The Mets Police

What a difference a week makes, right?

This time last week people were jumping off a ledge, today I’m waking up to emails with brooms and even one from Official Flushing referring to the “surging Mets.”

The pitching has been way better than anyone could hve expected, and the bats will wake up eventually.

It’s fun watching the mood swings (and I am as guilty as anyone) but let’s remain calm before we start with brooms and surges, after all Ollie goes tonight.

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The Mets are offering a ticket to (I think) anyone who had tickets for last night. Details coming after I read the emails more closely.

That’s a good job by them, as was letting people move down to better seats last night.

I enjoy busting their chops, but I enjoy singing their praises even more. Good job fellas.

Over the weekend I commented on a post from Mets Today with the goal of encouraging the Mets to let people “sneak down” when the stadium is half-empty.

Well, Sunday night during the third inning the Mets invited fans to move down to the open seats.  I’m getting my info from fans at the game – I’ve heard “to field level” and “closest open seat.”

Whatever the announcement was, I think that’s great.   There are die-hards out there in the rain tonight, let them have a nice night.  Maybe some kid has a great experience and forms a life-long experience with the team.

Some folks are being cynical saying that the Mets were embarrassed to show empty seats on national TV.  I’m not buying that logic.

The Mets did something nice for the fans, and since this is a fan-advocacy blog I applaud this move in a big way!

(Maybe this blogging stuff works?)

The Mets are now on twitter.  They are @NewYorkMets.

I’m @metspolice if you’d like to be friends.

If you’re not on twitter it has become a cool place to hang during games.

Dear ESPN,

Please stop covering the Mets.

I have made a list of things I have never heard said by any humans:

“I’m psyched they scheduled the game for 8:05.”

“These announcers are much more insightful than Gary, Keith and Ron.”

“I wonder what the scores in the Spanish Soccer league are?”

“I bet I can get six bucks for these on Stubhub!”

“I wonder how some random fan reacted to that pitch.”

Seriously, ESPN – can’t you cover the Yankees?  Three Sunday Night games in a row?  What about the poor people in California, can’t you show them teams they like since you’ve made the start time convenient for them?

Here’s the results from last week’s “The manager is…” poll:

51%  Bobby V

16% Backman

12% Keep Jerry

9%  Convince Keith

7% Bob Melvin

4%  Wait for Torre

1%  LeeMazzilli (and I didn’t even vote!)

This week’s question:  black jersey, plexiglass, Jimmy Rollins or rain delay.  You decide what it means.  That’s the beauty of the impossible poll.