What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
I have heard at least two stories involving plan holders getting a call from the Mets offering them two extra tickets to any game as a thank you.
I think that’s cool. Yeah it’s easy to make the snide comments on attendance but a gift is a gift and a thank you is a thank you.
So everything about that Mad Men post was wrong (other than I watched Mad Men) but fortunately Greg from Faith & Fear knows the deal..
As a Mad Men obsessive and detail-oriented Mets fan, I’m just going to go ahead and be That Guy and point out the following:
1) The pennant is in Lane’s office, not Pete’s. Lane’s the Brit who has fallen in love with New York. Kenny Cosgrove has attended at least two Mets games we know of (in 1962 and 1963). I have a theory that Lane and Ken attended a game at Shea, maybe even enjoying drinks in the Charcoal Room afterwards, to plot Ken’s return to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Infer what you like about Pete’s or Don’s allegiances, neither has shown any interest in either local team.
2) The episode takes place in early May 1965, not 1964.
3) The pennant you show is not the pennant we see. The pennant we see is this one.
Very cool – thanks Greg!
I’m kinda happy that it’s Lane not Pete since Pete is a tool.
Hopefully Pete just invested in Yankees season tickets and will enjoy the next 10 years.
Good morning Mets fans,
As we all head back to work, school, winter, depression – I thought I’d start with an easy one.
Hi Shannon,
A couple of days ago I went to look at the Mets promotional schedule to see if any additional giveaways were added for the rest of the season. I already have 6 games left the rest of the season and was open to the idea of adding an additional game or 2 (when I still had hope.) Now I could swear that previously there was a sunglasses giveaway on Sept 12th vs the Phillies. It was added to the schedule sometime in July, I believe. But I noticed that the sunglasses giveaway was now no longer on the schedule.
Have you heard anything about this? I don’t recall the Mets ever removing a giveaway from the schedule. I was thinking of contacting the Mets and asking someone about it. But I thought I’d run it by you to see if you had heard anything about it.
Twitter: @dtmfr
I don’t know. @formerdirtdart keeps a close eye on that calendar – Walt, any idea? Anyone else?
I do think that September would be an odd time for a sunglasses promotion – seems more a “June 12th” type promotion.
I do find it odd that all that’s left on the promotions page is Fleece Blanket night and Hispanic Heritage Night.
This post is wrong…updated info here about which Mad Man is the Mets fan…but I like the show so much and this started a conversation so I’m leaving it up.
I was watching Mad Men the other night and saw this pennant hanging up in Pete Campbell’s office. The episode takes place in 1964 so hopefully Pete is going to catch some games at brand new Shea Stadium!
Here’s some Mad Men Mets audio for ya.
Don has to be a Yankees fan. He is old school and doesn’t like Cassius Clay and Joe Namath, so he’s not going to like a team with a big headed mascot. Don is all about pinstripes I’m sure.
Walt aka @formerfirtdart is kind enough to make the monthly uniform calendar, and although he always gets it in on time I usually Castillo the ball for one reason or another – this month the reasons were the back to back incidents of the entire blog being deleted and my laptop dying. But all is semi-back to normal now…clearly this secret to the Mets success will be wearing black Los Mets jerseys at home.
