Might be hard to tell about the legitimacy of opening day attendance – remember last year at the last minute it was necessary for the Mets to offer free tickets to a weekend game in order to get all the tickets sold.

A lot of us are just so fed up that we are content to watch from home.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours

Attendance will rise and fall according to their winning/losing and wild card hopes — not according to high ticket prices for a few selected dates throughout the season.

In terms of cost for future games to the fans you are right, however, in terms of what this adds to the fan bases’ disgust with the ownership, it is going to cost the Wilpons instead. If we had half filled ballparks during the first half of the last two seasons when the team was playing exciting ball and a wildcard hunt, one can only imagine what this latest attempt in squeezing the fan base is going to cause in 2013.

1) They were in the last years at Shea so attendance rose as many wanted to make last visits to their childhood stomping grounds,

2) They had yet to move into their new money pit of a stadium and no one had yet heard of the name Madoff.

3) Many of the poor contracts Omar completed right before he left had yet to become big albatrosses.

I’m not saying Alderson hasn’t made poor choices. And a lot of his problems stem from the Mets financial issues that arose out of the costly new stadium and Madoff. But Omar certainly contributed to the morass the team has been in. He did more harm than good. This isn’t about Alderson by the way. The same thing would have happened no matter who had taken over the team a GM. Omar’s vision was too short-sighted, and his heavily back-loaded lengthy contracts were an example of that. I’m glad he;’s gone. Maybe I’ll be glad when Alderson is gone too. That doesn’t make Omar’s tenure any more palatable.

2005-2008 they BROKE records for team revenue…

spare me the talk about Omar’s contracts limiting Sandy

There was noone preventing Sandy from playing Duda in LF last year

There was noone forcing Sandy to trade Pagan last year

There was noone preventing Sandy from trading Reyes in 2011

There was noone preventing Sandy from trading Byrdack in 2012

There was noone preventing Sandy from trading Hairston in 2012

There was noone preventing Sandy from getting Courtney Hawkins in 2012

There was noone preventing Sandy from getting Jose Fernandez in 2011

Ya boy Sandy is a failure

No, it actually means ethics in business. For some of us, that is quite important. There are various ways to conduct business. Good will, even though obviously not for altruistic purposes, goes a long way to making a nice profit by making the fans want to come back. With all the empty seats we saw even during the first half last season, when we were tied for number one in the wild card, fans were not coming. One reason is because soaking the fan base hasn’t worked since 2009. Having a general manager as the pubic spokesman speaking in double-talk hasn’t helped, either.

It’s simply not wanting to do business with a gonif, which is Yiddish for “thief”. It’s also the way to describe Loria in Florida who isn’t exactly supported by those in the community, either.

Like what some people at Metsblog said – does he even know there’s a major league roster here? There’s just so much anger one can direct at this that you just become numb.

Cue the “every team does this” excuses.

No they don’t. Every team does NOT do this. This is PATHETIC! How dare this guy! I wish Jeff Wilpon WOULD take the team over to be honest because he can’t do much worse.