What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Catching up after a long day of football.
How about Niese? The Mets Police is the home of the official Niese bandwagon, and have been since the spring.
Meanwhile what can I say about the bullpen that hasn’t been said about a half dozen times this year. No lead is safe. Awful. Scares the seaver out of me for the postseason.
All hail the great Phil Mushnick who has a big enough forum to call the Mets on the carpet for their latest obscenity. Of course Phil does this all the time and nothing ever happens (well the football stadium won’t have a Nazi name, that’s a small victory) – but here is Phil’s latest policing of the Mets who are charging one fan $240 for “handling!”
Lee Livingston, of North Brunswick, N.J., this week received his bill for Mets
‘ postseason tickets. He has four box seats, Shea’s third most expensive. This year he paid $33,300 for his regular season tickets. He has had them for decades, thus he’s conditioned to anticipate postseason sticker shock. This time, his autumnal ticket bill is $9,000.
But this time it was the “handling” fee that blew him away. Ready? Two hundred and forty dollars!
In July, he informed the Mets that he will not be renewing. He has the documentation, yet the club hit his credit card for $5,670 as a non-refundable down payment on next year’s seats. This has been explained to him as a “misunderstanding,” although the issue is not yet resolved.
While many things can be explained as misunderstandings, a ticket invoice that reads, “HANDLING $240,” is not open to interpretation. “For $200,” said Livingston, “I could send a limo to pick up the tickets, but they won’t allow that.”
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What do the managers of winning ballclubs drink? Are The Rays the reason that The Former Franchise coudln’t be bothered to show up at the All-Star Game? Joe Maddon’s got some Cabernet Seaver on his desk!
Back in the visitor’s clubhouse at Fenway, Johnson is surrounded by reporters at his locker and Maddon is sitting in his office with a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon from Tom Seaver’s vineyard on his desk. He is talking about numbers, matchups and scouting reports.
Full story here
What do the managers of winning ballclubs drink? Are The Rays the reason that The Former Franchise coudln’t be bothered to show up at the All-Star Game? Joe Maddon’s got some Cabernet Seaver on his desk!
Back in the visitor’s clubhouse at Fenway, Johnson is surrounded by reporters at his locker and Maddon is sitting in his office with a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon from Tom Seaver’s vineyard on his desk. He is talking about numbers, matchups and scouting reports.
Full story here
>Mushnick mentioned that the pregame ceremonies at the final game at Yankee Stadium won’t start until 8, which pushes gametime to 9pm. On a Sunday night. In September.
As I’ve previously mentioned, this means I can’t bring Mets Police Junior. He’s not awake at 9pm never mind the 1am end of game plus a drive home.
This game had been scheduled for 1pm. Why can’t ESPN show it then? Do people not watch sports on fall Sunday afternoons? The Sunday Night Football game will get a better rating anyway, so why torture New Yorkers?
