What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
I just got in the mail (you probably did too) an invitation to the Mets team workout on April 5th.
Starts at 11am, gates open at 9:30. Parking $5.
Available exclusively to 2009 Mets Ticket Plan Holders.
I assume this means that there are fewer than 42,000 ticket holders or else they couldn’t send tickets to everyone? What if we all showed up?
Anyway – nice job by the Mets! See, I will compliment you guys if you do cool fan-friendly things!
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So I couldn’t get to this yesterday but Wallace Matthews had a great piece about how the stupid things the Mets do are covered by the stupider things the Yankees do.
Because of Yankees, Mets aren’t held accountable
He’s right. Think about what this franchise boils down to. 1969, 1973, 1986 and sort-of 2000.
Does 1988 mean anything to anyone anymore? Not to me, not in the era of Wild Cards.
2000? I’m not attached, have brought this up and I’ve been surprised that a fair amount of fans agree with me.
2006? That has been ruined bu 2007 and 2008. Means nothing. A random playoff appearance when the playoffs aren’t that impossible to make (three divisions and a Wild Card).
For the most part there are two types of Mets teams. There are really really awful teams managed by Casey, Torre and Torborg….and there are eras of finishing second (Davey, Bobby and Willie).
I’m very hopeful that the new building will bring new traditions such as a desire to win it all…but for now, all we have is the past. On to Wallace’s observations:
They build an $800-million ballpark (Troubled Assets Relief Program Field) financed in large part by government subsidies and taxpayer bailout money, and nobody gives a damn because the Yankees did the same thing, only on a bigger scale, in the Bronx.
The Mets raise their highest ticket prices to nearly $300 a seat, which in most locales would be a scandal and an obscenity, and compared to the Yankees, they look like a discount store.
The Mets spend more on ballplayers than all but one other team in Major League Baseball. But because that one team is the Yankees, who outspend their nearest competitor by the value of the entire Colorado Rockies roster, nobody cares.
And when, with that $140-million roster, the 2008 Mets execute the second of two of the most disheartening back-to-back collapses in baseball history, they somehow fly under the supposedly sensitive New York radar.
All great points and all well said. If A-Rod weren’t taking steroids, dating Madonna, maybe visiting hookers – if the Yankees weren’t not-selling $2600 seats, if the Yankees were still playing in the stadium on the south side of 161 then a lot of this would get killed by the sportswriters and the radio stations. Even this blog here has been distracted the last two months by the Yankees – someone even suggested I change the name of the blog, and it was a fair suggestion!
Two years running, the Mets, with the fattest payroll, the most talent and, it often seems, the biggest egos in the division, needed to win one more game to reach October. Two years running, they couldn’t do it. Why not?
And, considering their history, why should we believe they will do it this season?
In a world without Yankees, those are the kinds of questions the Mets would have to answer.
Well said Wallace. Maybe A-Rod is the Wilpon’s best friend? It has been a quiet spring in Port St. Lucie. Makes me kind of miss Willie (from the blogger’s chair). Eventually someone will blow a save, or someone’s elbow will hurt, or we’ll find out that the hot dogs at C-Field are made of rats and we’ll be able to focus on giving the Mets a hard time. Until then – what’s A-Rod up to today?
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Matt Cerrone from Mets Blog has been posting pics of C-Field on Twitter all morning. I’m sure he’ll post them over there when he gets home.
You can see them here: http://twitter.com/matthewcerrone
I also invite you to follow Mets Police at http://twitter.com/metspolice.
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It’s time for the New Jersey Nets to give up on the Brooklyn pipe dream.
Let’s play this out.
Who is going to go to Nets games in Brooklyn?
People in Queens? Are they going to jump on the BQE in rush hour? Take a subway all the way into Manhattan and back out to Brooklyn? Not happening.
Long Islanders? Let’s hop on the railroad and hit the Atlantic Yards? I get that it would be an easy trip but I don’t see it. Do I catch the 10:15 home and change at Jamaica? Too much effort for an NBA game.
The Manhattan work crowd? Let’s head out to Brooklyn and then after the game back into Manhattan for the bus/train/whatever? Arguably the same as hitting a baseball game but that’s baseball and these are the Nets.
Legacy Nets fans from NJ? Good luck getting someone to cross two rivers.
It’s time for the Nets to join the Devils in Newark. Sell some $5 seats and try to draw from the local community. Despite the hype that the arena is right by the train line, the best way to get there is by car – and folks in NJ, especially from the west not south, are not taking NJ Transit there. You drive and park pretty easily.
The Meadowlands is awful now. The failed Xanadu has made the spot uglier than ever, and the stadium construction has made it annoying.
The architect of the non-existent Atlantic Yards is saying that it’s never going to happen. The Nets of course are refuting that.
A $4.2 billion dollar project, for an arena with a financial institution on the nameplate? Not in 2009 folks. Head to Newark and start marketing.
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Hey you know that 15 game pack you (I) bought because you really wanted to go to Opening Night (more on that later today)…well….psyche….you panicked. The Mets now offer Opening Day Packs. Sorry suckers (like me).
By the way, when the Mets say Opening Day they define Day as a few minutes after sunset, in April.
Remember when we used to get livid about tickets being bundled with games you don’t want? They’ve really worn all of us down on that one, huh?
In addition to a ticket to Opening Day at Citi Field, the Citi Field Opener Pack provides fans the opportunity to select four games from the other 11 April home games and all 10 Monday-Friday May home games, including the Philadelphia Phillies’ first visit to Citi Field (May 6-7), subject to availability.
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