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9 Things You Don’t Want To Miss At The Queens Baseball Convention

We are gearing up for The Queens Baseball Convention (January 10th at McFadden’s Citi Field)

Greg Prince and Art Shamsky with Gil Hodges Jr. at QBC14
Greg Prince and Art Shamsky with Gil Hodges Jr. at QBC14

1.  The Gil Hodges Award Ceremony

The Gil Hodges award will be presented to someone who played for the New York Mets and is beloved.  Last year we even had a surprise guest in Art Shamsky who dropped in on the QBC!

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2.  Uni Watch Presents: The Greatest Discussion Of Mets Uniforms Of All Time II

A smash hit last year, the room was packed as Paul Lukas of Uni Watch assembled the greatest minds in Mets uniforms.  Last year was the reveal that the Mets colors were almost pink and black.  What will happen this year?

MetsPolice.com Movember Mustache of the Day Wally Backman

3.   The Wally Backman Panel moderated by Adam Rubin

Who doesn’t want to hear what Wally has to say about all things baseball?

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4.  The retired numbers Panel

No, Keith Hernandez isn’t coming (although he is welcome), but we will be holding a discussion of What Numbers Should The Mets Retire?  Join us as we discuss 1, 8, 16, 17, 18, 31, 36 and whatever other number you’d like to throw out for discussion.

mookie

 

5.  Mookie

Do I even have to sell you on this?  Mookie Wilson.

 

Ron Darling signs autographs at QBC 14
Ron Darling signs autographs at QBC 14

6.  The FREE Autograph sessions

Your admission includes a free autograph from both Mookie and Wally.  Just wait in the quick moving line and they will sign one item (within reason, so leave your giraffe at home).

 

mr. met at qbc14

 

7.  Mr. Met

Mr. Met will be in the building, we hear around 3pm.

 

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8.  This snazzy t-shirt

Get your tickets soon before we close down the Ticket & Tee offer (we have to know how many to order).  It’s a nice looking quality t-shirt.  Don’t miss out.

 

Wear your Heep
Wear your Heep

9.  The Jersey Parade

You know what was shockingly awesome last year?  The Jersey Parade.  Wear your finest authentic or your most ridiculous Bonilla replica with holes in it and march from one end of the bar to the other as we lovingly mockingly comment.  It was amazingly fun.

 

The Queens Baseball Convention is Saturday January 10th at McFadden’s Citi Field.  Get Tickets now!  

We’ll be announcing more cool stuff soon including a panel with executives from a local baseball team, the super-cool emcee of the Mazzy Awards – you may know his voice from listening to baseball games on the radio, more mascots, more guests and more more!

 

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Matt Harvey News! Matt Harvey to talk with media which means MORE Matt Harvey News!

Matt Harvey news everyone!
Matt Harvey news everyone!

This is the best Matt Harvey News ever!  It is Matt Harvey News that will generate MORE Matt Harvey News!  It’s the perpetual motion machine of blogging!

Matt and some others are involved in something tomorrow. The organizers seem to make lots of money and can afford to advertise their own events.  Just letting you know Matt Harvey News is aware of the event and will recap it.

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Support the Mets coat drive tomorrow, get tickets

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WHAT: The New York Mets and New York Cares are teaming up to host their annual Mets “Warm-Up” Holiday Coat Drive on Wednesday, December 3 from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Mets Team Store at Citi Field. Fans bringing a new or gently used coat will receive a voucher redeemable for two tickets to a Mets home game in April 2015 (excluding Opening Day), as well as receive 15% off select regularly priced merchandise at the Mets Team Store at Citi Field, December 3 only. Participants can park in Lot G on 126th Street.

WHEN: Wednesday, December 3
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Mr. Met in attendance from 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

WHERE: Citi Field – Fans drop off their coat inside the Mets Team Store adjacent to the Jackie Robinson Rotunda and may park in Lot G off 126th Street between the Right Field Gate and Roosevelt Avenue.

 

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I would suggest that in the future the Mets change the ticket promotion to something like “home game in April or a selected dates in May-September.”  It’s not like they are gonna sell out every night (even in 1987 they didn’t) – and April sucks to go to a game.  There aren’t even Saturday day games any more.

Anyway, the spirit of this post is to encourage you to support the coat drive.

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Mets Plan Holders Dizzy From Foo Fighters Presale

Man. The Mets organization at times can’t get out of their own way. Let me start this out with the ticket reps are great. I have never had a problem with dealing with the reps in the ticket office or my personal ticket rep. I have found that they are always trying to help out the fans while still trying to do their jobs as salesmen. That being said, I have no idea what goes on in the levels above them when it comes to promotions. We have covered the different 4 for $48 promotions and the other specially priced games in the past that have made longtime plan holders give up their ticket plans. Example: Shannon Shark had a plan since Shea was around and now he dropped it. He just got fed up like many others.
Now I stuck with my 20 game plan for this upcoming season, I even upgraded my seats(cue the boos and what are you, a moron? Comments.). But I enjoy going to games in “my seats”. One of the perks of being a plan holder is that you are supposed to get first shot at pre sales for any non baseball event at Citi Field. Now here’s where it goes all nutty.

The Foo Fighters as part of their deal for renting out Citi Field as part of their tour got a certain number of tickets to pre-sale themselves to fans. That happened two Saturday’s ago. It was to “beat the bots” so real fans of the band would get a shot at tickets unlike the ticket broker bots that bought a chunk at Wrigley last year shutting out fans. Okay cool I get it.

So I inquired about how come the plan holders weren’t notified about any pre-sales for us. I was told Dec.1 would be the date for our “exclusive” pre-sale. I passed that around to the ten or so plan holders that had contacted me about not getting any kind of email about this pre-sale.

Days go by, no email telling us about the pre-sale. No contact at all. The ticket office tells me they are supposed to send an email out before Dec 1. As of yesterday, still no emails. I email my rep and he was shocked that none of the emails were sent out. He told me that they would be sent out before the 10am pre-sale kicked off and to let him know if they didn’t. At 10:05 still no email. So I called in 2 times to try to get through. Got the old our agents are busy recording. I called back right away and got through almost immediately. Got to a ticket rep and put my order in. I told him that as plan holders we never received any emails about the pre-sale and I heard that the flushing flash went out telling about the pre sale for that which was at the same time as the plan holders pre-sale. What happened to our exclusive pre sale just for plan holders? Isn’t that one of our “special benefits” as plan holders?

Now unlike certain other bloggers in the past who got a ticket rep fired because she didn’t like his answers about the Mets not signing Reyes, I know it’s not their faults. Man, can the Mets screw up something cool.

So what I’ve learned is the Mets still have bad communication with their plan holders, have bad communication interdepartmentally in certain departments and don’t know what “exclusive pre-sale” opportunities for plan holders means.

Oh yeah, do you know what time me email came for my “exclusive” 10am pre-sale? 10:26 am that’s when. And then I got the flushing flash pre-sale at 11:01am. And not to be forgotten how about the live nation pre-sale I got at 11:45am for my “exclusive” pre-sale from them.

One other thing I heard was if you went into the pre-sale online for the Foo fighters you went in through ticketmaster then it sent you to mets.com then to tickets.com. Damn I am so dizzy from this.

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