KANSAS CITY is still trying to improve their team.