The Mets Police

Yesterday, I went to Citi Field for the first time since September 29, 2018 when I went to David Wright’s final game.

I went because my adult son asked me – fulfilling all the dreams of dragging the little boy version of him to Mets games so some day we could do this as adults.

I had a good time and enjoyed it.  It made me want to watch more baseball (My consumption is up 400% this year from watching one game (161)  last year to watching three and attending one).  It made me want to drop the $70 on MLB The Show (they took ’24 off Game Pass and want $70 for it, same as the new one).

I can’t say the Mets aren’t trying to entertain people.  The scoreboard is non-stop gimmicks and there seem to be like 19 people working on the in-game  entertainment segments (all sponsored by sponsors I can’t name, sorry Steve.)

The Queens Crew is as dumb as I expected – although yesterday, they had kids doing it, which is much more palatable.

Speaking of kids, I really like this thing where the player photos are drawings.  This one of the Met Who Has Most Disgraced The Uniform, Franciso Lindor, is great because look at the right hand. The genius child snuck in a thumbs down. Heh heh heh.  Well done kid.

Here’s the crowd.  The Mets might be overstating how popular the team is.  Or maybe the weather forecast wasn’t great.  It was surprisingly “warm” and I was quite comfortable.

I also noticed that fans are wearing blue and orange, thanks to 2012’s Treaty of Flushing, now broken by the Cohens.  Since it took a decade for color sanity to make it back to the fanbase, expect the Cohen Era Ugly jerseys to continue to circulate well into the 2030s.  Shame.

Gonna be honest, I was underwhelmed by the Seaver Statue.  I don’t know what I was expecting…maybe I thought it was bigger?  But I’m very glad it exists.

Let’s talk about this.  The Mets last week social-media-bragged about their attention to detail.  The Mets definitely do not pay attention to detail.  Look ow faded these numbers are.  How is this possible Steve?   If nothing else, it makes the ballpark look rundown.  That’s not a premium environment for your advertisers.

A wider shot so you can see the other numbers which are not sunbleached.

I thought I took a photo of the Pennant Banners, but I don’t seem to have it.  Anyway, why are the Mets double dipping the 2000 season?  You won a pennant, you don’t need to talk about the Wild Card.  2000 has its own pennant (fine) but 2000 also appears on the We Have No Pride Wild Card pennant which should be removed.

Citi Field is one big commerce center.  Every square inch of the park is now covered with advertising, and you can’t go more than six inches before there is a stand trying to sell you something.  I got angry when I passed the site of the former museum, and then passed the plaques which are now just sitting in the hallway.  This is another Major Cohen-era regression.  It’s not like there isn’t a big store on the field level.   I wish they’d put that back as it was one of the best features of the park.

I didn’t do a loop or head out to T-Shirt land or The Bridge or any of that.

Most importantly, I spend ZERO DOLLARS.   When Lindor is gone, we can talk.  Until then, the Mets have built their brand around a guy who told the fans to hose off, so hose off I shall.    At least I have Soto to root for until Pete co-opts him with vulgarity.

Overall, a very positive review., the Mets won, and I got to boo Lindor in person.  A good day.  LGM.

 

 

Steve, this is really really sad.  You don’t actually think the Third Wild Card was an achievement do you?  While you’re at it, take all of them down.  The 2016 one is pretty lame too.

My baseball consumption is at 300% over 2024 as I  have no watched THREE games!

It was nice to see My Favorite Met, Juan Soto (still untarnished by vulgarity and/or being a jerk to fans like #12)

On TV the energy felt like a postseason game – that is to say, a postseason game called by an under-energetic past his prime Gary Cohen.   It’s been so long since I watched a Mets telecast that even Gelbs didn’t annoy me.

It was also interesting to hear Gary float the idea of juiced baseballs after Pete’s home.  You know what that suggests to me?  Gary knows the baseballs are juiced.

Some fools cheered Lindor during the intros.  Guys, you think Lindor would cheer you?   I hope Lindor gets Jury Duty and misses most of the season.

The second place Mets are just 1.5 games out of first place!

MLB doesn’t yet have the Wild Card standings up, but it looks like the Mets would be in the running for the tiebreakers for the Third Wild Card!

Oh, and nice jon Megill, who probably is the closest thing this flawed team has to an ace.

The T-Shirt Crowd wore their new horrific “Defender Jerseys” which honor the Atari 2600 Port of the video game Defender.

Those were of course defended by Media Shill, but he can’t even admit that He Struck Him Out is lame, so I am not surprised.

Seems some people think Senga pitched well.  4 runs in 5 innings are 4 runs. I don’t care if some of them were unearned.  Lindor didn’t walk a guy, and Lindor didn’t give up a double.   And I will remind you, I hate Lindor and cannot wait for him to be an ex-Met because of what he did to YOU.

The Mets do not have enough starting pitching.  You will eventually realize this.

ESPN has Lindor’s stats as the below.  I’m mad his OPS is that high.

Also it’s great they brought Pete back, isn’t it?  How would you ever replace these numbers?

Pay attention gang.  Both these players, and Steve, feed the media, so nobody who covers the Mets is going to critique any of them.

And don’t tell me it’s early.  It’s not early.  It’s Season 40 since the last parade.

Whoa WHAT???

The City has a VERY interesting piece under the headline: Mets Owners Are Already Drilling at Citi Field — Without NYC Casino Bid Settled

Hopefully this is just to distract us from the lousy baseball product.  The third place Mets are a game and a half out.  There shall be no excuses in Year 5 of the 5 Year Promise.

Completely unrelated, I find myself interested in campaign donations.  Hopefully one of the Queens newspapers will look into such things as I’d like to read about it.

Anyway sing it with me..

 Who turns unis into black?

Sees a park and thinks blackjack?

We do….we do!!

Last month, the owners of the Mets, who want to put an entertainment complex anchored by a casino next to Citi Field, began “exploratory boring” in at least two places to prepare for construction.

THE CITY spotted the heavy drilling in at least two places in the parking lot, which is legally park land that only the state can authorize for development — currently barring it from being used for the casino plan team owner Steve Cohen has pitched as a major economic boost for Queens.  (per The City)