Been a while, so let’s get right into things

The New York Mets opened their 2025 season in Houston and lost 2 of 3 to the Astros. They pitched OK, but the offense decided to wait a bit before getting started. Let’s see how they do against a decent Miami Marlins team before returning to CITI Field on Friday to open their home season against the Toronto Blue Jays.

As far a MLB, they need to figure a few things out before the next collective bargaining agreement with regards to how they want to promote and grow the interest.

1. Look into getting rid of Interleage Play. First introduced in 1997, it has run its course. It never created any new or better rivalries as expected and reduced the good ones it had. It also creates an unfair and unbalanced schedule. If they are going to keep it, at least try to have teams open their season within their own leage. Yankees / Milwaukee, Cardinals / Twins, and Mets / Toronto are not the home opening days that the fans want to see.

2. Figure out a way to let the most people watch games by consolidating all the different networks and streaming services Also they need to reavaluate all the arcaic black-out rules that do more to prevent people from watching their home teams then promoting the sport

TV partner(s)
Fox/FS1
TBS
ESPN/ABC
MLB Network

Streaming partner(s)
Max
Apple TV+
The Roku Channel
ESPN+

MLB is a regional sport, and the best way to market it is to the local fans. People get to know their local announcers (on both TV and Radio) and get frustrated when the games are tossed around to different networks with different announcers and different production setups. I know it’s all driven by money, but if you look back over the years, viewership in all sports (except the NFL) seems to drop every time things change. I know I am older and set in my ways, but remember when I was young, the teams I ended up following and rooting for were local, and also the ones that were easiest to watch. The teams on pay stations (such as Sports Channel in NJ) were left behind, and it can still be seen today.

3. Hire a new PR Department. MLB does an awful job of promoting the game and its players. For years, they promoted Mike Trout as the best player in the sport. While there is no arguing he is a great player, he played on the West Coast on a consistently aufel Anaheim Angles Team. I know its tougher with MLB than the other professional leagues due to the reginality, but there are a bunch of young and exciting players out there that they should be taking advantage of. Maybe bring back “This Week In Baseball” or have some sort of weekly/monthly/yearly fantasy standings that people can easily follow along with.

I’m sure I’ll have more to say as the season goes on, but now it’s time to start rooting for the Mets to get off to a good start and play good baseball and bring excitement to CITI Field and NY / NJ this season

Update on Movies and TV Shows

I finished Season 2 of ‘Severance’ on Apple TV. 4 out of 5 bags

I finished Season 3 of ‘REACHER’ on Amazon Prime. 3 out of 5 bags (A little to over the top)

I watched “Den of Theives 2′ I liked the first movie and was looking forward to this one, but I was disappointed. It was boring, and not much happened that wasn’t expected. 2.5 out of 5 bags.

I am enjoying this season of 9-1-1 (although I’m not really buying Bucks character.)

Will leave updates for Survivor 48 and The Amanzing Race for later today or tomorrow when I can did a bit deeper


Still looking for a new job — Had a few things going that fell through. But just have to keep moving forward. Will keep you updated and let you know if anything comes along

That’s all for right now

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Average Andy