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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Playoffs Outsider: No, I didn’t want to see the no-hitter honey

Playoffs Outsider is written by a Mets fan with issues.  Another October with no team to watch, I turn to the Yankees in despair despite teasing Mr. Sunshine (my Yankees friend) all day about Wild Cards and 4 seeds.    At least the Yankees are from New York, and at least I am familiar with the players.   Playoffs Outsider is financially motivated to root for the Phillies (Stubhub).   All these things I do are wrong.    Playoffs Outsider is also called by the ghosts of his ancestors to root for the Formerly New York Giants.

So there I am.   Another day at the real job put to bed.  A day where I had to do work-work and not feed my twitter heroin addiction. Good thing I had loaded up the blog with posts.   I catch on that Halladay has a no-hitter and even on the radio I can tell he has great stuff.

I’m driving home and figure I’ll catch the last three innings.

Rrrrrrring.

Cell-phone.  Mrs. Mets Police.  Her car won’t start.  I have to go meet her and jump the car.  Awesome.

Nope, I had no interest in seeing the first playoff no-hitter in my lifetime.  Why would I want to see that.  At least I got to hear it.

Now I’m home and fried.  I just want to watch some baseball and we have this dumb 8:37 start.  When will the TV executives catch on that I’d rather see the end of a game than the beginning.   7pm starts all summer long, and I rarely see first pitch.   I usually see the end.   (Well except for all the games in August and September).  If Monday Night Football started at 5:30 I’d love it.   Maybe I should move to SF and rejoin the Formerly New Yorks.   I could cut the middle and wear an old black NY Giants cap.

I haven’t watched a pitch yet and I’m already sick of Conan mentions.  I don’t know if there have been any but I’m so sick of Frank Caliendo mentions from whenever that was that my brain is trained to hate.  I actually like Conan.

Oh, and dinner.  There was none.  My old backup of Lucky Charms?  None.  (Anyone can blog, being a fat blogger takes effort like this).  Double backup Frosted Flakes?  Junior finished them.   So Raisin Bran and a cranky blog post for dinner.

Playoffs Outsider is leaving now…off to blog about the Mets and use the picture in picture to watch Yankees and maybe Hawaii 5-0…fall asleep in the 4th inning and wake up tomorrow to see how C.C. did.

UPDATE 8:39pm:  I know I just said I don’t care about first pitch but I just missed first pitch.  Why?  She’s lost.   The directions I gave her are bad.   By “me” I mean Google.

UPDATE 10:12.   I made it until the bottom of the 5th.  Sleepy.  Not a Yankees fan.  Don’t care. Mmmmm sleep.  Good night Mets fans.  I have a good rant loaded for the morning, see ya then!

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Some Mets ticket ideas for Jeff Wilpon

I’m excited that Jeff said the Mets will have an announcement about 2011 Mets tickets.

I could imagine Jeff doesn’t get to read the site every day, so in the interest of making sure the Mets get all my wonderful ideas, here’s some of the ones I hope the consider.  (Regular readers put on your ‘heard this already face’)

As I proposed on September 29th..: UNDEFEATED TUESDAYS

The Mets went undefeated at home on Tuesday.

I propose the Mets sell “guaranteed victory” packs. Your plan gets you a ticket to every Tuesday home game. If they don’t win you can come to the next weeknight (Monday through Thursday) game for free. If they lose again you get invited back.

Why is this brilliant?

1. It’s fun
2. It involves the fans
3. It’s marketable. Say “Pepsi Undefeated Tuesday”
4. Fannies in the seats buy hot dogs and shakes.

Back on the 16th I had some other ideas.  I was a little more sarcastic that day:

OPENING DAY PACK: Buy one normally priced ticket to the April 8th home opener and gain entry to that very game.  One for the price of one.

SUBWAY PACK: Buy one ticket to any single game on July 1, 2 or 3 and gain admission to which ever game you buy.

Got it?  Now let’s take it up a notch.

SATURDAY PACK: By buying the Saturday pack you will gain admission to April 9 (WAS), April 23 (ARI), May 7 (LA), May 28 (PHI), June 4 (ATL), June 18 (Angels), July 2 (Yankees),  July 16 (PHI), Aug 6 (ATL),  Aug 20 (MIL), Aug 27 (ATL), Sep 10 (Cubs), and Sep 24 (PHI)

Let’s review that very attractive pack.   13 games.  All on Saturdays that occur on Saturdays.   3 games vs. the Phillies, one Yankees, one Dodgers, one Angels…maybe even some giveaway days.

If a game happens on a Saturday it’s part of this pack.  If it doesn’t happen on a Saturday it’s not.

The price of each ticket shall be the same.  Yep, the Brewers game and the Yankee game will cost the same.

Apply same logic to Sunday.

Back in January I proposed Seven Packs.   Note the dates I listed are from 2010, I did the work once, someone in Flushing can apply the same logic to 2011.

I propose the Mets announce the following.   Saturday Seven Packs. Sell the seats in Promenade Left and make it a “thing” – make that area where the diehards sit, even if we’re cheap.

Package the following:

April 10th vs Washington
May 8th vs SF
June 5th vs Florida
July 10th vs Atlanta
August 28th vs Arizona
September 18th vs Atlanta
October 2nd vs Washington

One game a month.   Keep the fans coming out.   Honestly I can’t be bothered to compute the ticket prices because I’ll have to look up all seven games instead of just multiplying 7 by $15.   Let’s say it’s about a $100-150ish package.

7 Saturdays, one hundred(ish) bucks.

However, we’re not dopes…why should we lock in our money without something extra?  Here’s why. Throw in a t-shirt, a cap, whatever is inexpensive for you to make.  If it has a corporate sponsor logo on the premium, fine whatever I get it.

Heck you might want to even steal the Blue Cap Army idea….take it, it’s yours.

There ya go Jeff.  Hope that helps.  Seriously dude, undefeated Tuesdays is a winner.   Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

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Final 2010 Mets Uniform Standings

Thanks once again to Walt (@formertdirtdart) for sending this in and for working on this all summer long.

What have we learned?  A team wearing blue pinnies will play .613 ball at home.  Note that all the uniform combinations with no black have winning records, but if black touches the uniform the team loses.   Sure there’s that one 6-2 on the left but addd all the black together and all the non-black together.