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Kindred Spirit (link)

A kindred spirit wonders if the Mets will lose their identity at Citi Field:

It seriously makes me sick. We are the New York METS, not the dodgers!
And we even have the fabulous “Jackie Robinson Rotunda” to view when we enter our new state of the art facility.
No disrespect to number 42, but what on earth does he have to do with the METS!?!?

Los Dodgers 2.0

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Why Are Citi Field Ticket Prices A State Secret?

(I’m writing this on Monday afternoon so if the Mets have updated their website between now and then, fine they got me.)

Why are the ticket prices at Citi Field a state secret?

Sure we’ve heard some anecdotal evidence from Mushnick and a few others, mainly from folks who are renewing their ticket plans.

A visit to Mets.com provides absolutely zero information.   I can leave a deposit for $250 for a partial-plan, but that seems insane to do, there’s no mention of how many games I would get or where the seats are.  What if the Mets offer me the one-game behind a pole plan?

There is of course a link to Stubhub, the official home of MLB scalping.   I can tell you the cheapest listed ticket for Opening Night is $189.   Nearly two hundred bucks to sit outside on a cold April night.  Heaven forbid they play a day game.

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Ticket Plan Rumor

Loge 13 says there will be 40 game plans and 15 game plans.

While Loge is excited about it, I’m not.  I liked my 7 game plan and it was hard enough to make the 7.   Oh well.

Meanwhile in the Bronx , looks like 11 games is the minimum.

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Rep. Elijah Cummings Statement (and some Mets Police comments)

from Huffington Post the following are the wods of Rep. Elijah Cummings.


After reading yesterday morning that Citigroup–which has already received $25 billion in bailout money–is adamant in maintaining its $400 million naming rights to the new New York Mets stadium, I was shocked to learn that the company came to the federal government asking for an additional multi-billion dollar lifeline. Surely, if the company has the funds to paste its name to a recreational facility, it has the money to maintain its operations and keep the 52,000 jobs it announced last week it would be eliminating.
While I understand that Citi is under a contractual obligation with the Mets, I cannot understand why the organization seems to be refusing at the very least to explore options out of that contract. This type of spending is indefensible and unacceptable to Citigroup’s new partner and largest investor: the American taxpayer. My constituents in Maryland did not turn over their hard-earned wages to fund a baseball stadium in New York.
One would think that the Mets would be open to finding a new sponsor, as well. Why would any team want its new stadium, the symbol of a new era of victories, to be named after and symbolized by a company claiming to be on the brink of collapse?
I strongly urge Citigroup to find a way out of this contract and instead spend that $400 million on retaining its employees and restoring confidence in its operations. Furthermore, I encourage Citigroup and every other corporation depending on taxpayer dollars to stop the reckless spending, and I again insist that Secretary Paulson and Chairman Bernanke start holding these companies accountable. We cannot continue to pour taxpayer dollars into buckets with holes.
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Congressman Cummings is likely not aware of the ways of the Mets.   This is a s***storm brewing, and the Mets have a tendency to head right for the eye of the storm.
Sure it’s really hard to walk away from $20 million.   However the economy has gone to hell and people are losing jobs left and right.
The Mets and MLB should look into ways to be the good guys.  Work it out with Citi that they don’t have to pay the $20M this year.   MLB can float the Mets the budget for a year.  You don’t want Congress taking a look at that anti-trust do you?  The Mets can make some statement that they stand by their good friends at Citi but now is not the time to make people lose jobs just so Rafael Furcal can be paid to be in the DL all year.
Mets, I’m telling you, get this done today.   Work it out.  Keep the name, you’ll get your money down the road, but cashing a 20M check today is a bad bad idea.  That other team you’re endlessly compared to has figured out how to make a go of it with a new stadium and no naming rights, you’ll be able to get by for a year too.


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