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The Happy Recap: 59 Pictures from Mets Opening Day

I had a great time today at Citi Field, the first Opening DAY in Citi Field history.  Last year those dopey Padres made the Mets have Opening Night in Dodger Stadium East….but a year later wow is everything great at the home of the New York Mets!

It was a perfect day to be outside, Santana on the mound, Wright homered, the Mets won.

The Blue Cap Army was a little smaller than I expected, but enthusiastic nonetheless.  I met several fellow bloggers and throughout the day had a few readers come up and introduce themselves to me.  It was great to meet all of you.

As I have been saying, the place really feels like the home of the Mets.  The franchise seems to have reconsidered blue and orange.  It appears in the marketing, and the use of black anything seems eliminated (until Charlie Samuels suits them up – and who were the people cheering Charlie in the intros?  The black cap navy?)

If you booed Ollie Perez in the introductions you are not my kind of fan.  I couldn’t believe it.  A perfect day and we’re going to boo this guy for lining up along first?   Come on fans.

I’m still jazzed on the Mets.   I’m going again on Wednesday and will do some, um, research at McFadden’s.  I never made it out there today.  They opened at 11 and were rumored to be overflowing with fans around 12:30.  If there’s a way to patronize the bar once you have formally entered Citi Field by scanning your ticket I was unable to find it.  I don’t think it exists.

I’m out on the deck and will be posting pictures for the next few hours – and will save some for tomorrow (back to the real job).   Check back regularly.

As I have been doing, if you are reading this on the main page you’ll have to click “continue reading” to see the pictures.  The folks who subscribe to the free daily email will just see them below.   Here’s some random shots taken on an iphone from way upstairs and from my walk around the park.  More to come and yeah my photography is lousy but if you click on them they get a lot bigger and you can actually see things:

13 Replies to “The Happy Recap: 59 Pictures from Mets Opening Day”

  1. wow. from the crappy internet radio feed, I could tell that Howie Rose very much approved of the museum, he called the uniforms a “hybrid” of the original creme color with the stripes and the current logo (i can barely tell on TV that it’s creme and now bleach-white), the crowd was really into the game. i thought it was a nice touch having the moment of slience for those in the Mets family who have passed away since last Opening Day (Howie borrowing a line from Yankees Old Timers’ Day) – haven’t seen that before. And the organ music during Straw’s intro was a good touch.

    1. LOTS of organ music today. Forgot to mention that in the posts.

      The moment of silence has been done in Flushing for as long as I can recall….all the way back…

      The unis look great from 7 stories up.

      Man I am tired. Just blogged 3 hours. G’night all.

  4. night,but some tidbits, and more to come I’m sure.

    McFaddens is NOT accessible from inside. I walked down the stairs to the right of Blue Smoke (the original) and asked a guard if that was the entrance and he said it was but I couldn’t return. They don’t trust us not to pass tickets out and sneak friends in. He said “It’s a long story” which sounds like they’re working on it, but he didn’t have any answers beyond that. I guess it does make sense. Is this how the other parks do it? I’ll have to ask one of the few non-Mets fans friends I have. I know Wrigley has a bar but I think it’s only an inside thing.

    I have a quick little video that features some of the organ music (and one of the anthem) which is uploaded, but not linked yet. I enjoyed the Organ music and I’m glad they broke it out during the Jane Jarvis tribute. They had it playing earlier as well.

    I’ll be at the game Friday (solely for the Magnetic schedule). Was nice meeting you today, I kinda lost you all after the museum and shop, but I wandered around from there and took pictures of just about every new thing I could find, and there were a lot! (you can now see into the Champions club, which makes that field level behind home plate area seem a lot less closed in an dark. The elevators appear to have up/down light globes above them now as well.

    1. I don’t know how other parks do it but maybe mcf’s could be partitioned to have an “already inside” section. Maybe the economics of mcf beer prices vs stadium prices factors?

  5. Sounds like Opening Day was a blast. I wish I would have been able to make it.

    I’m glad there was a Jane Jarvis tribute; I’m less happy that Ollie got booed just for being Ollie.

    I’m going to try to get over to CitiField Wednesday night for my first game of the season. Hopefully the Mets can continue their winning ways.

  6. Hey — I was there, but didn’t see any Army. Walked around a bit, snapped some pictures… A lot of cool additions to the stadium this year.

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