First the info, then some comments below. From Mets Police reader Tom:
Shannon:
I emailed the Mets asking about a lottery for Opening Day, and got this:
Thank you for your e-mail. Opening Day tickets will be sold once single game tickets go on sale. As of right now the Subway Series tickets will not be sold. More information concerning the Subway Series will come out in the following weeks. There will be limited availability due to the Pre-sales we will have before the tickets go on sale. You can guarantee your Opening Day or Subway Series tickets by purchasing a Full Season, 40 Game Plan, 15 Game Plan that includes the selective game, one of our 6 game packs that include the selective game or our new 4 game Pick-a-Pack which includes Opening Day or a Yankee Game and three games of your choice. 1 game in April, 1 game in May, and 1 game in June. If you are interested in guaranteeing your Opening Day and Subway Series tickets now, call one of our operators at 718-507-TIXX.
I know you reported that there may be no lottery, but here’s some confirmation. Also, looks like there will be a lottery for Yankee games.
Faithful Mets Police reader,
Tom
There you have it. Â No Subway Series games are being sold on March 7th.
Coupla thoughts:
1.  My usual reminder that Mets Police is not news.  I don’t claim to be accurate.  I’m only as good as my sources and I don’t have a team of investigative journalists to follow these stories.  I’ll leave it to you to decide on my track record of accuracy, and since I know the Mets check out the site I imagine that if I posted something wildly inaccurate that I’d get a note.
2. Â Thanks to Tom for sending this over – as clearly demonstrated this week, it’s readers like you that fuel the site, which brings us to point #3
3.  As I mentioned yesterday, why the cat and mouse with the bloggers?  We aren’t going away (even if I quit today that would leave roughly three million Mets blogs, and probably 8-10 “major” ones).  Clearly the information is getting out to us.  Why not just have correct information out there?  The Mets aren’t keeping a secret or the email above wouldn’t exist.  Why not just share it with all potential customers?  Wouldn’t it help their business to alert fans that if they want to guarantee Subway Series tickets that fans should consider buying a 4 pack now?  The presumably feared WFAN backlash is going to happen anyway, whether today or on the Monday after the sale.  Just be honest with your fans.