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You own this Mets jersey: Piazza 41. Wait WHAT??

If you’re new to Mets Police, the You Own This Mets Jersey series is a long running series in which we chronicle the random jerseys people wear to games.

Here’s a doozy to start the season.

Theories:

a) His name is Pizza and he loves Tom Seaver.
b) His wife/mom/kids/girlfriend meant well and bought him a jersey
c) bootleggers got better at fonts but worse at accuracy

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Hi Chris Brown of the Mets. Let’s talk about this seat and Guest Experience at Citi Field

Hi Chris.

Got your name from the website.   Sorry to call you out by name but your staff let me down.

I purchased two tickets to the Mets opener.  This was the view from my seat.

I swear that’s the view.  I did not line up a shot.  I sat in my chair the way a normal person sits in a chair and took a picture.  That is the view from Section 509 Row 1 Seat 3 (my son sat in 4 with a very similar view).

Come on.

Now sometime in the last few days I noticed my ticked said Limited View, so I was ready for some plexiglass or something but come on.

I will make you the same offer I made Dave Howard years ago.  Let’s you and I hit a game. Let’s sit in those seats.  I’m not hitting you up for free tickets.  I will pay for them and you can be my guest, and we will sit and watch the game together from that view.  Let me know when and I will be there.

I tired to be civilized.  I waited three innings and then went looking for customer service.  I found a bro-dude kind of hanging around the area behind home upstairs.  He wasn’t particularly interested in my request to be moved anywhere.  The last row.  The corner.  Anywhere.   After barely paying attention to me for thirty seconds I was referred to the (whatever it is called) fan window in that same area.

There I met a nice man who, unlike the bro-dude with the beard, I felt actually kind of felt bad for me.  He looked genuinely sad to tell me there was nothing to be done, after all it was a sell out.

So, am I to believe that if Barack Obama attended a game with Sarah Seaver and they asked to be moved that the answer would be, sorry Barack and Sarah, there is no possible system to solve this.  None at all, after all it is a sellout.

You guys don’t have a system of, I dunno, four seats in case something comes up?  What happens if some drunk yaks on my seat, do you tell me too bad I have to sit in the puke?  Surely there is a system.  Surely.

So there you go Chris.  Let me know when you’d like to hit the game.  Ask yourself and ask the staff is this what you want the Guest Experience to be?  Hey sucks to be me, I bought the wrong seat. Oh well, nothing we can do,

Here’s the view if you lean forward for 9 innings.   In comparison, not so bad.  Of course the guy behind you gets mad because now he can’t see but hey as Dave Howard said – geometry.

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Mets Police Morning Laziness: Mickey Mafia on full hype, did they see the game?

SLACKISH REACTION:   Hooray the Mets won!

Wow the Mickey Mafia staring out strong.  Did they see the same game I did?   That was not because of the manager.  Did Mickey trick the Cards SP into being wild? Did they see Noah come up and strike out mid-rallies?    Is there a reason Gazelle Man came out?  Mickey is overmanaging. Here are my thoughts on why the Mickey Mafia is WRONG.

I had a nice time with my son, here’s the details of our day including one very pesky detail that is going to make me go to war.

If for some reason you only read the Morning Laziness..Rusty Staub passed away and here’s what I wrote.

Thor has Harveyitis (including being all hyped and giving up 4 runs in 6 innings which is not a good start, sorry) – but Noah zinging this fan is really funny.

What maniac scheduled a South Jersey soccer tournament today?  Why am I up at 6 on a day off?  (Soccer.)

Hey Amazon, Disney and Star Wars – can you guys cut it out. I just want to own The Last Jedi Blu-Ray wit Digital copy and it’s harder to buy than finding Luke on Ahch-To was.

 

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Resist the Mickey Mafia: So far Mickey Callaway is overmanaging

The Mets won today.  Hooray!  The Mickey Mafia is out there once again singing his praises.

Some Counterpoint –

Were the Mets good or the Cardinals bad?  Does the manager trick the opposing pitcher into hitting batters?

The Mets SP gave up 4 runs in 6 innings.  Put your thumb over the K column and it really was a Bad Matt Harvey outing.

I was really hoping he would let the Gazelle Man finish the game.  I know The Gazelle only trick out all three batters he faced but for some reason Mickey needed to Bullpen this one.  Just let the man finish the game like men did in the 1970s.  Gazelle was dominating, leave it alone.

And the whole Pitcher Batting 8th thing.   How many times did Noah come up mid-rally to look like he couldn’t bunt (hey I thought you all hated bunting, now Mick does it and its cool) – anyway Noah bunts as well as I do, maybe even worse – Noah would try to bunt and then just strike out.  That happened at least twice, maybe three times.  Stop with this.

So that’s my take.  It worked, but I am not ready to say it was because of the manager.  Relax Mickey Mafia.