What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
I’m rolling 7’s today. Â I ran into this cool dude on the street and asked him if I could take a pic. Â Is this not a great look?
I’m trying to get a picture of RA Dickey from yesterday’s game (with his high black stirrups) – Michael Baron if you’re reaidng and can hook me up – if someone has one, please send so we can do a rip-job.
To this dude, you sir are Mets fan of the day even if I do suck at taking photos.
I love mornings like this one. Some days I wake up not sure what I’ll do with the site (I usually have a few ideas saved like my photo-trip to Modell’s I haven’t used yet) and today was one of those days.
Then I checked the email! Pete sent over a picture of one of the Lost Arks of Metsdom (no not the mule but just as cool) which I will get to today, Ryan posted a critique of the site in the comments which I will reply to as a post….but the natural seems to be to comment on what many of you found in your inbox this morning.
The Mets emailed the Flushing Flash distribution list to remind us that our “exclusive” pre-sale continues through today.
I guess no harm comes from reminding folks about the sale. That’s why they have the database. It’s not to send us fluff articles about Wright, it’s to easily target likely consumers. Makes sense. Smart business.
However, as I tend to do, and with absolutely no facts, I wonder how ticket sales went. From my small community here it seems as if the type of super-fans who choose to read what some dopey blogger (that’s me) has to say, those fans have demonstrated less interest than in the past. Sure we all want to go on Opening Day and maybe some weekends but that’s it.
Is that to say that we won’t get excited by our first place team and decide to buy more tickets? Of course we will. I’ll probably be the first one to do it.
However, the vibe seems to be “prove it.” The fans I hear from, and to be fair to the Mets maybe y’all are kooks like me, is that there is zero desire to lay out the money in advance. Is that anger? Let’s look at the pennywise pound-foolish moves made in 2009.
Remember when the Mets slashed ticket prices in the second half of 2009? It killed the secondary market, and it taught fans to wait. Why buy in March when tickets might be half off in August? They won’t raise prices mid-season so what’s the risk? Are you worried about 81 sellouts? I’m not. So I wait.
Back to the business side of it. As much as it might distaste me, I think that variable pricing like what the SF Giants are doing is the wave of the future. Knowing that Shannon is going to wait until a sunny Saturday to walk up and buy tickets, that’s when the Mets could try to squeeze a few bucks. It actually makes sense to me.
Yet that works both ways. I don’t have to pay the jacked up prices. I can choose not to go much like I choose to park on 112th street and not pay $19 for parking. $19. Nineteen.
There’s a presale still happening today. If you want tickets buy them. I dropped from 30 to 6. Now I have learned not to jump at the 6 (although I don’t mind one a month). Now you get to decide for yourself if you want tickets. I’m going to be very interested in the attendance for game 2.
I openly hate the Los Mets jerseys. Â It looks dopey to have a tiny “Los” on the jersey (reminds me of Spinal Tap) and it makes no sense to wear a jersey that basically says “The Mets” and in the past I have observed that jerseys in the Mexican league don’t have “Los Tigres” they just say “Tigres.”
So what to do? Â Am I against having fun nights? Â Nope, but there’s a way to do it and last night the Knicks figured it out.
Once you’ve decided to let tradition go, free your mind. Â Instead of tiny Los jerseys, why not wear Nueva York at home? Â It will likely look really good on a road-style jersey. Â Even I won’t bug out if they wear the city name at home, it’s not a big deal for a one-off.
Just trying to help you Dave Howard.
Long time Mets Police readers may recall that I sometimes chat baseball with a friend I call “Mr. Sunshine.”
Sunshine is a Yankees fan. He knows the Yankees will always win and has bought into every last piece of Yankee propganda that bleeds pride and tradition. In Sunshine’s world Johnny Damon was a true Yankee and steroids are things that only happen to other teams.
Sunshine is still convinced Torre will get the ’08 Yankees to the playoffs – something like that. No I didn’t make an error in that previous sentence.
Now that baseball is back so is Sunshine.
Sunshine was asking me about the Yankee ripoff name of the spring training home of the Mets. To me it’s Thomas J. White stadium but perhaps Mr. White was discovered to be a member of Al Qaeda or something and now we have Tradition Field (?). It’s tradition right? Or is that the Yankees’ park? Point conceded to Sunshine.
We also discuss tickets. For about an hour yesterday Sunshine threatened not to renew his Yankee tickets because he wanted to be closer or out in the sun or something. Sure enough he called last night to let me know he’s back in. Yeah, no kidding. Shocker. The new fake Stadium is awesome too.
Sunshine actually has a good deal going because Mrs. Sunshine enjoys the Yankees too and goes with him to games. Every game. She even drives!
Mrs. Mets Police wouldn’t go to Flushing even if I were the starting pitcher, and I’m not kidding because I actually did start a game last September but you were watching Sanchez and missed it. We lost.
Sunshine is one 2 for 4 away from telling me Granderson (is that the new guy?) is a true Yankee. Sunshine will start a 47 year old Jeter and tell me he can still go to the hole.
As Yankee fans go, this one is fun without the usual obnoxiousness. How is the Yankee fan in your life?
Faith and Fear wrote at length about the Times article, recapped Dave Howard’s previous statements and threw the MP a nice compliment.
I figure y’all would like hearing about the obstructions from someone else, and I feel good seeing others do it so I’m not just the whiny kook.
Thanks again to Ceetar for the heads-up on the Mets admission, and again for today’s Times story.
Go read Faith and Fear.
