Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

For just $22 per ticket, you’ll get one of each of the following:

Game ticket in the Left Field Landing
Hot dog, hamburger or veggie burger
Nathan’s French Fries
Medium fountain soda

Tickets are available for select games. Each order is subject to a $6 order fee (cough cough cough achoo cough); package price includes all other applicable per ticket fees. Tickets will be available for ballpark pickup on the day of the game only.

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So by under $25 they mean $28?  Those fees ain’t free.  I know, I know, the “ticket” is under $25…

I hate the fees.  Just declare a number and stop with that stuff.  Divvy it up on the side with the ticket agencies or whatever.

Prince and Fry from Faith & Fear once again prove they are way better at this than I am with their list of the 10 best things about being a Mets fan.  I was tempted to excerpt from the uniforms part, or the Mr. Met part, or the Murph part (#imwith28) but let’s pick this…

10. Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny. Mets fans have lived through Marvelous Marv, Don Bosch, Mettle the Mule, the Mercury Mets, Art Howe lighting up rooms, John Pacella’s hat, Tony Bernazard’s shirt, and a host of other indignities. We’ll live through this too. The swaggering ’86 team, while beloved, is actually the exception that proves the Metsian rule — being a Mets fan has always been less about cockiness and certainty than desperate hope and occasionally wild joy. One day Bernie Madoff will be no more threatening a bogeyman than M. Donald Grant. We just wish that day would hurry up and arrive.

via The 10 best things about being a Mets fan – Big League Stew – MLB Blog – Yahoo! Sports is today’s must read.

In conjunction with the Mets 50th Anniversary Celebration, SNY will premiere the definitive list of the ’50 greatest Mets players’ of all-time in May. This 60-minute program presented by Citi — entitled 50 Greatest Mets — counts down the greatest players in club history, based on tabulated votes submitted by SNY’s blue ribbon panel. Panel members include Mets play-by-play announcers Gary Cohen and Howie Rose, Hall-of-Famer and long-time Mets broadcaster Ralph Kiner, columnist John Harper of the New York Daily News, and Steve Hirdt, the Executive Vice President of the Elias Sports Bureau. Panel members judged players based solely upon their tenure with the Mets. The 50 Greatest Mets program is a collaboration with MLB Productions, featuring rare footage from MLB’s vast library, and offering contemporary testimonials from current and former players, as well as numerous dignitaries of the game.

In addition, SNY will honor the Mets 50th anniversary with a tribute to the Mets greatest players with a special gala event at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday, June 17th. “The Mets All-Time Team” — presented by Citi – will feature its own blue ribbon panel discussing the very best Mets players in team history at each position: 1st base, 2nd base, shortstop, 3rd base, left field, center field, right field, lefty and righty starting pitchers, lefty and righty relievers, catcher, and manager. As the best player at each position is unveiled, he will join the panel on-stage [if unavailable to appear in-person, a video tribute will run in its place]. Expected attendees include: Tom Seaver, Mike Piazza, Keith Hernandez, Darryl Strawberry, Jerry Koosman and many others. The All-Time team selection panel includes Mets play-by-play announcers Gary Cohen and Howie Rose, columnists Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News, Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post, John Harper of the New York Daily News and Marty Noble of MLB.com and a senior member of the Baseball Writers Association of America.

While this historic event sold out shortly after tickets went on sale in December, SNY will televise this event on Thursday, June 21st at 8:00pm for fans who could not see it live in-person.

via SNY announces Mets coverage | SNY.tv: News.

The Mets say…

T-Shirt Tuesdays are here! For every regular season Tuesday game in 2012, you can score both a ticket in the Left Field Landing and a limited edition T-shirt for just $19. Shirts will feature unique designs throughout the season, with a different shirt offered at each game – that’s 12 Tuesdays, 12 shirts! Check back soon for information on upcoming designs. Available to just 350 fans per Tuesday game, so get your T-shirt Tuesday ticket today!

I like this promotion a lot.  First of all it’s fun, second of all it makes for a cool post and fun twitter every Thursday night.