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bmfc1 Nov 27 2007 03:51 PM

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/schedule/tentative.jsp?c_id=nym&year=2008

bmfc1 Nov 27 2007 03:52 PM

On behalf of Edgy and Vladius--the Mets make 3 trips to DC and all are during the week? WTF?

TransMonk Nov 27 2007 04:03 PM

Looks like a lot of miles between May 22nd and June 23rd. 3 trips coast to coast between June 1st and the 16th.

Valadius Nov 27 2007 04:10 PM

Seriously! And we get stuck with an extra NL series during interleague AGAIN.

G-Fafif Nov 27 2007 04:18 PM

Gosh, back on September 30, I didn't think seeing that the Mets would ever play again would make me this happy. Looks like the Nats Park ESPN opener has been tabled. I like the confidence that September 28 is merely the final "regular season" game at Shea. But why must the Mets refer to "Torre and the Dodgers" as a home highlight? Can they be a little more insecure? On the other hand, Tom McCarthy is gone, so it's a great schedule.

Kid Carsey Nov 27 2007 06:16 PM

G: >>>But why must the Mets refer to "Torre and the Dodgers" as a home highlight? Can they be a little more insecure?<<< Jeez, some marketing schnook comes up with that in November when every- one of any importance is either vacationing or at meetings regarding personnel and you derive that they're insecure because they mention Mother Torresa?

DocTee Nov 27 2007 07:03 PM

On the road for Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day.

metsguyinmichigan Nov 27 2007 08:59 PM

YES! I'm planning to be in Florida visiting my folks during the first week in April -- when the Mets are going to be in Miami!!!!!! They live near West Palm Beach, so I hope to be Opening Day bound!!

G-Fafif Nov 28 2007 02:43 PM

="Kid Carsey"]G: >>>But why must the Mets refer to "Torre and the Dodgers" as a home highlight? Can they be a little more insecure?<<< Jeez, some marketing schnook comes up with that in November when every- one of any importance is either vacationing or at meetings regarding personnel and you derive that they're insecure because they mention Mother Torresa? Yes. Yes I did.

Kid Carsey Nov 28 2007 02:55 PM

I guess I should have asked how you come to that silly conclusion. Probably wouldn't have mattered, I think you like postulating more than answerng questions -- which is fine -- carry on.

G-Fafif Nov 28 2007 04:46 PM

Well, certainly by referring to something as "silly," you've put me on the defensive, so congratulations. You've already won your argument. But I will elaborate since you more or less asked. I find it an insecure move because who would be interested in watching a visiting Joe Torre emerge from the dugout to hand the umpires a lineup card or make a pitching change (which is all you're going to see of any manager if you're at a game unless there's a disputed call)? Probably not Mets fans, unless it's 1982. This is a Yankee storyline. Highlighting it seems to say, by my postulation, that Yankees fans should come to Shea Stadium and be on the lookout for Joe Torre so you can give him a big ovation and remember the good times, like the end of the 2000 World Series at Shea Stadium. Bringing the Yankees into the Met equation unless absolutely necessary smacks of insecurity. It reminds me of Tino Martinez coming to Shea with the Cardinals after leaving the Yankees or David Wells coming to Shea with the Blue Jays. I don't recall the Mets shining a spotlight on them, but their former fans found them (and it was sickening). It seems as if the Mets are saying "hey, we could probably sell some tickets to Yankees fans with Torre coming in". I think the Mets, their attendance already breaking records, should be past that kind of thinking. It's also reminiscent of the fuss the Mets made over Sammy Sosa when Sosa was a visiting player as well. If the seats are usually empty and you don't care who fills them, well, fine. But the Mets are at a stage where, poor finish notwithstanding, they shouldn't have to single out a Yankee connection to a particular series. Perhaps it says Mets fans should be on the lookout for Torre and boo in reaction to his time with the Yankees, though I think that would be stretching the Mets' thought process. I believe this to be more a misjudgment by the marketing department born of years of hearing nonsense about competing for back pages ("Hey! We've got Torre at Shea!") than it is the work of some lonely "schnook". Baseball's a big business. They have people who approve this stuff twelve months a year. KC, I'll be happy to elaborate here or anywhere with you on any Met topic I broach. It was a quick and passing observation on something that got my attention for a moment and raised a flag -- like dozens of observations that are made here every day by everybody. If it were a much bigger deal to me, I probably would have gone on about it as I did above. It was just My Two Cents, as it were.

Kid Carsey Nov 28 2007 07:49 PM

Well, certainly, I didn't mean to put you on the defensive and wasn't arguing either. I just don't see the world in Yankee Yankee Yankee, I find it insecure of good Mets' fans to see things that way, so I chimed in. The marketing of the Mets has sucked since the day after Tug yelped, "ya gotta believe" - the magic just ain't back, it ain't like it oughta be bbbyyy. Never conjures up thoughts of anything Yankee. G: >>>KC, I'll be happy to elaborate here or anywhere with you on any Met topic I broach.<<< Dusk or dawn? I prefer here.

SteveJRogers Nov 28 2007 08:04 PM

G-Fafif wrote: I like the confidence that September 28 is merely the final "regular season" game at Shea. Then again, after a whole year of "Your Season Has Arrived" as well has the incessant "Your Postseason Has Arrived" ads while the Mets were in midst of the biggest collapse in baseball history, I think the Mets marketing guys should tread VERY lightly on statements such as that.

Valadius Dec 03 2007 04:35 PM

The Mets are playing the White Sox on March 29th in the Civil Rights Game in Memphis.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 16 2007 03:18 PM

Mets press release wrote: The New York Mets today announced a change to their 2008 regular season schedule. The Mets will now play a three-game series against the Nationals at Shea April 15-17, each starting at 7:10 p.m. New York will travel to Washington for a two-game series, April 23-24. In addition, September 11 is now an off-day.

Edgy DC Dec 16 2007 04:03 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Dec 16 2007 04:57 PM

I don't like September 11 being an off day. Nor do I like it being a road day. I think it's the last we'll see of the service agencies' hats. I like the young tradition --- though the Mets usually have lost on September 11th, if I correctly recall, and I also think the FDNY hats are kind of ugly.

Nymr83 Dec 16 2007 04:50 PM

especially with this being shea's last season it would have been appropriate to be home on september 11th considering that the stadium played a role in the aftermath of the attacks. MLB doesn't give a rat's ass about these things though.

Kid Carsey Dec 16 2007 05:00 PM

Doesn't MLB outsource the not-giving-a-rats-ass as far as the schedule goes?

Nymr83 Dec 16 2007 05:26 PM

no idea, but if they do then they are responsible for the conduct of those they are trusting to do their job

Kid Carsey Dec 16 2007 05:27 PM

I think we've been through this before, but I googled this from a message board and I'm too lazy to figure who the poster is quoting but .... One of baseball's longest streaks comes to an end in January when Major League Baseball puts the finishing touches on the 2005 schedule. A small company outside Pittsburgh, the Sports Scheduling Group, was selected last month to complete the 2005 schedule, unseating the husband-and-wife team of Henry and Holly Stephenson, who have been doing it for 24 years. Each year, MLB accepts competing scheduling proposals from outside groups. The Sports Scheduling Group won the contract in part because it did a better job of avoiding ``semi-repeaters,'' in which the same teams play back-to-back series at home and then away, said Katy Feeney, MLB senior vice president of scheduling. Baseball has been outsourcing the job for decades. Harry Simmons, who at one time worked in the commissioner's office, used to make the schedules each year, mostly by hand. It became such an extensive task that Simmons eventually left the office and devoted himself almost entirely to scheduling. ``As the number of games and the number teams changed, it just became more and more complicated,'' Feeney said. After Simmons quit, the Stephensons were hired in 1981. They use computers, which have made the job easier but have not entirely eliminated the human element. ``I think each team looks at the schedule from its own perspective and there is without exception a lot of points of view,'' Stephenson said. ``There will never be a day when everyone sits down and says, `This is great.''' Baseball officials would not discuss the criteria of a winning proposal but said the process has become increasingly complex, with new divisions, interleague play, extended playoffs and more demands from cities with scheduling conflicts. As a result, scheduling has become much more of a science and academics now play a larger role, Feeney said. Doug Bureman, who worked for the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates, teamed up three other people to co-found the Sports Scheduling Group. Michael Trick, a business professor from Carnegie Mellon University, and George Nemhauser, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Georgia Tech, are also in the group. Bureman said his group would like to handle the job for a long time, as the Stephensons did. ``It's too early to think about it, but it would be great if we could do the same thing,'' Bureman said. Bureman would not talk specifically about what kind of technology his partners used. Nor would he say how much his group is being paid. As for the Stephensons, they are already working hard to get their job back.

Kid Carsey Dec 16 2007 05:31 PM

Ny: >>>they are responsible for the conduct of those they are trusting to do their job<<< Whatever, have a nice day.

bmfc1 Jan 25 2008 03:48 PM

http://www.bizofbaseball.com/docs/2008MasterMLBRegularSeasonSchedule.pdf Entire MLB schedule in one document.

SI Metman Jan 27 2008 10:41 PM

as someone with a Sunday plan, I see MLB and ESPN had some common sense making the last Mets game before the All Star break the Sunday night game, especially since it features the NL All-Stars manager. None of the Mets and Rox all-stars will have to get on a red-eye to make it to the Home run Derby, they can just return to their hotel rooms/homes for a good night's sleep.

bmfc1 Jan 28 2008 03:35 AM

Good catch but common sense by MLB? Must have been a coincidence!