I love quality chop-busting. Well done fellas. Click for the story.
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Denis Hammil on New York Mets Citi Field (Daily News)
(From yesterday, saved it because so much was going on)
Another take on what it’s like to attend a Mets game, this time by Denis Hamil of the Daily News who mentions
And you can leave feeling broke, defeated and exhausted. At Shea, everyone swiftly exited down wide winding ramps while the pretty new stadium is designed so that everybody sitting in the nosebleeds must gather like a mob trying to squeeze through 10-foot-wide doorways leading to endless flights of down stairs.
Read more: “Ballparks strike out with families”
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New york Yankees Have Offered Rainchecks In The Past, Why Not This Time?
With fans still upset about Monday night…why not just offer rainchecks? It’s not like every seat is filled (6,000 unsold last night for BOSTON). Let’s travel back to not so long ago via the NY Times.
At Yankee Stadium, a Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Published: September 7, 2004
But with the Devils Rays in the house, a long day’s journey was finally progressing toward a baseball game. It was a day that really began in the Bronx at 11 a.m., when the gates opened and several hundred people took their seats, not knowing what lay ahead. Shortly after 3 p.m., the Yankees announced that free hot dogs and drinks were available. And the Yankees decided that fans could get a rain check, whether or not they used yesterday’s tickets.
Compliments came the Yankees’ way. “They have been extraordinarily cooperative under extremely difficult circumstances,
read the full story here.
I recall the George Steinbrenner Yankees doing rainchecks for games played quite frequently. One Old Timers day (2006??) there was a delay and when the game was not played they not only gave the necessary raincheck but an additional ticket to a future game for the remainder of the season, or the next season.
Yankee bloggers, I encourage you to unite and shame the Yankees into rainchecks….and newspaper reporters, we could use your help on this one. It’s a good story, and you guys should be able to easily pull up examples.
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The Best Triples I Know (New York Mets)
Mets Walk Offs , a truly cool site (how does this guy know all the stuff he writes about?) sent this over.
MONDAY, MAY 04, 2009
The Best Triples I Know
It figures that we’re going to need to know a lot about triples this year. So I figured I’d “knowledge-up” and share my findings in this space.
The format is similar to the “Best Games I Know” blog posts, which require the Mets to win the game discussed in order for it to be listed.
The First (April 23, 1962)
The first Mets triple came in the first Mets win, a romp of the Pirates. Appropriately, the inaugural three-base hit came from a three-word named player, Bobby Gene Smith, a two-RBI shot to centerfield in the eighth inning that capped the scoring in a 9-1 victory.
True Metophiles know…Boby Gene Smith had a total of three hits (and three walks) for the Mets. His affinity for that number also comes through in the number of teams he played for in 1962, three (Cubs, Cardinals were the others). His Mets claim to fame is that he was the first player to wear the No. 16.
That’s just a start…the rest of the cool piece is here.
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Yankee Stadium Re-Entry: Stamp Hands or Scan Barcodes. Duh.
Couldn't the Yankees scan the barcode on the way out and reactivate the ticket? Are they worried that I'm going to hang for five innings then meet you at stans and let you watch the last four? And why would they care, you might buy a hot dog.
Theme parks somehow have figured out reentry. Maybe the Yankees could stamp my hand?
Maybe they could call games at 8pm, or offer rainchecks to everyone.
This solution that "only Paul Olden's announcements are official" changes nothing. Employees are still going to tell you "what they heard."
Last year on opening day the players were told half an hour before the fans that the game had been called. A-Rod was halfway home before anyone told us that we should leave.
There were 46000 paid tickets Tuesday night (capacity 52000) for a game against Boston in a brand new stadium. If that game ain't sold out, then they have plenty of extra seats to hook everyone up with rainchecks.
Or do they like seeing fewer people at the ballpark?
By the way I enjoyed Michael Kay mentioning that you could watch last night's game "for free.". I guess Michael has figured out a way to get YES without paying a cable company.
The great prophet Mushnick was right after all, and you're starting to see the tipping point.
How many of you partial-plan holders are realizing that it's not worth buying 15 or 20 games any more when you can just stubhub them? Lots of folks (like me) thought we'd be able to offset our costs on the resale market. That's not happening, and it's only May.
Next year I might just skip Yankees all together and just cut my Citi seats to Saturdays.
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