Mets launch new tv network

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Mets nix YES

SNY won't follow in path of Yankees-centric station

Posted: Wednesday February 1, 2006 1:02PM; Updated: Thursday February 2, 2006 2:30AM

 

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the New York Mets' last championship team. During the hey-day of the Bright Lights, Big City '80s, the Mets were comprised of bright, young stars, savvy veterans and a collective personality vulgar enough to rival the Bronx Zoo crew of the late '70s. Yet the team that was captured in all its profane, immature glory by Jeff Pearlman's page-turner, The Bad Guys Won, never lived up to its full potential, and was spent by the end of the decade.

 

Subsequently, in spite of periodic success, the Mets have been more famous for their failures and their role as the Big Apple's "other team." But now, under the leadership of charismatic GM Omar Minaya, even-handed manager Willie Randolph and owner Fred Wilpon, the Mets have been forging ahead, once again, in a bold effort to recapture the back pages of the tabloids and the heart of what many still consider to be a National League town.

 

The latest development in the rebuilding of the franchise -- which began last season with the Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran deals, and continued this winter with the additions of Billy Wagner, Carlos Delgado and Paul Lo Duca -- is the unveiling of SNY, the team's new flagship network. After the triumph of the Yankees' own YES network, it was only a matter of time before the Mets followed suit.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/alex_belth/02/01/sny.mets/index.html

 

 

SNY....must stand for Second in New York

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Mets nix YES

SNY won't follow in path of Yankees-centric station

Posted: Wednesday February 1, 2006 1:02PM; Updated: Thursday February 2, 2006 2:30AM

 

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the New York Mets' last championship team. During the hey-day of the Bright Lights, Big City '80s, the Mets were comprised of bright, young stars, savvy veterans and a collective personality vulgar enough to rival the Bronx Zoo crew of the late '70s. Yet the team that was captured in all its profane, immature glory by Jeff Pearlman's page-turner, The Bad Guys Won, never lived up to its full potential, and was spent by the end of the decade.

 

Subsequently, in spite of periodic success, the Mets have been more famous for their failures and their role as the Big Apple's "other team." But now, under the leadership of charismatic GM Omar Minaya, even-handed manager Willie Randolph and owner Fred Wilpon, the Mets have been forging ahead, once again, in a bold effort to recapture the back pages of the tabloids and the heart of what many still consider to be a National League town.

 

The latest development in the rebuilding of the franchise -- which began last season with the Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran deals, and continued this winter with the additions of Billy Wagner, Carlos Delgado and Paul Lo Duca -- is the unveiling of SNY, the team's new flagship network. After the triumph of the Yankees' own YES network, it was only a matter of time before the Mets followed suit.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/alex_belth/02/01/sny.mets/index.html

 

 

SNY....must stand for Second in New York

SportsNet New York

 

Which is stupid in my opinion. I had really hoped Wilpon would be orginal with this. Instead this is just going to be another branch of the Comcast SportsNet Networks (If you have DirecTV or other access to regional Sports networks you know what i'm talking about). They will even have the SportRISE and SportsNIGHT highlight/news shows like the other Comcast channels.

 

Like I said, this bugs the s*** out of me and I really wish Freddy Wilpon was more original.

[TheRivernator]

the muts will still finish second to the braves...

[Moose]

FSN NY is pretty much useless for all NYC teams, huh?

[Optimist]

SNY....must stand for Second in New York

 

[He Hate Me]

The Mets should call their network PWU as in Please Watch Us

[Fishsticks]

It'll be fun seeing Cablevision making the Mets life miserable by refusing to carry SNY, and dragging it out for a couple of seasons like they tried with the Yanks.

[yeszir]

I think NESN should go more Red Sox centric rather than mad fisherman centric.

[jsinger121]

charlie moore is kind of boring at times