The Mets Police

The Mets invite you to take part in the 2011 Fantasy Camp. And if you are over 30 and are OK making the major league minimum, heck you could in theory wind up on the 2011 roster.  I wonder if they’ll let me put a C on my jersey.

Trade in that business suit for the uniform you’ve dreamed of wearing your entire life!

If you are over the age of 30 and a baseball enthusiast, especially a Mets fan, than the Mets Fantasy Camp is for you. To sign up or to learn more, click on the link above (or below).

Your Mets Fantasy Camp Package includes:

• The chance to hit against and pitch to former Mets greats
• Mets home and road uniforms, official Mets dugout jacket, hat, t-shirt, and other accessories
• Your own clubhouse locker
• Personal attention from Mets legends
• Clubhouse staff and Mets trainers
• Round-trip airfare from NY Area
• Six days/five nights hotel accommodations in Port St. Lucie, FL.
• Ground transportation to and from Digital Domain Field

Personalized baseball cards

Over at NJ.com Matt Artus has a must-read about a Mets focus group.

The group, which consisted of thirtysomethings and up from across the tri-state area, certainly covered the bases you’d expect them to cover. The consultant asked about the Citi Field experience, which induced responses about the awfully loud music, obstructed sightlines, and need for more Shake Shacks. The consultant asked about the cost of tickets, which the group felt was worth half what the Mets charge and made inexplicably complicated by the team’s variable pricing structure. The consultant asked about the face of the franchise, which the group designated as “no one” because David Wright hasn’t quite made the leap yet while a minority still bought into the fallacy that the Mets have a pro-Latin bias.

More details here!!!

Matt writes a great blog, if it’s off your radar you should add it to your rotation.  Great job Matt!!!!

Over at Always Amazin’ Matt Artus posted some cool “old” Mets videos.

Good morning Mets fans,

Not much to say on the baseball front. I am sad they lost but I love that Santana just pitches games by himself now. Screw everybody Johan. This guy has my respect, on the Top 5 Mets I respect list that I just made up. (Seaver, Keith and I will get back to you with two more.)

This Mets vs. the union soap opera should be fun, especially if you have a blog and realize April is a long long way away.

I have gotten a few emails this week about the “ice cream caps” – something is the air about that. I need a good weekend of blog catch-up…fell asleep the chair last night at 9:15. It’s halfway OK to type text on the bus but to start manipulating photos is harder.

Some links of interest:

Jerry Izenberg wrote a nice piece about what it was like to be a Giants fan.

The SF Giants have yet to win, makes me continue to wonder if I will see another championship in Queens before I die.

Carton was saying something about individual non-PSL football Giants tickets going on sale at 10am via Ticketmaster. I cant find any details but you may want to check that out.

Why relocating a team isn’t as easy as just picking a city.

Metsphotos shows us how they make the Mets logo stencil on the mound.

Remember one day I mused about my personal rankings of the Akers announcers over the years?….

….ok see where it says “Akers” – I typed Mets and the iPad spell “corrected” it to Akers. Hilarious. Injoy the floating feeling.

…where was I, oh yeah the Mets announcers? A year ago AmazinAvenue did a cool Tournament of Announcers. Who do you suppose won?

Seems Howie is off. Lukas should work hard on his Fire Wayne Hagin site this week.

There was a closet-quake in my house and the rod fell out of the wall. Mrs. Mets Police is gonna clean up that mess today, and she’s likely to notice that I have bought quite a few jerseys this summer. Heh heh.

A few of you actually seemed to miss the podcast (I couldn’t do one this week) – we’ll be back in the normal Sunday 6:30pm slot this week. You can always punch “Mets Police” into the iTunes store podcast section to subscribe. We’re not that good at radio but getting better – and I’d rather hear from you guys anyway than have me blather away. More on that as the week moves forward.

My email contact is [email protected]

Media Goon can be reached at [email protected] – he had the good suggestion that I share his address since (a) he stays up later than I do and (b) has more of a slacker job than I do – so if you see news break it may make sense to copy him on things.

Thanks for all the stuff y’all send in. I’m trying to keep up, which is a great problem to have. Those of you who get annoyed when Cerrone is slow to reply at Metsblog, I can only imagine what his inbox looks like. Matt’s a good dude.

It’s very hard to blog on a moving bus.