A New York Yankees Bomber Bucks Rant

Seems like Bomber Bucks are making people sad.  I never cared for “Mets Money” either.  I stumbled across this…

Bomber Bucks can only be redeemed at the Yankees ticket window in the Bronx, and tickets for regular folk are hard to come by, at least in person. While you can hunt for tickets as often as you want online, and sometimes get lucky, forget paying for them with Bomber Bucks because you can’t use them online. Tell the ticket window about the tickets you found online on theYankees official site and somehow they become invisible.


The Yankees, who have been taking a beating of late on New York talk radio over how their fans have been treated since moving to their new stadium, have chosen to remain silent on the matter.

“We do not have an official comment for you,” spokesman Michael Margolis wrote in an email.



Click the link for more things you allegedly can’t do with Bomber Bucks.

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Some New York Yankees Policing (Batting Practice)

Ah, finally someone in the mainstream media has figured out that the modified batting procedure was a headfake…

A salute to Jim Baumbach in Newsday.

The Yankees believe they made a concession, heeding to fans’ complaints by allowing them to watch batting practice from a closer spot. But all those fans really get is to stand in the rightfield corner. If this is what the Yankees consider throwing the fans a bone, then perhaps they’re more out of touch than we thought.

It’s easy to think that the problem the Yankees must rectify here is restoring their connection with their real fans. But that’s going under the assumption that the Yankees believe their real fans are the millions of people out there working blue collar jobs and hoping to spend a few nights at the park this summer.

When, in reality, the message we’ve been sent this year is that they believe their real fans are the richie riches who — ultimately — have decided not to show up.

And now the Yankees don’t seem to know what to do.

Only 7 home runs last night at the Stadium.  (I love how Steve Somers calls it “The Place Across The street.”)

What a lemon.   Read the full column here.

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Hartford Courant Ranks New York Mets Citi Field Over New Yankee Stadium

William Weir of the Hartford Courant  went to both new stadiums, and wrote about his journey.

Some interesting notes:

Getting tickets: Scoring tickets for the Mets (a Monday night game against the Atlanta Braves) was relatively easy. I went through the Mets website (newyork.mets.mlb.com) and purchased them online. The tickets were $15 each, but the total cost was $47.50, including service fees and delivery (even though they were e-mailed).


(Amen on that, and we’ll have a lot to say about that on Wednesday (saving it for after the holiday).

I feel bad that they encountered the Bag Nazi’s at Yankee Stadium.   I’m surprised they don’t make us take off our shoes to get into the Stadium.   It’s New York City, people have bags.

Getting in: Both stadiums are a quick walk from their respective subway stops. The Mets require a quick bag check and a frisking (a security wand for female attendees).

But Yankee security wouldn’t let us in with backpacks (the same ones we took to the Mets’ CitiField). We spoke to the head of security and then the press people. Still no go. They gave us clear plastic bags to carry our stuff and said we could store the backpacks at a bowling alley across the street for $5 “at your own risk.” But the game was about to start, and “at your own risk” didn’t sound promising. We put everything in the plastic bags and ditched the backpacks. Considering that you could bring in just about any other kind of bag, the ban seems a little arbitrary. The tickets, we later saw, do say “no backpacks” in fine print. But still.



It’s a long piece, well done…and the verdict is Citi is better which is no surprise.  Even Yankee fans admit that.

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MLB Has Something Called "Disabled List" – New York Mets Should Investigate

I stumbled across the below while surfing the internet.  Apparently when one of your players is hurt you can place him on a “list” and let him get better.  What’s even cooler is that you can bring up another player toreplace the injured player.

So say you have a concussion.   There’s no need to fly cross-country.   Or say your hip hurts.  There’s no need to fly cross country.    Or say you have a mystery calf injury and your entire game is build on speed – you could take a few weeks off and get better rather than have the team play short handed.

I think all Mets fans are done with Ramon Martinez.  The first thing I want Gary Cohen to tell me tonight is that Martinez has been sent down and they have called up anybody who can catch.  Mr. Anybody can go 0 for 30, I’ll just pretend it’s the pitcher’s spot.

Now about that list:
There are two Disabled Lists: the 15-day Disabled List and the 60-day Disabled List. To be put on a Disabled List, a doctor must certify a player as disabled. Players on the 60-day Disabled List do not count towards the 40-man roster. Players may be moved from the 15-day Disabled List to the 60-day Disabled List. Players may be put on either list retroactively up to ten days, beginning the day after they last played.

Wow, who knew?
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