New Stadium Insider has an interesting take on Yankees Attendance.
The way they work it out (NSI usually does a good job and I’m no math wizard) there are on average 16,000 tickets up on Stubhub and the like. Click the link above.
Citi Field Won’t Tolerate Even The Most Mundane of Heckling (link)
This is interesting..Citi Field Won’t Tolerate Heckling
Ok, this is what happened, Alex Cora (second baseman) saw the sign and started pointing towards me and told something to the security on the field and then they started looking at me and then called another security. I thought they were going to take me out of the game and asked me if I was the one with the Jerry Manuel sign and he needed to take it with him and hoped I understood the reason (they never gave me one). So i just gave it to him cause I didn’t want to get thrown out, I didn’t want to loose my $230 in tickets.
Horowitz responds, telling ANIMAL, “We don’t have a policy on signs, but if they’re really negative or inciteful we might ask that they take them down.â€
I find it suspicious that this photo exists. Hey dude, go take a picture of me so when they yell at us we can send it to blogs?
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The Generic "Bad Ollie" Article And Other Mets Articles I Won’t Write
On Monday I write over at Flushing University. Here’s this week’s Monday column….now a little dated because John Maine won. I’m happy to have Maine make me look stupid all the way to the Cy Young.
The Generic “Bad Ollie” Article And Other Mets Articles I Won’t Write
Posted Monday, April 27, 2009
I think I made a good choice picking Monday as my day for the weekly column.
So far I’ve had a few layups – Opening Day, Home Opener…and now I get dealt the “Bad Ollie” card.
I’m not writing it.
Why?
A) Because it’s stupid. He will be here for another 100 starts so stop booing him and hope somewhere in the organization is a pitching coach who can communicate with him. End of Ollie article.
B) Because it’s not why you come here.
One of the reasons I agreed to join the writing team at Flushing University is because they appreciate the snarkiness I have over at Mets Police.
So I’m not writing the “Bad Ollie” piece. Just google Mets and you’ll find that fifty other places.
I’m also not going to write the “What’s wrong with John Maine” piece after tonight’s loss to the Marlins, or the “Let’s Waste Money And Sign Pedro” piece after Livan Hernandez tires in the fourth on Tuesday.
I’m not going to write “Santana is going to win the Cy Young” article, because I wrote that one last year.
How about “Daniel Murphy’s defense needs to get better!” Any interest in that one?
I’m surprised nobody has taken a stab at “I was wrong about Castillo!”
The Mets are 8 and 10 this morning. Maybe I should write the “Jerry Manuel Should be Fired” article. i could wait until Bobby Valentine mentions off the cuff (again) that he’d be interested in coming back.
I could recap all of Omar Minaya’s trades and write “Omar Is A Genius” or “Omar Minaya Has To Go” depending on which three callers I hear on WFAN.
Maybe I could point out Manny Ramirez is off to a good start and ignore the fact that the guy playing left for the Mets is batting .314.
Nope. I’m just going to hit send on this diatribe and kill time until next Monday. By then the Mets will have played the first place Marlins at home, and the World Champion Phillies on the road, and I’ll have a good handle on this team.
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Section Six Blog Asks For An Obstructed Views Petition
From Section 6 Blog…
Let me be clear, I am a season ticket holder, but my seats are not affected by the LED obstruction. My reasons for coming out and putting the petiton together and writing about it on my blog have been because I felt that luck was the only way I found out about the obstructions and luck that had my seats far enough down the line to not have an issue. I feel very bad for the paying customers, whether season ticket holders or individual game buyers, who have obstructions and are unaware of them. Nothing will be done unless we, the paying customers whether affected or not, create enough noise about it. I just want to do my part. I was sick to my stomach seeing some of the obstructions and early images online. I was distressed to know that a father and son may not enjoy a game becasue they did not know about the obstructions. I was pissed at the spin and rhetoric from Dave Howard, all of which is still happening.
Newsday, New York Times, Daily News, New York Post help out us Mets fans. MetsBlog, Baseball Prospectus, Mets Police, Baseball Fever, Queens Crap and other blogs/forums, let’s continue to make noise and have people sign the petition. Let’s get enough feedback so we can take this to the organization. I am sure in this economy the Mets do not need another reason (possible obstructions) for people to not buy tickets. Right now we have 39 people, at 1000 we will take this to the Mets organization.
So eveyone out there, keep up the talk. Sign the petition. Email me your frustrations. Talk to people about the issues.
I’m torn on this one. I feel like I’ve become one of the leaders of “the resistance” as it were (and honored as such), but I’m not looking to get into a battle with the Mets. At the end of the day, all I want is Tom Seaver throwing out the first pitch at the World Series, and the Mets win the game while wearing pinstripes and blue.
Specific to obstructions, LED blocking is just one part of the problem. I think the plexiglass is a bigger issue.
I’m happy to give Section Six all the blog-real estate they’d like, and I will offer them moral support…but I’m not sure what a petition will do. It’s going to take the metro NYC newspapers and WFAN into shaming the Mets into doing something.
With that in mind, I haven’t seen any suggestions yet on how the Mets should fix the issues. I guess removing the out of town scoreboard would help those folks- but maybe it makes more sense to just charge less for those seats, like how the Yankees are doing with the bleachers.
As for the plexiglass, railings and aisles…I don’t know what they could do. Maybe removing the plexiglass and going back to a traditional metal bar would be less annoying. I don’t know how much of the design was aesthetics and how much was federal or state safety laws.
I’d be curious how the rest of you feel.
Six, I hope I’m not letting you down. I’m always happy to help a fellow blogger.
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What Mets Uniforms Would Look Like Without BLUE
No, that wasn’t a typo. I hate the black uniforms. However, as you will see, it’s the combination of the blue and black that makes them extremely ugly.
I try not to do major cut and pastes from other sites, but I don’t know how to economically do it for this one…so everyone head over to Uni Watch (http://www.uniwatchblog.com/) and give them lots of hits and bookmark them and visit them every day.
Knowing they hate black uniforms as much as we do (I think even more, if that’s possible) I beg their forgiveness for my paste:
Because You Nick asked for it: If you didn’t read the link, basically Nick asked for some mock-ups of Mets uniforms, sans all blue. This proved to be a tougher task than originally thought. And, originally, I didn’t know he had wanted to see said mock-up without a black jersey. So a black jersey is included. For my first attempt, I took a rear view of the uni, removed the blue, and kept the white outlining for the numbers. Here’s the result. Moving on, I took on a frontal view of the uniform, keeping the white outlines and removing the drop shadows. Not satisfied, I removed the white outline, just for shits and giggles, and this is the result. My verdict? The first one looks like a Giants ripoff (and not a good one at that), the second is just not a good look, and the third looks like an Orioles alternate. Not that the BFBS combo is any good anyway, but removing all blue from it is just wrong. And not an improvement.
I next moved to the snow white home uniform (also known as an alternate), but at least it’s white and a uniform, not a softball outfit. I won’t even attempt to do a mock-up on the pins, so you will just have to settle for the snow whites. Well, here is what I came up with. Again, I removed the drop shadow and replaced the blue with black. While this doesn’t look as bad as the BFBS jersey treatment, it’s still not the Mets. It’s not the Giants either, but it sure does look a lot like the G-men did when they played in New York. Again, removing the blue is not an improvement in any way. Their snow whites with blue caps and sleeves is not a bad look as it is. This is. Finally, I tacked the road grays and removed the blue (and drop shadows). The result is very interesting. I’m pretty sure I have seen that look somewhere before. I understand the Mets were trying to ‘recreate’ the old Brooklyn and New York teams who moved west when they entered the National League in 1962. It was a great look then and a great look (well, if they actually still looked like that) now. Removing the blue, in my opinion, is NOT a good way for this team to go. And that’s the end of this edition of “Phil’s Mets Uni Concepts.”
Or is it? In honor of today’s topic, I wondered how bad the Mets would have looked had they succumbed to the powder blue craze of yesteryear. Well I got my answer when I mocked that up. Thank god they stuck to the gray. Because here’s what they would have looked like in powder blue. They’d get an F.
