Cap tip and Honor Amongst Bloggers to Media Goon for doing the leg-work on this one, so please give him his clicks.
The Mets are getting ready to host Really Vague Amazin’ Day, which appears to me to be a Fan Fest of sorts run by people who don’t seem to understand fan fests but are interested in monetizing fans.
There is a vague Autograph Session. In the Parking Lot. I am confident the Mets will bring in the finest tents and heaters and what not, but I follow a lot of Deep Weather guys on twitter and there’s an arctic blast coming, so good luck with this plan. It’s a shame there isn’t a large building near the parking lot where one could let the FANS be inside. (Sure “John Franco” or whoever they got, they haven’t said, will be warm, but what about the little kids on the line?)
Having been involved with the Queens Baseball Convention, as well as some other Fests as part of my work at MI6 over the years, the backbone of a fest is the panels.
The Mets have shared this vagueness:
Locations: Piazza 31 Club and The Citi Field Auditorium
Join us in the Piazza 31 Club and The Citi Field Auditorium for a full day of programming, including panel discussions with players and alumni, fireside chats with Mets leadership, live gameshows and more!
Access to Stage Programming in the Piazza 31 Club and The Citi Field Auditorium is first-come, first-served. Amazin’ Day VIPs will receive priority seating for programming in both locations.
Guys, this thing is 10 days out. You don’t have an actual schedule yet? Or is it that you don’t want folks to know that one of the sessions is getting Steve and a different session is getting someone “lesser”
And what’s with the sessions anyway? Just let everyone in, and if the line to see Steve turns into a Hall H first come first served scenario then that’s fine. We all make our choices at Cons, which you would know if you ever organized or attended one.
The rest of the day seems, to me, to be about Sponsors. Media Goon has the details if you’re interested.
