Category: mets

On Monday, I posted how I was able to switch my ticket plan seats from their original location due to some issues beyond my control.

I happened to be working in Queens that day, near my house and Citi Field. When I talked to my ticket rep he asked me if I could send my unused tickets to him. I told him I was near the stadium and I could drop off the book in person.

My rep was totally cool with that. I dropped off the ticket book during lunchtime so I didn’t get to meet him in person, but I dropped it off with the front desk. The person at the desk told me that I should get my tickets within a week to 10 days.

Today I received my new tickets. I was shocked they came so quickly. I didn’t receive new book of tickets but box office printed loose tickets.

The cool thing though is that even though I didn’t get ticket book, they sent all the essential pages and cover that are in it.   That includes the rules, clubs, and the map.

I know this blog is usually about the Mets and when they drop the ball on something or have black jerseys on for 90 percent of the games they play.

Having said this, I really need to get this off my chest right away. I am neither an old fogey or a young buck.   I am going to be 34 this month.   I have never got the whole point of tagging(graffiti).

The Mets realized they did not give their fans the things to make Citi Field to be feel like it was the home of the New York Mets.   So, they corrected it in the offseason and made the ballpark look great.

From the Mets Museum to the pictures in the walkways. Even the painted stairwells being painted blue and orange. This leads me to one of my points.

As I was walking down one of the stairwells with Shannon, I saw someone’s need to feel validated.   A graffiti “tag” on the freshly painted wall. And no it wasn’t Doc Gooden.

I mean seriously after all the complaining we did as Mets fans to get the Wilpons to make Citi Field feel like our Mets home, someone does this?

It is just awful.

The disrespect people have in this city for other people’s and public properties is unbelievable.

As a Mets fan and as a New Yorker, I want to apologize to the Mets organization for this troglodyte’s need to feel validated.
My second point is will fans please learn how to boo and jeer correctly?

People were booing ball ones. They were booing strike ones. This is just not Mets fans either. I remember growing up we booed “villains” on other teams. We booed the headhunters in hockey. We booed the guys who said something against our team or our city. We didn’t boo when somebody took strike one.

People were booing Mejia during his first appearance in a Major League game. Did he do well? No. But there was no need to boo him. Great way to make sure his confidence doesn’t get shaky people. I think I might boo the really loud obnoxious woman sitting behind me tonight next week because of her lame comments and her booing. “BOO….You suck…You call that heckling? Your a bum!!! They should get rid of you!! Maybe send you down to hecklers triple A…Booooo” .

I really do not remember this being as bad as this when I was a kid and a teenager. Maybe I am getting older and cranky. Thanks for letting me get this off my chest.

Yesterday, I got a call from the Mets because I emailed them telling them how the stadium looks great and this year it feels like the home of the Mets.

They called me to thank me for my feedback and they were glad they were able to make Citi Field feel more like the Mets home and know that they should have done it last year. Can not beat their response times.