— Days Without Shea —


As mentioned yesterday, we were out at Citi Field last night. Not a pretty night for the Mets, who lost 5 - 4 and slipped into 4th place in the NL east.

Pat Misch was ineffective at first, allowing three straight hits to start the game. He gave up three runs over the first three innings before settling into a groove.

Our offense never really found a groove until the end of the game. The top of the lineup (Reyes, Pagan, Beltran) went a combined 0 for 12. Jose went 0 for 5 and grounded out with the bases loaded to end the game.

Jose did save a few runs in the field, gunning down a runner from third with one out in the 6th and making a nice relay throw to Thole to end the Marlins at-bat in the 7th.

Loge13 original Ross Jones finally got to view Citi Field last night. Good to catch up with him and to hand with Kingman Senior, Run Hunt and the Ronette. Last I saw Ross Jones, he was staying behind after the game to prowl the stadium. He may be there still.

Ron Hunt took the Wall Street ferry to the game last night and raved about it, even though the only adult beverage served on board is beer. Photos to come.

Meanwhile, Loge13 pal Paul posted this excellent comment that bears re-posting here.

"I went to the game last night also. Saw a great come-from-behind win with a ten hit attach, caught a tee shirt from the Pepsi Patrol, while watching my teams "Magic Number" drop to 4.

No, I was not in Queens and $iti Field. I was in Brooklyn where Wally Backman's team is 20 Games over 500 and heading for the playoffs!

You see by NOT renewing for that "Saturday Plus Plan" and being stuck with all those tickets to useless games that nobody wants, I using a fourth of that money to see exciting and hard played baseball.

So do yourself a favor and trade in "Cow-Bell Man" for "King Ralph", come to Brooklyn and see Baseball Like It Ought To Be !!!"


Thanks Paul. Citi Field was pretty vacant yesterday and it won't be getting better this year or next. The Mets are facing a season-ticket debacle in 2011 if they don't do something smart (which wouldn't be like them).



[August 26, 2010 7:38 PM]  |  link  |  reply
Ross Jones said

Thanks for the hospitality last night. I did stick around for awhile. The Mets Hall of Fame is very impressive.


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by Kingman on August 25 at 3:41PM
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I will be out at Citi Field tonight for the Mets/Marlins game. Any of you going?

Here be the starting lineup, just announced:

1) Reyes
2) Pagan
3) Beltran
4) Wright
5) Davis
6) Francoeur
7) Thole
8) Tejada
9) Misch

Pat Misch is 0-2 wbut has pitched well in his two appearances, with just a 3.00 ERA. Marlins rookie Alex Sanabeia is 2 -1 with a 3.77 ERA. He just returned from the minors and pitched well against the Pirates last week.


[August 26, 2010 6:47 AM]  |  link  |  reply
Paul said

I went to the game last night also. Saw a great come-from-behind win with a ten hit attach, caught a tee shirt from the Pepsi Patrol, while watching my teams "Magic Number" drop to 4.

No, I was not in Queens and $iti Field. I was in Brooklyn where Wally Backman's team is 20 Games over 500 and heading for the playoffs!

You see by NOT renewing for that "Saturday Plus Plan" and being stuck with all those tickets to useless games that nobody wants, I using a fourth of that money to see exciting and hard played baseball.

So do yourself a favor and trade in "Cow-Bell Man" for "King Ralph", come to Brooklyn and see Baseball Like It Ought To Be !!!


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Filed under: Baseball | CitiField | Mets
by Kingman on August 1 at 2:04PM
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From the AP this weekend:

NEW YORK -- The owners of the New York Mets should be held accountable for letting their workers put more than $16 million in 401(k) assets into accounts controlled by jailed financier Bernard Madoff, a widow said in a lawsuit filed Friday.

The lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan was brought against Sterling Equities Associates, which owns the Mets, and also named Fred Wilpon, the Mets chief executive officer and principle owner.

Sterling Equities and several of its top executives should have known that Madoff was carrying out a massive Ponzi scheme that cost thousands of investors billions of dollars, the lawsuit said. Madoff, 72, revealed the fraud in December 2008, pleaded guilty to fraud charges and is serving a 150-year prison sentence.

Sterling said in a statement Friday that the complaint has no merit, adding that its 401(k) plan and participants in the plan "were among the many victims of the Madoff fraud."

Sterling said the 401(k) plan filed a claim for its losses with the Securities Investors Protection Corp. or SIPC, which is authorized by Congress to guarantee brokerage accounts for a maximum $500,000, and assisted 401(k) participants with filing individual claims.

The court-appointed trustee who is recovering Madoff money for investors has said the Mets profited by nearly $48 million from their roughly $523 million in investments with Madoff.

The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, said its plaintiff, Elyse S. Goldweber, was the beneficiary of the 401(k) plan built by her late husband, David A. Sloss. It said the majority of $280,420 in her husband's retirement plan was directly invested with Madoff "and has now been wiped out."

A statement sent March 31 said that she should not rely on the stated balance in the retirement account "in light of the reported theft by Madoff," the lawsuit said. The actual account balance cannot be determined, the lawsuit quoted the statement as saying.

The retirement fund had $16.2 million of its $17.6 million in assets, or 92 percent, invested with Madoff, the lawsuit said. It did not say how many employees or former employees were affected.

The lawsuit particularly took aim at statements by Wilpon that he and his business were not seriously harmed by the Madoff scandal.

"While defendant Wilpon has been quoted as claiming that he and his business family are `fine,' his loyal employees (many of whom had previously been laid off) have lost their retirement savings," the lawsuit said. It added that an insurance policy does not come close to covering the losses.

"As a result of their massive exposure to Madoff, plaintiff and other class members have lost the majority of their retirement savings," the lawsuit said.

Investigators who are still trying to identify and collect Madoff assets for investors say the financier lost nearly all of the $20 billion invested with him even though he claimed in statements mailed to 4,800 account holders in 2008 that their investments were worth $68 billion.






[August 3, 2010 7:25 PM]  |  link  |  reply
DyHrdMET said

I think I have an even lower opinion of Fred Wilpon after reading this.


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We moved into Loge13 in 1985. This is how we remember Doc Gooden. Invincible. Nearly flawless every time out. People dancing in the upper deck pasting "K" after "K" to the rafters.

Doc and Darryl were my childhood heroes. We were convinced in later years, we'd look back at them as the Mantle and Whitey of our generation. Heck, the first time I ever went to Cooperstown was Gooden's rookie year, a few weeks after his All-Star game debut. And Gooden was already enshrined, as the youngest pitcher to ever strike out the side in the mid-summer classic.

But we all know what happened. Fast forward 25 years later and the Mets are going to enshrine Strawberry, Gooden and Frank Cashen in the Mets hall of fame this Sunday.

Also, the Mets are signing Doc to a one-day contract this weekend. When it expires, he will retire as a Met. There's a nice interview with Gooden in the Bergen Record. Check it out after the jump...

 

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Loge13's been out of pocket a few days. Had a little car mishap in New Jersey over the weekend, then a little "no Internet" mishap in NYC, thanks to Verizon.

"Last Play At Shea," Billy Joel's documentary about the last shows ever at Shea Stadium will have its premiere at Citi Field August 21th. Tickets go on sale Friday.

Loge13 readers should be very familiar with Shea Stadium's contribution to rock & roll. If not, check out our Shea Rocks section.

I am not the biggest Billy Joel fan but this could be a cool event to go to. It will also be the biggest outdoor movie presentation since 1919. Back then, they called them talkies.

The full press release follows after the break.


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