The Mets Police

Hi there,

I grew up a Mets fan in Brooklyn and went to college in Queens, and it was a dream come true to play Major League ball and serve as the captain for my true hometown team.

The fourteen years I spent with the Mets gave me a unique view of the team, my teammates, and this town. My first season with the Mets, Darryl Strawberry knocked in a hundred runs and Doc Gooden won 19 games. Later, I won the NL pennant alongside Mike Piazza and Edgardo Alfonzo.

And then, during my final year with the Mets, I played alongside a kid who went from Double A to the big league club in a matter of months — and who would, a decade after me, be the next captain of the New York Mets, David Wright.

A few of my teammates from the 2000 squad just added their names to the letter — right next to our teammates from ’69 and ’86. We hope you’ll join us and sign your name in support of the Mets too.

Mets.com/TrueNewYorker

Don’t forget: one of the fans who signs the letter will present the names and messages from all the fans to select Mets players ahead of the first Subway Series game at Citi Field on Wednesday, May 14.

Mets.com/TrueNewYorker

Let’s Go Mets,

John

@metspolice @METS_BRO @DarrenJMeenan MAY Mrs. Met Bobblehead! pic.twitter.com/U1oX0eQVrY

— Nicholas Schiavo (@nickschiavo) May 1, 2014

Today is Majestic’s Jersey Day.  You’re supposed to wear your jersey to work/school/the game.  I call that Most Days.  Anyway, Uni Watch tells us that…

The Mets will be pulling the same stunt on May 25. Which is a Sunday. Which means the “work and school” thing won’t apply. (Maybe they want you to wear your jersey to church.) No word on which of the Mets’ 17 jerseys fans are supposed to wear, but I suppose Majestic doesn’t really care as long as you buy a jersey for the occasion. Honestly, how can these people even stand to look at themselves in the mirror?

via Uni Watch » The Pac Is Back, and That’s the Fact, Jack.

 

And you all know off the top of your head that May 25th is of course Banner Day.  So the Mets want us to were jerseys on Banner Day?  No problem Mets.

 

Keith mentions things like Old Timers’ Day, the colors of the ballpark, no 1973 40th…

Good read in the Times, and if you read long enough you will see that the Mets Police are mentioned.

As for the Mets, the number of tickets sold through 16 dates is up 3.4 percent to 27,058 a game, a nice lift after a steady decline in attendance since the team moved into Citi Field in 2009. Still, the number of viewers on SNY has fallen 4 percent to 180,000 a game.

via Yankees’ Attendance and Ratings Rebound, but Mets’ Are Mixed – NYTimes.com.

I am still having my coffee, but I wonder if the Mets TV ratings could be being affected by the late starts.  We’ve had an Anaheim with some 10’s, the Arizona 9-somethings and I couldn’t deal with last night and picked sleep.  I’m very interested in the Mets, but play some 7:10 games.

On the flip side of fairness, ticket sales may be up partially because of all the cheap tickets (the $3.50 promotion, and I think I recall some $5 seats the opening weekend).  That being said, perhaps the Mets will decide they like having fans and will keep offering inexpensive tickets to start winning back some zip codes.