Author: Media Goon @mediagoon

FLUSHING, N.Y., June 10, 2012 – The New York Mets today announced Mets Amazin’ Memorabilia and Johan Santana have formed an exclusive partnership for the sale of autographed and inscribed merchandise commemorating the first no-hitter in franchise history.

Game-used memorabilia from Santana’s historic June 1 masterpiece at Citi Field, and baseballs, jerseys, photos and other items signed by Santana will go on sale tomorrow, Monday, June 11 at 2:00 p.m. at Mets.com/gameused and by phone at (718) 559-3144.

Fans will also be able to purchase no-hitter signed merchandise on game days at the Mets Amazin’ Memorabilia kiosk on the Field Level behind home plate at Citi Field.

A portion of net proceeds from sales of game-used memorabilia autographed by Santana will be donated by the Mets and Santana to the Johan Santana Foundation.

Mets Amazin’ Memorabilia, which was created by the Mets in 2005 to provide authentic game-used memorabilia to the public, will be the exclusive source for Santana autographs with no-hitter related inscriptions. All items are authenticated through the MLB Authentication Program.

The Mets will donate a baseball used during the no-hitter to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. The Mets Hall of Fame and Museum will receive a game-used baseball and pitching rubber.

For more information, visit Mets.com/gameused, call (718) 559-3144, or e-mail gameused@nymets.com.

I was on the Mets shop website the other day and came across these lil guys.

Look a lil Murphy. Hey Shannon, you can have your own Murphy. You can carry him in your shirt pocket and literally be #imwith28.

I also picked up this Santana.

Now these figures are supposed to be limited editions and there are other Mets players like RA Dickey and David Wright. Other MLB players are available too but who cares. Let’s Go Mets!

MLB OYO Figure
OYO Baseball MLB Building Brick Minifigure Johan Santana New York Mets
OYO Baseball MLB Building Brick Minifigure 1962 Road NY Mets New York Mets
OYO Figure – New York Mets 2012 Home Uniform
OYO Figure – New York Mets 1986 Home Uniform

– Posted using BlogPress from Precinct 41’s front row stadium seating.

I find the subway car stuff pretty funny. The stadium stuff, I feel is forced. I hope there is follow up one in a few weeks going to Flushing. And I have to ask Cody Eppley? Who?

This is an excerpt from my buddy Randy over at Read The Apple. I knew someone ideas and feelings about the Mets Ticket reprints would start to trickle it. For a rare instance Randy is not doing something absurdly funny or just insane but insightful and thoughtful. Wow. Now to think about it, WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE REAL RANDY!!!!!!! Anyway read some of the fake Randy’s thoughts that I grabbed from his site.

I started thinking. What about people who bought walk up tickets or ordered them individually from Mets.com. They witnessed history the same as I did and now someone else can walk around with their seat numbers on a ticket stub? It doesn’t make sense.

The attendance for the game was 27,069. Citi Field holds 41,922. I did the math and that means there were 563 unused tickets. Then I had someone better at math do the math and they correctly pointed out that it was actually 14,853 unused seats. Why can’t the Mets just sell those stubs?

Which brings up another thought. The great thing about being the Mets is that they are allowed to slap the name Mets on anything and sell it for a premium. So why not just make a special commemorative ticket and sell that. You could put either a bogus or vacant seat location on it. It would be no more a “real” ticket than a reprinted ticket.

What if you had those horrible e-tickets to the game? The Mets email is unclear as to whether your 50 bucks gets you the ticket for the actual seat you had or if you just get “best available seat in that location.” For that, why wouldn’t I just go here and get a fully framed one with my correct seat for less than $50? Seems like a better deal than what the Mets are offering doesn’t it?

Also to prove that he understands trying to make money in a capitalistic system he writes:

The Mets are in the business of making money and with Nohan stubs breaking records online it would be foolish to completely ignore the secondary market. If someone wants to pay for what is essentially a fake ticket, charge them whatever you want. Just don’t sell someone an exact copy of mine or anyone else’s seat.

Good work fake Randy…Read the rest of his post here.