Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

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Do the Mets bosses really think this uniform looks good?

I was working on this on Friday, then the Reyes thing happened, but I’m still fired up about this.

I had to stop watching the game on Thursday because I was getting mad.

Do Fred and Jeff look at this uniform combination and think – hey those high black stirrups look good?  How about that black undershirt?

I sort of understand that a civilian might want to wear black, but the white and blue color scheme of the Mets is so wonderful, why do they mess around?  I’m a fan of high stirrups, but these black ones look terrible.  The black undershirt?  Terrible!

I just need someone to explain it to me.  Is it sales?  Do wearing the hybrid cap and black socks really move the profit margins?  I thought Jeff loved the 1980’s Mets…you’re the boss dude, just tell everyone “we’re going back to blue.”   Just do it.  Everyone who wants a black John Franco jersey has one.  Sell the blue.   I gave in on the pinstripes, now meet me half way and wear blue.   Eve the BP version of the blue (which has black) would look better if you could lose the orange and black underarm clutter.

Thanks to Aaron Doster who has been taking great photos down at spring training, and hooked me up with this shot.  You can find more at flickr.com/teamdoster.

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Mets Police: home life sitcom edition episode 2

Uh oh.

Last night I opened up my new copy of MLB2K10 and started on my new season. As usual, I set out to make myself a pitcher on the Mets (bumped Jon Niese for the 5 spot).

The first thing that stinks is I now have to lie about my age. If I make myself my real age the game makes me old and tired and I last 3 innings and announce my retirement at the end of the season. I made myself 20. Pathetic.

That’s not the big problem. Mets Police Junior comes by and the story is very very troubling, and as much as y’all will bust my chops, if I am Dave Howard or Jeff Wilpon this should be a red frakking alert warning.

Junior watches me load the game.

“You’re the Mets?” Yes.

“Are you going to be the Yankees?” No.

“Will you be the Yankees next game?” Nope, I’m on the Mets. What’s your obsession with the Yankees?

“I like them. They win.”

Jeff you lived this in the late 1970’s much like I did. All the brainwashing in the world won’t overcome a World Series victory to a 6 year old. Perhaps I’m undercutting the entire point of my blog, and Cerrone over on Metsblog is right: just win.

Very troublesome night. Fortunately he’s 6 and if he has one fun day at Citi Field he’ll swing the other way, and the first team to hold Clone Wars night is likely to win him over for life.

Last year his highlight was that we got a Johnny Rockets shake when we checked out Fake Yankee in April. Maybe I’ll take him there on a cold night and tell him the shake place closed.

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My experience with the Mets ticket sale this morning

I decided to try to get tickets this morning (as an exercise) since I have this whole blog thing going.

I found the server responded very quickly and it was very easy to connect.   Read into that whatever you will, I’m going to stay positive and assume the Mets have an awesome infrastructure that deftly handles high ticket demand.

Just poking around:

I was able to get seats in the Promenade Infield for the opener.  Earlier in the week I was unsuccessful.  I may stink at the internet, or someone’s credit card canceled, or they released more tickets.  I have no idea.  I’m just saying you may want to try since we’ve all collectively decided that Promenade Infield offers the best relative value.

I decided to look at other big games.  Since the Yankees games are not part of this I couldn’t think of any big games, so I looked at August 1st.   That game looks like it is selling pretty well, I was only offered seats way out in left field.