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A letter from Matt then a comment,

So, as a Mets fan in Nevada, I try to get to San Diego to watch some baseball. A surprising 1st place team, yet still $5 tickets exist, a fireworks show every weekend where EVERYONE is invited to come sit on the field and enjoy it. My point…they made it fun and affordable to go to a game, people came and fans were born. Mets have (clearly) alienated everyone financially (except corporations who still can write some of it off) and have no reason to stop if they have a profit turned on April 5th based on season ticket/plan holders. San Diego’s season tix holders shrank so low, they had to come up with gimmicks to win the fans back. The Mets have the best of both worlds, fans in their pocket while they pick you clean. If any of you think you wont be able to buy tickets to 76 of the 81 home games next year, you are a fool. Pay as you go, there is no benefit to buying in bulk, telling ownership you approve of what they do. I will say the annual Mets fade has finally made me some money. I can safely bet against them until they fire Jerry!!

1.   $5 tickets at Citi Field should exist.   I said in the off-season the Mets should steal my Blue Cap Army idea and try to make something in Promenade Left.  There’s no reason those back rows under the scoreboard are full price.  Those are awful seats.

I think the Pepsi Porch could also become a fan favorite if they would adjust the pricing out there.   Maybe they do well enough as is, but I’m not going to pay that much to sit in the OF.

2.  Saturday Night fireworks sounds like a great idea.  It doesn’t need to be the full July 4th version, but plenty of areas somehow have figured out how to shoot off fireworks every week without breaking the bank (Chicago’s Navy Pier comes to mind.)

3.  As for walking up and buying tickets to 76 of the 81 home games…it’s 81 of 81 if you don’t mind paying $300…but for normal fans like us, yep Opening Day might sell out next year and the Yankees series probably will….and that’s it.   Based upon what we saw last Sunday, Dwight could have been the starting pitcher and it wouldn’t have sold out.   I doubt “Mike Piazza  Day” would sell out.

Some folks (myself included) like the plans.  I like knowing I have tickets for most Saturdays (more on that in a second) and I like knowing where I am sitting.   I happen to have “good” Promenade seats and want to keep them long term as I continue to pass my love of this team to my kids.   I’m fortunate that I have disposable income that allows me to waste $600 on this – and I make some back on Stubhub, especially early in the year and on the Yankees series.

However, if folks decide to buy when they are in the mood, or just shark Stubhub for cheapies this is the way to go.   From a pure economic standpoint, there’s little reason to buy from the Mets for the rest of the year.   You will be able to go for under $10 plenty of days from here on out.

Back to my Saturday+ plan.   Stop.   It was less offensive this year that the franchise at least called it “Saturday Plus” – but stop.  I don’t want the other 5 games.  I want the other 5 Saturdays.  I didn’t get orange cap day and now I’m not getting green cap day.   It’s offensive.   Why jerk around your diehards…give us EVERY Saturday next year and stop sticking us with weekdays…otherwise, yeah maybe I should take Matt’s advice and drop from 15 to zero.   Stubhub will get me in the building.

Stick Jason Bay in LF and this could be your 2011 Mets.  For those of us who love home grown teams, here’s one.

Sunday, August 8
@ Philadelphia

Jose Reyes – SS
Angel Pagan – RF
Carlos Beltran – CF
David Wright – 3B
Ike Davis – 1B
Fernando Martinez – LF
Josh Thole – C
Ruben Tejada – 2B
R.A. Dickey – RHP

When I jumped in last night’s game late (I’m no longer revolving my evening around 7:10 starts) and saw the score, all I could think of was this sentence I wrote on Friday when I declared myself team captain:

This team needs more guys like Santana – who basically says “OK you #%^%#s I will go out and throw 130 pitches today because the rest of you suck.”

I can’t believe he only has 9 wins.  It was nice to see Jerry use K-Rod with a game on the line rather than save him for a 1-2-3 save in the 23rd inning.

Join us on the Mets Police Podcast tonight at 6:30. Listen live, lurk, or call in at 917-889-2723. So far the topics are Meaningless Games in August, yesterday’s roster moves – has the front office given up, and black uniforms 6 days in a row.  If you think you might join us drop me a note at shannon@metspolice.com so I can associate your name with the phone # you’ll call in on (I only see phone numbers) – although you’re welcome to just call in and I will name you “caller.”

The podcast audio lives in the orange section of the main page, of if you punch “Mets Police” into iTunes you can subscribe.   We do it live at Sunday at 6:30pm although next week I’m going to need a substitute host (Dan and Media Goon, start warming up in the bullpen.)

Looking ahead – I’m on the road for much of this week so I will be spending my Sunday writing ahead.  From your end the blog should function as always (Media Goon will handle the “breaking news” stuff) but I may be slower than usual to reply to email submissions – however keep them coming to shannon@metspolice.com   Last trip it worked out well with me sending things to the Goon to post.