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WITH SPECIAL TICKET OFFERS AND GIVEAWAYS
THIS MONDAY AND TUESDAY AT CITI FIELD

$5.70 Promenade Reserved Seats for This Monday, June 18

Expanded T-Shirt Tuesday This Tuesday, June 19 for For First 25,000 Fans

FLUSHING, N.Y., June 16, 2012 – The New York Mets today announced they will celebrate the first no-hitter in franchise history with special ticket offers and giveaways recognizing Johan Santana for the Mets-Orioles games this Monday and Tuesday, June 18–19 at Citi Field.

Fans can buy seats in the Promenade Reserved for $5.70 for this Monday’s game at 7:10 p.m. They may also purchase Field Box tickets for $57, which come with $20 in food and merchandise credit that can be used at the ballpark Monday. This special ticket offer, priced in honor of Santana’s No. 57, will be available day of game starting at 9:00 a.m. at Mets.com/NoHan, the Citi Field Box Office, and (718) 507-TIXX.

This Tuesday’s T-Shirt Tuesday promotion will honor Santana’s achievement and be expanded to the first 25,000 fans attending the 7:10 p.m. game. Santana is scheduled to pitch Tuesday. Tickets start at $20 and are on sale now.

I wish Jason Bay tremendous success and happiness, and I thought we were all going to love Torres, but Colactus has kept us emotionally invested all the way past Seaver Day so it’s time to stop (bleep)ing around and just play this lineup (plus or minus Tejada). Hopefully #fixtheike has taken hold even though I was shipping him to AAA back on Monday.

Nieuwenhuis-8
Murphy-4
Wright-5
Duda-9
Davis-3
Hairston-7
Thole-2
Quintanilla-6
Niese-1

Yes friends we have lived long enough that I want to see Hairston on the lineup. The man has done a good job. Now let’s stop jerking Kirk around and leave him out there for 15 years.

What is wrong with some of you fans? Yes, Jason Bay has not lived up to expectations. Yes, he has been injury prone. Yes, the Mets organization may have overpaid for him. But come on. The guy is not a bad guy. He hustles, puts his body on the line when he is in the field and you know he is not happy with what his numbers are. The guy crashes into the wall again, you can tell his is visibly rattled and gets up and still tries to get the ball into the catcher, then falls back down. The guy was hurt and still tried to make the play. He is a gamer. “Well we as fans pay his salary so we can do whatever we want.” That is one of the most ridiculous things that has been said. I can understand frustration but booing isn’t going to help. This isn’t wrestling.Bay isn’t getting paid to play a heel to be booed at by you.

Here is what Kranepool from KranepoolSociety.com has to say.

If you were at the game last night and you booed Jason Bay as he came off the field with what we now know is a concussion, you need to stop calling yourself a Mets and you need to take stock of what a low class a$$hole you are. Bay has been a major disappointment since he signed with the Mets and I understand the frustration fans have as he is the last remnant of the old regime that ran the baseball ops but to boo a guy who gave his body to make a play and a guy who gives 100 % and goes head first into the wall with his history of concussions, is totally classless and you should be ashamed of booing him but then you knuckle draggers have no shame.

Read the rest of his post here..

A nice story that got lost in Santanamania, and since I am on an aeroplane we can let @mediagoon sleep in.

Gold’s newsletter, which cost 45 cents for a half-year’s subscription, was distributed to about 100 people. He signed up his friends and relatives, and posted a notice in Sport magazine. Alan Blum included a note with his payment. It said, “Here’s my 45 cents — now buy yourself a dictionary.”

More subscribed after Stan Fischler wrote about Met Maze for The New York Journal-American. Fischler understood what Gold was going through. He, too, had written a newsletter as a youngster (about hockey, not baseball), and he was also a rabid and bereft Dodgers fan.

via Following the Inept Mets of 1962 With a Newsletter – NYTimes.com.