Author: Media Goon @mediagoon

66% off of tickets for games through 6/16.

That’s great for getting the casual fan into the ball park. I get it. The Mets need to sell tickets and I am all for them doing that. But, now here’s a big but ( I like big butts and I cannot lie). What about your loyal plan holders? The season ticket/10,20,40 game holders that give the Mets their money in advance of the season? Yes, we get a discount already with the tickets because we bought early, but what about just showing a little “hey, we know you guys are sticking with us” so here is “blank” to help show that we haven’t forgotten you when we do these promotions.

“Blank” could be anything. I think blank being a $10-$15 food voucher per ticket in your plan could be the way to go. It would be super easy to send the voucher into the My Tickets Mets online account to be printed up. This can be alerted to the plan holder by email. “Hey loyal plan holder, thank you for continuing your support of the NY METS by being a plan holder. We have a discounted promotion going into effect for the next few games and we would like to give you a $10 food voucher for each ticket in your plan during these games as a thank you and as for being such a great fan”, or something like that.

It’s really not that hard Mets. Don’t piss off your plan holders just to get some extra fannies in the seats for a game or two. You can do both. You can still get the casual fan in while playing nice with your current plan holders. I personally know Five former plan holders, one of which is Shannon Shark, who won’t buy a plan anymore because they know then will get a cheaper ticket during the season. So instead of having a 10,20,40 game plan holder locked into those games, now the same guy is going to half of that for cheaper tickets.

When I first heard of this event months ago, I thought it was going to be a horror show. @citifield which is The Metropolitan Hospitality twitter account was teasing that they had a “big” wrestling announcement to make. This was at the time when SummerSlam was forced to move out of the now closed Izod Center in the Meadowlands. Speculation was that maybe the “big”announcement was SS was going to be brought to Flushing. Nope. The announcement was that the Legends of Wrestling was coming to CitiField. Some fans were happy about the announcement, some not so much…

There was mentioning of who was appearing for Q and A sessions and for the panels and not any of the actual matches. I was skeptical to say the least. There wasn’t any matches talked about until I would say last week were there were hints here and there of who was working the show.

I heard from a couple of my friends that it was slow to get into the stadium yesterday(I was credentialed so I didn’t have to wait), so I can speak of the lines myself.

They also had a photo op ring set up near the7Line kiosk. Ax and Smash of Demolition     The panel of Bret Hart, Ric Flair, Tommy Dreamer, Matt Sydal, Brodus Clay AKA Tyrus was moderated by Matt Striker. Typical panel of road stories and fav matches. Before this panel there was another panel of Mets Fan, Brian Myers FKA Curt Hawkins, Amy Dumas FKA Lita, Scott Steiner, and The Nasty Boys. I was shocked how organized the Q and A’s were. I kind of expected it to be chaos, but it wasn’t. Metropolitan Hospitality had it worked out really well. Now onto the actual matches.   The preliminary matches had a lot of indie wrestlers. Some I had no idea who they even were at all. I didn’t really pay attention to these matches. The cool thing though is that they did do a video feed into the Ceaser’s Club so fans who were attending the panel’s could see what was going on in the ring.

This is why Shannon doesn’t have a ticket plan at citifield anymore and loves soccer over baseball.

FLUSHING, N.Y., June 7, 2015 – New York Mets pitchers recorded 66 strikeouts on their just completed road trip which means fans can now save 66% on tickets in select seating areas for this week’s upcoming homestand June 9-16. Tickets for this popular promotion are on sale now by visiting Mets.com/strikeouts.

Through this limited time offer, fans will save on tickets to games at Citi Field this week when the Mets host the defending World Series Champion San Francisco Giants, NL East rival Atlanta Braves, and Interleague opponent Toronto Blue Jays. The weekend series vs. Atlanta will also feature popular giveaways of Free Shirt Friday, David Wright Replica Jersey, and a Mets Cap.

Tickets via this promotion are on a first-come, first-serve basis while supplies last for the following seating areas; Baseline Box, Left Field Landing and Promenade Outfield.

Tickets are also available over the phone Monday-Friday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. by calling 718-507-TIXX. The offer concludes Tuesday, June 16 at 8:00 p.m. All prices will round to the nearest dollar using traditional rounding techniques and ticket, order and delivery fees still apply.

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5:50 pm crowd shots