Metsie, are you high?

maybe you need to study it again..
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/mapping-the-strike-zone/

the box in the middle Metsie, that is the strike zone. The red area in the middle, Metsie, is where there is the most hits. The pink outside the strike zone, Metsie, is where there is the least. see that? on the side, it says red is >20%, pink is 0%.

it even blatantly says “The results are not really surprising at all. As pitches get closer to the center of the strike zone, they become more hittable. I’m sure you already knew this (or at least suspected this), but now you can see it.”

lol, nope, not Metsie.

god you’re making me ME feel stupid just trying to argue this. are you missing a chromosome???

Cause thats what your graphs showed!

we’re talking about the guy that said…

“Swinging outside the zone is basically where most hitters get their hits! I mean not every hit that is counted is a fat pitch over the plate. Those are usually home runs. The majority of ML hits are on pitches that are in a batter’s sweet spot which for most is low and outside where they can extend and drive the ball deep!”

lolol. that still makes me laugh, out loud.

if i heard correctly, alderson said the payroll of 140-150MM / year is ‘significantly higher’ than where they want to be next year.

this is the biggest market in the country. i don’t care that we share it with another team, the payroll should match the market.

do you think that you’ll see significantly lower ticket or concession prices next year. hmm let me think.

and it is all because of the wilpons inability to take their lumps, settle this case and move on.

Now if no one showed up it could happen I suppose.
But the Wilpons are far too invested in it to sell control of it anytime soon. Besides it provides Jr with a job he can’t really screw up or get fired from.

And if people think not going is gonna solve it they are mistaken.

Maybe people should look at it differently.
If they want new ownership why not give someone a reason to want the team? Like the fact they wouldn’t have to risk their personal wealth just to get people to show up! There would be plenty of money to buy Yankee style then. And then there would be no issue of some side deal unrelated to the team went bad and now they have no money to subsidize what the fans themselves refused to subsidize!

They say they would go see them if they went out and bought some good players to play here….BULL PELLETS!

I wonder what happened to all those that said the same thing before we signed Pedro, Beltran, Wright, Reyes, Santana, and K-Rod to big time contracts? Where are all those promises now?

In this madoff thing the right tool is a mirror because lack of spending (IMO) has more to do with no one showing up than it does with the Wilpon’s financial issues!

I wonder if the same people would think it was ok to have their neighbors label them a pariah and try and force them into selling their house because they refused to put a few million into improving that house so that the entire neighborhood could enjoy better property values without spending a penny of their own!

Cause that is what I hear from the complainers.

“YOU need to spend YOUR money so I can get a better product that I refuse to pay for!”

Anyone who wants the Wilpons to sell the team can have their way…
All it takes is making an offer!
lol

Maybe if they owned a team they might see the stupidity of spending millions and millions of dollars on third rate Free Agents JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE!

And then we could all bitch at them to even out the Karma!
lol

90% of america doesn’t even understand what a Ponzi Scheme is!
If they did no one would get screwed by them!

Bottom line is the Wilpons got more back than they put in.
At best they will have to pay back the profit with interest. Comes to just around 200-300 Mil which just so happens to be the amount they are looking for by selling 25% minority stake!

If the Wilpons were actually a PART and COMPLICIT in the scam the Wilpons wouldn’t be in a civil lawsuit right now they would be defendants in a criminal prosecution!

There is a definite prejudice and hatred of the Wilpons among some Met fans who blame them for not going with their idea of every offseason should be fantasy baseball time and buy buy buy!

But if the people who hate the Wilpons really want to cast the blame for the team not playing their game they need a mirror to ask the REAL culprit why they didn’t go to the park and support the franchise they want to spend millions on their own personal enjoyment!

You do understand that the reason for the settlement is because regardless if they are victims or not the fact that they made a profit means they have to pay back that money no matter what right?

“If they are innocent why aren’t they allowing this to go to trial where they will be proven innocent and not have to pay the trustees anything?”

Again, guilt or innocence means nothing if they made a profit they have to pay it back. They would go to trial if they could not agree on what amount they have to pay back but right now they are not there yet.

“Why isn’t anyone asking the right questions?”

They are.

“The fact that the Wilpons are interested in settling and even willing to pay a quarter-billion dollars, seems like an obvious admission of guilt.”

If by guilt you mean guilty of trusting and being played by Madoff. They yes it is an admission of guilt. If your saying they were co-conspirators then no your wrong. As far as I know none of the people the Madoff trustees have settled with so far have not been charged with a crime for settling.