Category: mets

Of all the things I tasted last night, and they were all yummy (not just saying that) the greatest food of all was the buttermilk chicken.

Being in my 40’s I can’t wolf down 12 pieces of fried chicken like I used to – well I can, but the shields won’t hold – so I grabbed the smallest piece available.

This thing was amazing. I immediately regretted not getting the biggest piece. Damn.

Knowing I had other places to be last night I did not throw caution to the wind and just had the one piece but man I may change the focus of the blog into nagging the Mets into making this available upstairs where I sit.

As I told several Mets executives (that makes them sound so formal) I thought last night was the greatest event for a blogger. There was plenty to take pictures of and plenty to talk about. As I put it, I actually don’t want to talk to David Wright, I’d rather talk about this stuff.

Honestly, all the food was delicious. This is the part where some of you start calling me a sell-out. No, the food was delicious. All really tasty. I dug these wings which I will tell you about in a later post…

And this chicken sandwich was awesome and has quite the kick

But the best item of all…well that’s for the next post.

I had several nice conversations with “Mets executives” which were, you know, normal personal conversations about our lives so I’m not going to blog about that. They know who they are and I enjoyed seeing them and talking with them.

Most of the usual suspects of bloggers were there. Man we’ve come a long way from the first time the Mets had the bloggers over for dinner and we were kind of half-expecting the death squads to take us out or at least a stern lecture from Jeff. Nope, the Mets have been nothing but great.

Unfortunately I had to split after an hour to handle a personal situation so I don’t know how the rest of the night went. I will be checking out the other blogs (try On The Black, Ceetar and Ted Quarters for sure – sorry no links, walking down the street at 8am and trying to knock out a day of blogs).

I consider myself quite fortunate to have started a dopey blog about my favorite baseball team that somehow invites me to such things. I expect nothing and am grateful for all these adventures.

Thanks to the Mets for having me over and I’m happy I can share these photos.

Now who wants some cake?

As I mentioned in the post before this one I am taking family vacation next week so I’m resisting the urge to post 5 million things today. Instead I will roll them out over the next few days so that I can sit poolside and talk to my wife instead of sitting on twitter (@metspolice) looking for items.

But this week I am on a normal schedule and have lots to share. I’m particularly excited about this cap.

That’s one to have not only for this season but seasons to come. And as for your next question..

More to come!

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Last night I had the extreme pleasure of being invited to Citi Field to sample the “All Star Dining Line-up” of food available at the stadium in ’12.

I will be posting pictures over the next few days and into next week (I am taking a family vacation then so a pre-written generic post about a chicken sandwich goes a long way, and yes I will be at Opening Day – come on.)

This morning I’m working off my iPhone which isn’t my favorite way to process photo-based posts but I’m out of time in real life so I’ll do the best I can.

Enough pre-amble, here’s what you have wanted to know all off-season: the 2012 beer list.

@ceetar the beer-snobbiest of the bloggers was at the event and seemed pleased with the list. I’m sure he will write something up and I will link to his post later.

As for me, I like a good beer (Mets Police advocates having zero to two beers max, not nine. You should behave like a civilized human. Feel free to spend that extra cash on blue based merch). Just the Sam Adams Seasonal will get me through the summer, but the Blue Moon and Six Point also catch my eye.

Much more to come.

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April 2013 – thanks to Deadspin for linking to this post! And while I have your attention, my eBook is called Send The Beer Guy (I am an ex-vendor) and only $4.