Mets Win 2-1 in 11 (And Other Stuff)

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May 7, 2004
  • The “Mets fans” were happy last night as Barry Bonds was in the lineup for the last game of the San Francisco Giants only visit to Shea Stadium last night. But it was the real Mets fans who got the last laugh as Mike Piazza’s walk off homer in the 11th inning gave the Mets a 2-1 victory. Karim Garcia homered earlier in the game for the Mets other run. It was the first time all year that the Mets were on the winning side of a 3 game sweep.
  • The New York Post had an article today about Bonds’s pre-game interview that made the star leftfielder look really bad. I’m unsure if the Post was trying to make Bonds look bad (or at least worse than he really is) or if it was a true and honest retelling of the future hall of famer’s decorum and language in his dealing with the press. I’d figure that it’s somewhere in the middle of those two choices. He’s probably a lot like that but the Post probably exaggerated because they get annoyed when Bonds refuses to talk to the press.
  • MLB has backed off it’s plans to put ads for the upcoming Spider-Man 2 movie on the bases for games played from June 11-13. Apparently fan backlash had something to do the change but I think it’s more than just that. (When was the last time the commissioners office responded so quickly to something the fans were upset about.) The movie logos will still be plastered on the on deck circles during the games and will be featured on home plate and the pitchers mound during pre-game warmups. I’m curious how the geniuses at MLB could think that the fans would go for this idea to begin with. Obviously the marketing and promotions people would love this idea. From their standpoint this would have been a coup and the people who came up with the idea would be due promotions. (I know that if I owned a company I would reward someone for thinking out of the box like that.) But don’t these things have to be approved by the higher ups and ultimately by the commissioners office? Is Bud Selig really that out of touch with the fans that he couldn’t see this was a bad idea from the start? Or is it that he was thinking as a greedy owner and not as a commissioner? I’d say the latter since that’s the way he normally does things.
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