Mets TV Viewership Drops 19.3% In 2011

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• metsaddict77 October 6, 2011 at 10:51 am

  well if they put a team on the field worth watching,i’m sure more of us would be watching.
  • t agee October 6, 2011 at 11:41 am

    I’m sure they got still got their ad rates paid though, maybe not as much as they were hopeing for and some may not renew but their ad slots were filled this year with lots of car commercials and a hell of a lot less public service type commercials than 2010 and 4th best in the Majors isn’t all that bad anyway.

    If they weren’t constantly cheaping out on scouting, drafting, signing and developing the best amateur talent they would be swimming in cash right now.

    2006-2008 produced the three consecutive best years of attendance this team has ever had including 4 million in 2008 alone. Some of that should have been reinvested into the prospect pipeline to keep things going yet they actually sought to give away a #1 draft choice by signing Moises Alou two weeks before SF had to decide if they were going to offer him arbitration and then they sold Wagner to save the signing bonus that the first and supplemental round picks would have gotten.

    If the Wilpon’s ever concentrated their whole focus on just building a team that could compete for a post season every single year attendance would be stable, viewership would be stable and the Mets would be in the playoffs more often than not and everything else that they wanted would just fall into place.

    They purposely built a stadium that had 11,000 LESS seats in it than Shea in order to increase demand by limiting the supply. Then they could charge top dollar and play the old “better renew early” card with their season ticket holders. Now their burnt with too much supply and not enough demand because they cheaped out on procuring talent from the draft. The talent that plays well on both sides of the ball, not just one. The kind of talent other teams find in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd round of the draft. Our 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks usually find themselves on the DL or we have to cut them or trade them for “salary relief.”

    No wonder we have to sign 13 free agents every off season.
    • Bayonne Mets Fan October 6, 2011 at 12:13 pm

      http://www.talkingchop.com/

      Or since now he’s raving about the Texas Rangers cuz the Braves are out he can go here:

      http://www.lonestarball.com/

      this guy needs a hug from someone in his life, anyone. The man is “out there”.
      • t agee October 6, 2011 at 5:35 pm

        Typical buffoon,

        Mute when it comes to discussing what was written, unless he tries to discuss something that wasn’t said or he’ll try the get personal card or mix in some insults or something else mature.

        What a mutton head.
• alex68 October 6, 2011 at 10:54 am

  so is not only the fans not going to the game, but not even watching?!!? that is an alarming situation.. wow.. but then again, is like many have said here, ppl like to watch a team on the field that is good, not crap…
• Donal October 6, 2011 at 11:42 am

  Does this also account for online viewership? It is 2011, after all.
  • any October 6, 2011 at 11:49 am

    almost positive it does not. But, on mlb.tv at least, you don’t see the commercials. so advertisers don’t care
    • Donal October 6, 2011 at 12:04 pm

      There are ways. also, does it count DVR recordings? And uh, less encouraged ways of streaming the games?
• Metfan October 6, 2011 at 4:31 pm

  Why would these numbers surprise anyone? They were a sub 500 team and were out of it by yhe all star break. If they hung around until well into August the attendance and viewership would have been much higher. This may be an indication we may not be able to afford Jose.
• Bayonne Mets Fan October 6, 2011 at 5:00 pm

  Robin Ventura named Manager of the White Sox – Francesa.
• jerseymet October 7, 2011 at 1:46 am

  People want to watch a winning team. Pehaps its time for Keith Hernandez to stop being so self absorbed and talk about baseball