Denis Hammil on New York Mets Citi Field (Daily News)

(From yesterday, saved it because so much was going on)

Another take on what it’s like to attend a Mets game, this time by Denis Hamil of the Daily News who mentions

And you can leave feeling broke, defeated and exhausted. At Shea, everyone swiftly exited down wide winding ramps while the pretty new stadium is designed so that everybody sitting in the nosebleeds must gather like a mob trying to squeeze through 10-foot-wide doorways leading to endless flights of down stairs.

Read more: “Ballparks strike out with families”  


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The Best Triples I Know (New York Mets)

Mets Walk Offs , a truly cool site (how does this guy know all the stuff he writes about?) sent this over.


MONDAY, MAY 04, 2009

The Best Triples I Know

It figures that we’re going to need to know a lot about triples this year. So I figured I’d “knowledge-up” and share my findings in this space.

The format is similar to the “Best Games I Know” blog posts, which require the Mets to win the game discussed in order for it to be listed.

The First (April 23, 1962)

The first Mets triple came in the first Mets win, a romp of the Pirates. Appropriately, the inaugural three-base hit came from a three-word named player, Bobby Gene Smith, a two-RBI shot to centerfield in the eighth inning that capped the scoring in a 9-1 victory.

True Metophiles know…Boby Gene Smith had a total of three hits (and three walks) for the Mets. His affinity for that number also comes through in the number of teams he played for in 1962, three (Cubs, Cardinals were the others). His Mets claim to fame is that he was the first player to wear the No. 16.


That’s just a start…the rest of the cool piece is here.

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Yankee Stadium Re-Entry: Stamp Hands or Scan Barcodes. Duh.

Couldn't the Yankees scan the barcode on the way out and reactivate the ticket? Are they worried that I'm going to hang for five innings then meet you at stans and let you watch the last four? And why would they care, you might buy a hot dog.

Theme parks somehow have figured out reentry. Maybe the Yankees could stamp my hand?

Maybe they could call games at 8pm, or offer rainchecks to everyone.

This solution that "only Paul Olden's announcements are official" changes nothing. Employees are still going to tell you "what they heard."

Last year on opening day the players were told half an hour before the fans that the game had been called. A-Rod was halfway home before anyone told us that we should leave.

There were 46000 paid tickets Tuesday night (capacity 52000) for a game against Boston in a brand new stadium. If that game ain't sold out, then they have plenty of extra seats to hook everyone up with rainchecks.

Or do they like seeing fewer people at the ballpark?

By the way I enjoyed Michael Kay mentioning that you could watch last night's game "for free.". I guess Michael has figured out a way to get YES without paying a cable company.

The great prophet Mushnick was right after all, and you're starting to see the tipping point.

How many of you partial-plan holders are realizing that it's not worth buying 15 or 20 games any more when you can just stubhub them? Lots of folks (like me) thought we'd be able to offset our costs on the resale market. That's not happening, and it's only May.

Next year I might just skip Yankees all together and just cut my Citi seats to Saturdays.

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More Wisdom From New York Mets VP David Howard

I saw this one yesterday morning.

Dave Howard, the New York Mets’ executive vice president of business operations, told SportsBusiness Journal the team has sold more than 90 percent of its premium seats and that no-shows across the stadium as a percentage of total capacity are roughly the same as they were last year.




Therefore, while we are ignoring that fewer people are attending games, we can also extrapolate that if the Mets expand Citi Field to a capacity of 10 million, the Mets will draw approximately 9 million fans per game.   Those million seats that appear to be empty are actually sold, people are just getting chicken fingers.

Click here for the article , which is another article about unsold seats.

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