Category: Video

Mets Punked By SNY Employee

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Richard Sandomir has a great story in the NY Times yesterday about the Mets opening day broadcast getting punked by an SNY employee. I assume that person is a former SNY employee now. If you’re reading this, contact me so we can get your side of the story out. ]

After the Mets lost the game Friday night to the Marlins, SNY ran a brief audio clip of the Fox “Family Guy” episode making fun of the Mets. I was watching the game and didn’t even notice it, it’s so brief. Of course, it’s available on YouTube. Check it out below.

You can see the video clip from the original “Family Guy” on YouTube also. That will give you a frame of reference for the audio that appeared during the SNY broadcast Friday night.

This certainly perpetuates the image that the Mets are a joke of a franchise. Sometimes it’s hard to defend against that perception to friends and family, especially if they’re Yankees, Phillies, or even Red Sox fans. But I’m sure there’s no way that SNY would tolerate an employee pulling a prank like that during a live broadcast.

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Video: CNNMoney on Mets Financial Problems

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Even CNNMoney is getting in on the Mets-Madoff story now. They correctly point out that the Mets’ financial situation could get more desperate quickly as their first player payroll is due on April 15 and debt payments come due not long after that.

There isn’t much in the video that we didn’t already know. But it’s interesting to see the Wilpon’s faces and tone of voice as they made a statement last month about the situation.

We also got a glimpse into what the Mets-owned SNY response would be last night during the opening game telecast. Clearly, Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez were reading prepared statements about the Madoff lawsuit. Their prepared statements gave no indication of their true feelings, thoughts, or concerns about the situation. As employees of the Mets-owned TV station, I would expect nothing less if they want to keep their jobs.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/apps/cvp/4.0/swf/cnn_money_384x216_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=/video/news/2011/04/01/n_madoff_mets.cnnmoney

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Video: Chris Rock on the 2011 Mets

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Thursday night Chris Rock was on The Late Show with David Letterman talking about the state of the Mets. I love Chris Rock and he’s a big Mets fan. You probably even saw his “Let’s Go Mets” video that they used to show on the board at Shea.

His appearance on Letterman was hilarious talking about the Mets’ finances and having to use a manhole cover for second base. Check out the video below. It’s great.

Chris Rock appears on The Late Show with David Letterman
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Video: Weekly Mets Report – Predictions and Terry Collins

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In this week’s installment of the weekly Mets Report video with Kerel Cooper of On The Black, we talk about our predictions for the Mets this year. The Vegas line is 77.5 wins this year and check out the video to see if we took the over or under.

Also this week, we talk about our first impressions of Terry Collins as the manager of the Mets. He had a terrible ending to his managerial stint in Anaheim and gets another (and probably final) chance with the Mets.

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Video: Mets Weekly Report–Castillo, Perez, Bay, Madoff

Here’s this week’s video that I did Sunday night with Kerel Cooper of On The Black. We did this video before the official announcement of Oliver Perez’ release was made. We also talk about the release of Luis Castillo, Jason Bay’s comeback from injury, and the latest on the Madoff lawsuit.

Video: Mets 2011 Promotional Video

Citi Field during the day

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Here’s the 2011 version of the Mets team video. They put one of these out every year to get fans fired up for opening day. And it always works for me. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m already fired up about opening day, or the video itself is that good. But I think it’s more that I can’t wait for baseball to get started after a couple of weeks of spring games.

The 2011 team video below is one of the best ones in recent memory. I love the slow motion. This one compares favorably to the 2010 promotional video in black and white.

http://service.twistage.com/plugins/player.swf?p=link&v=82168ded01695

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Video: ESPN 2011 Mets Preview

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Tim Kurkjian previews the Mets from Florida. Basically, his take on the position players is that they look good on paper. The problem is that the recent injury histories of Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran make it difficult to believe that they’ll be in the lineup all season. He doesn’t even mention Jason Bay and his awful, injury-shortened 2010.

The take on the Mets rotation is that they’re fairly pedestrian without Johan Santana at the top. It’s hard to argue against that. Kurkjuan doesn’t think the Mets have the pitching to hang with the Phillies, Braves, and Marlins this year. Frankly, I agree.

Check out the video below.

http://espn.go.com/videohub/player/embed.swf

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