Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

This isn’t written with my usual level of anger/frustration, it’s more one of my “ideas for the Mets” type posts.

Why don’t the Mets offer tours of Citi Field?

We can start with the fact that the Yankees do – and Fake Yankee Stadium doesn’t have all that much more history than Citi does.  Here’s what the Yankees do:

The Classic Tour lasts 45 minutes to one hour and includes visits to the New York Yankees Museum presented by Bank of America, Monument Park, the dugout and clubhouse/batting cage area. The clubhouse/batting cage area is available ONLY when the team is on the road and during the off season. It is not available when the team is playing at home or has an off-day. Classic Tours for individuals (from 1-11 people) will commence every 20 minutes from 12 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.

The Mets have a museum now.  The clubhouse and dugouts might be interesting to see.  Maybe the demand isn’t what it would be in the Bronx, so then why not just offer one tour a week?

This came up today because Thomas who runs Checked Swing blog is coming in from Scotland (off-season) and just wants to see the place.  Maybe someone out there reading this (Craig Marino?) could throw the guy a bone.

Longer term, why not offer this feature and make some extra cash?

Below are some links but please note the links within the individual posts may not work because since these originally ran I have redone the sites.  So, click any link below and it will work, but the links within the pages that you visit may not – just come back to this page and start over.  That’s one of the aspects of the redesign I haven’t gotten to yet.

Stairwells, the noise patrol room and the World Series trophy

Trainers room and clubhouse

Inside the trainer’s room

Acela Club

Rotunda

47 Shop

Outside 3B side

LF Banners

Outside approaching from the expressway

McCartney Concert

Big Apple Brews in CF

Walking around between CF and LF

Walking around between CF and RF

Nona Delia’s

Uncensored Guide to Citi Field (july 2009 revision)

World’s Fare (Part 3)

World’s Fare (Part 2)

World’s Fare (Part 1)

Interesting take here that suggests the Mets should have built a smaller park. Chicks dig the long-ball, not 2-1 games, right?

As you may have picked up, I’m a traditionalist, and the Mets have won in the past with pitching.  I like the idea of a big park, and Omar keeps saying “pitching and defense” but went out and signed NO pitching and a power hitting low-range left fielder.  Makes sense to me.

Meanwhile, when I’m reading headlines like “Starting catcher: Omir Santos or Henry Blanco” I start to wonder if I have traveled back in time.  Might as well ask me “Starting catcher: Alex Trevino or Ron Hodges?”  At least Hodges had his number retired.

Take a look at the bags…I don’t recall seeing the Y layered over the N like that.

Glad to see Mr. Met II is wearing blue today.

Wow, Joel Sherman is bringing it hard this week!  Some excerpts:

I told Mets officials that during this offseason I have been besieged by angry Mets fans telling me either face-to-face or through e-mail that they were giving up their season tickets or partial plans; and that I have yet to have one person tell me that they were purchasing a package of any type.

But Mets officials said that was unscientific and that they are doing just fine in selling packages, specifically partial plans.

It is just that the Mets are again falling for what I call the WWE referee trick. You know how in wrestling that the referee has to fall for the same stupid ruse every week so that the chair can get into the ring behind his back … Well, the Mets’ version of that is annually convincing themselves that all of their players will be healthy and productive and never really coming up with a suitable Plan B. And then being as surprised as that WWE referee when the chair is in the ring, or in their case when the injuries and bad seasons come.

That’s just a taste…a must read and it makes me wonder what the real story is.  Sherman isn’t going to write this three days in a row based upon some gut feeling.

As much as the Wilpons made sadden us at times, I worry about who the next owner may be.  I fear the Dolans, and I fear MegaGiganticCorp.   Now if Mark Cuban can get a team, that would be super-entertaining, my blog woul dhave plenty to cover every single day, and hey he actually lets bloggers get credentials (to be fair I have not asked Mr. Horwitz for credentials).