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June 28 game moved to Sunday Night

bmfc1 May 28 2009 05:50 PM

Do you have tickets for the Mets hosting the MFYs on June 28? Were you looking forward to a Sunday afternoon at CF? Perhaps a barbeque after the game and then getting some rest before going back to work? If you weren't going, were you looking forward to hearing Gary, Ron and Keith, the best announcing team in baseball, call the game? Well, either way, you are SOL. The game has been "picked up" by ESPN which means an 8:10 start and an evening with Steve Phillips and Joe Morgan (Jon Miller is no match for those two). Plus, the Mets have to travel to Milwaukee for a night game on Monday so that means hearing that "the Mets didn't get to their hotel rooms until 4 AM."

Edgy DC May 28 2009 06:59 PM

Ever wonder if ESPN paid off the firejoemorgan.com guys? Or maybe they chilled them with legal threats for all the content they copy and paste.

Kong76 May 28 2009 07:20 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 28 2009 07:48 PM

I knew it was too good to be true. I don't particularly care for going to the Mets/Yanks games the last couple of years and a night game is out of the question. If anyone wants two LF prom tix at face ~ $55 for the pair lmk.

themetfairy May 28 2009 07:29 PM

Fuckshit! I hate Sunday night games.

Number 6 May 28 2009 08:10 PM

="Edgy DC":1apapsa4]Ever wonder if ESPN paid off the firejoemorgan.com guys? Or maybe they chilled them with legal threats for all the content they copy and paste.[/quote:1apapsa4] No, but now I am. It's certainly possible, though I doubt it. Their posting frequency had slowed considerably by the end, while the content they occasionally posted hadn't lost its bite, so I doubt they were threatened. I'm definitely inclined to believe in their motives and assume they wouldn't be paid off, but that's only because I felt they were genuine in their disdain of poor sportswriting. Plus Ken Tremendous had a kid near the end, which tends to sap up the spare time. Admittedly, none of these points is proof of anything, but it's a long way of saying I'd be surprised. soupcan May 28 2009 08:24 PM C'mon - you can't be surprised at this. OlerudOwned May 28 2009 08:37 PM ="Number 6":3n9alb3y] ="Edgy DC":3n9alb3y]Ever wonder if ESPN paid off the firejoemorgan.com guys? Or maybe they chilled them with legal threats for all the content they copy and paste.[/quote:3n9alb3y] No, but now I am. It's certainly possible, though I doubt it. Their posting frequency had slowed considerably by the end, while the content they occasionally posted hadn't lost its bite, so I doubt they were threatened. I'm definitely inclined to believe in their motives and assume they wouldn't be paid off, but that's only because I felt they were genuine in their disdain of poor sportswriting. Plus Ken Tremendous had a kid near the end, which tends to sap up the spare time. Admittedly, none of these points is proof of anything, but it's a long way of saying I'd be surprised.[/quote:3n9alb3y] KT is producing the NBC show Parks and Recreation right now. Junior actually wrote an episode during the first season. No reason to think anything aside from their stated reasons is to blame. themetfairy May 28 2009 08:56 PM ="soupcan":2zqkyolo]C'mon - you can't be surprised at this.[/quote:2zqkyolo] Surprised, no. Pissed off - yes. Nymr83 May 28 2009 09:00 PM i've been at the point for awhile now where mets/yankees means less to me than mets/[any above .500 NL team], so i'd rather they bump this to 8:00 than bump a mets/phillies game (like sun july 5th), though with our luck they'll do both Ceetar May 29 2009 09:03 AM ="Nymr83":v36lgeoq]i've been at the point for awhile now where mets/yankees means less to me than mets/[any above .500 NL team], so i'd rather they bump this to 8:00 than bump a mets/phillies game (like sun july 5th), though with our luck they'll do both[/quote:v36lgeoq] Mets/Yanks has lost some, but still more exciting than just about any other team. I kinda wish they _had_ bumped the july 5th game and scheduled the makeup for the day. I want to catch a game there this season and hitting two for the trip seemed like fun. (It was in '07 for sure, we swept it) bmfc1 May 29 2009 09:47 AM You're right, Ceetar. I guess ESPN didn't want the Mets/MFPs on July 5. MLB could have had a day/night DH on July 3, as they did in '07, but the MFP's have a night game out-of-town the night before. The way the schedule stands, if it rains all day on September 13 and 14 (both teams are off on the 14th), there will be problems. I wonder why they didn't use the open day of Sept. 14 for the make-up (perhaps it would have run afoul of the rules concerning number of consecutive games).