Opinion: The Biggest Spring Training Game Ever

MetsBlog.com found this 2/25/2008 on www.hotfootblog.com [flag]

Tomorrow, the Mets take the field against players in opposing uniforms for the first time this year, and few outside of Port St. Lucie will care. It’s merely an exhibition with some college kids, and the Mets will feature at least two pitchers I’d never heard of before a few days ago (apparently Nate Field is a 32-year-old who spent a couple seasons in the Royals bullpen and has a career ERA ... [link]

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Published 2/25/2008 by Matthew Cerrone at MetsBlog.com
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Peter@BaseballReflections posted 2/25/2008 from metsgrrl.com

How much money would the Mets make if they sold photos of that? Of course they won’t - like that awesome back-to-back image of Wright and Reyes last year that I would have paid $$$ for. Why on earth would they actually try to monetize something people would actually like to buy, and would promote the team, when you can charge everyone $2 to get into Open Workouts ?

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