What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Greetings from the 7 train. I’m on my way back from Citi Field.
What Shannon? That’s a weird place to be on a Monday night. Why were you there?
I made a friend. Y’all will be pleased with at least one of the improvements to Citi Field. I’m psyched and I know you will be. More details as soon as I can. I want to collect my thoughts and write it up properly.
Did you sign up for the Blue Cap Army yet? You should.
Here’s a fun story for a slow day….Strawberry says ’86 Mets  beat ’09 Yankees.
Doc would’ve destroyed them.
Doc was never really lights out in the post-season, but I think it’s fairly obvious to any rational human that the ’86ers would’ve have won the series.
Remember “Mr. Sunshine” my Yankee fan friend from last week?
He emailed me today to say that he got an brochure from the Mets offering him “season tickets” (I bet he meant partial plans). Â He even spit back the “comebacks” marketing slogan.
Sunshine says he has never bought a Mets ticket.
Is there some sort of database sharing? Â Did MLB.com email out some sort of geography based mass e-mail to “baseball fans?”
Interesting.
Update: I have updated this post to correct the information. Â I incorrectly assumed it was an email, but Sunshine got the brochure via snail-mail, there was no email. Â I Castillo’d this one.
For everyone’s convenience, here’s some photos of some obstructed views at Citi Field.
For more about obstructed views (and links and videos of fans getting teed off) check out yesterday’s discussion.
I was working on this on Friday, then the Reyes thing happened, but I’m still fired up about this.
I had to stop watching the game on Thursday because I was getting mad.
Do Fred and Jeff look at this uniform combination and think – hey those high black stirrups look good? Â How about that black undershirt?
I sort of understand that a civilian might want to wear black, but the white and blue color scheme of the Mets is so wonderful, why do they mess around? Â I’m a fan of high stirrups, but these black ones look terrible. Â The black undershirt? Â Terrible!
I just need someone to explain it to me. Â Is it sales? Â Do wearing the hybrid cap and black socks really move the profit margins? Â I thought Jeff loved the 1980’s Mets…you’re the boss dude, just tell everyone “we’re going back to blue.” Â Just do it. Â Everyone who wants a black John Franco jersey has one. Â Sell the blue. Â I gave in on the pinstripes, now meet me half way and wear blue. Â Eve the BP version of the blue (which has black) would look better if you could lose the orange and black underarm clutter.
Thanks to Aaron Doster who has been taking great photos down at spring training, and hooked me up with this shot. Â You can find more at flickr.com/teamdoster.
