What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Spotted this in NYC. Â Isn’t it pretty? Â Nice blue and orange and no black. Â One point off for the ball-logo not having the NY. Â That’s not the umbrella’s fault. Â i still don’t understand why the NY was taken off that logo? Â Is it cheaper to make without it? Â Do the Mets think that people in NJ will rebel? Â I have no idea.
Back to tickets: I will have more pre-sale information in the morning.
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. Â 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. Â 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.
Continuing a look at some baseball cards…it’s 1978 and here’s Bobby V as a player, with someone many of you haven’t heard of, Lenny Randle. Got cards: share ’em [email protected]
And yes I stink at taking photos. Tomorrow, some 1979 cards.
Was talking with a friend today, and as we usually do we drifted back to 1986. From my perspective in the uppers I felt like they actually cared when they lost a game, whether it was in ’86 or ’85 or even ’87.
I felt there were guys like Keith Hernandez who would actually get mad when they lost.
I don’t get that vibe from this team. I want to. I like the comments that came out from Wright, Reyes and Santana…but who is the guy that will be mad when the Mets drop two of three to the Nationals?
To me, the person has to have some combination of tenure and resume. It can’t be a rookie, and it can’t be someone who never plays.
I’m not in the clubhouse so I may have no idea what I’m talking about. Does this team have such a guy? Is one of the core one of that type of guy?
