Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Shannon Shark is the founder of MetsPolice.com, tweets as @metspolice, is an avid fan of Lee Mazzilli and Daniel Murphy, hates black uniforms and is the author of "Send The Beer Guy" available at Amazon.com. #imwith28
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First 25,000 Raindrops « Faith and Fear in Flushing

We can tell it’s raining and that it’s not going to stop raining. And the only thing that can get us into that rain when we have no other reason to be soaking in it is because the Mets won’t immediately advise us to remain indoors where we belong and assure us our bobbleheads will be waiting for us on another date to be announced shortly.

Because they sold us the tickets. And they really wanted to scan them and have us inside their building for a while and sell us some more stuff while they waited for the weather window that was never, ever going to come. I can’t imagine that wasn’t the plan. Surely it wasn’t because rescheduling both the Mets-Giants game and the bobblehead promotion wasn’t easily solved. It was very easily solved. …

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Nobody likes to leave the gate closed. But sometimes courtesy and convenience is the better part of valor where the surprisingly predictable nature of nature is concerned.

via First 25,000 Raindrops « Faith and Fear in Flushing.

As I said earlier, bad job by the Mets.  Have a meeting and come up with a better Standard Operating Procedure folks.

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I think the Mets can do better with early rainouts

This image bothered me all night.

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I wasn’t around yesterday but I believe the Mets called the game around noon. I got the press release time stamped at 12:21pm.

The forecast was awful.

Were the Mets sitting around thinking “maybe we’ll get this one in?”

I believe the gates never opened (the photo is time stamped after 11:30) so clearly by 11 they were thinking it was doubtful they would play.

It was Tom Seaver Bobblehead Day. You know, Seaver, The Franchise. People like him. So they came out and stood in the rain.

Why not rain this game out early? Why make people schlep to Queens? Why not open the gates if you think there’s a chance of playing – and if you don’t think there’s a chance of playing then just declare it.

They had the scheduling solution, the one they are using, and it’s not like there was a “window” coming.

Bad job by the Mets. Someone owes everyone in that photo an apology.

You can start by giving all of them a ticket to May 5th Seaver Bobblehead Day AND another ticket. Let’s not act like the place is full.

You had the forecast. Bad job.

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In case you missed the raincheck info: fans can exchange their tickets for those comparable in price and location — pending availability — to a Mets 2012 home game. That includes today’s Tom Seaver bobblehead promotion presented by Citi, which has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 5 when the Mets host the Arizona Diamondbacks at 4:05 p.m., and the next Mr. Met Dash, where kids 12 and under can run the bases at Citi Field following the game, Sunday, May 6 after the Mets play the Diamondbacks at 1:10 p.m.

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Tonight’s Game 1 crowdshots should be epic. Send them if you got them.

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Wilpon Free TV: Jurrasic Park in Spanish

It’s another day of Mets baseball not being on Wilpon Owned SNY, but as I said yesterday you’d somehow be keeping the Wilpons in power by continuing your boycott (if you are, I never boycotted them) – so here’s today’s recommendation.

I know you wish the Wilpons ownership would go extinct, but since that isn’t going to happen, all you have are dinosaurs.  Jurassic Park is on Telemundo.  While you watch that (in Spanish) we’ll be watching the Mets on channel 11 at 1pm.

I’m out doing Actual Athletics this morning..bug @mediagoon if all hell breaks loose, otherwise enjoy Generic Posts Filler!