What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Gary Cohen won the first Mets Police “impossible poll” (that’s where you make a tough choice) 64% to 36%.
This week’s impossible poll forces you to choose between Keith Hernandez and Mike Piazza. Â There is a widget on the main page which you’re seeing if you’re on the site, and if you’re reading on Google Reader or email click here to visit the site.
Uh oh.
Last night I opened up my new copy of MLB2K10 and started on my new season. As usual, I set out to make myself a pitcher on the Mets (bumped Jon Niese for the 5 spot).
The first thing that stinks is I now have to lie about my age. If I make myself my real age the game makes me old and tired and I last 3 innings and announce my retirement at the end of the season. I made myself 20. Pathetic.
That’s not the big problem. Mets Police Junior comes by and the story is very very troubling, and as much as y’all will bust my chops, if I am Dave Howard or Jeff Wilpon this should be a red frakking alert warning.
Junior watches me load the game.
“You’re the Mets?” Yes.
“Are you going to be the Yankees?” No.
“Will you be the Yankees next game?” Nope, I’m on the Mets. What’s your obsession with the Yankees?
“I like them. They win.”
Jeff you lived this in the late 1970’s much like I did. All the brainwashing in the world won’t overcome a World Series victory to a 6 year old. Perhaps I’m undercutting the entire point of my blog, and Cerrone over on Metsblog is right: just win.
Very troublesome night. Fortunately he’s 6 and if he has one fun day at Citi Field he’ll swing the other way, and the first team to hold Clone Wars night is likely to win him over for life.
Last year his highlight was that we got a Johnny Rockets shake when we checked out Fake Yankee in April. Maybe I’ll take him there on a cold night and tell him the shake place closed.
I think I will have some very cool Blue Cap Army news soon. Â I’m in conversation with a new friend. Â Stay tuned, and if you haven’t already – Sign up here.
This was a good discussion…a letter came in wondering how we (me and you I guess) could be big Mets fans when all we do is complain. Â My response, and then a guest column from Adam.
I decided to try to get tickets this morning (as an exercise) since I have this whole blog thing going.
I found the server responded very quickly and it was very easy to connect. Â Read into that whatever you will, I’m going to stay positive and assume the Mets have an awesome infrastructure that deftly handles high ticket demand.
Just poking around:
I was able to get seats in the Promenade Infield for the opener. Â Earlier in the week I was unsuccessful. Â I may stink at the internet, or someone’s credit card canceled, or they released more tickets. Â I have no idea. Â I’m just saying you may want to try since we’ve all collectively decided that Promenade Infield offers the best relative value.
I decided to look at other big games. Â Since the Yankees games are not part of this I couldn’t think of any big games, so I looked at August 1st. Â That game looks like it is selling pretty well, I was only offered seats way out in left field.
Regular readers know this, but for Mets Police newbies – I don’t hate the Yankees. Â Sorry. Â There are 6 games a year and one World Series every half-century but other than that they don’t affect the Mets’s season. Â It’s New York and I like baseball…I also like old baseball stadiums, so the below make me sad.
There’s a website Demolition of Yankee Stadium that has lots of photos.
The Daily News has an article today about the demolition.
WCBS880.com regularly updates their photo galleries.
In case you’re wondering, when I reviewed New Fake Yankee Stadium I compared it to The Phantom Menace (that’s the awful Star Wars movie with the kid.) Â They did get some things right, like the Yankees museum, but overall it’s a tale of two stadiums. Â If you are rich and can sit down low you can pretend you’re in the old place. Â If you’re normal like us and sit upstairs, it’s a windy unfinished cement pond.
