What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Guys, this isn’t the third wild card These are the big boy playoffs. Why would you wear this garbage? Do you actually think this looks good?
Steve your brand really is a mess This run has hid many sins
I remain on watch
I mean Steve look at this, it’s a mess
Man, the Mets are so excited they even used Mailing List B which goes to the roof-raff bloggers!
I’m
CITI FIELD NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME DETAILS ANNOUNCED
FLUSHING, N.Y., October 15, 2024 – The New York Mets will host Game 3, Game 4 and Game 5 of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) presented by loanDepot on Wednesday, October 16, Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Details and information for the game as well as pre-game festivities are below.
CEREMONIAL FIRST PITCH: On Wednesday, Mets Hall of Famer and 1986 World Series Champion Darryl Strawberry will throw out the Ceremonial First Pitch to former teammate, fellow Mets Hall of Famer, and 1986 World Series Champion Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden. Both Strawberry and Gooden had their numbers retired by the Mets earlier this season. On Thursday, 2000 NLCS Champion Robin Ventura will throw out the Ceremonial First Pitch to former teammate, fellow 2000 NLCS Champion, and Mets Hall of Famer Edgardo Alfonzo. On Friday, 2015 NLCS Champion Matt Harvey will throw out the Ceremonial First Pitch to fellow 2015 NLCS Champion Yoenis Céspedes. The Mets encourage fans to be in their seats 30 minutes prior to game time for these special moments.
NATIONAL ANTHEM: On Wednesday, the 2024 American Idol winner and recording artist Abi Carter will perform the National Anthem. On Thursday, recording artist Chloe Lowery will perform the National Anthem.
TRANSIT AND PARKING: With capacity crowds expected, the Mets encourage fans to take mass transit or rideshare services and arrive early to enter the ballpark. Parking will be limited and available parking spaces will run out quickly. Citi Field is just a short subway ride from Midtown Manhattan and most NYC points on the 7-train, including extra trains back to Manhattan after the game. There will also be extra LIRR trains back to Manhattan and Long Island following the game. Citi Field parking lots will open at 4:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday and Thursday. Citi Field parking lots will open at 1:30 p.m. ET on Friday.Mass transit is the fastest way to Citi Field.
METS BLOCK PARTY: There will be a Mets Block Party before all NLCS games, beginning when Citi Field parking lots open until first pitch. The Mets Block Party will continue postgame for an hour after the game. The Mets Block Party will include a DJ, appearances by Mr. & Mrs. Met and Mets Alumni, and performances by The Queens Crew. Block Parties take place outside Citi Field from the Jackie Robinson Rotunda to the Left Field Gate, weather permitting. For more information on the Mets Block Party visit Mets.com/BlockParty. Please note that K Korner will be closed to the public for all NLCS games.
GATE TIMES: Gates to Citi Field will open at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday and Thursday. Gates to Citi Field will open at 2:30 p.m. ET on Friday.
SECURITY: All fans will be required to go through security when they enter Citi Field. Fans are encouraged to enter the ballpark early to avoid long lines and not miss a pitch. Please note that backpacks are prohibited inside Citi Field.
RALLY TOWELS: All fans in attendance for each NLCS game at Citi Field will be given a Mets Rally Towel upon entry, courtesy of Delta Air Lines.
WATCH AND LISTEN: First pitch for Game 3 and Game 4 is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET. First pitch for Game 5 is scheduled for 5:08 p.m. ET. Please note game times are subject to change. All three games will be televised exclusively on FS1. Mets Radio will broadcast the game on Audacy 880 AM.
NEW CITI FIELD MENU ITEMS: Mets fans will see additions to the menus at Anne Burrell’s Italian Eats and Wok N’ Roll. The Mets will also be adding a new portable called Walk-Off Café, as well as a specialty cocktail available at all bars.
New additions include:
CITI FIELD TEAM STORE: Mets fans attending the NLCS games can stop by the Team Store at Citi Field for all your Postseason gear, including official locker room gear, stadium-exclusive OMG products and much more. There will also be an additional pop-up merchandise location on Mets Plaza open to all fans at noon from Wednesday-Friday. More information about hours of operation and how to contact can be found at Mets.com/TeamStore.
Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted Thursday that she won’t aid Mets owner Steve Cohen’s bid for a coveted New York City casino license — after sources told The Post she intended to introduce legislation that would benefit the billionaire.
“There are people, shady people, who will try to manipulate the [casino bidding] process to their benefit and be willing to put out lies. I have had no intention of putting this in my executive budget,” the governor told reporters when asked if was going to bat for Cohen, one of her biggest donors.
Hochul’s denial came after The Post reported Wednesday that she planned to introduce legislation in the 2025 state budget that would broaden the permitted uses of city parkland for a gambling complex allowing Cohen to bid for a casino license.
The Post reminds us that “Cohen and his wife, Alexandra, donated a combined $136,700 to the Hochul campaign in 2021, according to state records.”
Long time readers of Mets Police understand that the Citi Field site, including the parking lot is PARKLAND. Mets Police encourages anyone who wants to improve the area to look into local development across the street, such as the nice soccer people are doing.
If the intention truly is to improve the park, why not work with the soccer people to figure out parking, and then we can replace the Citi Field lot with things that resemble a park, like grass and trees, and not casinos that often prey on the poor and tend to make rich guys richer.
We’ll keep an eye out for how many local politicians ask for playoff tickets.
Some think I may have two weeks left of blogging. Unfortunately for all of us, they are wrong. Some reasons…
As has been stated all along, I am here to encourage the Mets to win the World Series (might happen) while nicely dressed. (can’t happen.)
You see, some wanna be casino developer brought the black uniforms back. Not only did he bring them back, he somehow made them WORSE.
The Mets must win the World Series AND be nicely dressed. Otherwise I have work to do. We were very close in 2015!! Steve may have fixed one problem but re-created the other.
I cannot leave the watch if people are going to tweet vulgar things because of the soon to be gone Pete Alonso. Last night, after the win, a vulgar version of LGM was trending. That cannot be. I am here to encourage fans to be better. I will not let the inmates run the asylum. The vulgar version is not the Mets way.
Y’all need to have a spine. The man told you to go to hell and you cheer him. Stay strong and NEVER sell your soul. I don’t care how many grand slams he hits. I don’t care how many times the media calls him Mr. Smile. I don’t care if Steve and Alex name him captain. I don’t care if he runs off 10 straight MVPs and World Series rings…you do not do this to the fans. Have some self-respect people. If he weren’t hitting you’d be lining up behind me, and I will tell you what – some day he won’t hit, and you’ll boo him and then we’ll see what happens.
Thus, even if the Mets do win a World Series while dressed nicely I will stay on watch until this man is off the team. If that takes another decade, so be it.
You can “old man yells at cloud” all you want, I will be here yelling at the cloud, all by myself, and when the line forms behind me, I will remind you that you were wrong.
Also, go back and look – before he told the fans to hose off – I was the one defending him. YOU GUYS booed him and I stuck up for him. But once he did that to YOU, he’s dead to me. Forever.
This is a combination of life being busier (it’s been quite a year) and not having anything to say. I no longer watch baseball (it’s still boring and starting pitchers leave too soon), although I watched my first game all year the day of the Braves doubleheader. (Really). I don’t miss it. I think MLB has wrecked the regular season. I can tell you first hand you can jump in on September 30th and you will feel caught up.
Because I am not watching, and I am definitely not attending, I have less to say. For a long time I held myself to “post something every day” usually a cap post, but I have decided to no longer hold myself to that.
I don’t watch the games. I don’t like Pete and I definitely don’t like Lindor.
These aren’t “my” Mets. I totally get that they are someone else’s Mets. They might be YOUR Mets. Great! Enjoy! Make some memories with your dad or you son or your best friend. Enjoy it. These runs come along around once every 15 years, we just happen to be early this cycle. Take in every second of it, because us oldies can assure you, there could be 5 90-loss seasons coming at any moment.
As they are not “my” Mets, I have little to say about them. This blog was never about game recaps so I’m not going to suddenly write about the Phillies being inept and the Mets always
There are 16 seasons worth of posts on here. If you want my thoughts on Seaver or Mazzilli or 1986 or Piazza or David Wright or Matt Harvey or black uniforms or old yearbooks or Citi Field or Gary Cohen or Mr. Met or The Casino To Be Built On Parkland – there are plenty of old posts to be read via the search bar.
As for the 2024 team – boy they sure are gritty. Second Choice Manager Mendoza seems like a good guy and he sure got the job done, so let him be the manager for 25 years instead of changing the culture every time a bad season happens. Let the man stay there forever. They shouldn’t re-sign Pete. I hope Lindor and Steve get into a fight in the elevator and Lindor finds himself in the AL West because of it.
Looking ahead to next week, I have some stuff on my calendar, so if I don’t post that’s why.
Why? If I want to write, like I do today, I have an outlet. If I don’t feel like writing, there are 16 years of posts that live here.
Win a World Series, dress nicely, and get Lindor off the team. I understand how hard that last part will be, so I have work to do. Until that all happens, I’ll be here.
Let’s Go Mets. LGM for short. Remember that, and remember NEVER sell your soul.
