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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These Are Not The Yankee Seats You Are Looking For

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The Voice has an article about one fan’s experience with relocation. 
 
The good news:  He makes enough money to sit down low and buy $85 tickets.
 
The bad news:  The pole obstructs the batter and pitcher.
 
Vaguely related:  A coworker and I decided to investigate the “between the bases” seats the NYY’s are advertising.  We decided we’d go partners on a 20 game plan.  $14,000 later we decided not to buy them.

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TIME Has An Excerpt From Torre’s Book (Steroids Chapter)

 
I encourage you to read it.  You’ll see how much of a Verducci book it really is, and the steroids stuff is enlightening.  I’m back on my “don’t act like you didn’t know” kick.
 
Here’s a taste:
 
It was a freak show and baseball loved it. It was the first season in history in which four players hit 50 home runs. Greg Vaughn and Ken Griffey Jr., half of the 50-plus bombers that year, were dwarfed in size, production and attention by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Both McGwire, with 70 home runs, and Sosa, with 66, blew away the record 61 home runs of Roger Maris that had stood as the standard for 37 years. America was captivated by the two huge men and the great home-run race. Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, praised McGwire and Sosa as the “home-run kings for working families in America.” McGwire, with forearms the size of a grown man’s neck, 17 inches around, was a gate attraction unto himself, a modern wonder of the world. Ballparks opened their gates early and called in concession staffs to clock in early just to accommodate the thousands of fans who wanted to see him take batting practice. On September 9, Fox scrapped the season premieres of its prime-time Tuesday night shows to televise the game in which McGwire would hit his record-breaking 62nd home run. More than 43 million people watched.

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Speculation On First Pitch At Citi – it’s Seaver or Nobody

The Daily News has an article today about Stephen Dillon and Bill Wakefield (no I’ve never heard of them either) who both pitched in the first night game at Shea.
 
That got me wondering about the ceremonial first pitch at the fourth ever event at C-Field on Opening Night.  (Must resist sidebar rants about Opening Day being a night game and Opening Night not being the first thing at the stadium.)
 
This is when I worry about my Mets, because they have a tendency to get things wrong.   Remember the marching band last year?  Remember making fans sit for a half hour so they could line up some photos that weren’t even used at Closing Day last September?
 
I worry that the Mets don’t know who should throw out the first pitch at the new park.
 
I’m sure all of you know the answer is obvious.   It should be a pitcher, and it should be someone with Hall of Fame credentials, and it should be a Met.    You know who he is.
 
It shouldn’t be a catcher from Los Angeles.   It shouldn’t be an ancenstor of Jackie Robinson (sorry everyone, not day one at a new METS stadium, they can do that on the 15th).   It absolutely had better not be “The Vice President of Citigroup.” (can you imagine the boos?)
 
Someone call George Thomas Seaver and tell him that he’s needed.  Pay him the $50,000 that DiMaggio used to get if that’s what it takes.  Send one of the Citigroup corporate jets that we pay for to pick him up and send him home.  The grapes will be OK without him for 24 hours.
 
The Mets understand that Seaver is the right choice and the only choice, right?
 
 
 

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