Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Shannon Shark is the founder of MetsPolice.com, tweets as @metspolice, is an avid fan of Lee Mazzilli and Daniel Murphy, hates black uniforms and is the author of "Send The Beer Guy" available at Amazon.com. #imwith28
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Brooklyn Cyclones Jersey Giveaway

It’s entirely possible you missed this when I posted it over the winter

HOME JERSEY GIVEAWAY

On Thursday, June 24th, the first 2,500 fans in attendance for the 7pm game between the Cyclones and the Hudson Valley Renegades will receive a free Home Replica jersey.

The giveaway is part of the Cyclones’ JERSDAY THURSDAY series, featuring high-quality, limited-edition replica jersey giveaways!

The seven JERSDAY THURSDAY replica jerseys will feature new designs as well as some old favorites (click links below to see the jersey designs):

June 24 – Home Replica Jersey
July 1 – “Boardwalk Blue” Jersey
July 8 – “Cyclones ’86 Backman” Jersey
July 15 – Italian Heritage Jersey
August 5 – Irish Heritage Jersey
August 26 – “Pitch Black” Jersey
September 2 – Original Road Replica Jersey
Jerseys will be given to the first 2,500 fans in attendance each night. MCU Park Gates open 90 minutes before gametime.

Adding even more excitement to the Thursday games, all fans will be invited to run the bases on the field after the game!

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Blue and Orange in Hollywood Marketing

I was reading the latest Entertainment Weekly (waiting for the inevitable picture of Tina Fey, must she be in every single issue ever?) and stumbled across an article called Color Scheming:

“Orange and Blue are complimentary colors, so just by nature they give you that jolt that you need,’ says veteran movie adman Charles Riemers…

The article shows some blue and orange posters for The Bourne Identity, Transformers, Iron Man 2 and others.

So that got me thinking.

Say I owned a baseball team and I wanted to market it.   Maybe it is the 50th season of my franchise playing baseball and I want to really pull out all the stops for 2011.

Maybe a nice marketing campaign with this powerful color combination.   I could see some subway ads with say David Wright,Jose Reyes, Ike Davis, Johan Santana and Mike Pelfrey…or Seaver, Hernandez and Piazza…..all with a nice blue and orange color scheme.  (You photoshop guys, start working out some concepts for me to present to Dave).

What’s great is that this campaign would echo and build upon 2010’s “We believe in Orange and Blue.”  It is consistent and on-brand.   We do believe in Orange and Blue don’t we?

Then there’s a desire to sell product.   Say, new jerseys.

A 50th season would give me a great reason to add a patch to your sleeve.

Maybe a nice white jersey with the traditional blue and orange lettering, with NO BLACK DROPSHADOW….Jeff, that was NO BLACK DROPSHADOW would sell.

They got it right the first time.   1962-2011 is the perfect excuse to go back.

Help me Howie Rose, you’re our only hope.

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Mets Police Mom loves Citi Field

I took Mets Police Mom out to the game last night.

Like any Irish lady in her later years she can be stubborn.

She was very impressed by the ballpark.   I forget her exact quote (I tweeted it last night @metspolice) but it was something like “it’s the nicest thing they’ve built in Queens in 50 years” and “it doesn’t feel like New York.”  That latter part was in a good way, New York often feels like a sweaty ratty alley.  Oh, she also thinks the ladies room was well done.

She even got herself a Mets jersey at the store!

David Wright “seems like a decent person” and she cheered for him.   I also saw her caught up in some Reyes excitement.

NEW TIP: the right side elevator lets you out through the Hodges gate…so you can see some of the cool photos in that area which you might not normally walk through.  I assume the same is true of the Seaver gate/elevator scenario.

As for me – Dickey impresses (especially when he chooses a blue color scheme).   He seems confident and makes me feel confident.  I don’t know how the heck I’m confident in a knuckler but if you told me that the shuffle resulted in him starting Game 1 of the NLCS I would feel fine.  Strange.

The Noise Pollution Patrol was trying really hard to get an R-A R-A R-A chant going but there was silence.

35,045 last night.  Looked pretty full.  Time to show up folks, our young home-grown team is winning.

Mets Police Mom is going back tonight (Mrs. Mets Police kidnapped Junior to another event) and she’ll be rocking her jersey.  I’ll be the fat guy in the burnt orange David Wright jersey which I got to annoy Osh41.

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Postgame Notes

Since I’m up late…

SHUTOUTS: New York tossed its major league leading 10th shutout of the year…Colorado and San Diego entered tonight with nineshutouts…Detroit was shut out for the sixth time this season.

R.A. DICKEY: Is the first Mets pitcher to go 6-0 in his first seven starts with the team…R.A. Dickey has allowed two or fewer earnedruns in five of his seven starts…He retired the final 13 batters he faced

TEAMMATES IN THE COMMUNITY: Jeff Francoeur, Mike Pelfrey and Francisco Rodriguez will help take care of cats and dogs up foradoption at a midtown Manhattan animal shelter in support of Mayor Bloomberg’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, a coalition of more than160 animal rescue groups and shelters to end the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs

METS POLICE MOM: loved the game so much she’s coming back tomorrow. Check @metspolice on twitter for the details as tonight’s game went…and more in the morning. I need my 5 hours sleep