Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Lonn Trost on WFAN yesterday:

 “Those seats are being sold at $5, not $12.   I think some seats may have gone out improperly invoiced. Those are going to be corrected, but those 600 seats are going to be $5.”

Oops.  Silly billing error.  Silly Yankees.

It’s good that they caught this after message boards, then New Stadium Insider, then every sport blog, then the newspapers, then WFAN brought it to their attention, otherwise sarcastic bloggers might observe that on Monday Trost said:

“We had a choice of selling it to somebody or not. … For $12, it’s a choice of taking it or not.”

Or someone might check out the seating chart and see that the chart accidentally says the seats cost $12.

Neil Best (who rocks and has the best column going these days) has plenty more.

Good stuff here too on Insider.

I think the new stadiums may have changed the karma.  This seems very Flushing-like.   Maybe the bad PR genie moved to the north side of 161st when Shea came down.

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You are A-Rod. It’s the first game of the spring. You need a ride.

Who would be the worst person to have pick you up? Hitler? Jose
Canseco? 

Nope your cousin who injected you with steroids.

Really. That’s who he chose.

I betcha Alex has enough money for a car service. Maybe even a limo.

Maybe Girardi would have hooked him up with a ride.

Is this man just self-destructive? Stupid? Clueless?

So much for putting this behind you.

Absurd Curse Week continues here at Mets Police.

Today’s curse is not based upon Bob Murphy , Gary Cohen or even Lee Mazzilli.

I’m here to tell you about the curse of 17.

Mets and 17.  Who did you think of?

Was it Jeff McKnight or Brett Mayne?  Luis Lopez perhaps?

Was it Saturo Komiyama?   Dae-Sun Koo?

Maybe Jason Anderson?

These are the folks that have been allowed to wear the number of The Captain, Keith Hernandez.

The new park honors a bailed out bank, has a big giant soda logo in right, but nowhere on the fence is a 17.

This year, once again a journeyman ballplayer will be allowed to wear Keith’s number.

This from a franchise that think it’s the Dodgers, and protects the number of one of the great San Francisco Giants of all time.

You can be on 8 teams in 10 years and ask the Mets for #17 and they will hand it to you.

Keith last wore the 17 in 1989.   The last time the Mets won a series Keith was wearing the number.

It’s time to hang the 17 on the fence and have Keith Hernandez day.

It’s a new park.  Let’s start some new traditions and start a new culture that respects the history of the Mets, not teams that split town 50 years ago.

End the Curse.  Retire #17.

(Thanks Mets By The Numbers for the awesome database).

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