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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Mr. Met Dash This Saturday At Mets-Nationals Game

Kids, you might want to head out to Citi Field this Saturday before Fox and ESPN start screwing with game times.  Tickets are as low as $15 (famous Mets variable pricing, this is a cheapie).  If your kids aren’t Dan Murphy fans, grab some Promenade’s and enjoy being able to see the other eight Mets as they take the field.


Mr. Met Dash
Sat., April 25
The Mr. Met Dash allowschildren 12 and under to run the bases at Citi Field after select games,weather permitting. Line up outside the Bullpen Plaza entrance on 126th Streetat the conclusion of the game and follow Citi Field security staff instructionsto participate.

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Mets: We Will Recognize Our Team’s Heritage

The Daily news just published this online.

“As previously stated, we will recognize our team’s heritage and have announcements in the weeks ahead,” the spokesman said. He didn’t comment about the paucity of Shea pictures in the new ballpark.

Mets Police Translation:  We somehow didn’t see this coming and don’t actually have a plan yet but we’re scrambling.

Ponder this:  let’s say the Mets decided to move to Mercury (as previously announced) and another team, let’s say the Diamondbacks, moved to NYC.  Paint over the 14, 37 and 41 on the fence…swap out the flags outside for some of Randy Johnson, Matt Williams and Curt Schilling…and suddenly Citi Field is as much the home of the Diamondbacks as it is the home of the Mets.

What’s the delay?  You had all this Mets stuff at Shea…did they sell it?  Either order new ones or get the old stuff out of storage and hang it up.

Read the rest here which contains plenty of quotes from fans complaining about stuff we’ve well covered here.

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New Yankee Stadium a home run nightmare (ESPN)

ESPN has two pieces about New Yankee Stadium:

New Yankee Stadium a home run nightmare

“With the way the wind has been the last couple of days, right field is a joke,” one official said. “I would say at least three or four home runs in this series would be routine outs in nearly every park.”

(at this pace)….there would be about 400 homers hit in the park this year — or an increase of about 250 percent. In the last year of old Yankee Stadium, in 2008, there were a total of 160 homers.

Buster Olney writes in a separate column

Sure, there are a handful of problems that need to be sorted out in Citi Field, the Mets’ new ballpark. The visiting relievers can’t really see the games from their bullpen in right-center field, and their video screen operates with a delay of about 15 seconds (by the count of the Brewers’ relievers). There is little hot water and no music in the visiting clubhouse, and they need to squeegee out the whirlpool because of a drainage issue.

But those are minor details that can be ironed out eventually. The Yankees, on the other hand, might have a whopper of a problem on their hands that could have long-term, big-picture ramifications for them. Their new ballpark is playing like Coors Field East. 

The Yankees totaled five homers Friday, and the Indians launched six Saturday. If you include the two exhibition games played against the Cubs the weekend before the season started, there have been 25 homers in five games, and already word has gotten around baseball about the acute hitting conditions at the new park in the Bronx. A number of rival executives wrote e-mails late Saturday indicating that they’d heard from their own scouts and other sources that new Yankee Stadium plays very, very differently than old Yankee Stadium.

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54,000 Saw Mets Santana A year Ago. 36,000 Yesterday (Newsday)

Wallace Matthews brings it in today’s Newsday.

Sunday, the Yankees hosted the Indians and the Mets hosted the Brewers. Neither place came within 5,000 seats of being sold out. Most teams would be overjoyed playing to 85-percent capacity in April, but these are not most teams and this is not any other city.

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But when Opening Day at the new Yankee Stadium draws only 48,000 paid admissions, and the Mets, after nearly filling the 42,000 seats in their opener but then can’t draw much above 36,000, you know that the geniuses in the business offices who decided to Mel Brooks the baseball fans of this town made a serious error in judgment.

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Yes, there is always a drop-off after the opener and before the kids get out of school, but last year on this very weekend, 54,000-plus saw Johan Santana pitch against the Brewers. On Saturday, with the same pitcher, same opponent and a 75-degree day, only 36,312 showed up.

As I speak on behalf of all Mets fans, Citi is such a step-up from Shea that we’re willing to eat bad sight-lines, or not being able to see all nine position players from left field.   Yankee fans, I think you would take your old park back if you could.   Either way, maybe one of the teams will get it right when they move into their new parks around 2085.

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If The Yankees Are Rained Out Monday…

New Stadium Insider has a good breakdown of scenarios should today’s Yankees game be rained out.  Since I believe in honor among bloggers (there’s excerpts and then there’s link-stealing) rather than steal their answer, I’ll invite you to go read here where you’ll find a well reasoned answer.

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