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Mets Alumni Association

I just received this e-mail from the Mets.

The Mets who are embracing their own history these days started up the Mets Alumni Association last week.

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Its nice to see Rusty, Mookie, Bud (I have an autographed ball from him), Ed Kranepool, and Al Jackson at the ballpark.

The Alumni Association, The Mets, and Citi gave the first award for “Teammates in the Community”. They gave this to a volunteer of the Wounded Warrior Project.

In my opinion good job by The Mets in honoring the community and their history/former players.

I’ll add this part just for Shannon. I notice the person that was given the award is wearing a Cooperston Collection Seaver Jersey. No black drop shadow there..

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An email: thanks for the presale

Shannon,

I just wanted to say a public thank you to the Mets for actually thinking of their account holders when it comes to the Subway Series this year.  I was able to log on this morning and get actual decent promenade seats at regular price.  Like you, I usually avoid these games but since Mrs. “The Apple” is a *cough*  Yankees fan *cough*, it is nice to be able to take her to a game without having to go through scalpers.

The way I look at it, even if the fans re-sell, it’s better if your loyal fans are the ones re-selling because if they make money, odds are good that you will see some of that come back to you down the road.  Glad to see the lottery ditched and glad to see the Mets starting to do some consistently fan friendly stuff.

Almost makes me feel bad for taking so many cheap shots in The Apple. I’d like to think they understand we’re just having some fun.

Injoy The Floating Feeling & Let’s Go Mets,
Randy

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Subway Series ticket presales

As I did in the winter, I’m choosing to share information that pre-sales exist, but I won’t be posting codes.  I don’t think that’s cool to do (in a Fonzie way) as it hurts those who have earned the pre-sale and if the Mets wanted everyone to have a code they would post it on mets.com

Anyways, maybe you have a friend who can help you take advantage of these, or you can check your spamblocker.

Friday 10am: pre-sale for plan holders.    Max 6 tickets split any way you want.  6 for one game, Two, two and two.  Etc.  No special password, you either have an account or not.

Tuesday May 4th: available to Flushing Flash subscribers.  That’s a pretty large database, and if you aren’t signed up for the flash you should.

You may also choose to buy a 5 game Summer Premium Pack

As I learn of more, I’ll share.

Personally, I find the crowds at these games to be filled with knuckleheads (and it’s not just Yankee knuckleheads).   For me, it’s a good time to cash in on stubhub and off-set some other costs, and enjoy the beauty of my 60 inch television.  And Sunday Night games suck.

Injoy the floating feeling.

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Tom wins statistical unprobability of the day

An email from Tom:

Marty Noble mentions today (on mets.com) that yesterday’s Met sweep of the Dodgers was only the second time in team history, over 21 doubleheaders against L.A., that the Mets won both games.  The only other time this happened was on August 28, 1971, a day I described in Where the Angels Bow to the Grass, a book about growing up in Astoria.

That night (5:35 PM start. As I recall), I went with my dad.  Seaver won the first game, 9-2 and in game two, it was 1-1 going to the bottom of the ninth.

My father, who never did any predicting, except for this one occasion, called Cleon Jones’ two out game winning homer, before the inning started.  I was a big Jones fan, so he was no doubt saying it for my benefit, but when it actually happened a few moments later, that night became one of the moments in my childhood (I was 10) that made baseball so special to me.

I wonder if anyone else who was there last night – as I was – was also at Shea for the only other sweep of the Dodgers, on August 28, 1971?

Tom

Speaking of that game, the cool blog Centerfield Maz (which I haven’t plugged in a while) wrote about the 1971 doubleheader.  Maz runs a great blog even though he spelled McCartney wrong, and believe me he knows how Sir Paul spells his name.

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