The Mets Police

We can keep playing cat and mouse with the ticket office as long as they’d like, but Mets Police readers already knew that a Club Mets presale was coming.

The team just mass emailed everyone encouraging them to join Club Mets for this exclusive Club Mets presale which is on Tuesday. I’m not sure how exclusive it is since there are other presales.

I will have more presale info for you tomorrow. I’m not withholding info, I just need time to write it.

Mets I’m [email protected] any time you wanna be friends.

Update 5:15:  it is possible that the Mets haven’t actually communicated this to Club Mets members, just the rest of us.  That’s what I’m hearing.  Unconfirmed.   The Mets ticket office is probably better than that so it can’t possibly be true.

Red Sox owner John Henry said, “a good team can easily lose to an inferior team in a short series. So our goal really is to make the playoffs and try to win.”

No no no no no. That’s the words of someone trying to turn a profit. That’s the small mindedness of “meaningful games in September.”

I like the talk I’ve heard from the Mets this year. Ask Santana who the best pitcher is and he says Santana.

Mark Teixeiria gets it. His focus is to repeat as champion. It’s nice to hear a few guys in Queens thinking the same way.

You can’t have the mindset that “oh well we lost to a hot pitcher.” Chasing the wild card might make sense after September 20th but when the wild card talk starts in June you aren’t focused on the goal. Meaningful games in September means sending Tom Cylon Glavine to the hill for a do or die. No thanks.

Win the World Series. Then win it again.

First the info, then some comments below. From Mets Police reader Tom:

Shannon:
I emailed the Mets asking about a lottery for Opening Day, and got this:

Thank you for your e-mail. Opening Day tickets will be sold once single game tickets go on sale. As of right now the Subway Series tickets will not be sold. More information concerning the Subway Series will come out in the following weeks. There will be limited availability due to the Pre-sales we will have before the tickets go on sale. You can guarantee your Opening Day or Subway Series tickets by purchasing a Full Season, 40 Game Plan, 15 Game Plan that includes the selective game, one of our 6 game packs that include the selective game or our new 4 game Pick-a-Pack which includes Opening Day or a Yankee Game and three games of your choice. 1 game in April, 1 game in May, and 1 game in June. If you are interested in guaranteeing your Opening Day and Subway Series tickets now, call one of our operators at 718-507-TIXX.

I know you reported that there may be no lottery, but here’s some confirmation. Also, looks like there will be a lottery for Yankee games.

Faithful Mets Police reader,

Tom

There you have it.  No Subway Series games are being sold on March 7th.

Coupla thoughts:

1.  My usual reminder that Mets Police is not news.  I don’t claim to be accurate.  I’m only as good as my sources and I don’t have a team of investigative journalists to follow these stories.  I’ll leave it to you to decide on my track record of accuracy, and since I know the Mets check out the site I imagine that if I posted something wildly inaccurate that I’d get a note.

2.  Thanks to Tom for sending this over – as clearly demonstrated this week, it’s readers like you that fuel the site, which brings us to point #3

3.  As I mentioned yesterday, why the cat and mouse with the bloggers?  We aren’t going away (even if I quit today that would leave roughly three million Mets blogs, and probably 8-10 “major” ones).  Clearly the information is getting out to us.  Why not just have correct information out there?  The Mets aren’t keeping a secret or the email above wouldn’t exist.  Why not just share it with all potential customers?  Wouldn’t it help their business to alert fans that if they want to guarantee Subway Series tickets that fans should consider buying a 4 pack now?  The presumably feared WFAN backlash is going to happen anyway, whether today or on the Monday after the sale.  Just be honest with your fans.