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Holy cow, what was I thinking?

I was looking at my upcoming games to plan my life.  Fox moved Saturday’s convenient-for-me night game to a 4:05 start so I would like to sell those on Stubhub so I don;t have to cut a beach day short.

Play along with me.  How much would you guess a seat in the left field promenade would cost.  It’s a Saturday against the Giants.

$23!

I couldn’t believe it.  If you told me you wanted me to pay $23 to sit in the uppers to see the first place Mets play on “Tom Seaver Pitches An Inning Night” I wouldn’t buy it.   Boy did I get sucked in by the new park.

Now I can either nuke my day or take a loss.  No way I will get $23 plus stubhub’s commission.   Oh well, my stupidity nobody elses.

Let’s look at Monday night.  Also against the Giants.   $10?  $15?   Nope.  $19.  I guess I’ll use them.  (You can buy some for $8 on stubhub.)

Someone told me that the Phillies had their 50th sellout.  Good thing I bought a Sunday Phillies package (really, I did).  I have gone zero times and sole 14 of my 15 games at significant profit.  It pays for the Mets tickets.

Want to guess the one game I haven’t sold?   September 12th against…..the Mets!

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Wow I just got an email from the Jets… HALF-SEASON plans are available.

HALF-season!

So hopefully someone in the mainstream media will read this and can help out (twitter me @metspolice) – if they don’t sell out then Jets games will be blacked out, right?   Unless the Jets buy their own seats.

I really can’t believe this is happening.  I’m still not buying.

In case you are curious, the cheapest Jets ticket on stubhub for Sep 20th is $112…but that’s now.

The Gridiron Plan  The Gridiron Plan
	Friday		August 14, 2009, 7:00 PM		August 14th Jets vs Rams
	Sunday		September 20, 2009, 1:00 PM		Sept 20th Jets vs Patriots
	Sunday		October 18, 2009, 4:15 PM		Oct 18th Jets vs Bills
	Sunday		November 15, 2009, 1:00 PM		Nov 15th Jets vs Jaguars
	Sunday		December 20, 2009, 1:00 PM		Dec 20th Jets vs Falcons

The Legacy Plan  The Legacy Plan
	Thursday		September 3, 2009, 7:00 PM		Sept 3rd Jets vs Eagles
	Sunday		September 27, 2009, 1:00 PM		Sept 27th Jets vs Titans
	Sunday		November 1, 2009, 1:00 PM		Nov 1st Jets vs Dolphins
	Sunday		November 29, 2009, 1:00 PM		Nov 29th Jets vs Pathners
	Sunday		January 3, 2010, 1:00 PM		Jan 3rd Jets vs Bengals

Section			Avg Per   Game Price		Total   Plan Price
		Upper Prime Sections 309 thru313 and 329 thru 333		US $80.00		US $800.00
		Upper Level Corners and Endzones		US $75.00		US $750.00

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Before the season I suggested some new traditions for Citi Field. For my Monday column on Flushing University I thought I would take a look back at the suggestions and see how I did.


With the season in ruins I thought I’d take a look back to when hope sprung eternal. Back then on The Mets Police I called for some new traditions for Citi Field. New rituals for a new building. Let’s see what has happened.1. Bring back Old Timer’s Day. Well, David Howard has told us it is a poor investment, so this list is off to a rotten start.2. Bring back banner day. This one boggles the mind. Perhaps the Mets are afraid of being criticized. Wait until they discover the internet.3. Rusty’s Ribs. I had forgotten about this one. A “homegrown” food place would be more fun and blue collar than some of the stores at Citi. I’ll give the Mets a pass.4. “Meet Me At The Apple.” – well I didn’t know they were going to hid the apple under the stairs of the least used gate. They might as well have placed it in the actual junkyard across the street. I will change this request to “meet me at the Seaver statue” which should be in front of the rotunda entrance.5. Seaver Always Throws Out Opening Day. They are 1 for 1 and this list is 1 for 5.6. Hang a 17 on the fence. Even way back in March my spidey sense was tingling that the new place could use some more Mets.7. Wear pinstripes and blue hats 6 days a week. Charlie Samuels seem to disagree, but I think I could drive cross-country with Howie and not run out of things to talk about.8. Bullpen cars with cap-tops. Like in the 70’s at Shea. I think at this point I’d settle for bullpens we could see.9. The new sign man. I keep hoping someone will take up the tradition, but I don’t think any self respecting sign man could afford seats on the main level.10. No wave. So far so good. I haven’t seen that many waves this year. Have you?11. Organ music. The season started promising and then the noise idiots started getting carried away again. This will be an easy fix once I buy the team.12. The traditional Take Me Out To The Ballgame recording using the PA announcer from the 80’s. Ding, winner!13. The Curly Shuffle. They went for Meet the Mets in the 8th so I will just smile and wave nicely at Jeff Wilpon and be glad we didn’t get stuck with Sweet Caroline (it olnly took two months for them to figure that one out.)14. Lady Met returns. Not a chance.15. The traditional booing of Luis Castillo. It took a Subway Series for this to take root, but hey at least we have a tradition to call our own!


Any suggestions out there?

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Thanks to Laura for catching this one!  Note you get a “Mets ballpark” tin not a Citi Field tin.  Interesting.

From today’s mets.com mass-email:

The first 25,000 fansthrough the gates on Citi Field on Sunday, August 16, get a Mets ballpark tinand great Sunday afternoon of Mets baseball!

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Off a reader tip I took my camera to check out some construction in the right field corner of Citi Field.

Next to the 47 shop (someone asked about the name – yeah I guess that is a Jackie Robinson reference.  That or Jesse Orosco owns the store.  More on that tomorrow.) you will see some construction.

The space does not look very big from the front.  My initial reaction was that if it is a museum, it would be small.

That’s what the square says.   Since 40,000 people a night can see the sign the number isn’t a secret.

Here’s the space from the side.   As you can see, lot’s of windows.

So, I don’t know what the space is.   Time will tell.

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