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So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

MFS62 Jan 11 2016 03:03 PM

Probably in partnership with someone like Jerry Seinfeld. (or a group of real Mets fans who have the money) What are the first three things you would do? Later

Centerfield Jan 11 2016 03:06 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

MFS62 wrote: Probably in partnership with someone like Jerry Seinfeld. (or a group of real Mets fans who have the money) What are the first three things you would do? Later 1. First Responder hats: See the other thread. I forget which one. 2. Now that the Mets are freed from crippling debt, open up the payroll and allow Sandy to have the resources needed for a competitive, big market team. 3. Get the fuck out of the way.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 11 2016 03:11 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I agree with 2. and 3. My other choice, instead of the caps thing, would be to rename the stadium. Pay off Citi and let the Mets have a home that doesn't have a corporate name.

cooby classic Jan 11 2016 03:18 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Well I would never buy a ball team: I have enough of my own bills to pay....but since we're 'tending.... 1 Agree with above sentiments about getting rid of all corporate naming rights. It's Shea Stadium again. 2 Abolish whatever the TV channel is that they are on and put them back on a independent station that anyone can pick up. Perhaps shell out a little money to my local Comcast station to pick it up 3 If after Comcast rapes me, I have some money left, nonono! I know! Make it necessary that all the Mets marry their high school sweethearts that were there for them back in the day, instead of pole dancers

cooby classic Jan 11 2016 03:22 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Oh! Oh! No full beards!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 11 2016 03:22 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

1. Rename Sterling boxes "Payson Boxes" 2. Install microbrewery on Promenade level 3. Restrict field-level ticketholders to access Promenade

Ceetar Jan 11 2016 03:23 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

am I spoilsport if I point out that powerball's not enough to buy the team, nor buy it AND clear whatever debt exists on the team?

MFS62 Jan 11 2016 03:28 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Ceetar wrote: am I spoilsport if I point out that powerball's not enough to buy the team, nor buy it AND clear whatever debt exists on the team? That's why I said partner with other rich Mets fans. Gotta' have operating capital. Later

cooby classic Jan 11 2016 03:29 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Yeah, but who wants partners? hehe!

d'Kong76 Jan 11 2016 03:34 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

He did say probably in partnership with some other fans. I have to think about it, but I don't think I'd really like to blow all my lottery winnings on buying a piece of a ball club. (ooops answered slow)

Ceetar Jan 11 2016 03:44 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

MFS62 wrote: Ceetar wrote: am I spoilsport if I point out that powerball's not enough to buy the team, nor buy it AND clear whatever debt exists on the team? That's why I said partner with other rich Mets fans. Gotta' have operating capital. Later I'm not sure the take-home from the Powerball is enough to even be the deciding partner that gets to make these decisions.

d'Kong76 Jan 11 2016 03:50 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Forbes had the Mets valued at $1,350,000,000 last spring, so theoretically you should be able to buy 51% with one's winnings.

Ceetar Jan 11 2016 04:02 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

d'Kong76 wrote: Forbes had the Mets valued at $1,350,000,000 last spring, so theoretically you should be able to buy 51% with one's winnings. I guess since we're stretching credulity anyway, we can go with that number and also pretend you'd have even half the that with the Powerball winnings after taxes. First thing I'd do is construction to Citi Field. I'd open up the roof of the Mets offices (That building behind the Bridge that connects to the Pepsi..err, whatever...) and turn it into a biergarten where you can watch the game. I might do a similar thing to the Left Field promenade outfield seats. flatten it out. Then I'd figure out how to add seats, another deck? preferably 10k or so. Second I'd contract a group of 'superfans' to be a sounding board for fan outreach for cool in and out stadium promotions and celebrations.

seawolf17 Jan 11 2016 04:03 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

cooby wrote: Make it necessary that all the Mets marry their high school sweethearts that were there for them back in the day, instead of pole dancers This made me laugh out loud.

bmfc1 Jan 11 2016 04:06 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Obviously spend more money on player acquisition and... 1. Tear down the existing scoreboards and reconfigure Citi Field to have a great scoreboard without ads hanging from the side. 2. Take 500 or so seats, charge $10 per ticket, and make them only available on the day of the game. (On that note, have a Mets cap available for $10. It might be of lower quality but the Angels did this one year so every Dad could buy his son/daughter a cap.) 3. Make giveaways available to all and not just the first 15,000.

themetfairy Jan 11 2016 04:12 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I'd ban the camo uniforms. I'd add more areas where fans could congregate outside the stadium before games. I'd commission a statue of Tom Seaver pitching to Mike Piazza to greet fans as they arrive at the stadium. And I echo bmfc1's proposal that ALL fans should get giveaway items. It sucks to be stuck in traffic, late for a game AND to miss out on a giveaway.

Lefty Specialist Jan 11 2016 04:33 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Not just let everybody have a giveaway, have BETTER giveaways. The Mets have the lamest giveaways of any team (Especially since most of the cost is paid for by, say, Gold's Horseradish or some other sponsor) Re-do the Rotunda. No offense to Jackie Robinson, but that should be a Mets-centric entrance. That it's not is a Wilpon-thing that must be purged. Jackie can be honored somewhere else, just not at the main entrance. Oh, and bring back bullpen carts.

Farmer Ted Jan 11 2016 04:36 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

You know the summer camp days where the kids all wear their color-coordinated shirts and relegated to the upper-est levels of the upper deck on the hottest god-awful days of the year no less? Fuck that. Put 'em in Delta Gold behind home plate, dugout to dugout.

Fman99 Jan 11 2016 04:42 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I'd build the Tom Seaver Rotunda and ship all the #42 stuff out to the Cyclones park where it belongs. I'd also add a top deck to Citi so that it could hold another 15k fans. Lastly, I'd make sure to go out drinking and partying with the guys on the team so as to be able to bang MLB hanger on pole dancing types that some of my board mates here would so frivolously discard. BASTARDS.

cooby classic Jan 11 2016 04:58 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

LOL.

dgwphotography Jan 11 2016 05:52 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

1. I'd hire a group composed of some of our favorite bloggers, install Greg as VP in charge of Fan Experience, and let them fix things. 2. I'd obviously increase payroll, and then get out of Sandy's way. I consider myself to be a knowledgeable baseball fan, but I'm not a baseball man. That one letter makes miles of difference. 3. First responder hats as CF said. Not only on the anniversary of the attacks, but on any day we damn well pleased. 4. I'd invite Rachel Robinson and discuss changing the rotunda with her. This should be a tribute to Mets history, not a for a player, however important, never played for the team. Apparently, my grandfather knew Jack (that's a story for another day), and maybe I could handle this delicately enough where it wouldn't blow up in my face. 5. Have the field reconfigured to match Shea's dimensions, which seemed fair to both pitching and hitting.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2016 06:09 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 11 2016 06:40 PM

I'd blow up the whole stadium and start all over. Because that's what baseball really needed -- another soulless inferior Camden Yards knockoff -- 25 years after Camden Yards opened. I guess Camden is the only baseball stadium architectural style out there . Rolls eyes some more. Plus, then I wouldn't hafta explain anything to Mrs. Robinson. Where have you gone, Jackie Robinson (Rotunda)? Far away from Mets Stadium. I'd keep the food vendors. Citi Field does a pretty good job of stadium food. My new stadium would be modern, not retro. Like the new ones in Miami and Minnesota. It'd be groundbreaking and polarizing. And I'd let this forum post pictures that include the Mets logos and wordmarks. I wouldn't enforce my copyrights here. Even though I could.

Centerfield Jan 11 2016 06:17 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I think the rotunda is here to stay. I agree that it makes no sense to have a tribute to Jackie Robinson at Citi, but now that it's there, removing it would be a PR nightmare. I don't like the camo either, but I like the idea behind it. Maybe figure out some way to keep the sentiment. Absolutely on the campers. And you give them a tour of the stadium and let them meet some players. Hell, this is probably good business practice. Make some fans for the future guys. Before last year, my son was only one of 3 Mets fans in his entire grade.

cooby classic Jan 11 2016 06:20 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

and maybe I could handle this delicately enough where it wouldn't blow up in my face. ] Good luck with that. If somebody had put up a tribute to Mr cooby in say, Bangkok, or somewhere else he had never been and we had no idea why they'd do it, and suddenly three years later want to take it down, I'd be mad.

d'Kong76 Jan 11 2016 06:47 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Ceetar wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: Forbes had the Mets valued at $1,350,000,000 last spring, so theoretically you should be able to buy 51% with one's winnings. I guess since we're stretching credulity anyway, we can go with that number I'm gonna stretch some credulity upside your.... uh, never mind. You believe in royal blue skies and orange clouds but you find Forbes not worth of your belief even $25mil here or there? I wonder what the NYC park land under Citi is worth. Do the Mets pay rent on that land?

Centerfield Jan 11 2016 06:51 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

By the way, the above answer is what I'd do with the team. Me, personally, I'd be wearing a tracksuit and shades cruising around in my batmobile doing laps around CitiField blasting 90's rap. Rollin down the street, smoking indo, sippin on gin and juice (with my mind on my money and my money on my mind).

d'Kong76 Jan 11 2016 06:53 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Never mind the Batmobile, I'd have a Metsmobile made by Rolls Royce.

Centerfield Jan 11 2016 06:57 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Right? We'd be such badasses. We could wear gold chains and medallions. Until my wife calls, then I'd have to pick up the dry cleaning and go get the kids from school.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 11 2016 07:03 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Unconfirmed rumors suggest camo may be out in '16, so save your $$

cooby classic Jan 11 2016 07:05 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

One line item out of metfairy's budget out magically!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 11 2016 07:18 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Lefty Specialist wrote: Not just let everybody have a giveaway, have BETTER giveaways. The Mets have the lamest giveaways of any team (Especially since most of the cost is paid for by, say, Gold's Horseradish or some other sponsor) This. Explore the studio space. 3-D Print Your Own Giveaway Day. Free high-stirrup socks. Cultural nights with actual, culturally-apropos stuff (tees with "Let's Go Mets" in Mandarin, say, or a K-Pop Mr. Met figure). Folk hero rises in June? Get him a t-shirt/fake mustache/temporary facial tat night in July, motherfathers. On my watch, we run a lean, mean marketing machine. Lefty Specialist wrote: Oh, and bring back bullpen carts. I think you mispronounced "bullpen hovercraft, drivable by Mr. or Mrs. Met." Mostly, though, my job will be to show up at charity initiatives, dictate giveaways/relief efforts in the wake of local tragedies, and provide silent support to my management team.

Centerfield Jan 11 2016 07:23 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

You're not going to join me on the batmobile? Some friend you are.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 11 2016 07:26 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Can it have hydraulic shocks? If so, I'm your Doubleday. Also, no tracksuit. We run a class organization. I'm wearing two-button, slim silhouette bespoke suits, but made out of sweatpants material.

d'Kong76 Jan 11 2016 07:29 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Centerfield wrote: Right? We'd be such badasses. We could wear gold chains and medallions. Until my wife calls, then I'd have to pick up the dry cleaning and go get the kids from school. I'm not a jewelry guy, my gold will be in my Swiss bank account. A member of the staff can do the dry cleaning, but even badasses should take time out to get the kids lol.

themetfairy Jan 11 2016 07:33 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

You guys can drive around in the Batmobile. I'll be sunbathing on the terrace of my Upper West Side penthouse apartment. But if there's room I'll hitch a ride on the Batmobile during game days :)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 11 2016 07:50 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Upper West Side? I'm buying Mill Rock Island, and making me a blue and orange East River island lair, with secret tunnels to Astoria and Midtown.

themetfairy Jan 11 2016 08:21 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I'll visit you there!

dgwphotography Jan 11 2016 08:45 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Screw that - I'm buying Port Orleans Riverside:

themetfairy Jan 11 2016 09:23 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Suit yourself. I'll have an easier time getting to Mets games from my penthouse.

Lefty Specialist Jan 11 2016 09:36 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I am soooooo down with the bullpen hovercraft.......

themetfairy Jan 11 2016 09:37 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

OK, so long as we give the hovercraft a team cap like the old bullpen cart had.

cooby classic Jan 11 2016 10:15 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Oh I like that idea!

themetfairy Jan 11 2016 10:21 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Maybe while I'm at it I'll commission my own Mets cap topped hovercraft to fly me directly from my penthouse to the ballgames

Zvon Jan 11 2016 11:56 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Centerfield wrote: By the way, the above answer is what I'd do with the team. Me, personally, I'd be wearing a tracksuit and shades cruising around in my batmobile doing laps around CitiField blasting 90's rap. Rollin down the street, smoking indo, sippin on gin and juice (with my mind on my money and my money on my mind). Which Batmobile? I'm sure you know which I'd go after. 1. Rename Citi Seaver Field. 2. Statues for Gil, Casey, Yogi, Seaver, Koosman, Gooden, Strawberry, Piazza(retire his #31) and a few more the fans can pick. I'd want one for Murphy and Kiner. 3. Sure, another level of seating. Affordable tickets (which means moneyball every year-I'd keep Sandy). All fans in the place can move down after the 3rd inning no matter who we're playing (also, no tier tickets). 4. I'll design the new scoreboard myself. It'll be bombastic. 5. No more camo unis. All kinds of throwback unis instead. 6. The yearbook would come with a set of 41 Mets fantazy cards every season. Perforated cardboard pages in the middle. You can leave them in the yearbook or cut em out and put em in plastic or a binder. Make it a traditional thing.

Ashie62 Jan 12 2016 01:43 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Rebuild Shea and NO FACIAL HAIR.

Mets Guy in Michigan Jan 12 2016 03:39 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Screw that - I'm buying Port Orleans Riverside: That's where we stayed last time! Beautiful. Needs a Zephers Square to commemorate the Mets short time in New Orleans.

MFS62 Jan 12 2016 04:30 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Thanks to all of you who were able to come up with some interesting and original ideas. As I've mentioned, I've never been into the uniform thingie, so I'd just go back to the original-as-possible duds and colors. The current owners could do that if they wanted, and wouldn't take someone hitting Powerball to do it. But the primary focus would be to keep the old fans and develop new ones. Keeping the old fans could be accomplished by lowering ticket prices (and parking and food prices, too) and by putting an exciting and competitive team on the field. Operations budgets would be increased to do that, and seats would be added, including more lower priced seats, package deals and a scheduled doubleheader or two (with Banner Day between games of one of them). To get the kids to come, I'd have team busses pick up youth groups (say, of 30 or more) and bring them to the park. I'd open up the gates early, so the kids could get close to the players during batting practice. There would also be scheduled day games during the Summer that kids could attend. But why stop there? I'd build a new minor league stadium on Long Island and lobby with MLB to move the AAA team from Las Vegas when the current contract runs out at the end of the 2016 season, swapping a PCL team with a current International League team to move to the PCL. Bottom line, this is all wishful thinking and fun. But , we can dream, can't we? Later

dinosaur jesus Jan 12 2016 06:05 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

That's a great question. Here's what I would do. I'd have awkward conversations with the players, and worry about whether they really respected me. When my general manager wanted my approval to make a trade, I'd go over and over the pros and cons until he sighed and said the hell with it, and I'd be secretly relieved, because I felt bad for the guy we were going to trade, and maybe this was the year he'd finally put it all together. At press conferences, the reporters would keep asking me to talk more into the mike, and I'd get annoyed, because if they really cared what I was saying they'd listen more closely. I'd ask my marketing people if we could go back to one home uniform, one road uniform, no alternates, no camo, and they'd say that was definitely an idea worth studying, but we'd have to be attentive to sensitive demographics and the Mets tradition of continuity through nuanced change, and I'd just let it go, because I didn't want to turn into Steinbrenner and insist on having everything my way. And after a month or so, I'd start to wonder if I was really as interested in baseball as I'd thought, or if I should have spent my money on first editions or endowing orphanages or something. And if any of you guys, who of course really are that interested, wanted to make me an offer to take the Mets off my hands, I'd definitely consider it.

Ceetar Jan 12 2016 12:45 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

after tough losses I'd go out and get hammered and photographed with unsavory people to give the media something to talk about and take the pressure off the team. I'd stock the press box so full of snacks and free pizza and amenities to lull said media into a sleepy haze. Lavish praise upon them. Hire a masseuse. Double up on the interesting facts/game notes they get. Oh, and I'd take the rivalry with the Yankees up 17 notches.

themetfairy Jan 12 2016 01:22 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I'd buy a hat like Mrs. Payson's and wear it to every game.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 12 2016 01:32 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

If we're assuming that money is no object, I'd get rid of stadium advertising. And no thanks to the bombastic scoreboard. My ideal name for the stadium: Kiner-Murphy Park.

Lefty Specialist Jan 12 2016 02:09 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

themetfairy wrote: I'd buy a hat like Mrs. Payson's and wear it to every game. I'd go as Pearl Bailey! (oh wait, did I say that out loud?)

themetfairy Jan 12 2016 02:23 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Go to town - with that much money nobody will question you ;)

d'Kong76 Jan 12 2016 06:00 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Lefty Specialist wrote: I'd go as Pearl Bailey! (oh wait, did I say that out loud?) I'd go as Gene Shalit in a sun dress! (not that I think Gene cross dressed)

dgwphotography Jan 12 2016 06:05 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

All kidding aside, I wouldn't waste a dime or a minute on this team. With that kind of money, I'm going the Jon Stewart route, buying a ranch, and rescuing as many dogs as possible.

Lefty Specialist Jan 12 2016 08:41 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Well, even so, I'd buy the bullpen hovercraft and cruise slowly around my super-exclusive gated community.

Edgy MD Jan 12 2016 09:14 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I dunno. I drop enough munny and time (far more valuable) on the Mets now as a middle class stooge, I'm sure going to invest if I'm an obscenely wealthy stooge.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 12 2016 09:18 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Oh, I'd buy a luxury box, or a suite, or whatever it is you can buy as an obscenely wealthy fan, but I don't think I'd buy a share of the ballclub.

Ceetar Jan 12 2016 09:26 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Oh, I'd buy a luxury box, or a suite, or whatever it is you can buy as an obscenely wealthy fan, but I don't think I'd buy a share of the ballclub. you don't have that option. You hit the powerball AND buy the Mets. it happens. now what?

Edgy MD Jan 12 2016 09:36 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Powerball sucks. Hit the jackpot and lose all autonomy.

Ceetar Jan 12 2016 09:41 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Edgy MD wrote: Powerball sucks. Hit the jackpot and lose all autonomy. yeah but like, you could ALWAYS get guac at Chipotle.

d'Kong76 Jan 12 2016 09:49 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 12 2016 10:02 PM

A catered Cranepool luxury suite for trivia thread winners and eleven of their guests is my new winning promise.

themetfairy Jan 12 2016 09:52 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Ceetar wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Oh, I'd buy a luxury box, or a suite, or whatever it is you can buy as an obscenely wealthy fan, but I don't think I'd buy a share of the ballclub. you don't have that option. You hit the powerball AND buy the Mets. it happens. now what? OK - the Mets Hall of Fame isn't nearly large enough to pay tribute to the team's history, plus it has to share space with the gift shop. Fuck that - I'd construct a free standing building between Citi Field and the 7 Line that would be large enough to pay the team proper homage. Fans would get free admission with tickets to that day's game, or could pay $5 if they don't have a game ticket; this new HOF would be open year round. And while we're at it, I'd build it where the old 7 Line subway terminal used to be and reconstruct the raised walkway from the subway across Roosevelt Avenue to the stadium.

d'Kong76 Jan 12 2016 10:05 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I'd terminate McF's lease, give pub leases to Cranepool posters for $1/year.

Centerfield Jan 12 2016 10:13 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

d'Kong76 wrote: I'd terminate McF's lease, give pub leases to Cranepool posters for $1/year. Mr. Kong, yes, Officer Greeley here. Sorry to bother you again. There seem to be about 300 nude Latvian women assembling in your parking lot...

batmagadanleadoff Jan 13 2016 12:23 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Zvon wrote: Centerfield wrote: By the way, the above answer is what I'd do with the team. Me, personally, I'd be wearing a tracksuit and shades cruising around in my batmobile doing laps around CitiField blasting 90's rap. Rollin down the street, smoking indo, sippin on gin and juice (with my mind on my money and my money on my mind). Which Batmobile? I'm sure you know which I'd go after. 1. Rename Citi Seaver Field. 2. Statues for Gil, Casey, Yogi, Seaver, Koosman, Gooden, Strawberry, Piazza(retire his #31) and a few more the fans can pick. I'd want one for Murphy and Kiner. 3. Sure, another level of seating. Affordable tickets (which means moneyball every year-I'd keep Sandy). All fans in the place can move down after the 3rd inning no matter who we're playing (also, no tier tickets). 4. I'll design the new scoreboard myself. It'll be bombastic. 5. No more camo unis. All kinds of throwback unis instead. 6. The yearbook would come with a set of 41 Mets fantazy cards every season. Perforated cardboard pages in the middle. You can leave them in the yearbook or cut em out and put em in plastic or a binder. Make it a traditional thing. Thanks for slowing down that Bowie gif. That was ridiculously fast. Hey, if I bought the Mets, I'd let you design the new scoreboard. With my input, of course. And I don't mind bombastic. Scoreboards should be bombastic, shouldn't they? It's only about the aesthetics. And the info. What would Bill Veeck do?

Zvon Jan 13 2016 02:24 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Zvon wrote: Centerfield wrote: By the way, the above answer is what I'd do with the team. Me, personally, I'd be wearing a tracksuit and shades cruising around in my batmobile doing laps around CitiField blasting 90's rap. Rollin down the street, smoking indo, sippin on gin and juice (with my mind on my money and my money on my mind). Which Batmobile? I'm sure you know which I'd go after. 1. Rename Citi Seaver Field. 2. Statues for Gil, Casey, Yogi, Seaver, Koosman, Gooden, Strawberry, Piazza(retire his #31) and a few more the fans can pick. I'd want one for Murphy and Kiner. 3. Sure, another level of seating. Affordable tickets (which means moneyball every year-I'd keep Sandy). All fans in the place can move down after the 3rd inning no matter who we're playing (also, no tier tickets). 4. I'll design the new scoreboard myself. It'll be bombastic. 5. No more camo unis. All kinds of throwback unis instead. 6. The yearbook would come with a set of 41 Mets fantazy cards every season. Perforated cardboard pages in the middle. You can leave them in the yearbook or cut em out and put em in plastic or a binder. Make it a traditional thing. Thanks for slowing down that Bowie gif. That was ridiculously fast. Hey, if I bought the Mets, I'd let you design the new scoreboard. With my input, of course. And I don't mind bombastic. Scoreboards should be bombastic, shouldn't they? It's only about the aesthetics. And the info. What would Bill Veeck do? I think he woulda put a midget with a gigantic chalkboard out there. My design would be a huge round Mets logo, the best logo known to man and the universe, that was like a Transformer™ that turned into a nice big rectangular scoreboard with the logo city scape on top and the logo bridge at the bottom. On Met homers, it transforms into an apple! It'll be able to project an enormous 3-D holographic replay some 60 feet above the center of the field and everyone in the stadium can see the replay from a different angle.

Zvon Jan 13 2016 03:32 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Change of plans. I'm gonna buy Lego and construct a life size Lego '66 Batmobile.

d'Kong76 Jan 13 2016 03:51 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Not Metly, but it's your money...

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 13 2016 06:13 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

batmagadanleadoff wrote: What would Bill Veeck do? I think that this is probably the mission statement, encapsulated.

Zvon Jan 13 2016 06:47 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

d'Kong76 wrote: Not Metly, but it's your money... Well of course there's gonna be a limited edition Metsy one.

Vic Sage Jan 13 2016 04:46 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 13 2016 04:58 PM

premise: I have enough money to own 100% of the Mets and i buy them. If so, i would treat the team as a charitable foundation and: * Give 49% of the team to the City (in exchange for city improvement of roads, access, public transportation, parking, maintenance, and urban development of the local community), and allowing them the veto authority over any move of the franchise and public review of the team's finances; * Build new stadium (at least 60,000 seats), based on classical architecture (no retro, no "modern" [which dates even faster than "retro"], to be called "Metropolis Field", with no obstructed views, a retractable roof and the highest tech score board that can be produced by ILM, and specifically designated areas of the park (the Krane Pool, Kiner's Korner, the Strawberry Patch, Payson Pavillion); with ads and concessions only from NY-based businesses; and with the stadium, grounds and common areas designed with statues, gardens, murals and other commissioned art celebrating the history of the team (including its national league baseball antecedents), plus an interactive Mets Museum and Hall of Fame (accessible to the general public year round); * 1000 free tickets per game to local schools, camps and hospitals, plus cool giveaways for every fan at games Monday-Thursday and Sunday afternoons; * NY Heroes Game on Sunday closest to 9/11, with players wearing 1st Responder hats and free tickets to any family of first responders who died as a direct result of 9/11; * Mets Old Timer's Game and a Future's game, on Weekend before the All-Star break; * Free Broadcast local TV package of at least 10 games; * Using the facilities for Community-based services when no games are scheduled (food drives, public concerts, green markets, job and health fairs, etc); * 1 Home uni, 1 road uni, 1 throwback uni for special events (and no black); * SNY features more baseball-related content than just the games (documentaries, talk shows, game shows, news, interviews, analysis, movies, dramas, sitcoms, mini-series, etc), with an on-demand archive of every broadcast in Mets history that still exists; * Hire management with respect for quantitative analysis, and the resources to establish best scouting system in baseball (including academies in Cuba, Mexico, DR, Japan, Korea, Australia and Europe), and a minor league system with all teams in the northeast and southeast, including the purchase of the Long Island Ducks, and making them our AAA affiliate, and a guarantee that the Mets will maintain a 25-man roster with a budget among the top 25% of teams every year. Then, i'll watch the games from my suite, sitting with my friends, being served nathan's hot dogs and Brooklyn Lager by Hooter's Girls, stopping into the booth once in a while to chat with Gary, Howie, Ron and Keith, to tell the fans what i REALLY think. Until the day I die; at which point the remaining ownership will also go to the city, with my family maintaining an ongoing profit participation and luxury box in perpetuity.

d'Kong76 Jan 13 2016 04:51 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Vic Sage wrote: Then, i'll watch the games from my suite, sitting with my friends, being served nathan's hot dogs and Brooklyn Lager by Hooter's Girls Can we have french fries too? Love Nathan's fries.

themetfairy Jan 13 2016 04:52 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

d'Kong76 wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Then, i'll watch the games from my suite, sitting with my friends, being served nathan's hot dogs and Brooklyn Lager by Hooter's Girls Can we have french fries too? Love Nathan's fries. And Carvel ice cream helmets for dessert?

d'Kong76 Jan 13 2016 04:52 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Zvon wrote: Soooper!

Vic Sage Jan 13 2016 04:57 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

themetfairy wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Then, i'll watch the games from my suite, sitting with my friends, being served nathan's hot dogs and Brooklyn Lager by Hooter's Girls Can we have french fries too? Love Nathan's fries. And Carvel ice cream helmets for dessert? i assumed all that would go without saying. Plus, Fudgie the whale! and Pizza and Spumoni from L & B Spumoni Gardens!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 13 2016 05:05 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Vic Sage wrote: * Build new stadium (at least 60,000 seats), based on classical architecture (no retro, no "modern" [which dates even faster than "retro"], to be called "Metropolis Field", with no obstructed views, a retractable roof and the highest tech score board that can be produced by ILM, and specifically designated areas of the park (the Krane Pool, Kiner's Korner, the Strawberry Patch, Payson Pavillion); with ads and concessions only from NY-based businesses; and with the stadium, grounds and common areas designed with statues, gardens, murals and other commissioned art celebrating the history of the team (including its national league baseball antecedents), plus an interactive Mets Museum and Hall of Fame (accessible to the general public year round); Suggestion: Piggie's Garden, an onsite, year-round rooftop (community?) farm supplying all City Field (I like the name, stripped of corporate affiliation) concessions. * Using the facilities for Community-based services when no games are scheduled (food drives, public concerts, green markets, job and health fairs, etc). Or, you know, maybe a winter fan fest. For once.

themetfairy Jan 13 2016 06:04 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Or, you know, maybe a winter fan fest. For once. This! Kudos to the people who have been putting the Queens Baseball Convention together, but it's nothing compared to what other teams do. We deserve a team-run fan fest, dammit!

dgwphotography Jan 13 2016 06:06 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Vic Sage wrote: premise: I have enough money to own 100% of the Mets and i buy them. If so, i would treat the team as a charitable foundation and: * Give 49% of the team to the City (in exchange for city improvement of roads, access, public transportation, parking, maintenance, and urban development of the local community), and allowing them the veto authority over any move of the franchise and public review of the team's finances; * Build new stadium (at least 60,000 seats), based on classical architecture (no retro, no "modern" [which dates even faster than "retro"], to be called "Metropolis Field", with no obstructed views, a retractable roof and the highest tech score board that can be produced by ILM, and specifically designated areas of the park (the Krane Pool, Kiner's Korner, the Strawberry Patch, Payson Pavillion); with ads and concessions only from NY-based businesses; and with the stadium, grounds and common areas designed with statues, gardens, murals and other commissioned art celebrating the history of the team (including its national league baseball antecedents), plus an interactive Mets Museum and Hall of Fame (accessible to the general public year round); * 1000 free tickets per game to local schools, camps and hospitals, plus cool giveaways for every fan at games Monday-Thursday and Sunday afternoons; * NY Heroes Game on Sunday closest to 9/11, with players wearing 1st Responder hats and free tickets to any family of first responders who died as a direct result of 9/11; * Mets Old Timer's Game and a Future's game, on Weekend before the All-Star break; * Free Broadcast local TV package of at least 10 games; * Using the facilities for Community-based services when no games are scheduled (food drives, public concerts, green markets, job and health fairs, etc); * 1 Home uni, 1 road uni, 1 throwback uni for special events (and no black); * SNY features more baseball-related content than just the games (documentaries, talk shows, game shows, news, interviews, analysis, movies, dramas, sitcoms, mini-series, etc), with an on-demand archive of every broadcast in Mets history that still exists; * Hire management with respect for quantitative analysis, and the resources to establish best scouting system in baseball (including academies in Cuba, Mexico, DR, Japan, Korea, Australia and Europe), and a minor league system with all teams in the northeast and southeast, including the purchase of the Long Island Ducks, and making them our AAA affiliate, and a guarantee that the Mets will maintain a 25-man roster with a budget among the top 25% of teams every year. Then, i'll watch the games from my suite, sitting with my friends, being served nathan's hot dogs and Brooklyn Lager by Hooter's Girls, stopping into the booth once in a while to chat with Gary, Howie, Ron and Keith, to tell the fans what i REALLY think. Until the day I die; at which point the remaining ownership will also go to the city, with my family maintaining an ongoing profit participation and luxury box in perpetuity. This is why it's Ralph's world, and we just reside in it.

d'Kong76 Jan 13 2016 06:25 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Show some respect, it's Uncle Ralph!

Centerfield Jan 13 2016 06:53 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I'm hoping Vic will hire me as a roving scout. So I can spend my time scouring the beaches of DR, Cancun, Bermuda, PR and Aruba for baseball talent. And by scouring, I mean lying around drunk under an umbrella.

seawolf17 Jan 13 2016 06:56 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

/buys winning Powerball ticket /gives it to Vic

themetfairy Jan 13 2016 07:26 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Centerfield wrote: I'm hoping Vic will hire me as a roving scout. So I can spend my time scouring the beaches of DR, Cancun, Bermuda, PR and Aruba for baseball talent. And by scouring, I mean lying around drunk under an umbrella. You'll be scouting the cricket talent in Bermuda (only if that guy from the West Indies is successful switching from cricket to baseball).

Vic Sage Jan 13 2016 08:29 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Suggestion: Piggie's Garden, an onsite, year-round rooftop (community?) farm supplying all City Field (I like the name, stripped of corporate affiliation) concessions. DOH! I totally thought of that and then forgot to include it! (not the supplying of of concessions, part, but the community vegetable garden part -- but your idea is better.)

Vic Sage Jan 13 2016 08:36 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

This is why it's Ralph's world, and we just reside in it. [His highness gives a kingly wave from his royal palanquin] "I live in service to my people!"

Zvon Jan 13 2016 09:08 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Okay. Actual size Lego Batmobile and Mattmobile AND I'll lend Fred the flow (at a decent interest rate) to get Cespedes. I'll help him again when the pitchers contracts come up. Fuck owning the Mets. I'll own the Wilpons.

MFS62 Jan 14 2016 04:07 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Vic, your response made me glad I asked the question. Thank you. Later

Centerfield Jan 14 2016 02:16 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

MFS62 wrote: Vic, your response made me glad I asked the question. Thank you. Later To borrow a phrase from the guy, Vic, as always, is correct.

Lefty Specialist Jan 14 2016 03:19 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Damn. Wilpons dodge another bullet.

d'Kong76 Jan 14 2016 04:04 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

I won $4, almost enough for half a beer on Opening Day!!

Zvon Jan 16 2016 02:12 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

Gah! So I guess you heard that I didn't win. Throws scoreboard plans into the fireplace. *sob [fimg=400:3u6uce0l]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AqiCtmin8gw/VpmihvtiuvI/AAAAAAAAkos/y8Pcv9lqBH0/s674-Ic42/New%252520Scoreboard-z16.png[/fimg:3u6uce0l]

batmagadanleadoff Jan 23 2016 02:11 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: What would Bill Veeck do? I think that this is probably the mission statement, encapsulated. So what would Bill Veeck do? He'da given us an exploding scoreboard that'd be the talk of all baseball instead of that eyesore out in center field that looks like it was designed by a four year old. Jeff Wilpon? Exploding toilets.

MFS62 Jan 23 2016 03:24 AM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

batmags, I saw that article earlier today. Just got home and I was looking for it again so I could post it here. Thanks. Funny, it doesn't feel wrong to use the terms "sewage" and "Jeff Wilpon " in the same sentence. Later

cooby classic Feb 17 2016 08:48 PM Re: So, You Hit Powerball and Buy The Mets

No sex resulting in conception of any children born during Feb-Oct, or early November