Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

A Tuesday day game in 1982. Home opener? (I have the 1982 calendar at home, writing from the little league field). I bet I was there!

This blog is about me.

I’ve done a lot of psyho-analysis, especially as I have started working on my ebook Send The Beer Guy (coming after the season) and this is all about me wanting to be 9 years old again with my dad.  Since I can’t do that I drag my kid to games and try to nag the Mets into making everything the way it was.

Yesterday on twitter there was a little flurry.  Don’t worry about who said what, but it inspired me to write this column, because as I said, the blog is about me.

I’m just a “blogger”, whatever that means.  I guess it means I blog.

I don’t consider myself to be news or “a journalist” or any of that.  I’m a fat guy who sits upstairs and likes Daniel Murphy.

I write choppy sentences, post some pictures people find interesting and occasionally get on my high horse and berate the Mets organization about something.

Some people dig it.

At some point the Mets noticed it and I was given the “A” word…Access.  Sometimes that word is used as a synonym for sellout.

I pay for my own seats.  I have a 15 game plan and have a deposit on a 15 game plan for 2013 already in.

Sometimes the Mets invite me to things.  They invited me over for food right before the season.  I went.  They invited me to the REO Speedwagon concert.  I couldn’t go.  I asked if Media Goon could go.  They said yes.

On Easter the Mets gave me two comp tickets to the Party Deck.  I took them.  My mom and I had a good time.  I wrote about my experience.  Nobody asked me to write about it.  I’m sure they assumed (correctly) I would, but it was not a condition.  For sure nobody asked me to spin it nice.

I many times said Dave Howard and I should catch a game.  One time we did.  I wrote about it.  We used his seats.  He’s welcome to come to a game and sit in mine anytime (Saturday at 4 Dave?)

If I get to know somebody and I like him is that selling out?  I can still disagree on things but why can’t I like someone?

If the Mets offered you a field credential would you not go?

And if my blog is any “softer” – hey I don’t know if you noticed but the uniforms look great, Banner Day was held and the team is good.

I don’t want to be a beat reporter.  I don’t want to hang out in the dugout.  I don’t want free stuff.  I don’t need free press box food.  I just like the Mets.  And if the Mets invite me over for dinner, I might just say yes.

Expect nothing, appreciate everything.

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Some of you have emailed me about Old Timers’ Day.  I see your cries for help and will deal with them as soona s I can.  Email is a little backed up, and I apologize for any overdue repsonses.

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On to 90’s week..it kicks off Monday and below is a sneak preview of just some of the items in the editorial calendar.  There should be like 8 posts a day!

 

ECUADOR TO PLAY CHILE AT CITI FIELD
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15 AT 8:00 P.M.

Tickets Start at $30 and Go On Sale This Thursday, July 5
At Tickets.com and (718) 507-TIXX

FLUSHING, N.Y., July 3, 2012 – The New York Mets today announced that the Ecuadorian national soccer team will return to Citi Field to play its South American rival Chile Wednesday, August 15 at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets start at $30 and go on sale this Thursday, July 5 at 10:00 a.m. at Tickets.com and (718) 507-TIXX. The game will take place rain or shine. Gates will open at 6:30 p.m.

The match features two national teams with a large following in the tri-state area. Queens County has the largest population of Ecuadorians of any county in the United States with more than 100,000 residents, while the New York City/Northern New Jersey/Long Island region boasts the largest Chilean population in the country with more than 20,000 residents.

Ecuador is ranked 36th in the world and has a 3-2-0 record in the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) for fourth place. The squad, coached by Reinaldo Rueda, won a 1-0 match over Colombia June 10 in the current qualifiers.

Chile, led by manager Claudio Borghi, is ranked No. 11 in the world and is seeking qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The team reached the second round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and most recently ousted Venezuela in a World Cup Qualifying match June 9 with a final score of 2-0. Chile leads the CONMEBOL standings with 12 points and a 4-2-0 record.

The Ecuador-Chile match marks the second straight year that Citi Field has hosted an international competition. Ecuador and Greece battled to a 1-1 tie before a near sell-out crowd of 39,656 on June 7, 2011.

@peteyitaly tweeted this one..