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METS ANNOUNCE 2011 SPRING TRAINING SCHEDULE

Sports Radio 66 WFAN To Broadcast Eight Spring Games

Amazin’ Getaways Spring Training Official Trip Packages Provide Fans Opportunity To Watch Mets at Digital Domain Park in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

FLUSHING, N.Y., November 30, 2010 – The New York Mets will open their 35-game, 2011 Spring Training schedule against the Atlanta Braves with a 1:10 p.m. contest, Saturday, February 26 at Digital Domain Park in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

New manager Terry Collins’ team will play the Braves eight times, the Washington Nationals and Florida Marlins seven times each, the St. Louis Cardinals six times, the Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros each twice and the Minnesota Twins once during the exhibition schedule.

Season and Five-Game Plans for Mets Spring Training games are on sale now. Individual tickets will go on sale at Digital Domain Park Saturday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m. Tickets and information are available online at mets.com, digitaldomainpark.com or by calling 772-871-2115. Game times for all Spring Training contests are subject to change.

Sports Radio 66 WFAN, the Mets flagship station, will broadcast eight Spring Training games: Saturday, February 26 vs. Atlanta; Sunday, February 27 at Atlanta; Saturday, March 12 at Atlanta; Sunday, March 13 vs. St. Louis; Saturday, March 19 vs. Washington; Saturday, March 26 vs. Atlanta; Sunday, March 27 at St. Louis; and Wednesday, March 30 vs. Florida. The television broadcast schedule will be announced in the coming weeks.

The Mets will have four split-squad dates: Sunday, February 27 at home against the University of Michigan and at Atlanta in Disney; Tuesday, March 8 home vs. Washington and away against Houston in Kissimmee; Thursday, March 10, away at Jupiter to play the Marlins and at Viera to take on the Nationals; and Saturday, March 19, at home vs. Washington and at Disney to play Atlanta.

The Mets have a two-day road trip to Fort Myers to play the Twins on Wednesday, March 16 and the Red Sox on Thursday, March 17. The Mets have one night game scheduled for 7:10 p.m., Tuesday, March 15 vs. Washington in Port St. Lucie.

The Mets, in conjunction with Spring Training USA, also today announced the launch of the 2011 Amazin’ Getaways Spring Training packages with four departures from New York scheduled for Saturday, March 5; Friday, March 11; Friday, March 18 and Saturday, March 26.

Each package includes a Meet and Greet with a Mets player or coach along with a custom Mets sports merchandise bag. Amazin’ Getaway packages start at $594 (including tax) per person and includes hotel accommodations, rental car, and game tickets. A limited number of fans can sign up for the Mets VIP Spring Training Batting Practice Experience at Digital Domain Park. For more information about Amazin’ Getaways visit www.mets.com/amazingetaways or call (888) 419-5556.

The Mets will start their 2011 Major League season Friday, April 1 at 7:10 p.m. at Florida. The Home Opener will be Friday, April 8 at 4:10 p.m. against Washington.

The complete 2011 Spring Training schedule is after the jump.

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I’m glad this release came out. Always happy to share good Mets things!

METS TO HOLD COAT DRIVE BENEFITING NEW YORK CARES ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15 AT CITI FIELD

Fans Donating Coats Will Receive Voucher Redeemable
For One Pair of Tickets to a Select Mets Game in April 2011;
15% Discount at Mets Team Store

FLUSHING, N.Y., November 30, 2010 – The New York Mets today announced they are hosting their annual Coat Drive in support of New York Cares on Wednesday, December 15 at Citi Field. The Mets and New York Cares will collect gently-used men’s, women’s and children’s coats at Hodges VIP, on the first base side of the ballpark, from 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Fans donating coats will receive a voucher redeemable for one pair of tickets to a select Mets game in April 2011. In addition, fans can show their voucher at the Mets Team Store at Citi Field to receive a 15% off regularly priced merchandise. Season Ticket Holders who donate coats can show their voucher and ID card to get 20% off regularly priced items. The discount will only be honored Wednesday, December 15.

Fans dropping off coats may park in Lot G on 126th Street between the Right Field Gate and Roosevelt Avenue.

Coats will be donated to the New York Cares Coat Drive, the city’s largest annual coat drive which has a goal of collecting 70,000 coats during December. For information about the New York Cares Coat Drive, please visit newyorkcares.org.

I really appreciate the discussions we’re having – BklynGuy posted this in the comments:

I’m a season ticketholder, have used the Mets’ “Ticket Transfer” service and can fill in a couple of holes here. First, to confirm, it’s $4 per transfer, and the transfer can include anywhere from 1 to 4 tickets per game. Second, the transfer automatically cancels – that is, invalidates – the hard ticket(s)’ bar code(s); the PDF ticket(s) include(s) a new bar code. Third, once the PDF ticket(s) is/are emailed and accepted, the recipient can then forward that email (containing the PDF or PDFs) without charge, as it then is just an image that he owns and can do with as he pleases. (Maybe his buddy sent him 2 tix and he then wants to send one of them to HIS buddy whom he’ll meet at the seats, or maybe he wants/needs to transfer his e-tix from one device of his own to another.) Also, the recipient has (or at least used to have) the option to say he’ll pick up the transferred tix at Will Call rather than print them out, which I guess is useful if you’re receiving tix on your smartphone while driving to New Shea on the BQE. Finally, a little-noticed side effect: the transfer process makes hard tix a dicey proposition when dealing with strangers if you’re on the buying end, because there’s no way to know if the bar code’s been invalidated by a Ticket Transfer. As a result, when I’m occasionally on the buying end, I’ll usually only accept a PDF or printout of it.

Good to know that it’s $4 not $4 per ticket (and I will update that other post).

MetsMike says:

Being someone who has spent a good amount of years working in and around professional sports box office operations, and in defense of the Mets, the fee to transfer tickets are to offset the charge they receive from their ticketing provider. Providing professional sports ticketing (not ticket sales, but actually providing the ticketing service online) is a multi-million dollar business. I don’t know the particulars of the Mets situation, but I can assure you they are being charged either exactly or close to the $4 fee.
That and the combination of controlling the second market for tickets with the fee, this doesn’t seem to be the battle we should be fighting.

That seems logical to me that the Mets are passing along a cost.  What I don’t yet understand is how other teams are able to do it for less, or in the case of the Knicks for free.

I’d love more insight if anyone has any.

Did everyone survive the earthquake?