What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Good morning….Ceetar (who is @ceetar on twitter and who operates Optimistic Mets Fan) knows that on Saturday I wake up my brain with a certain Unnamed Donuts Chain that should sponsor my blog….and he sent this one over. Â apparently Chain-of Donuts has a new baseball themed campaign.
Some say this takes the fun out of collecting the helmet caps, but I know Junior will be hitting me up for some.
Thanks for the pic Ceetar…I’m heading into town for some Donut Coffee.
I like this one a little better than I liked yesterday’s….from Mitchell & Ness. Â Discuss!
ESPN has announced their 2010 Ultimate Team Rankings in which they “measure how much MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL franchises give back to the fans in exchange for all the time, money and emotion the fans invest in them.”
OK sounds like my kind of thing. Â Let’s check in on the Mets.
Ouch #107 of 122, down from #82 last year.
Fan Relations #102! (defined as “Openness and consideration toward fans by players, coaches and management.”) Â I’m here to help David. Â 102 of 122. Â 4 ahead of the Lions.
Stadium Experience: #81
Read the rest here.
Friday, July 2Â @ Washington
Angel Pagan – CF
Ruben Tejada – SS
David Wright – 3B
Ike Davis – 1B
Jason Bay – LF
Rod Barajas – C
Jeff Francoeur – RF
Alex Cora – 2B
Jonathon Niese – LHP
On MLB.com you can see for yourself that:
MLB.com is offering you the opportunity now to buy tickets at the face value price for your favorite team.Postseason Ticket Reservations is a new feature intended to broaden potential access to these valuable seats, ensuring you that if your team plays in a game you reserve, you get to buy a face-value ticket and go to the game.
Let’s take the defending National League champs as an example. If you purchase a National League Division Series Home Game 1 reservation for the Phillies and they qualify for the postseason, your selected game will occur and a reservation would allow you to purchase a ticket for the first home Division Series game at Citizens Bank Park (either Game 1 or Game 3 of the Division Series, depending on whether the Phillies have home field advantage in the series).
The cost for each transaction is $10 for the Division Series, $15 for the League Championship Series and $20 for the World Series. The maximum purchase for each game is two reservations per household per team per series. So it would cost $90 now if you wanted to reserve two tickets for one game of all three possible postseason rounds, for example.
And let us not forget the always inexplicable: * A $1 per order transaction fee applies to each purchase of Postseason Ticket Reservations
So Mets fans, do you wanna “waste” $45 on a chance at being at the first home game of all three rounds?
Maybe you are considering this. Â A few things to ask yourself….
…what happens if your face value tickets are the top tier tickets?
..how does this affect post-season lotteries? Â Smaller pool for you folks with the 15 game plans I assume. Â Maybe?
…29 of the 30 teams are participating. Â Wanna guess who isn’t?
…I kinda wanna buy Cubs World Series tickets just to be one of the 4 people on Earth who can say they have ever done that.
…and what happens to Stubhub? Â Well I am no lawyer but I can read:
Trading or transfer or Postseason Ticket Reservations.
The trading or transfer to any person or entity of Postseason Ticket Reservations is not currently permitted by the Postseason Ticket Reservation marketplace. In the event that MLB.com determines to allow the trading of Postseason Ticket Reservations, notice will be provided on this website. The rules and policies associated with such trading will be made available to users not later than the time when trading becomes permissible. Any trading of Postseason Ticket Reservations will be governed by the rules and policies published by MLB.com on this website.
Get your playoff tickets now while I ponder if the ticketpocalypse just happened.