Let’s get right at it: Â I’m tempted to buy a 15 game Saturday plan.
You may be surprised. Â Heck, I’m surprised.
How did I go from spending the winter saying “no way” to “maybe?”
As I write the blog every day I write from the heart. Â From the feedback I get I see that you Mr. Reader “get it” and get me. Â You know where I’m coming from: a mix of love and frustration.
My big fear for the Mets Police is that it becomes Mets Bitchfest (and I sure do my share) and my big hope is that it becomes a force for positive change. Â I don’t know if MP actually had something to do with the ticket plans being renamed, or a new Hall of Fame being considered, or anything else – but I’m pleased that these things get discussed, and I do know that the site is read out there on 126th street.
Monday night I went out to McFadden’s.  It felt good walking around the ballpark.  Then when I got home I found the cool brochure the Mets sent me.
During our ticket discussions last week, a lot of us chatted about how the best seats might be the Promenade Infield seats. Â I decided to click on the 15 game pack and sure enough there’s good seats right behind home plate. Â I have some extra bucks, and Junior likes going to games and maybe it would be cool to have Saturday seats the equivalent of Shea Uppers Section 5 (especially long-term) and….I feel flaky. Â Then I remember, I actually want to like the team. The goal of all this Mets Policing is to have a good time rooting for the Mets, not to sit on righteous mountain. Â How did I get to a place where I am embarrassed to tell my internet friends that I might buy seats?
This is an individual decision for all of us. Â Some of you renewed, many of you didn’t. Â As of now I have a six-pack, but I am tempted.
Buy ’em if you want them. If you’re truly a Mets fan and a baseball fan, you’ll enjoy going to the games. There is way too much being made about it, but if the Mets even have a halfway decnet year people will be there. Everyone that complained about ‘boycotting’ or not buying tickets this offseason is probably feeling the same way right now, baseball is in the air and they realize taht they do want to be a part of it.
Of course, I’ve said and many have noted that their is little tangible benefit to buying the 15 games rather than individually buying the games you want. Maybe a little less in fees, and the likelyhood that you’ll be guarenteed some sort of postseason options.
It’s now the second year of the stadium, but one of the main reasons I didn’t renew my saturday plan last year was because I didn’t want to get locked down in seats. There are affordable times when the Pepsi Porch, the RF Reserved, the Caeser’s bronze, maybe a Gary, Keith and Ron Big Apple seating game. I wanted to experience the different views and angles of the park, and while Prom infield is the best value with excellent views and a closeness you didn’t get at Shea, I didn’t want to get tied down.
Just buy the seats. I upgraded because ever since I was a kid I pormised myself that I would some day have my own seats at Shea. I have enough extra cash flow that I was able to upgrade from my promenade seats. Even though I didn’t get to see the left fielder most of the time I still enjoyed the games I went to. I never wanted to sit in the uppers at Shea because I felt so far away from the game. I didn’t feel that way with my Promenade seats.
I re-upped my Sunday plan when there were some better infield seats available. Totally worth it because you can really see the whole field from over there.
Last year they were the best seats I sat in other than section 311 in the Ceaser’s Club.
Resist, Shannon. There is little to be gained by buying any advance plan, other than getting stuck with some games you can’t go to and nobody might want to buy. The only thing you really miss out on is guaranteed playoff tickets. If that’s an issue this season, so be it. You’ll be too busy celebrating that they actually made it to feel remorse that you didn’t roll the dice and plunk down your money in advance.
Count me among those fans Ceetar discusses above (sort of): Baseball is in the air and I can’t wait to watch some real Mets baseball come April 6. (I’ll have to miss opening day due to Passover.) But as much as I want to be a part of this season, I am resigned to doing so on a game by game basis. In other words, I’ll buy seats as I decide to go, and my first stop will be Stubhub. I never imagined I’d feel this way, especially two years ago when I finally graduated to the full 81-game plan. I was like Media Goon (above) — always promising myself as a kid that I’d buy myself some seats at Shea if I ever had enough money. But I’ve had it with the team’s ticket prices and policies. The only way any of that changes is if people refuse to play along by buying big strips of games up front. I know it’s naive to imagine that enough people will “boycott” to actually turn any heads in the front office. But for now it’s giving me some sort of personal satisfaction.
Shea-de and Scott, you make total sense. I’l calmer today, but I am tempted by the idea of locking in great seats behind home – but maybe that’s fools gold. I hope to spend some time with Junior this weekend, we’ll see if we get baseball fever.
Buy in advance, get 15 games….buy 1 game at a time on the secondary market, get 30 for the same price. You do the math.