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September 7 game moved to 8 PM

bmfc1 Aug 21 2008 05:44 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 21 2008 08:40 AM

Do you have tickets for the September 7 game against the Phillies? Were you looking forward to a late summer day game? Were your kids going to run the bases after the game? Well forget those plans! The game has been moved to 8:05 for ESPN. Now you have to find somebody to go with you because your kids have school the next day. Now you have to think about leaving early because you have work the next day. No Gary, Keith and Ron--just Jon Miller over emphasizing the accents for the Mets Hispanic plans; Joe Morgan and his tortured logic; and lazy story lines about this September and last September. I'd sarcastically say "FANTASTIC!" but this has nothing to do with the fans.

themetfairy Aug 21 2008 06:05 AM

Crap! :(

metirish Aug 21 2008 06:38 AM

I like how Morgan pronounces Beltran , it's the proper way in fact.

Kong76 Aug 21 2008 06:53 AM

I thought that they used up their allotment or something. This totally chews.

AG/DC Aug 21 2008 06:56 AM

Side effect of success: being taken for granted.

Fman99 Aug 21 2008 07:10 AM

The CW11 games I never see in HD. At least the ESPN broadcast will be. However, I feel like Joe Morgan should be punched in the neck.™

seawolf17 Aug 21 2008 07:20 AM

KC wrote: I thought that they used up their allotment or something. This totally chews. I think they did, but didn't they have a rainout? I seem to remember something like that.

Vic Sage Aug 21 2008 08:38 AM

double crap. I took my daughter to a game in July, with the promise that i'd take my son to the 9/7 game. He's 7 and was looking forward to running the bases. now what, Fred?

seawolf17 Aug 21 2008 08:41 AM

Nothing says he can't run down there and run the bases. See if Fred will add him to the expanded September rosters -- I'm sure he'd sign for the rookie minimum. edit: Or, you can just go for it; nothing says "life lesson" than spending some quality time with the NYPD.

themetfairy Aug 21 2008 09:14 AM

="seawolf17"]Nothing says he can't run down there and run the bases. See if Fred will add him to the expanded September rosters -- I'm sure he'd sign for the rookie minimum. edit: Or, you can just go for it; nothing says "life lesson" than spending some quality time with the NYPD. If I've learned anything at Shea this year, is that one shouldn't just go for it. Especially if the Pepsi Party Patrol girls are around - [url]http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/7/27/3811701.html[/url] ]And while we sat in Row Q, encouraging Brandon Knight to hang with 'em and thrilling to Delgado and Reyes jumping ugly on Piñeiro, we got our very own Greatest Moment at Shea, the kind that won't be on any corporate ballot. It was Dancing With The Fans, that worthless thing they do where two people — Choice A and Choice B — put on ugly hoodies and one of them eventually does the worm on one of the dugouts and somewhere Verizon presumably collects a rumpload of money for taking your texts. Pretty mundane between-innings entertainment, except for Saturday night. Choice B had a partner. Choice B was dancing on the first base dugout alone initially, but then someone, presumably with very good seats, jumped up to join her. The joiner, also a she, wasn't wearing an ugly hoodie. She was, in other words, unauthorized to be Dancing With The Fans. Hence, while DiamondVision, as ever, featured Choice A and Choice B shuffling their feet, a Pepsi Party Patrol girl leapt up on the dugout and tackled the interloper. John Stearns sacking Chief Noc-A-Homa it was not. Pretty it was not. In an instant, security got involved: one older man in an orange golf shirt joined the Pepsi Party girl in dragging away the unsanctioned dancer. And all of this — all of this — played out on the right half of DiamondVision while "Stayin' Alive" blared and Alex Anthony instructed us how to text our votes for Choice A or Choice B. Choice B's backup dancer was being wrestled to the ground. Choice A just kept boogieing to the Bee Gees. After that, fourteen innings seemed like a sure thing.

bmfc1 Aug 21 2008 01:45 PM

A TV board says that the Mets are now "maxed out" on Sunday night. This is good because ESPN cannot switch the final regular season game at Shea to Sunday night (which they did for the MFYs).