Here’s the Post via @mediagoon
They had 26,312 yesterday. Nice day. Mother’s Day. Tough to kill them. Lots of moms/wives don’t want to spend their day at a baseball game.
31,464 Saturday for Cap Day. Looked pretty full.
35,948 on Friday for cups. Not bad.
If the number settles in the 30’s until the frontrunners come back (and they always do) it’s not so bad. There have been a few bad seasons, low expectations coming in, and the shininess is off the new park….as much as I like posting crowd shots, and some of the weeknight crowds have been scary, I think the Post is being a tad harsh.
yawn. The post is a joke.
bleep the post’
lucky for me i saw 5 mets games on t.v. last week.it does look empty only because the mets are not winning.
remember when shea was a ghost town in the late 70’s and early 80’s?…then they put together the ass wippin’team and the fans were filling shea…it will happen at”the new shea” again.
(sorry, i cannot call it you know what field):)
The front runners will not be coming this year because we are in the basement. No matter what you say aboout this team wea re in last place and almost the worst in the NL!
They play sloppy baseball and can’t even run the bases! Who wants to see that?
This team is a lost cause for this year and we will be lucky if they are not totally out of it by June.
Is anybody surprised?
In 2003, I started to go to games routinely, and during April and May weeknight games you’d be lucky to have 15,000 in the place. It was like that up until 2006. It obviously depends on whether or not the team is winning.
As one commenter points out on tedquarters.net you can clearly see the time stamp in that picture, which is 20 minutes before first pitch. Clearly a case of the post knowing what article they want to write, and manipulating the facts and angles to fit the story.
I was there Friday night and on the Promenade level most of the concessions were closed. You had to wait 10-15 minutes on line just to get a hot dog. Very few vendors roaming around. We were wondering what that was all about. I’ve been to $itty Field allot and never encountered this much fan unfriendliness. At Shea they would close the concessions in the outfield when there was a sparse crowd. There was a good number of people there Friday night waiting on lines. They need to fix this.
I thought that Sunday’s attendance was pretty good, for Mother’s Day. There were scattered empty seats, but the only section of the park that seemed deserted was the left field promenade.
The Mets have got to start doing something with those (admittedly awful) seats – sell ’em for a buck, keep the current price & throw in a food voucher… I don’t know.
The promenade level concessions always seem like they’re an afterthought. If the Mets need to reduce the number of people working, why not shut down the concessions on the main level outside of the food court?