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Mets Game vs. Yankees On September 19 Now Set For 1:05 p.m.
The Yankees vs. Mets game on Saturday, September 19 at Citi Field is now scheduled to start at 1:05 p.m. ET to accommodate Fox’s Saturday afternoon baseball broadcast.

Tickets showing the original start time of 7:10 p.m. ET for the September 19 game should still be used for admission.

Due to the game time change, the originally scheduled postgame Fireworks Show has been replaced and all fans in attendance will now receive a set of Mets Thundersticks. Two additional Fireworks Nights are scheduled for Saturday, April 18 and Saturday, August 1. For tickets visit Mets.com/Fireworks.

 

Thunder sticks you say? Where have I seen those before…Hmmm..

Shannon will be happy there is a Saturday afternoon game.

Thanks David for the tip.

FLUSHING, N.Y., December 21, 2014 – The New York Mets today announced the Steve Miller Band will perform at Citi Field on Saturday, June 27 after the Mets take on the Cincinnati Reds and Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Heart will play Saturday, July 25 after the Mets play host to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Saturday post-game performances begin approximately 20 minutes after the conclusion of each game from a stage in the outfield behind second base. Admission to the concert is included in the price of the game ticket. Tickets start at $20 and are available at Mets.com/Concerts. Both concerts are part of the Mets Postgame Concert Series. The third show — scheduled for Saturday, August 15 when the Mets play host to the Pittsburgh Pirates starting at 7:10 p.m., will be announced in the weeks ahead.

Steve Miller Band will perform following the Mets’ 4:10 p.m. game vs. the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday, June 27. The Bay-Area based classic rock band has sold over six million copies of their album Greatest Hits 1974-1978 and produced seven Billboard Top 100 singles including “Take The Money And Run,” “Fly Like An Eagle” and “The Joker.” One of rock music’s all-time greats, the Steve Miller Band has sold more than 40 million records in a career spanning more than 40 years. His trademark blues-rock sound made him one of the key artists in classic rock radio.

Heart will perform following the Mets’ 7:10 p.m. game vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday, July 25. The Grammy-nominated rock band, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013, has sold over 35 million records worldwide. The band has also had 20 Top 40 singles and achieved Top 10 albums on the Billboard Album Chart in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s, the longest span of Top 10 albums by a female fronted band. Recently, the group was ranked 57 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock” and the Wilson sisters, Ann and Nancy, ranked 40 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll.” In 2012, Heart received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Man. The Mets organization at times can’t get out of their own way. Let me start this out with the ticket reps are great. I have never had a problem with dealing with the reps in the ticket office or my personal ticket rep. I have found that they are always trying to help out the fans while still trying to do their jobs as salesmen. That being said, I have no idea what goes on in the levels above them when it comes to promotions. We have covered the different 4 for $48 promotions and the other specially priced games in the past that have made longtime plan holders give up their ticket plans. Example: Shannon Shark had a plan since Shea was around and now he dropped it. He just got fed up like many others.
Now I stuck with my 20 game plan for this upcoming season, I even upgraded my seats(cue the boos and what are you, a moron? Comments.). But I enjoy going to games in “my seats”. One of the perks of being a plan holder is that you are supposed to get first shot at pre sales for any non baseball event at Citi Field. Now here’s where it goes all nutty.

The Foo Fighters as part of their deal for renting out Citi Field as part of their tour got a certain number of tickets to pre-sale themselves to fans. That happened two Saturday’s ago. It was to “beat the bots” so real fans of the band would get a shot at tickets unlike the ticket broker bots that bought a chunk at Wrigley last year shutting out fans. Okay cool I get it.

So I inquired about how come the plan holders weren’t notified about any pre-sales for us. I was told Dec.1 would be the date for our “exclusive” pre-sale. I passed that around to the ten or so plan holders that had contacted me about not getting any kind of email about this pre-sale.

Days go by, no email telling us about the pre-sale. No contact at all. The ticket office tells me they are supposed to send an email out before Dec 1. As of yesterday, still no emails. I email my rep and he was shocked that none of the emails were sent out. He told me that they would be sent out before the 10am pre-sale kicked off and to let him know if they didn’t. At 10:05 still no email. So I called in 2 times to try to get through. Got the old our agents are busy recording. I called back right away and got through almost immediately. Got to a ticket rep and put my order in. I told him that as plan holders we never received any emails about the pre-sale and I heard that the flushing flash went out telling about the pre sale for that which was at the same time as the plan holders pre-sale. What happened to our exclusive pre sale just for plan holders? Isn’t that one of our “special benefits” as plan holders?

Now unlike certain other bloggers in the past who got a ticket rep fired because she didn’t like his answers about the Mets not signing Reyes, I know it’s not their faults. Man, can the Mets screw up something cool.

So what I’ve learned is the Mets still have bad communication with their plan holders, have bad communication interdepartmentally in certain departments and don’t know what “exclusive pre-sale” opportunities for plan holders means.

Oh yeah, do you know what time me email came for my “exclusive” 10am pre-sale? 10:26 am that’s when. And then I got the flushing flash pre-sale at 11:01am. And not to be forgotten how about the live nation pre-sale I got at 11:45am for my “exclusive” pre-sale from them.

One other thing I heard was if you went into the pre-sale online for the Foo fighters you went in through ticketmaster then it sent you to mets.com then to tickets.com. Damn I am so dizzy from this.

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Hey Guys. I am a huge Foo Fighters fan and also a Twenty Game Placeholder(I even upgraded my seats for next season), so the line up for the pre sale at Citifield today really irked me. One of the benefits of being a plan holder is that we are supposed to get pre sales to non baseball events first. I got in touch with my ticket rep(who is a straight shooter), and he let me know that the pre sale was being run by the FOO FIGHTERS and not the Mets and they were just a limited number.He assured me there will still be good tickets for the plan holders.

Today I jumped in with the conversation on twitter about it after @citifieldevents tweeted out a picture of the line waiting for the box office to open. Well, after a few tweets I got a call from the Mets. Jason Velez a ticket account exec who asked me if we could chat and clear up a few things. Jason said the Foo Fighters rented out Citi Field and part of the contract was that they would be able to carve out a LIMITED NUMBER of tickets to do their own pre sale that had nothing to do with the Mets, There is the BEAT THE BOTS promotion that the FOO FIGHTERS are doing because last year at Wrigley fans got locked out of buying tickets and it seemed like they were mostly bought buy ticket brokers, hence the line up outdoors instead of buying online.

I told him I get that, but why wasn’t that conveyed to the plan holders. I said before the vague press release was sent out and before cit field events started tweeting about it, there should have been contact to the plan holders that this pre sale does not effect the pre sale for plan holders and that there would only be a LIMITED NUMBER of tickets set aside for the Foo Fighter’s special walk up pre sale. Jason agreed and he even said that is why they are calling to touch base with plan holders to let them know what is going on. I told him it was such a Mets type thing to do. Hey guys we got the Foo Fighters but we haven’t thought this out too well on how to reach out to our fans. We countered back and forth with some points and the agreement was the Mets have realized they have not handled this well. I told Jason that this is one of the reasons they have lost plan holders is because the Mets seem not to care about us(see past metspolice posts from Shannon). Jason has assured me that there will still be great seats for the pre sale on Dec 1st for plan holders.Now Jason didn’t give me that he was giving me the corporate lines and seemed really concerned about how they can do things like this better. Let’s see how this turns out Dec 1.

Also Jason said I could put out his twitter handle if anyone has questions about this. Don’t be too hard on him. Here it is @JasonV_NYMETS