Welcome to Metsivus. In true Seinfeld style (hi Jerry), “the celebration of Mestivus begins with the “Airing of Grievances”, which consists of lashing out at others and the world about how one has been disappointed in the past year.” I suspect you guys will be able to think of something.
I will begin.
Joe Torre. Joe, see this picture of you? What’s that on your head? You should have let the Mets wear the caps. It was 9/11 in New York. It was different than the situation with the Nationals. You of all people should have understood.
Jose Reyes. Look man, you wanted the money. I get it. I want money too. Write me a big check and I’ll switch this over to Marlins Police tomorrow. However, I’m still waiting for you to express how you wanted to be a Met. I’m sorry Sandy didn’t call you at 12:01. Maybe he got a busy signal? Be careful what you wish for Jose..enjoy Miami.
Fred Wilpon. Oh Fred, I’ll let the others do the obvious. I’m just asking what the hell you were thinking when you took shots at Reyes and Wright?
Saul Katz. You get a free ride my friend because “The Wilpons” is catchy. You’re on the clock too. Fix this, and I don’t need to hear about your big um..you know what you said.
This sign. I gave Darren from The 7 Line the Fan of the Year Award yesterday…I just wish he would focus his energy for good. It’s hard enough being a Mets fan without the biggest Mets fans piling on. Darren, you do great product, you know how to mobilize, and you sure as hell can market…make a cool Tejada design so we can all move forward. I found this sign unnecesary piling on. Make a 2014 Fire Sale sign for when the Mets play the Marlins, leave the Mets alone.
This damn song. Make it stop. Also can someone at MLB make the commercial audio on the MLB App be at the same volume as the game?
MLB Advanced Media. Can you just let us embed videos? You still get your pre-roll :30 ad. It’s nearly 2012, please revisit the Advanced part..or at least let the Mets run their own website. They actually have a clue in this area.
Charlie Samuels. It was YOU. YOU made the black uniform. YOU made the hybrid cap. (reportedly.) One year later all hail Kevin Kierst!
Sunday Night Baseball. Do we need this? Why must your games start at 8pm. Stop stealing nice Sunday afternoon games and moving them to 8pm and packing them with commercials. I’d be fine if the Mets never ever appear on SNB again.
Obstructed views. Oh, you thought I forgot? Here’s good old section 504. This is not geometry. I wish someone would just say something like, “Hey, New York City requires us to have plexiglass at least 4 feet high” or whatever. Just don’t pretend that this isn’t obstructed.
So Mets fans…anything you’d like to get off your chest?
Whoever is in charge of “In game effects and entertainment” at Citifield. We don’t need artificial sounds blaring at us like a form of Tourette’s after EVERY SINGLE PITCH! Took my Pop to his first game at Citi last year and he had to leave by the 6th inning with a splitting headache.
oooh thats a good one. I love about an hour before the game when they have contemprary songs on the organ. Usually day games. Or weekday day games.
Really Shannon???!! You’re really ignoring Reyes’ many statements that he wanted to to stay in New York – and saying you’re “still waiting” for him to say so while trying to cover for Alderson and the Wilpons?
Here’s just one (try Google for all the rest):
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/747665-mlb-trade-rumors-new-york-mets-jose-reyes-tells-fans-i-want-to-be-here
Everything else here is easy to agree with and fun – but this false running down of the happy talented kid from the Dominican plays very badly, and there’s no way to ignore it. But you know, be careful what you wish for…Reyes will always be an all-time Met.
Thank you Shannon. It’s an honor to be on both lists. Just goes to show that everyone has a right to their own opinions. Luckily The 7 Line isn’t run by some corporate head and I do whatever makes me happy. I thought that sign was funny as did the majority of people who “follow” my brand. I understand your point of view and can accept that. Not trying to change anyone’s mind, but the Mets have been in rough shape these past bunch of years… bringing humor to it sometimes makes the grieving process easier to deal with. I’ll try to tone it down a little but not making any promises.
It is great to be able to do whatever your muse tells you. It’s why I love the blog so much.
Even if reyes begged and pleaded to stay a Met, he would never have gotten the $ he was looking for/deserves with the Mets plain and simple. The ownership is destroying this team with MLB’s approval
Agree Jose would not get the money from the Mets…agree ownership is destroying the franchise and themselves…don’t think MLB approves (they would have to be insane to). Maybe MLB is giving them inordinate slack, but they are not happy.
I grieve Jose for begging out of the last game after his sudden bunting skill appeared…a day after Gary Cohen told Met fans to come out and root him to the batting title.
in my opinionation, reyes knew the mets would not be able to meet his asking price during the season. “lets wait and see what happens” said reyes. he bunts the ball secures his title..as leverage to jack up his asking price,once again to a amount the mets could not pay. when he took himself out. ,he knew he was not going to return. suppose the mets need his bat and/or speed later in the game if it was close ?
You may have a point…maybe taking himself out was a “screw you Mets.”
RAISING SPRING TRAINING TICKET PRICES FOR THIS TEAM?….REALLY?
The Mets in their wisdom decide to raise 2012 ticket prices for spring training games. They are jacking the price and charging major league prices while you get to watch a DOUBLE A TEAM!
Thats a great plan to “Unoccupy Digital Domaine Park”! Keep your ball park empty while you try to raise money, makes sense to me.
There will be alot of fans this year disguised as empty seats!
Maybe it because of the teams new slogan this year.
“Meaningful Baseball In March…Out of it by May!
They’re still a major league team with major league talent and the prices are still pretty low considering. Very clearly spring/minor league prices. And well less than the Marlins have been charging down in Jupiter for years.
The Marlins–and Cardinals who share the complex–have a far better facility in a far better location. FMF Rich is right. The Mets shouldn’t raise prices at any of the fiefdoms for the product they are putting out there. They can just do what they did for years at Shea, raise the concession prices and let people decide how badly they want a beer at the Tiki Bar or a delicious Brooklyn Bagel Sandwich. It’s a sin that Vero Beach stands empty and Port St. Lucie is still in business.
But if the Mets moved to Formerly Dodgertown it would be open season on Fred again.
It’s always open season on the Wilpons and Katz until they sell the team.
eh, I like PSL way better than the Jupiter place. although it is probably a better location (not by much). They’re obviously pricing the tickets towards demand, not willy nilly raising them. And i’m sure they’re still less than the Marlins. And their product may still be better than the Marlins.
Wilpon and Katz, enough has been said about their behavior, I don’t need to pile on. The hypocrisy of the commissioner’s office is what grinds my gears. Selig couldn’t move quickly enough to get the Dodgers out of McCourt’s hands and into new ownership, and even while in flux they were able to drop $160 large on Matt Kemp. The Mets, meanwhile, have descended into a similar financial and editorial hell as those Dodgers did and yet merrily they roll along. Enough is enough, Bud. Put an end to this madness. Force out the Wilpons, for the good of the Mets, and for the good of MLB. Until you do, ha ha charade you are, commissioner.
How mad were you? Cool that they took care of it. I just wish somebody would blame fire codes or whatever instead of pretending its fine.
The Mets and Sandy have been filling us up with all this B.S. about how we are rebuilding through the farm system and then they drop a farm team to save money.Nice!
You can’t make this stuff up!
here in california,we call it sunday evening baseball !
what’s wrong with that ? you can spend all day at the beach then go to the game. it ends at 8 fifteen ,8thirty..then you can go out and do something else !
new york complain,complain,complain. want some cheese to go with your whine? 🙂
true it was 9/11 night, how ever, the mets should have put the hat issue to the side and go out and win the game. complain later. as i recall they played like “we can’t were the hats screw the game”. i watched that game on t.v. and the broadcasters said the hat issue was the main focus before the game with talks of ” lets wear them any way”. im not saying the mets tanked,they sure looked like they were not there that night. don’t blame torree.
what happened to organ music? the pop songs are getting to be loud and annoying.i’ll take jane jarvis and her hammond b-3 organ any day. when i was growing up,at shea,the oldtimers sitting around me would argue about what song she was playing.
as much as i hate the skankees, props to organinst eddie layton at the yankee stadium.