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March 28, 2009

Mets Fans Hoping For No Rain Sunday

I’m writing over at Examiner.com today. This was written for over there.

Citi Field is scheduled to open on Sunday with a college baseball game involving St. John’s. Many Mets fans hoping to catch a glimpse of the new park bought tickets to this game, and I’ve spoken to several who plan to walk around and not watch the ballgame at all.

The weather gods may have other ideas. As of midday Saturday the forecast calls for “definite” rain through noon, followed by “likely light rain.”

It will be interesting to see how long the teams wait out the showers.

As a long time Mets-watcher I imagine the gates will open and you will get to walk around. Whether that will be the organization being nice to the fans, or just deciding to bank an extra gate of five dollar tickets is less clear.

Maybe the first game at Citi Field is destined to be a Mets game? We’ll know tomorrow.

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March 28, 2009

New Yankee Stadium Bad For TV Camera Angles?

I’m writing over at Examiner.com today…this was written for that site.

I should have written about it last night over here, but I was trying to un-Yankee the blog. Looks like today I’m being unsuccessful but I thought the Pepsi Free Yankee Tickets thing was cool.

Making the rounds today is a story from the LoHud Yankees blog which suggests that the TV networks (YES and ESPN) are not thrilled at the camera angles that the architecture of the new building forces.

LoHud writes that there is no way to shoot from behind the plate without shooting through a net. (Can’t they make a hole?) There is also talk that the camera angles down the lines are “not optimal.”

I suspect these problems have remedies, and with the way ticket prices are going I don’t know how many folks will make it to the games. Sure the upper deck will be filled, but what about the lowers? The Yankees do seem to advertising those seat plans.

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March 28, 2009

Yankees Ticket Giveway

From Yankees.com

Pepsi will blitz the market in an unmistakable van that visits high-traffic locations within the tri-state area March 25-April 8, leading up to Major League Baseball’s Opening Day and the Yankees’ home opener on April 16 against Cleveland. The van’s occupants will be rewarding fans with exhibition-game tickets, regular-season tickets and team-branded prizes to fans wearing Yankees gear and consuming Pepsi products.

Stops will be made on the street, at retail locations (Yankees Team Store, Wal-Mart, Target, Modell’s, Stop & Shop, ShopRite), sports venues (Madison Square Garden, Prudential Center, Yankee Stadium), transit stations (Hoboken ferry and bus terminals, subways and train stations), college campuses, corporate campuses, theaters and public venues such as Central Park, Greenwich Village, Financial District, Seaport, Times Square and other public parks.

Noticeably more fans are wearing their Yankee gear these days and Pepsi is providing yet another reason to show your team colors. Someone could spot your new CC Sabathia customized jersey and send you to a home game to watch him pitch. Just think, that jersey might pay itself off.

Prizes will include tickets to the April 4 exhibition game between the Cubs and Yankees as well as regular-season tickets for to-be-announced games. Other Yankees premium items such as bobbleheads, wristbands, pins and pennants will be handed out.

March 28, Greenwich/Westchester Stu Leonard’s — Yonkers Central Avenue (Yonkers to White Plains) White Plains Mall/Wal Mart/Target Pace University Greenwich Avenue Stamford	March 30, Brooklyn Brooklyn Bridge Empire Fulton Ferry Williamsburg Brooklyn Heights Bayridge Park Slope	March 31, Staten Island Victory Blvd. Hylan Blvd. Amboy Rd. Manor Rd. Staten Island Ferry Terminal
April 1, Bronx/North Manhattan Arthur Avenue 125th Street Hub Columbia Upper West Side Port Washington (Columbia Presbyterian) Upper East Side	April 3, Bronx/North Manhattan Arthur Avenue 125th Street Hub Columbia Port Washington (Columbia Presbyterian) Yankee Stadium Upper West Side	April 6, Queens Queens Blvd Forest Park Roosevelt Mall CW Post College or Queens Community College Hofstra or St. John’s Bell Blvd.
April 8, Manhattan Central Park Columbus Circle Chelsea Piers Union Square Modell’s Yankees Stores East Village

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March 28, 2009

New Stadium Insider: A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity to Purcahse a Urinal From The Old Yankee Stadium

Anyone want a urinal? I don’t.

New Stadium Insider: A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity to Purcahse a Urinal From The Old Yankee Stadium

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March 28, 2009

New Traditions For Citi Field

This is a re-post, but activity on the Mets Police has been way up thanks to the community of bloggers uniting to try to get Opening Night switched to a 1:05 start …so I thought I’d share.

New digs, let’s start some new traditions (and bring back some old ones).

I offer the following to the Wilpons and invite you to add suggestions.

1. Bring Back Oldtimers Day. Our ’86 heroes are in their 50’s now. Have them play those 2000 Subway Series guys, and have the 69ers and 73ers come and wave. Sprinkle in some Youngblood and Stearns action and you have something. Think the Shea closing ceremony with a game and without a depressing loss beforehand. The Mets might also want to add 40 to 1969 and see what number they get.

2. Banner Day. An actual unique Mets tradition. Bring it back. If you don’t want to have a doubleheader just do it at noon some Sunday, maybe even on a Mr. Mets dash day. Just make sure ESPN keeps their hands off (no 8:05 starts).

3. Rusty’s Ribs. Enough with the designer Pop Frites stands. Rip off the Orioles and have Rusty cook up some ribs.

4. Meet Me At The Apple. There was never any cool place to meet at Shea. Meet me at the Apple. The real one not the phony shiny new one.

5. Seaver Always Throws Out Opening Day. Don’t mess around. Pay G.T.S. the money. Tom should be at every opening day until he dies, then Keith gets the tradition.

6. Hang a 17 on the fence.

7. Wear Pinstripes and blue hats six days a week. Wear whatever they want to sell on Sundays.

8. Bullpen cars with cap-tops. Even if they are never used, have the bullpen cars. They were cute and kids like them.

9. The new sign man. But not a shill-job. Pick one of the honest bloggers out there and let them have the job.

10. No wave. Let’s just collectively decide we don’t do the wave.

11. Organ music. Real organ music. Less techno-pop and loud rock songs. Live organ music.

12. The traditional Take Me Out To The Ballgame recording. The one from the guy that was the PA announcer in the 80’s.

13. The Curly Shuffle. This stopped because the curly folks wanted to be paid. Just pay them. It can’t cost any more than Enter Sandman did. Just play it.

14. Lady met returns.

15. The traditional booing of Luis Castillo. We Met fans will boo him during his first at bat, all season long as he wins the MVP and the Mets win a ring. It will be our version of roll call. For years when Luis shows up at Old Timers Day we shall boo him.