Pictures and thoughts from last night’s absurdly late night Mets playoff game

Good morning!

Last night I attended the game with the Uniscenti (General Paul Lukas and Phil Hecken of Uni Watch, and Jon Springer of Mets By The Numbers) and had a very nice time with some great company, including a “real conversation” with Paul later in the game.

Some thoughts in chronological order so stay with me since most of the complaining is up front.

The GWB is the worst.  It took me almost 2.5 hours to go from MPHQ to Queens.  That’s a bad value.  Even if the Mets asked me to play second base, I am not sure its worth a 2.5 hour schlep anywhere for anything.

Security Theater – I don’t know what goes on at the Rotunda but at the gate I used, apparently ISIS has declared they will never use that one. I’m fine with this as I got in fairly quickly.

As I have theorized, Citi Field doesn’t hold a crowd too well.  Here’s a picture of the Promenade about half an hour before the game.

Lots of Harvey jerseys.  Lots of bootleg jerseys.

Also heard some “fans” asking how to get to the Promenade.  That being said, I found the crowd in my section (513) to seem like real fans.  Perhaps the Wall Street crowd was downstairs.

I LOVE this sort of introduction.  I love it on Opening Day and for Game 1 of the World Series and it was cool last night.  That’s my boy Murph coming out.  I don’t know if y’all got to see it on TV or not but Tejada WALKED OUT which was the special moment of the night.  The booing of Utley was epic (I posted a video of that on my twitter @metspolice).  Overall Citi Field was a new level of loudest night which was cool to see.

Then Actual Rusty threw out the first pitch.  Actual Rusty is much cooler than that @lagranderusty jabroni who sometimes posts an article around here on Sundays.  Good to see Rusty recovering from his recent heart attack.

Then there was whatever Mattingly was complaining about before first pitch (Bullpen Phones?).  Here’s Two Face getting bored and throwing a ball up in the air.  MH was not too sharp last night.  Aces gotta Ace Matt.

As the game started, I mostly kept my phone away and decided to act like a normal person and interact with my company.

At one point I said to Paul to look around and notice the absence of black.  Sure we saw the occasional black something or drop shadow jersey, but for the most part it was Mission Accomplished.  Then I joked we should walk around and bully people wearing black like opening credits of The Bishop!

But believe it or not we did not talk about uniforms all night, nor did I have a lengthy discussion about Rule 3.03(b)

I left at midnight. I got home at 1:05am, and was up at 5:45am. Again, that’s not the ideal experience, and makes me not really want to attend baseball games in person. One friend is telling me he got home after 3am. That doesn’t work in the real world for more than one night.

Anyway, fun game, great company. Overall, I don’t think the hangover and the aggravation is worth the trip. Feel free to disagree. I’ll be at the two hour MLS game.