Dave Matthews Band
Yup, the Mets just announced that Dave Matthews Band will be the second musical act to perform at Citi Field.
“We are thrilled that Dave Matthews Band is coming to Citi Field this July for what is becoming our annual summer concert event featuring the top acts in the world,” Mets COO Jeff Wilpon said in a statement.
“We pride ourselves on playing at some of the most unique venues in the world,” Matthews said in a statement. “We’re excited to play at Citi Field and continue the rock-n-roll tradition at the home of the Mets.”
The Band’s latest album, “Big Whiskey And The Grooggrux King” received two Grammy nominations for Best Album of the Year and Best Rock Album.
Check out Dave and Neil Young’s duet of “Alone and Forsaken” from the “Hope for Haiti Now” Telethon Jan 22nd.
See you guys there (I hope)! Click here to become a Dave Matthews Band fan on facebook.
30 comments
CaseStreet
1/26/2010-3:58pm at 3:58 pm (UTC -4)
It’s pretty cool that the Wilpons are doing annual summer concerts. I didn’t go to the previous two, but I’ll definitely go to this one.
GravediggerHebner
1/26/2010-4:01pm at 4:01 pm (UTC -4)
I haven’t been to any of the recent ones and probably won’t make it to this one, but I agree it’s a great idea and good alternative use of the facility without turning it into a football stadium.
I am lucky (and old) enough to have seen the triple bill of David Johansen, The Clash and The Who at Shea. That was a great night even if it was only 3/4 of the Who.
CaseStreet
1/26/2010-4:09pm at 4:09 pm (UTC -4)
man you’re old. Can you pitch?
Kingman 26
1/26/2010-4:19pm at 4:19 pm (UTC -4)
Grave, I was at that show!
I was all the way out in center field with general admission tickets, like 20-something rows from the stage.
I think that the biggest thrill may have been entering through police blockades at some entrance where you didn’t enter for baseball or football, and walking through the tunnel the umpires came through, and out on the field from the walkway right behind home plate, then walking all the way out to center. Damn that was amazing as a 16 year old.
GravediggerHebner
1/26/2010-5:22pm at 5:22 pm (UTC -4)
It was a great night. My ears are still ringing from the sound effect when “the king called out his jet fighters” during “Rock The Casbah.”
I was in the stands in the box seats around 1B. I was wearing a royal blue windbreaker and before the show I was standing around and people kept coming up to me, showing me their tickets and asking where their seats were. Being a Met fan I was able to point them in the right direction and I made lots of tip money before the show. Helped defray the cost of the things we smoked and drank on the way down, I mean the tickets.
Kingman 26
1/26/2010-4:20pm at 4:20 pm (UTC -4)
Well, obviously the Wilpons lowballed Jay-Z and the Jonas Brothers, so they had to settle for the over the hill Dave Matthews….
fongy2
1/26/2010-4:24pm at 4:24 pm (UTC -4)
Dopey Wilpons! Heard Pinetop Perkins would play
for Coffee and Smokes!
GravediggerHebner
1/26/2010-5:23pm at 5:23 pm (UTC -4)
Miley Cyrus isn’t getting any of my Mr. Met bucks.
fongy2
1/26/2010-5:25pm at 5:25 pm (UTC -4)
I might pay, if Billy Ray was her opening act!…..Or…Maybe not…
GravediggerHebner
1/26/2010-4:04pm at 4:04 pm (UTC -4)
Oh geez, the Mets are on 3 weeks in a row during the first 8 weeks of Sunday Night Baseball this season. More opportunities for national mockery, or perhaps to begin turning some national heads, but likely without Beltran to help.
fongy2
1/26/2010-4:22pm at 4:22 pm (UTC -4)
Actually helps me justify (to myself ) NOT forking over
a couple hundred bucks for the MLB.com And TV package.
At least until The Mets show me enough so that I don’t
end up watching RedSox&Rays games instead meaningless
games from Flushing.
And Thank God The Legend of Ben Sheets has moved on.
What???…No calls for offering him a couple Mil more
OR another year???…For this great Horse of an Ace
Starting Pitcher?
So, I figure at 10mil, that’s about 100grand per inning
The A’s and the great Billy Beane should get out of
Big Ben in o-ten!…Not bad for a small market, last place
team!
Kingman 26
1/26/2010-4:27pm at 4:27 pm (UTC -4)
Oy, hopefully not with Phillips announcing.
Although Phillips would indeed find it a challenge if Beltran is out; I remember one game last year he spent seemingly innings yapping about how Beltran was not a leader and yada yada yada.
GravediggerHebner
1/26/2010-5:25pm at 5:25 pm (UTC -4)
I thought they got around to firing him and the girl he was having an affair with but I don’t remember for sure.
Since we’re such lucky folks we’ll get Miller, Morgan and John Kruk.
Mr North Jersey
1/26/2010-4:17pm at 4:17 pm (UTC -4)
Just read this quote from the Phillies Mgr at the NY Post.
“It’d be good to have Halladay, Lee, (Cole) Hamels. I’d be looking good. I might even be buying more expensive furniture than the Mrs. has been buying me lately.â€
Can you believe the nerve of this guy to want all 3 of those guys?
Just in case that was a joke.
Mr North Jersey
1/26/2010-4:31pm at 4:31 pm (UTC -4)
Quick did everyone participate in MC’s latest Poll?
I hear it’s a doosy.
fongy2
1/26/2010-4:34pm at 4:34 pm (UTC -4)
I just looked at it.
Would like to know, who are the dumb-ass %48 who
voted yes??
Mr North Jersey
1/26/2010-4:40pm at 4:40 pm (UTC -4)
Here’s a twist on MC’s poll yesterday he had the following poll results.
In a poll to MetsBlog.com yesterday, 59 percent of voters said the Mets should only guarantee between $7 and $10 million to Sheets, while only 10 percent were willing to guarantee more than $10 million.
So far today
Should the Mets have guaranteed more than $10 million to sign Sheets, who signed a one-year, $10 million deal, plus incentives, to pitch for the A’s?
* No (52%, 1,606 Votes)
* Yes (48%, 1,501 Votes)
It has swung from 10% to 48% in 24 hrs damn!
fongy2
1/26/2010-4:59pm at 4:59 pm (UTC -4)
So pretty much sounds like…”I only
want to shell-out 7to10 mil BUT I really
want him so, we should have offered more
than 10 mil, if thats what it took”.
Yeah, that sounds like most of the posters
on mattsblog!!!
“We should have given an always injured
Pitcher who hasn’t thrown an inning in a yr and a half and who has only one as many
as 13 games once,pretty much whatever he
wanted”!…Sounds about right $
Mr North Jersey
1/26/2010-5:03pm at 5:03 pm (UTC -4)
You can say that. I just find it amusing that once we no longer could have him how many more fans voted they should of paid more.
fongy2
1/26/2010-5:24pm at 5:24 pm (UTC -4)
That’s kinda what I mean.
Alas…The Legend of Ben
Sheets moves on.
Good luck with that Billy
Beane…You’ll need it!
Hey!…Maybe, just maybe..
There’s another book in it
for you.
“How I sold Moneyball on everyone, while winning a
few Divisions with a bunch
of Steroid abusers but then
wasn’t smart enough to get
anything of value for them
before they all left”.
…Or…”How to stock up on
Great young Pitchers, only
to trade them away for a
bunch of quasi-prospects
in order to stay within
the budget”.
I Think TRS might read that
one…Based on “Budget” being in the title.
GravediggerHebner
1/26/2010-5:30pm at 5:30 pm (UTC -4)
Overheard among a group of Mets fans:
“I didn’t want Bengie Molina/Joel Pineiro/Ben Sheets, how come we didn’t offer more to Bengie Molina/Joel Pineiro/Ben Sheets?”
“I don’t really care if they don’t have a museum I just go there to see a ballgame, why did they wait so long to build a museum?”
“Since Madoff the Wilpons who were already cheap are now broke, how come they’re not overwhelming all the available free agents?”
“I’m psyched they put a Blue Smoke Grill at the ballpark, all the Wilpons care about is concessions not the team.”
GravediggerHebner
1/26/2010-5:35pm at 5:35 pm (UTC -4)
Garland stayed out west. Apparently he just signed with the Padres.
stickguy
1/26/2010-5:40pm at 5:40 pm (UTC -4)
well, at least you can’t say he went elsewhere because he didn’t think the Mets were going to contend for the post season!
truly odd move for the padres though, isn’t it?
stickguy
1/26/2010-5:38pm at 5:38 pm (UTC -4)
Oh well. SHeets got his windfall. The Mets will survive without him. XM (the Jody Mac show, the only guy who ever tries to present the Mets in a positive light) had Kernan from the post on this afternoon. Some interesting, but not earth shattering, stuff he got from Omar, mixed in with the usual digs because they are easy. But overall, not too out of hand.
I still think too much is being made out of “players don’t want to paly for the Mets”. BS. 1st, players generally go for the biggest contract, hence they got Bay. Molina is a different case, being an old guy that is almost done with his career, so when he didn’t get an extra year for too much money, he stayed home.
Pinera? Preferred LA, same basic offer, so he went there. You really think if Omar waved Ollie numbers he wouldn’t have signed on the spot?
No idea about Lackey. Maybe he really was anti-NY, or maybe the Mets were clear what their limit was, so when Boston went over the top, he grabbed it. But again, if os offered Ollie money, and the Mets offered the deal he got, he would be playing in Queens next yer.
besides, perceptions (and team fortunes) change quickly. Only paychecks stay the same! 3 years ago, the Mets were hot, hot hot (cover of SI, etc.) and the Phillies couldn’t get a palyer to sign there without doubling the offer (and the number of hookers).
And if the current phils team falls apart (say, some big injuries) and they collapse under the weight of LT guaranteed deals, and the fans remember they are Philly fans, in a couple of years, it will be the same way.
stickguy
1/26/2010-5:55pm at 5:55 pm (UTC -4)
I am getting pretty psyched for the season. I think it is going to be a good year. Maybe all you panic stricken nervous nellie worry wart nabobs of negativity finally pushed my rooting for the underdog trait into high gear.
After listening to more interviews with Omar (or reproters reproting on them), the team does have a plan (even if they did not up front lay it out for the fans and media, which would have been a truly idiotic thing to do).
They also have a returning talent base which is good, and potentially good enough to pull another 2006. Even though the consensus seems to be they wil lbe lucky to win 65 games this year.
anyway, the paln? Regroup, get the core back healthy, protect the farm to let the next wave of home grown have a chance to develop, fill in with what they can get for decent terms (years more so than $$s probably), and give it another try. And if 2010 doesn’t turn out better than 2009, make wholesale changes, starting with the FO, manager, and on down through the roster (likely keying off of the projected better FA market next year). And given the state of the roster, the farm, and the FA pool, it is a reasonable plan.
THey could still use some spare parts, but the off seaosn is not over yet. I still think they add another SP to the mix, and maybe a pen guy. And possibly someone else for the bench.
It is also quite possible that they make some late moves on the FAs hung out to dry (waiting out the market). So, maybe Luis won’t be a blight on the infield after all
As long as they stay away from Delgado, I can live with just about anything else.. I also feel they should be worried about future years, not just 2009 at all costs.
anyway, I know I will get flamed, but c’est la vie. And I will predict right now that th erotation is going to be a strength of this team (and yes, you can sticky that and throw it back at me at year end if it doesn’t happen).
Oh, my take on the rest of the oves to make: Get Hudson (1 year/value deal), Gregg for the BP, and a bat for IF/OF corners. And add 1 more SP (not that smoltz is the right one). Figure out before the season opens how to unload castillo (tie 8mill to his fat ass and put him on the curb, some hill billy with a rusty PU will take him). Then go make the palyoffs.
Kingman 26
1/26/2010-6:01pm at 6:01 pm (UTC -4)
Great post!!
You da man.
I am ready for opening day.
GravediggerHebner
1/26/2010-6:07pm at 6:07 pm (UTC -4)
As far as your first paragraph, glad I could help.
As far as the plan you lay out there, is that your best assessment of what you think it is or did one of the reporters you were listening to today say that’s what it was? Not that I think your assessment is any less valuable than that of Kernan and his ilk, just curious.
stickguy
1/26/2010-6:25pm at 6:25 pm (UTC -4)
my synoposis pretty much. kernan just made a vauge reference to not trading prospects I think
GravediggerHebner
1/26/2010-6:31pm at 6:31 pm (UTC -4)
Cool, thank you.
The reason I ask is because it struck me as funny that part of a front office’s plan could be: “make wholesale changes, starting with the FO…”
stickguy
1/26/2010-6:36pm at 6:36 pm (UTC -4)
No, that was me, just left out a few words (hard to believe with one of my osts, I know!). I meant it would be the wilpons cleaning some house (OK, firing Omar and prooting one of the other ex-GMs they have floating around)