Category: mets

Finally some noise is being made about this travesty. Heard Carton starting in about it and the papers seem to have it.
Aside from banging long time ticket holders with big big big checks to write, they’ve also managed to sneak in a significant increase in the individual tickets.
Meanwhile in the Bronx, I read an article that I haven’t gotten to post yet that says that the Yankees are eliminating many of the miniplans, even the upper deck, and telling people its 81 games or none. Hopefully I have my facts wrong here. I never claimed this was a newspaper.
If you’re stumbling across this blog because of a random google search, click the ‘archives’ on the left and find ‘an open letter’ to the Giants ownership from a family who has had tickets for 50 years. By my math they need to come up with nearly $24,000 quickly.

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Has it really been only a month since Willie? I must admit, I fell asleep down 8-5 in the 8th and had chalked this one off. That's the Willie part of my brian, but Jerry's Gangstas donKt quit.

All of a sudden this is my kind of team, a clutch hit from a callup (UnderReyes), a homegrown pitcher starting to look like a future ace (Pelfrey, now slotted for sunday), no cylons from atlanta (Glavine) and now Four Inning Pedro is out of the rotation and free to be nice to 70 year old Irish ladies (scroll down about 15 posts). Might we get to see my next-favorite-Met Jon Niese?

This is clearly a different team since Willie left. Spunky. I like em.

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Wow I just suffered through 45 minutes of the Reds radiocast.  It was the most boring baseball announcing I have ever heard.   Absolutely no excitement.  I was so bored I cut the dog’s walk short.

I’m still recovering from last night – left the Stadium at 2 am and got home at 3:30. But a quick snapshot of the last several days.

From Saturday through Tuesday, the tally for me is:

• 2 stadiums (Yankee & Shea)
• 4 games
• 40.875 innings (two 8 1/2 inning games, one 9 inning, and one 14 5/6)
• I don’t know how many players, pitches, etc.
• 6 hours waiting in lines for autographs at FanFest
• 4 HOF autographs (Earl Weaver, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, & Gary Carter)
• 3 children of HOFers met (Mantle’s sons and Jackie Robinson’s daughter)
• Several Team USA autographs
• I think a dozen hot dogs and eight beers
• Almost 1,000 pictures taken (which will be reduced to probably 150 once I go through them)
• One new David Wright jersey (home, blue pinstripe, with Shea patch, size 44)
• An undisclosed amount spent on souveneirs
• About 28 hours total of baseball activities

(And last night’s 15 inning adventure was my SECOND 15 inning game this month. I saw one at SafeCo a few weeks ago too.)

I think I need a few days for everything to sink in but man, did I enjoy this weekend.

Nice touch mentioning Bob Sheppard last night.  

With all this talk of putting George in the hall…how about Bob!