What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Go visit the Remembering Shea blog.
They have a poll asking what you plan to do in 2010 in terms of season ticket plans….and a good recap of what it was like to be a sucker, I mean fan, who dealt with the rain delay Sunday.
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Some more good comments:
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Here’s one for you. Went looking for traditional Mets cap with adjustable back (sold at Shea for 40 years) at Citifield. None! All fitted, $40 plus. Told by supervisor that if I wanted one of those kinds of caps I needed to go to Modells!
We noticed this earlier in the year. One of the hardest items to find at Citi Field is a blue Mets hat without any sort of side patch. Odd.
I took tons of pictures of the various Citi Field stores and will have several articles with pics next week. Click here for previous tours of the Citi Field store.
Adam Solomon has left a new comment on your post “Baseball On The Radio: Ads Part Of The Game – Cour…“:
As a New Yorker in exile with an iPhone, I’ve gotten very familiar with the WFAN feeds. I can tell you there’s nothing that kills the flow of a game more than:
“AND HE’S SAFE AT HOME! Keep your family safe and secure with [insurance agency]. AND THE METS TAKE THE LEAD!”
Yeah that one is really cheesy. My least favorite is for the SCREAMING AUTO DEALER who I will not name.
DyHrdMET has left a new comment on your post “Obstructed Views Citi Field Section 504“:
I’ve been going to Mets games since 1986. I’ve gotten up to about 8 per season in the past few years as I’ve discovered mass transit near my home. But I’m seriously teetering on the idea of cutting back to 1 or 2 games (I’m always going to go to the GaryKeithAndRon Main Event game). I don’t always care if the team is good or not.
And to Frank’s point that the Mets are more proud of food concessions than anything else, don’t forget the propaganda before the ballpark opened – they’re very proud of suites. my first clue last year that Mets ownership just doesn’t get it.
Ticket prices for next season due in October or November, according to a ticket rep at the ballpark on Sunday.
I imagine they will announce no-hikes. I don’t see cuts coming, and they could spin “prices will not increase blah blah economy” pretty well.
@Frank Nunziata, the whole idea of the Pepsi Party Porch is that it overhangs the playing field, and are touted as such. There is no way for a seating section to overhang the field without creating an obstructed view for the people in that section.
It’s supposed to be an homage to the old Tigers’ Stadium, which had an upper deck that went all around the stadium, even with the wall in left field, while overhanging the field in right field. In that ballpark’s last season, I had the opportunity to attend a game there, sitting in the front row of the upper deck in left field, with my knee against the foul pole. When there was a play in the corner, I had to stand up in my seat and lean over the front of the deck, to look straight down on the play. The hundreds of people sitting behind me had absolutely no way of seeing that play. The Mets have touted the Pepsi Porch as overhanging the field. That people are then surprised that they can’t see all of right field owes either to their not having heard what the gimmick of those seats is, or not having a firm grasp of geometry.
Likewise, there are issues with being able to see left field from the upper deck in left. It’s basic geometry. In order for there to be line of sight to the entire field, right up to the wall, there would either have to be no upper deck in left, or the upper deck would have to be substantially lower and/or farther from the field, essentially sitting behind the lower deck. Is there any ballpark in the majors with an upper deck in the outfield from which you can see the entire outfield from anywhere other than the front row?
While there are very legitimate problems with sightlines at the staircases throughout the promenade, the sightlines from the upper deck in the outfield are nowhere near as egregious. The other embarrassing sightline problem is that the seats are so close to the line in the corners that there isn’t a direct line of sight from the broadcast booth behind the plate to see plays in the corners. You should never have to listen to the home broadcasters apologize for not knowing what’s going on because they lost sight of the play.
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Interesting take on those of us with 15 game plans from Matthew Artus on Always Amazin’.
Matt isn’t a believer in game plans. I suspect many will come around to his way of thinking in 2010. Check it out.
Meanwhile in Buffalo, they aren’t drawing either and they stink.
“It’s depressing if you’re a Met fan,†said Jim Maggiore, who followed the Mets growing up on Long Island and now lives in Binghamton, “because this could be the start of some really lean years.â€
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I heard Boomer & Carton talk about the paid 40,000 last night at Citi. Boomer thought it wasn’t that full….
These shots are from Monday night, where the paid attendance was 39,320.
Unfortunately it’s really hard to tell from these low-res iphone pics (iphones don’t have zoom) but there were lots of empty seats. I doubt 10,000 people were getting shakes. Take a look at the top right of this corner. You can kind of get a handle on the empty seats in the 400s.
Again, the resolution is poor but take a look across the way to the third section from the left in the Promenade. Look at the back of the Pepsi Porch.
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I’ve decided that to enjoy Citi Field you have to spend some money. As I sat frustrated at my seats in the 500’s I started thinking that maybe I’d be happier with fewer but costlier seats in the 400’s.
Last week i got to sit “downstairs.”
Section 106 is a really nice seat.
At $45 for a “value” game you could convince me to get season tickets. At $60 for a Bronze all the way to $105 for a Platinum ticket, sorry I can’t do that.
The view is much closer than these non-zoomed Iphone pictures make it look.
Not bad at all – and no plexiglass!
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