Gothamist: Another Slip-up Pushes Mets to Brink

anonymass

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:37:44 -0500

Russo has a voice made for print media.

Tim N.

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:33:56 -0500

I totally agree, Kevin. As Francesa himself would say, his bad call in the ALDS was huge... huge. But he does know his TV stuff. And it's actually Russo who roots against the NY teams with a vengeance. On Saturday he went nuts on the Mets, something to the effect of "I've been giving Yankee fans grief for a dozen years, you think you Mets fans are immune? Yanks are gone, Mets are losing, it's bombs away!" Sometimes you want to throw stuff at the radio, but for some reason they are pretty darned entertaining.

aloha higgins

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:56:40 -0500

I know two fans who wants detroit to win, Thomas Magnum and that Hawaiian Detective.

EricGewiz

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:39:11 -0500

You're right, not many people watched that World Series - and though its easy to say that it's because no one outside of NY cared, I think an alternative to that is not many people outside of NY wanted to see the Yankees play again. I lived in Phoenix at the time, and everyone I knew had the same general feeling - ambivalence to seeing the Yankees again.

Kevin Walsh

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:27:00 -0500

I meant ALDS of course.

Kevin Walsh

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:40:35 -0500

>>>On FAN, Francesa was saying that a lot of TV people are rooting for Detroit/St. Loo. Ah, yes, Francesa...the man who called the Tigers "a duck on one leg" before they faced the Yanks in the NLDS. It's really odd that NYC's #1 sports talk radio show features two guys who have no use for the Mets, or the Yankees, for that matter.... ...and it's also odd the the Mets haven't made more of Pujols' ungracious comments about Glavine in Game 1. Remember the Dodgers in '88 after Cone called one of Tommy Lasorda's guys a "high school pitcher"... www.forgotten-ny.com

tien

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:28:49 -0500

i hear that TBD is the best starting pitcher the mets have.

J

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:28:32 -0500

Yes, and who could ever forget Roger Clemens flying into a roid rage, and throwing the broken bat at Piazza in the 00 series..?

Tim N.

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:19:39 -0500

Regarding ratings... what matters most is not who's in it but how long the series goes. Series ratings grow with every game. And Kevin is right, the Subway Series pulled very low ratings. No one outside of NYC watched. A Tiger/Card series would probably draw pretty well, with two underdogs and a bona fide star like Pujols in his first WS (remember Jerome Bettis at the Super Bowl?). Plus you'd have Bob Gibson and Al Kaline throwing out the first ball and all that crap. It would totally blow for NYC, but the TV people would be very happy. On FAN, Francesa was saying that a lot of TV people are rooting for Detroit/St. Loo. And frankly, I thought the '00 World Series was pretty entertaining, with poor ol' Al Leiter just throwing pitch after pitch after pitch after pitch after pitch...

EricGewiz

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:40:36 -0500

Kevin - one can also make an argument that the 2000 WS wasn't as interesting since the Yankees were playing for the 4th time in 5 years. Who wants to always watch that!?

EricGewiz

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:39:43 -0500

It's like the Mets have a "Pedro Cerrano" complex - they can only hit fastballs, no breaking balls - which is what the entire Cards pitching staff has offered them for 5 games! STL - DET would be an okay WS, though I'm biased as a Mets fan. Though, those two teams did meet in '68.

Kevin Walsh

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:17:22 -0500

>>>st louis vs detroit may be the lowest rated world series in history!!!!! The 2000 Subway Series was one of the lowest-rated. The rest of the country had NO rooting interest... www.forgotten-ny.com

Dude

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:56:10 -0500

#2 - kil was referring to the TV ratings, not whether the WS would be interesting or not. Without a big TV market team, the ratings are going down the toilets.

J

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:56:09 -0500

Even if the Mets don't make it to the big dance, you still gotta watch..! St Louis & Detroit would be great...two old school teams.. The Mets lack of starting pitching will be the difference on who wins tonight...

Mark

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:38:12 -0500

kil - the rest of the country doesn't require a NY team in the world series for it to be interesting. gothamist - it would be nice if you included the score in these write-ups.

kil

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:24:46 -0500

st louis vs detroit may be the lowest rated world series in history!!!!!