Good read in the Times, and if you read long enough you will see that the Mets Police are mentioned.
As for the Mets, the number of tickets sold through 16 dates is up 3.4 percent to 27,058 a game, a nice lift after a steady decline in attendance since the team moved into Citi Field in 2009. Still, the number of viewers on SNY has fallen 4 percent to 180,000 a game.
via Yankees’ Attendance and Ratings Rebound, but Mets’ Are Mixed – NYTimes.com.
I am still having my coffee, but I wonder if the Mets TV ratings could be being affected by the late starts. We’ve had an Anaheim with some 10’s, the Arizona 9-somethings and I couldn’t deal with last night and picked sleep. I’m very interested in the Mets, but play some 7:10 games.
On the flip side of fairness, ticket sales may be up partially because of all the cheap tickets (the $3.50 promotion, and I think I recall some $5 seats the opening weekend). That being said, perhaps the Mets will decide they like having fans and will keep offering inexpensive tickets to start winning back some zip codes.
Giving aways cheap seats for $3.50 and $5.00 in April can not be a good sign of things to come. What are you going to do in Sept., pay people to come to the park?
If I was a season or partial season ticket holder, this would piss me off to no end.
A good slate of opponents and lousy weather should as be factored in. I give the Met fans who still actually go a lot of credit.
Let’s just hope they can continue to play inspired baseball.