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March 27, 2009

Who Will Sing The National Anthem?

I was listening to Carton & Boomer on WFAN yesterday morning and heard that neither the Mets nor the Yankees have a National Anthem singer for their opening games.

This amazes me.

The singing of the National Anthem is often the highlight of any opening ceremony – think of Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill, Smokey Robinson, just to name a few. I still remember Paul Simon and Billy Joel singing before games 1 & 2 in the 86 World Series.

The opening of a new ballpark- particularly here in New York – is an occasion that warrants a great opening ceremony, in particular a memorable and special National Anthem. The fact that neither team has secured a performer with less than three weeks to go is amazingly short-sighted.

It really should not be that difficult. Here, I’ll help with some options.

For the Yankees – Jennifer Lopez (born in the Bronx), Jon Bon Jovi (sports fan and NJ is Yankee territory), Paul Simon (consumate NYer and Yankee fan), Liza Minelli (obvious). I was going to suggest Mariah Carey but The Captain might not appreciate that.

For the Mets – Marc Anthony (big Mets fan), Billy Joel (obvious), Paul Simon (yeah he’s a Yankee fan but he is a Queens guy)

Who else?

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March 27, 2009

Update: Mets Fans Uniting To Get Opening NIGHT changed to 1:05

As we have been mentioning, we are encouraging all Mets fans to unite in an effort to get Opening Night changed to a day came. Read that article to find out how you can help,

One of the things we suggested is that it will take much more than this blog to get this to even the discussion level. We need bigger fish – the bigger blogs, the newspapers, the local news. We’ve asked that all bloggers write about it in their own words, and that Mets fans reach out to the various local publications and message boards.

We humbly appreciate the big response so far and invite you to do the right thing and visit those blogs and sites who have supported the cause. My apologies if anyone is left out, please let me know if you too have joined the cause.

Thanks to (and please go visit):

Amazin’ Avenue

The Eddie Kranepool Society

the ‘Ropolitans

NJ.com

and it looks like at least one of the NY newspapers. I’m writing this on Thursday night so I haven’t seen the paper today – might be in there, might be in there soon. Fingers crossed.

Please continue to get the word out . Again, this isn’t about trying to get cheap hits for Mets Police – write your own articles in your own words.

Thanks guys!!

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March 26, 2009

Queens Crap Blog says Mets screwing Little Leaguers

This blog post Queens Crap: Mets screwing Little Leaguers gets into a discussion between the Bayside Little League and the Mets.

While I don’t think the Mets have to sell discounted tickets to the kids, and might not even have the capacity (although apparently there’s plenty of seats down in front) – let the kids have a parade.

Come on Mets, do you really need some dopey blogger like me busting your chains over not letting some kids have a parade. Let them march. According to Queens Crap…

This year, however, the Mets have told league officials including Bayside Little League President Bob Reid, that the teams may only be able purchase 500 (or less) tickets at full price, and they canâ€™t guarantee they will be able to have the parade on the field prior to the game.

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March 26, 2009

New Stadium Insider: New York Yankees Introduce The Caste System: Only Allow Field Level Ticket Holders To Roam The Field Level Concessions

NSI talked yesterday about the field level of New Yankee being “roped off” to us cheap folks. Maybe it’s because I’m from Flushing that this doesn’t bother me. That’s how it was at Shea, unless you hopped from the loge or handed someone a five.

New Stadium Insider: New York Yankees Introduce The Caste System: Only Allow Field Level Ticket Holders To Roam The Field Level Concessions

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March 26, 2009

Mets Don’t Want My Money, Yankees Want Too Much

Tickets for Yankee Stadium v3.0 went on sale this week, including the preseason exhibition games against the Cubs. So I logged in to see if I could pick up anything. After 3 minutes (not really that bad by some standards) I was offered tickets in a section called AUDI (I later found out it was Audi Club Seating)

Tickets were $45 each – a bit steep for an exhibition game but what the hell. Then I see this:

Total Building Facility Charge(s) US $65.00 x 2

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

There was no explanation as to what this charge was for. A search of the Yankees web site yielded nothing – no explanation, no details, nada. No way was I letting the Yankees charge my card without an explanation – guess they have to pay for the cost overruns somehow.

Meanwhile across the virtual city at mets.com I thought I would post some of my plan tickets for sale on StubHub going through the Mets Marketplace (the area that plan holders can resell their tickets). Obviously the Mets get a cut of the resale service fee, but it’s easy for me to do it this way so I didn’t mind. Yet when I try to login there I get a message that my account has been suspended!

Once again – WHAT?!?!?!?!?

A call to the Mets customer service revealed that my account was not suspended – they just don’t have that part of the system up and running yet. I was told that hopefully it would be by next week.

It’s 2 1/2 weeks to the opener (hopefully a DAY GAME) and the Mets don’t have their ticket resale system in place yet? What were they waiting for? They knew this date was coming. I can just as easily go in to StubHub on my own and sell the extra tickets.

I guess the Mets don’t need the extra money like the Yankees do.