Tickets for the Yankees’ first 13 home games were up nearly 10 percent from last year, and ratings on YES were up 38 percent. Mets’ ticket sales were up, too, but their TV ratings were down.
The Mets asked Matt Harvey to remove a post that showed a photograph of Harvey making an obscene gesture the day he had elbow surgery. Harvey responded by deleting his account.
Howie Rose and Josh Lewin will return as the Mets’ radio team as the games shift to WOR-AM from WFAN-AM and FM.
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Kiner led the National League in home runs every year from 1946 to 1952, spent half a century broadcasting Mets games and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1975.
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The Mets formally announced that their radio games are moving to WOR-AM in a five-year deal with the news and talk station’s owner, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment.
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The Mets are close to a multiyear agreement to make WOR-AM (710) the new home for their games.
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Keith Hernandez, an SNY analyst on Mets games, described a bat shattered in Monday’s game as a “dead soldier.”
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Teams increasingly want their radio analysts fluent in the language of WAR — that’s wins above replacement — and other advanced statistics, known as sabermetrics.
Jay Horwitz’s posts on Twitter are a mixture of untold stories and recurring jokes about the Mets.
PepsiCo and the New York Mets signed a multi-year contract today, in which PepsiCo becomes the newest Signature Partner at Citi Field, the Mets’ new world-class home, opening April 13. In addition to designation rights for Pepsi as the Official Soft Drink of the Mets and for Gatorade as the team’s Official Sports Drink, PepsiCo will promote a number of the brands within its broad beverage portfolio, including Aquafina, Mountain Dew and Sierra Mist.
Pepsi gains branding rights to the name-entitled “Pepsi Porch,” the 1,284-seat area in right field that extends over the playing field. This interactive brand showcase at the Pepsi Porch will immerse fans in a Mets and Pepsi experience with special entertainment programming broadcast to those in attendance and watching Mets games on SNY, the television home of the Mets. A 37-foot by 89-foot Pepsi sign, evocative of the iconic Pepsi-Cola sign facing Manhattan from Long Island City, will sit atop the Pepsi Porch. The sign will face into the ballpark and be visible from downtown Flushing and nearby highways and mass transit lines.
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