I sat down last night to write today’s lead-off article and had no idea where I was going to head. Mrs. Mets Police was out which meant no dinner, so I busted out some Lucky Charms (they of the borderline racist logo – I mean at least it sort of makes sense that their guy is a leprechaun as opposed to Mr. Met’s borderline racist cousin or anything Notre Dame does…but I digress..) Lucky Charms and started typing.
Don’t get me wrong. I have tons of stuff to post. But a lot of fluff and (my new favorite term) “jersey porn.” Jersey Porn is uniforms not anything to do with Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
Despite having “stuff” I try to lead the day with words.
Anyway…I popped on to twitter and there was @darthchipper asking me to mock the mainstream media by “confirming” the Shaun Marcum reports. Then it hit me…
Mrs. Mets Police has the Marge Face. I have this one. I make it a lot at my day job in counter-intelligence at MI6. I also am increasingly making it about my favorite baseball team.
Is there anything else to be said about Marcum? Or this team? This Wright-less, Santana-less, Murphy-less, Outfield-less team?
You want more Jim Halpert Face? Last night the #2 story on Mets.com was “Mets developing contingency plans for infield.”
Contingency plans for infield. On a team with no outfield.
And why did I head to Mets.com? I wanted to check in on ticket prices. Opening Day tickets start at just $63. Let me know when Dynamic Pricing works in the consumers’ benefit.
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I’m glad you’re starting to realize what I argued the day I heard about it: dynamic pricing is great in theory, but it is not allowed to work in the fan’s favor. It is glorified/legalized scalping and just a wrong way to treat your customers. If the price of gas, milk, lodging can’t be doubled during a shortage why are the Mets allowed to do it? At least return the favor and drop the price by 50% when more than half the supply is available.