The other day the Mets announced the benefits for 2011 season ticket holders.
Part of it will be an opportunity to win a daily award. 30 awards in 30 days. Let’s take a look and have some fun.
1. A Mr. Met appearance. I guess it would be cool if Mr. Met showed up at my birthday party. Cool.
2. Announce the starting lineup. Meh.
3. My kid gets to hand the umps the lineup card. Yawn.
4. Invite to the Welcome Home Dinner. Cool I guess. It doesn’t excite me but would excite some. I just wanna go to bed.
5. Be part of the Pepsi Party Patrol. I would be tempted to hit someone in the face with the t-shirt gun. Not so cool that it makes me want to buy 81 games.
6. SNY meet and greet. Who doesn’t love Keith and Gary and Ron? Cool.
7. Play catch with my kid on field. Awesome of course.
8. Seaver wine tasting with Seaver. If you like Seaver it’s cool. I like Seaver.
9. Watch a game with Sandy. Cool. Especially if Oliver Perez pitches.
10. Your kid gets to be a junior Mets reporter. Mine are too young. Meh.
11. Honorary bat boy/girl. Coooooool.
12. Jersey off a player’s back. Can I just get a new jersey?
13. Meet the new Mets manager. If it’s Lee Mazzilli I may enter. If it’s Bob Melvin, I may root for the Brewers.
14. First Pitch. Too much pressure and I have a rag arm. No thanks.
15. Meet Mr. Met in a tunnel by his dressing room. What? Sounds creepy. This is a family friendly blog so I will stop there.
16. Spring Training Trip. Cool. Throw in a babysitter thought. Grandma ain’t coming out to watch them.
17. Road Game Trip. Depends where. West coast cool. Philly uncool.
18. Suite Party. 16 friends and $750 of food. Do I know 16 Mets fans? Let’s see…me, Goon, Dan, Osh41, Mrs. MP, kids….I should invite guys like Ceetar, Randy and Greg…yeah I could fill it. Now I kinda wanna do it anyway. How much?
19. Personalized autographed bat. Cool.
20. Attend a press conference. Meh.
21. Team Store Shopping Spree. $500! Can someone say Caps-fest?!
22. Personalized Autographed Jersey. I don’t care. I want a new one with Mazzilli 16.
23. Player Meet and Greet. Can I pick Ollie?
24. Player fielding session. Very cool. I could definitely use some pointers.
25. Indoor BP. 30 minutes. You ever hit a batting cage for half an hour? Exhausting. Very cool.
26. Bullpen pitching session. Osh41 would lose it if he won this.
27. High five some players. What??
28. Take the field at a position. Meh. I see people do this every game. Not special enough for me. (Greedy.)
29. VIP with some Mets alumni. Tom Seaver and Lee Mazzilli? Cool. Bob Bailor and Jose Oquendo? No thanks.
30. Some autographed GTS wine. Nah.
Well that was fun. I don’t see me ever buying 81 games so it’s irrelevant but it was fun to think about.
What was your favorite?
– I think the only way to get Mrs. Metsfann out to the Mets Park is to get the wine tastings (she is from Ireland and really doesn’t get into baseball much).
– Although the Suite Party is cool, it doesn’t include beer, wine or other adult beverages.
– I think a road trip would be cool too. Would prefer Cubs because I like Chicago and also the history of Wrigley, but would hope for nothing on the East Coast.
– Wonder what the chances are that you get a black jersey if you won the one off a player’s back.
– $500 spree would rock. I’m thinking personalized jersey and some Cooperstown Collection stuff.
I had a 15 day package last year, and my main complaint is most of those tickets were for the wind tunnel of April and September.
Some of these sound cool to me, but they probably wouldn’t be so impressive if I could afford season tickets.
On the other hand, I would still enjoy getting to read the starting lineup, watching a game with Sandy Alderson or taking the field with a player.
Can someone explain to me why the Yankees, an infinitely superior team, are only charging a flat rate of $12 for partial plan bleacher tickets, which are essentially field level outfield box seats, when the Mets charge an average of about $40 for the same seat in left center field? Are the Mets on drugs? I mean, really? I know the Yankees have their way and the Mets have their way, and I should never ever think about how the Yankees do business, but … what’s the logic in this?
Because those bleacher seats have no backs, are a pain to get to, and aren’t quite in the same spot? They’re similiar to big apple seats at Citi, which the Mets use for groups and such.
I know some people do like them, but I’d sit anywhere in Citi before seats like those bleacher seats. and the next pricing level is $20+. If the Mets set up things like taht we’d be killing them for basically having so few cheap tickets and corralling the only affordable seats into a tiny area, and yelling that they put an expensive steakhouse in the middle so you can’t even see half the field.
I went to a game in chase field this season in Arizona. They had outfield bleachers for 15 bucks. I just missed catching a mark Reynlds home run by about an inch. It was pretty cool. I think every team should have a bleacher section. They had them at Shea. Why can’t they have them here?