The Mets Police

Growing up I was a big sports fan. I was reading the newspaper, magazines, and Sports Illustrated all the time. My dad told me when Tom Seaver got traded from the Mets I cried and cried and cried. I marked up his baseball card and crossed off Mets and wrote Reds on the top — which I obviously shouldn’t have done as it ruined the value of it.

You know on paper, that trade wasn’t awful.   A 24 year old who had won 14 games,  a 25 year old second baseman who hit .283 and some other dudes?   I’d trade John Maine for that right now.  OK Maine wasn’t the Franchise but the Franchise didn’t love us any more.

That’s all I got.  It’s Saturday.

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The Times has a few anecdotes from Yankee ticket holders.  Apparently if you haggled with the sales rep there was a chance they’d take care of you.  Of course now that that;s in the New York Times everyone will try it, so it’s unlikely it will work for you.

Some lucky fans:

Steve Cohen of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., wanted a 15-game midweek plan (to replace a discontinued eight-game plan behind home plate), but was offered four tickets in a Friday night plan that he told the team conflicted with his weekend schedule. But he said he persevered and got four $20 tickets for 15 midweek games, high above right field.  Cohen said that the salesman said “don’t tell anybody” about the switch.

Gerry Grossman, a salesman from Manhattan, said he and a friend were enraged at being offered a 20-game plan for two seats near the left-field foul pole for $85 each (without postseason-ticket rights) after being at field level, looking at left field, for $55 last year (with postseason), under a 46-game plan…..

 He said he received inadequate answers from Yankee ticket sales people about why two other fans, whom he said had lesser seniority, got a 41-game plan, or if seniority really mattered at all. On Thursday, his persistence was rewarded: he got a 41-game plan at $50 a ticket, on the second level, in a distant left-field burg, with postseason rights. 

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You didn’t give us Manny, you could at least bring this back.

The Columbia credits take a minute but stick with it.

The street rumor was that the band wanted more money for usage or something like that.   Work it out guys, nobody is going to give you money but the Mets, and Mets you saved $25 million on Manny, spend some on Curly.

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NY Sports Examiner: Santana scratched again, casts doubt on Opening Day

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“Everything starts April 6, if it’s going to be me or somebody else. It’s tough to say right now.”

Those are the words of Johan Santana.  Hopefully he is speaking casually and just means something like the rotation of days will work out that he starts Game 2.  I was kind of hoping for “I feel fine, I’ll be there” not a report that if he doesn’t feel OK then the Mets will send him to NYC for tests.

A rotation of Maine, Pelfrey, Oillie, Nobody Good and then probably the return of Four Inning Pedro doesn’t thrill me.

Full story here.

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