The Mets Police

As promised, I have my coffee and my brain is now working.

I went to bed via Howie at 11-5.  That worked out.

REMAIN CALM: If I told you on April 14th they would be a half game out on May 3rd you’d have laughed.

LINEUP NITPICKING:  you have to play the bench guys occasionally, and the numbers made sense.   Unless Jerry benched a 700 foot tall player I don’t think that had much to do with the loss.

ATTIRE: I am going to be watching Mr. Santana closely.  I wonder if he is requesting certain combinations.

DOPEY NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: One of the local papers had a knucklehead dress up as a jerky Mets fan and walk around Philly trying to annoy people.  Why would you do this?  I refuse to link.  Why make Mets fans look like jerks?

Because of that article I saw other out of town articles ripping “Mets fans” for getting carried away about having a half game lead over the Nationals.

Very annoying.  Bad job local newspaper.

Dan who writes here on Mets Police says there are two more pre-sales:

Monday, May 3rd for Mets Club members

Tuesday, May 4th for CitiCard holders

and the general public presale for whatever’s left is:

Thursday, May 6 at 10:00 a.m. at Mets.com, LosMets.com and (718) 507-TIXX.

Fans can purchase a maximum of six tickets total for games at Citi Field on Friday, May 21 at 7:10 p.m., Saturday May 22 at 7:10 p.m., and Sunday, May 23 at 8:05 p.m. For example, fans may purchase two tickets to the three games, three tickets to two games, six tickets to one game or any other combination totaling six tickets across the series.

Wow I am wiped from the Actual Athletic Activity. Quick story.

As I’m running on fumes duing tbe Actual Athletics I look up an see a man in a blue Mets cap. I think to myself that’s a good looking cap.

It was Osh41 of “occassionally-writes-on-here about uniforms” fame. Well done.

I’m heading home and jumping in the pool. Blog ya later closer to game time. Go outside!

I find myself interested this week in how blogs/twitter/facebook/etc fit into baseball these days.  I’m with Cerrone that the last thing I need in the next day’s newspaper is a 10 hour old boxscore and recap.   I can get that on my phone in two seconds.   Original reporting, angles and community are what interest me.

The Indians have created a blogger “press” area.  Waiting for Next Year and Sports Business Daily each have an excellent article about it:

“We’re looking to get aggressive in this area and connect with our community however we can, and this is something we’re testing,” said Indians Dir of Communications & Creative Services Curtis Danburg. “Our target audience right now is pretty negative [on the club], and we need to do everything we can to engage them. We need to be very active in this space, and part of that conversation that is happening.”

So let’s think about that.   Say some random Tuesday night in June.   You know, I know, and the Mets know who the Top 10-15 blogs are.   Invite us out (yes I included myself, I’m having a good year) and set us up in center field with some WiFi, have Jerry spend 5 minutes with us at 5:30, have Omar come by, let Dave Howard come by and bust my chops “so you’re the wiseguy” (I don’t know how Dave talks, that’s just how I picture it).   Why not?  I’ll happily pay for admission just to have a power source and wifi.

I don’t want free tickets, I don’t want a free hot dog, I have money, this isn’t what this is about.   It’s about community, discussion, and exchange of ideas.  Could be neat.

The Dodgers had a Blogger Night in 2008 (and perhaps more) and according to Dodgerfan credentialed bloggers in 2009.

Read more about the Indians blogger area: Waiting for Next Year and Sports Business Journal