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Edgy MD
Jan 20 2015 12:25 PM
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Sports Bidness Daily just announced that the Yankees have struck a deal with WPIX to broadcast 21 home games a year for the next four years.
WPIX, of course, apart from dishing out a generous diet of Two and Half Men reruns, also broadcasts 25 Mets games a year. Not sure if this means the Mets getting dumped for the Yankees again, or if the two will be sharing a broadcast partner.
Have the teams ever shared a broadcast partner? Have the Mets erred in failing to insist on an exclusivity clause in their contract?
Does a return to WWOR beckon, if not now then later?
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Frayed Knot
Jan 20 2015 12:30 PM
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Those MFY games shown on 'Free' TV tended to fall mostly on weekdays (Tuesdays in particular it seemed to me) in recent years while NYM PIX games tended towards weekends .
Now maybe that was dictated by the times that the station had open rather than from club preferences, but the free games are rare enough in either case to where it's certainly possible that the two teams could co-exist on one channel in the same season.
And I sure hope that the Yanx didn't issue a press release to announce this, coming as it did on the day after they failed to even try for Max Scherzer!!
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Ceetar
Jan 20 2015 12:32 PM
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I'd be all set to go all-SNY. I bet Fman would be too.
Of course, my dream is that they open up MLB.TV for locals and I cut out cable all together.
But yeah, coexisting for now seems like what's gonna happen.
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Edgy MD
Jan 20 2015 12:50 PM
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Frayed Knot wrote:
And I sure hope that the Yanx didn't issue a press release to announce this, coming as it did on the day after they failed to even try for Max Scherzer!! |
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G-Fafif
Jan 21 2015 01:43 PM
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Giants and MFYs shared Channel 11 in the 1950s. I mention that to show it can be done, but it occurs to me that one of them left town eventually.
Goodbye MFYs. Good luck wherever.
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Ashie62
Jan 21 2015 02:46 PM
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I believe WWOR changed ownership and is billed as "My 9" Georgia Peach Communications out of Atlanta GA.
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Fman99
Jan 21 2015 06:28 PM
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Man I would love love LOVE for the Mets to dump WPIX and put all their games on SNY, MSG, Fox Sports, HGTV, or any of the other 1900 channels that I DO receive up here in the 'Cuse.
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d'Kong76
Jan 21 2015 06:51 PM
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Ashie62 wrote:
I believe WWOR changed ownership and is billed as "My 9" Georgia Peach Communications out of Atlanta GA. |
Nah, it's a NY/NJ station. I'll leave the devil of the
details to you if you disagree.
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TheOldMole
Jan 21 2015 10:16 PM
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We didn't have TV back then, but I remember it as Yankees on Channel 11 (Ballantine and White Owl), Dodgers on Channel 9 (our had has never lost its skill), Giants on Channel 5 (Piels and Chesterfield). Dodgers on radio on WMGM, along with Warmup Time, Sports Extra, and Today's Baseball.
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G-Fafif
Jan 22 2015 08:53 AM
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Per WPIX-TV's history of itself.
The station's association with Major League Baseball started only 21 days after the station first went on the air. On July 6, 1948 WPIX aired a game between rivals the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. And WPIX camera crews began their dominate telecasts of top Madison Square Garden events. By the end of the stations second year, WPIX led all stations with remote telecast of baseball, Rangers’ hockey, football, Knicks basketball, boxing, wrestling, and stock car races. The New York Giants started in 1949 and the Yankees in 1951 on WPIX.
The station teamed with the Yankees from 1951 through 1998. And when, after nine seasons on WPIX, the NY Giants went to the West Coast in 1957, the station quickly signed a record-breaking contract with the Yankees to televise over 140 ball games at home and on the road. The contract for over 400 programming hours was at the time the largest single time sale in the history of the medium. For 47 years, the station was the broadcast home of the New York Yankees. And since 1999, it has been the Mets that have made WPIX a baseball destination. |
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Fman99
Jan 22 2015 09:10 AM
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Having given this more thought, a MFY move to WPIX may be the impetus to get all of their games, both MFY and Met, on to the local airwaves. The majority of baseball fans in this town are YLDBs and I think they'd end up piping in that channel for all the games. The WWOR MFY games have always been carried on local channels here in the past.
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cooby
Jan 22 2015 10:34 AM
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No way either team would make it better for the fans to watch
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G-Fafif
Jan 22 2015 10:47 AM
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Jackie Robinson knew where to tune in once he was no longer playing...for a year, anyway.
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Benjamin Grimm
Jan 22 2015 11:19 AM
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One The Wiggles are in your head, they tend to stay there. (Both of my kids outgrew The Wiggles years ago.) But I see this thread title and I think, "Mets on the Air, Rock-a-bye Your Bear."
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jan 22 2015 11:39 AM
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I'm sorry to hear John Sterling apparently lost everything in that high-rise fire in Edgewater yesterday.
It was "Burn Baby Burn!"
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Edgy MD
Jan 29 2015 04:56 PM
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Bobby Ojeda, out as Mets in-studio analyst.
Front of the line to replace him is... Nelson Figueroa?
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jan 29 2015 05:16 PM
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NellyFigs!
I'm shocked that Bobby O overestimates the worth of his opinion.
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d'Kong76
Jan 29 2015 05:21 PM
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Pretty sad they can't afford him ... when's Darling's term
up? With him on MLB and TBS already he'll probably be the
next to jump ship.
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Ashie62
Jan 29 2015 05:43 PM
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Ojeda was very critical of the Mets?
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jan 29 2015 05:47 PM
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Ashie62 wrote:
Ojeda was very critical of the Mets? |
He was. But I really don't think this was the case.
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d'Kong76
Jan 29 2015 05:54 PM
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He was refreshingly critical?
Will Nelson's first year be as a free intern?
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jan 29 2015 06:24 PM
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Wasn't a real big Bobby O fan and felt like the broadcast had too much 86 Met flavor as it is.
Was hoping Nelson Figeroa's Wife would take the job though. That bish tells it like it is.
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G-Fafif
Jan 29 2015 06:33 PM
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Figueroa will be on track to get the job, then be cut just before Opening Day.
Loved Bobby O in that role. Sorry to lose him. Then again, seeing as how he came on board in 2009, perhaps he's been the problem these last six years.
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themetfairy
Jan 29 2015 06:43 PM
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Bobby was a good guy and a good sport - I'll miss him.
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Ceetar
Jan 29 2015 06:52 PM
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I voraciously turned off SNY after games, win or lose, to avoid hearing Ojeda, so can't say I'm disappointed to see him gone. Figgy would be interesting.
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d'Kong76
Jan 29 2015 07:03 PM
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The fan split over like/dislike of Bobby O is certainly not
anything new, but I can't imagine what would make you say
Figgy would bring something to the table.
Based on what?
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Edgy MD
Jan 29 2015 08:07 PM
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Nelson would bring back the eyebrow factor that's been missing since Josh Satin played his way off the team.
Alisa, on the other hand, is nobody's fool. She knows exactly which thread to look for herself in.
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d'Kong76
Jan 29 2015 08:14 PM
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Guess I don't follow or something...
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Edgy MD
Jan 29 2015 08:19 PM
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We have a "Wifey Watch" thread. And there's Alisa actually wearing a jersey that says "WIFEY." That's funny!
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Ceetar
Jan 29 2015 08:20 PM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
The fan split over like/dislike of Bobby O is certainly not
anything new, but I can't imagine what would make you say
Figgy would bring something to the table.
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well based on him being not Bobby O at this point is good enough for me.
I can't say I've heard him do any serious analysis, but the interviews he gave while he was here seemed like he'd be at least decent.
At any rate, I don't see him followed Ojeda's talk radio philosophy of "pick a topic and yell about it for the entire show' angle.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jan 29 2015 08:31 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:
We have a "Wifey Watch" thread. And there's Alisa actually wearing a jersey that says "WIFEY." That's funny! |
Also, she shot off her mouth and cursed the Mets after they outrighted Nelson to the minors for the 5th time.
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Edgy MD
Jan 29 2015 08:33 PM
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I guess we shouldn't expect Bobby O. to go unquietly.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jan 29 2015 11:32 PM
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Ceetar wrote:
d'Kong76 wrote:
The fan split over like/dislike of Bobby O is certainly not
anything new, but I can't imagine what would make you say
Figgy would bring something to the table.
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well based on him being not Bobby O at this point is good enough for me.
I can't say I've heard him do any serious analysis, but the interviews he gave while he was here seemed like he'd be at least decent.
At any rate, I don't see him followed Ojeda's talk radio philosophy of "pick a topic and yell about it for the entire show' angle. |
This. Ojeda's famed research amounted to "I'm going to harp on this thing I read about regardless of its pertinence or truth."
Figueroa's come off in interviews as bright, reflective, and superarticulate; plus, he squeezed the toothpaste tube bone-dry, in terms of maximizing his talent, so I'd imagine he knows quite a bit about the armcraft.
Uncle Cliffy is supposedly also in the running. If his MLB Network gigs are any indication, he'd be clubby and personable... with an anaphylactic allergic reaction to anything with the whiff of statistical analysis.
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d'Kong76
Jan 30 2015 05:22 AM
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Was Figgy the guy who had a large family and friends contingent
at games that got a lot of air time?
I'd like to see Clifford, statistical anaphylaxisiosisness or not.
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Frayed Knot
Jan 30 2015 06:15 AM
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Yeah, Figueroa is a native NYer (Abraham Lincoln HS - Brooklyn) so I'm sure that angle appeals to SNY brass. He also came via Brandeis Univ so, baseball scholarship and all, you wouldn't figure him to be a total dummy.
Cliffy's been doing some work for the Marlins, at least on a part-time basis, for a couple of years now. At first was kind of dorky/jocky and cliche-heavy but seems to be getting better with time and has snagged some time on MLBN as a result.
I believe he lives in So-Fla so you wonder how much he'd be committed to NYC on a full-time basis, but I guess if the money's right ...
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themetfairy
Jan 30 2015 06:17 AM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
Was Figgy the guy who had a large family and friends contingent
at games that got a lot of air time?
I'd like to see Clifford, statistical anaphylaxisiosisness or not. |
IIRC, Billy Wagner let the Figueroa family use his private box so they could watch Figgy's Mets debut.
I think that Cliff Floyd was in the running for Josh Lewin's job before the fan base made it clear that we tune in to listen to Josh and Howie no matter how the team is doing.
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d'Kong76
Jan 30 2015 06:41 AM
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Josh is ok, I don't know if I'd climb any hill to
bang a drum for him though.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jan 30 2015 07:07 AM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
Josh is ok, I don't know if I'd climb any hill to
bang a drum for him though. |
Damn. Faint praise.
For my money, he's been dorky-funny, insightful, and a solid-plus-plus play-by-play guy when he's giving Howie a blow. But he's worth said money alone for how he's rejuvenated Howie, who sounds like a Howie-and-a-half over the last two years.
I really like Cliffy still. I worry that that would change a lot if I saw him talking about what "they should be doing" more often.
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d'Kong76
Jan 30 2015 07:12 AM
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No disrespect to Josh, guess I was more reacting to "fan base made it
clear that we tune in to listen to Josh and Howie no matter how the team
is doing" which doesn't apply to my listening habits. I'd listen to the Mets
if Elmer Fudd was doing the broadcast.
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metirish
Jan 30 2015 07:19 AM
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I liked Ojeda , honest guy, still #Mets twitter exploding over this is to be expected......Ojeda not coming back is "proof" that the Wilpon's are the worst and Alerderson too.
Some talk of Cliff Floyd and Marlon Anderson
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themetfairy
Jan 30 2015 07:20 AM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
No disrespect to Josh, guess I was more reacting to "fan base made it
clear that we tune in to listen to Josh and Howie no matter how the team
is doing" which doesn't apply to my listening habits. I'd listen to the Mets
if Elmer Fudd was doing the broadcast. |
Some respected portions of the fan base were quite vocal on the subject.
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d'Kong76
Jan 30 2015 07:31 AM
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I didn't say they weren't, I said it doesn't apply to me.
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Frayed Knot
Jan 30 2015 07:40 AM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
... I'd listen to the Mets if Elmer Fudd was doing the broadcast. |
As would I, if for no other reason than to hear him describe Anthony Wecker thwowing out a wunner.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jan 30 2015 07:48 AM
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G-Fafif wrote:
Figueroa will be on track to get the job, then be cut just before Opening Day.
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Gold, Jerry. lolollloolol
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Benjamin Grimm
Jan 30 2015 08:07 AM
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I can't even remember who "Escobar" was!
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Edgy MD
Jan 30 2015 08:12 AM
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Kelvim Escobar: veteran starter/sometimes reliever. He picked Omar's pocket, signing for $1–2 million before the 2009 season and then blowing out his shoulder before ever throwing a pitch for the team in the minors or majors. Ka-ching.
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G-Fafif
Jan 30 2015 02:02 PM
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I seem to recall Figueroa being kind of a proto-Dickey in that he came off as unusually pensive and articulate, except he didn't have an unhittable pitch and, honestly, I can't recall a single pensive or articulate thing he said while he was here, which doesn't differentiate him much from the Pat Misches and Tim Reddings with whom he shared rotation time.
Oh, except for the game when the Nationals were lighting up either him or another Met (probably him) and he groused about their "softball girl" cheerleading in the dugout, which struck me as STFU if you can't get them out.
Caught him once or twice on MLBN and thought, "he looks familiar...oh yeah, Nelson Figueroa..."
OE: Here's the aforementioned controfuffle from 2008, as reported by Adam Rubin.
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Frayed Knot
Feb 03 2015 07:48 PM
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Bobby O defends ownership and seems to cryptically dis Sandy even though he doesn't specifically name him.
It's not quite clear (to me anyway) what it is in particular he's getting at here: need "winning attitude" in the clubhouse and all that.
Also Martino's opening: "News of Bob Ojeda’s departure from SNY last Thursday left Mets fans stunned and disappointed — a natural reaction, given Ojeda’s passion, preparation and candor as a studio analyst over the past six years." is certainly not a universal sentiment (even on this board) yet gets passed off as if it is.
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Edgy MD
Feb 03 2015 09:36 PM
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Seems to give Omar more of a punch than Sandy.
The notion that Sandy shouldn't be making predictions is well taken, though.
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Fman99
Feb 04 2015 04:21 AM
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Six sub .500 years for the Metsies and six years of Bobby O in the SNY booth. Coincidence? Or is he just bad luck?
I'm just saying, you know, I don't want him buying my scratch off games (or riding in my motorboat).
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Edgy MD
Feb 05 2015 10:57 AM
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="The Queens Chronicle"]Figueroa will have big shoes to fill because Ojeda was popular with fans and the media because of his refreshing candor. He could never be accused of being a shill for the home team. Having gotten to know Nelson over the years, I am certain that he will be insightful and will never insult anyone’s intelligence. SNY executives are undoubtedly hoping that his matinee idol looks will draw more women to Mets telecasts. |
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Vic Sage
Feb 05 2015 12:02 PM
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I won't miss Bobby O's typical jock-tough guy douchebaggery and agenda-driven analysis.
Oh, Nelly!
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Feb 05 2015 05:15 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:
="The Queens Chronicle"]Figueroa will have big shoes to fill because Ojeda was popular with fans and the media because of his refreshing candor. He could never be accused of being a shill for the home team. Having gotten to know Nelson over the years, I am certain that he will be insightful and will never insult anyone’s intelligence. SNY executives are undoubtedly hoping that his matinee idol looks will draw more women to Mets telecasts. |
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"Maybe he means the chinless understudies they put onstage during the matinee performances, sometimes? I don't know, I've got nothing."
-Mrs. Figueroa
themetfairy
Feb 05 2015 05:38 PM
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Matinee idol looks?
He's no Herman Munster, but he's hardly a Backstreet Boy.
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d'Kong76
Feb 05 2015 05:45 PM
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Some people think ferrets are cute, I don't see it.
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Edgy MD
Feb 05 2015 08:59 PM
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If the author knows Nellie, maybe he was waxing with comic exaggeration about the Man from Planet Unibrow.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Feb 06 2015 01:31 PM
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Edgy MD wrote:
If the author knows Nellie, maybe he was waxing with comic exaggeration about the Man from Planet Unibrow. |
Unless the author is reasonably certain that everyone knows Nellie, then it's a pretty doofy comic exaggeration, innit?
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Edgy MD
Feb 06 2015 01:43 PM
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Well, it IS The Queens Chronicle. We can't expect Rockland Journal-quality work here.
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G-Fafif
Feb 10 2015 12:15 PM
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An appreciation of the Met prophet of the airwaves here.
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d'Kong76
Feb 15 2015 01:59 PM
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Multiple reports that Figgy is in.
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Ceetar
Feb 16 2015 12:04 PM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
Multiple reports that Figgy is in. |
confirmed now.
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Benjamin Grimm
Feb 17 2015 07:58 AM
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Jerry Seinfeld wrote:
? @JerrySeinfeld
Nelson Figueroa is taking over for Bobby Ojeda as analyst on pregame and postgame show. #mets "Booooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!"
3:41 PM - 16 Feb 2015
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Frayed Knot
Feb 18 2015 12:04 PM
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Rubin: WOR has offered its pregame and postgame host job to Illinois native Wayne Randazzo, sources told ESPNNewYork.com.
The role will include fill-in play-by-play. Randazzo would succeed Seth Everett, who held the role last season.
Some of that play-by-play fill-in will probably come early due to the Islander success this year.
From Wayne's website:
Wayne Randazzo is headed into his second season as the play-by-play broadcaster of the Kane County Cougars (Class A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs) after spending his first four years in pro ball as the lead broadcaster for the Mobile BayBears (Class AA Affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks). Wayne is also currently an update anchor for Chicago's Sports Radio 670 the Score, the flagship station of the Chicago White Sox.
Wayne has hosted and co-hosted as a fill-in on the weekly baseball program, Hit & Run, as well as the pregame and postgame shows on the Chicago White Sox Radio Network. He's also worked in various anchor and reporting roles for Chicago’s ESPN 1000, WGN Radio and the Illinois Radio Network.
Additionally, Wayne has performed in numerous roles as a television play-by-play broadcaster for the Big Ten Network, Chicago's Comcast Network 100 and for the Alabama High School Athletics Association covering football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Feb 18 2015 12:32 PM
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Love it, a hi-lite reel
[youtube:1wskuedt]1XCofyUHuOE[/youtube:1wskuedt]
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Edgy MD
Feb 20 2015 09:04 AM
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Randazzo, it turns out, is the cousin of MLB umpire Tony Randazzo.
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Edgy MD
Mar 11 2015 08:49 AM
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Something to think about as internet grumbles about Matt Harvey's second start not being televised.
Is there any reason, when the team owners also own a network anchored around team programming, that you shouldn't carry every spring training game? At least every spring training home game?
I guess the setup and staffing are somewhat prohibitive. For the games they do shoot, are those with MLB network equipment or SNY equipment?
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Frayed Knot
Mar 11 2015 09:45 AM
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The games that MLBN carries at this time of year are ones where they're merely picking up whatever local feed is televising the game back home so I assume the equipment, like the personnel, belongs to the individual channels as well.
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Edgy MD
Mar 11 2015 09:54 AM
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So I guess the setup and staffing are cost-prohibitive and the ratings back home don't make it worthwhile.
Lot of folks want their Harvey visuals today.
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Ceetar
Mar 11 2015 10:16 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:
So I guess the setup and staffing are cost-prohibitive and the ratings back home don't make it worthwhile.
Lot of folks want their Harvey visuals today. |
seems that way.
I think "lots of folks" might be stretching it. But a lot of these people are the ones that also wish they'd televise the minor league games on the backfields via a streaming cam.
The Mets, generally, televise every home spring game with the exception of the occasional preemption for amateur hoops around my birthday.
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G-Fafif
Mar 12 2015 11:38 AM
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Spectacularly random staffing of the SNY broadcast today: Scott Braun of MLBN on PBP, Jim Duquette the analyst and Alexa "Who's" Datt of Branden & Alexa fame as your roving reporter.
Will Ferrell Jose Oquendo-ing out west isn't quite as weird as this.
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Ceetar
Mar 12 2015 11:42 AM
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G-Fafif wrote:
Spectacularly random staffing of the SNY broadcast today: Scott Braun of MLBN on PBP, Jim Duquette the analyst and Alexa "Who's" Datt of Branden & Alexa fame as your roving reporter.
Will Ferrell Jose Oquendo-ing out west isn't quite as weird as this. |
watched 20 minutes at the beginning during lunch. seemed okay, didn't see Alexa.
what happened to the third chick of Branden/Alexa trio?
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G-Fafif
Mar 12 2015 11:53 AM
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Alexa grilled Matt Reynolds like Chuck Todd interviewing John McCain, except slightly more challenging.
Don't know where Christina is. She was my favorite of the Hosting Trio, probably because she appeared the least of the three of them.
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Edgy MD
May 05 2015 06:45 PM
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Mets on WOR seem to have a lot of personal injury law firms as their sponsors.
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d'Kong76
May 05 2015 07:15 PM
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For the most part, the regional advertising I get on SNY is very
low budget... I don't live that far from Citi as the crow flies. I think
they have trouble getting high-paying advertisers on both tv and radio.
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Edgy MD
May 05 2015 08:21 PM
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Agreed.
Never thought I would miss the baseball trifecta of beer, cars, and lawn equipment.
But ambulance chasers, fake charities, and the corrections officer union telling me about the guy who raped my dawta is feeling kinda bush.
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MFS62
May 05 2015 09:23 PM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
For the most part, the regional advertising I get on SNY is very
low budget... I don't live that far from Citi as the crow flies. I think
they have trouble getting high-paying advertisers on both tv and radio. |
Maybe if they sign up a few of those high paying advertisers they'll be able to buy a radio transmitter that sends a signal that can be pointed toward Western Connecticut.
Later
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d'Kong76
May 06 2015 06:50 AM
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50,000 Watts of clear channel should reach you easily. Have your
wife move the antenna around while your tuning in!
I don't really care about WOR's advertising, they paid for the rights
to broadcast the Mets and their revenues from that mean nothing to
me or the team. SNY's cheesy advertisers are a disappointment to
me because the Mets own the station and would benefit from some
higher profile advertising than they do from men's penile problems
and asbestos litigation settlement fund lawyer ads.
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Ceetar
May 06 2015 07:21 AM
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well the ratings have been picking up, so..
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Edgy MD
May 06 2015 07:32 AM
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... so ... higher-end penis ads!
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MFS62
May 06 2015 07:33 AM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
50,000 Watts of clear channel should reach you easily. Have your
wife move the antenna around while your tuning in!
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I know it should. I can even pick up a Buffalo Radio Station in my car driving home at night. But when I drive home, I can't get WOR-AM. I think it has to do with how the signal is aimed. I lose the signal around Katonah and never pick it up again all the way home. And no matter where I place my home radio, I still can't get the station.
WOR says it is the "flagship of the Mets network". I wonder of that network includes any stations closer to me.
Sigh.
Later
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Edgy MD
May 06 2015 07:40 AM
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I checked this out once and I found at one point that two stations relaying the Mets feed were WTLA 1200 out of Syracuse and WAVZ 1300 out of New Haven. Give it a shot one night.
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Ceetar
May 06 2015 07:40 AM
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MFS62 wrote:
d'Kong76 wrote:
50,000 Watts of clear channel should reach you easily. Have your
wife move the antenna around while your tuning in!
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I know it should. I can even pick up a Buffalo Radio Station in my car driving home at night. But when I drive home, I can't get WOR-AM. I think it has to do with how the signal is aimed. I lose the signal around Katonah and never pick it up again all the way home. And no matter where I place my home radio, I still can't get the station.
WOR says it is the "flagship of the Mets network". I wonder of that network includes any stations closer to me.
Sigh.
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Smart Phone. MLB At-Bat app. I often don't even bother switching my car from Bluetooth to AM anymore.
Is the 710 Omni-Directional? I'm not up on that.
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Ceetar
May 06 2015 07:41 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:
I checked this out once and I found at one point that two stations relaying the Mets feed were WTLA 1200 out of Syracuse and WAVZ 1300 out of New Haven. Give it a shot one night. |
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mets_Radio_Network#Connecticut_.281_station.29
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d'Kong76
May 06 2015 07:45 AM
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avi wuz here
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Centerfield
May 06 2015 07:52 AM
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Is my memory messed up or was there a time where we did not like Nelson Figueroa?
Maybe I'm confusing him with Heath Bell.
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Ceetar
May 06 2015 07:56 AM
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Centerfield wrote:
Is my memory messed up or was there a time where we did not like Nelson Figueroa?
Maybe I'm confusing him with Heath Bell. |
I mean, he was a Quad-A guy that was starting to many games, but I don't think we necessarily disliked him.
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Edgy MD
May 06 2015 08:02 AM
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Both he and his wife ripped the Mets at one time or another, frustrated at being called up and then passed through waivers a few times. Even as they backed off, more than a few Mets fans were with him.
OE: http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2009/0 ... r_new.html
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MFS62
May 06 2015 08:36 AM
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Thanks, Edgy and Ceets. I'll give it a try.
Later
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d'Kong76
May 06 2015 05:17 PM
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1300AM isn't broadcasting a ball game, they got that Stink on.
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Ceetar
May 06 2015 07:10 PM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
1300AM isn't broadcasting a ball game, they got that Stink on. |
might be worth deleting that entry on the Wiki then.
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MFS62
May 06 2015 09:10 PM
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d'Kong76 wrote:
1300AM isn't broadcasting a ball game, they got that Stink on. |
Sadly, I noticed.
I'll try some other night.
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