What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Another amazing achievement for Afterlife Shea Stadium! Â First the BCS Champions, then the Puppy Bowl, then Bryant Gumbel and now this! Â Thanks Alex.
How about those new yellow seats? Â Afterlife Shea already has more history than new Fake Yankee Stadium.
Supposedly, the Mets will add three-game packs next week. Â You would be able to pick any price level (unlike the 6 packs which are just uppers).
For an idea of what this might look like, lets visit Redsox.com. Â In the Fenway version these are standing-room tickets:
Returning for 2010, the popular Standing Room Only Pax offer the chance to see three games for as little as $60. You can create your own unique three-game package — including one game with either the New York Yankees or Los Angeles Dodgers!
If you click through you’ll find a “pick one game from Group A”, one from B and one from C.
Might this be coming to Citi Field next week? Â Will you be able to include Opening Day or a Yankee game? Â What about people who are now stuck in the outfield with 6-packs, will they be sad that the Mets didn’t tell them this was coming? Â Will the Mets ever sell single-game tickets?
This morning’s MLB Spam Flushing Flash was pushing the Opening Day 6 Pack.  I guess those didn’t go as well as they thought?  Maybe you should get one and join us for the Blue Cap Army meetup.
Thanks to Richie for sending in the tip. Â This site really is fueled by people like you who send things in and tip me off. Â I’m [email protected] or @metspolice on twitter if you ever have anything (and apparently I’m shannonshark on the new Google Buzz thing.)
To the right (if you are reading this on a reader or Facebook come to this page you’ll see a form to submit your email address for the Blue Cap Army opening day get together. Â Simply, the idea is for Mets fans to gather before the Opening Day game. Â The point of the sign-up is to see what kind of numbers we have, maybe we can convince McFadden’s to let us in early or someone to buy us balloons or something. Â Don’t know unless I try.
I’m finding the sign-up form to be buggy from the main page, so click here and then try it from the individual page. Thanks!
Update 3/9: the blue cap army is now on twitter and has made a friend. Â Spread the word and let our numbers grow!
This isn’t written with my usual level of anger/frustration, it’s more one of my “ideas for the Mets” type posts.
Why don’t the Mets offer tours of Citi Field?
We can start with the fact that the Yankees do – and Fake Yankee Stadium doesn’t have all that much more history than Citi does. Â Here’s what the Yankees do:
The Classic Tour lasts 45 minutes to one hour and includes visits to the New York Yankees Museum presented by Bank of America, Monument Park, the dugout and clubhouse/batting cage area. The clubhouse/batting cage area is available ONLY when the team is on the road and during the off season. It is not available when the team is playing at home or has an off-day. Classic Tours for individuals (from 1-11 people) will commence every 20 minutes from 12 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
The Mets have a museum now.  The clubhouse and dugouts might be interesting to see.  Maybe the demand isn’t what it would be in the Bronx, so then why not just offer one tour a week?
This came up today because Thomas who runs Checked Swing blog is coming in from Scotland (off-season) and just wants to see the place. Â Maybe someone out there reading this (Craig Marino?) could throw the guy a bone.
Longer term, why not offer this feature and make some extra cash?
Below are some links but please note the links within the individual posts may not work because since these originally ran I have redone the sites. Â So, click any link below and it will work, but the links within the pages that you visit may not – just come back to this page and start over. Â That’s one of the aspects of the redesign I haven’t gotten to yet.
Stairwells, the noise patrol room and the World Series trophy
Outside approaching from the expressway
Walking around between CF and LF
Walking around between CF and RF
Interesting take here that suggests the Mets should have built a smaller park. Chicks dig the long-ball, not 2-1 games, right?
As you may have picked up, I’m a traditionalist, and the Mets have won in the past with pitching. Â I like the idea of a big park, and Omar keeps saying “pitching and defense” but went out and signed NO pitching and a power hitting low-range left fielder. Â Makes sense to me.
Meanwhile, when I’m reading headlines like “Starting catcher: Omir Santos or Henry Blanco” I start to wonder if I have traveled back in time. Â Might as well ask me “Starting catcher: Alex Trevino or Ron Hodges?” Â At least Hodges had his number retired.
