Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Here’s a free commercial for Outside Eyes, the crisis management team that Alex Rodriguez hired to help him with the latest news cycle.

The below is taken directly from their website.

You have one shot to answer the question “What do you do?” Does your answer leave a confident, memorable first impression? Outside Eyes prepares clients to say everything they need to say and nothing they do not. We make sure your “elevator speech” is concise, compelling, and effective.

We will train your messengers on tone, optics, presentation, persuasion, and crises communication.

• Develop compelling messages and use the most effective methods of delivery.
• Contrast your position with opposing ones, and respond forcefully and quickly to attacks and misrepresentations.
• Release information precisely when it will make the most news, and to the right members of the media.
• Research the opposition and anticipate the response.
• Monitor breaking news and manage news cycles in real time.

I didn’t find the section of the website which reminds you to work in the words naive, young and stupid as often as possible.

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I love to give my Mets a hard time but I think we may actually have the better stadium for the next half century. www.metspolice.com

Of all the things I never thought I would do on the blog…a link to Cindy Adams!

Cindy got a sneak peek tour of the House that A-Rod Built and was quite lengthy in today’s column about what she saw (excerpts below and the full piece here).

Their can is blue granite. Four urinals, five commodes, enough shower space for 16 naked Yankees with their bats and balls.

Alongside’s a hydrotherapy blue- and white-tiled area with whirlpools and a Swimex thing wherein the current moves but you don’t and it’s as if you’ve swum 15 laps. Plus a trainers room for massages, rubdowns, X-rays, specialists, first aid and God knows. Plus a doctor’s office. Signs signifying each room are in Yankee pinstripes. Plus, to duck the dreaded press, a hidden super-private dressing room with giant wall mirror and 12 luxury closets. Plus a wall-to-wall mirrored gym (no equipment in it yet) so elegant it looks like a dance studio. Thoughts of Hideki Matsui at a ballet barre ran through my head.

The players’ 30,000 square feet just for themselves includes a dining suite. Two rooms. One with the handmade Yankee logo rug has couches for lounging, sipping, noshing and TVing. The other, with chafing dishes plus wherewithal to prep individual menus, is a catering hall. I mean, talk of catering!

Manager Girardi doesn’t rough it, either. Not exactly Mr. Steinbrenner’s 6,000-square-foot office, but how’s a security desk in front, junior closet for Joe’s young son, who wants someday to be a ballplayer, and an anteroom in blue leather where, presumably, younger players may prostrate themselves?

And the dugout? Please. I mean, please. Heated. Air-conditioned.

That’s not even close to the entire piece .  Check it out here.

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According to the Mets website:

Citi Field will feature unprecedented sightlines, amenities, and comfort for Mets fans, sports fans and visitors to the New York metropolitan area…A contoured seating configuration will bring spectators closer to the field on all levels to provide optimal sightlines for a more intimate and entertaining experience throughout the park.

Interesting – “unprecedented” and “optimal” sightlines. Really??

According to dictionary.com, “optimal” means “Most favorable or desirable”

Well, thanks to MetsBlog for pointing this out, some of the seats at Corporate Field I would not describe as the “most favorable or desirable.”

Seems that some of the seats in the left field stands under the overhang (possibly the LF Landing or Caesar’s Club) have the out of town scoreboard partially blocking their view. Views of the field are fine – but good luck trying to track a fly ball or pop up.

Reminds one of the last several rows of Shea’s Loge section.

For the record, 40 game plans in the Caesar’s Club (which are sold out) cost almost $2,100 a seat.

Full set of pictures here on WebShots.
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We all knew that the April 13th home opener versus San Diego was not going to be the first game played at Corporate Field. The Mets have scheduled 2 exhibition games against the Boston Red Sox on Friday, April 3rd and Saturday April 4th.

But wait – it turns out that April 3rd game will not be the first baseball game to be played on the Mets new $632 million field.

Thanks to New Stadium Insider for pointing this out – the St. John’s Red Storm baseball team will christen Corporate Field with a game against the Georgetown Hoyas on Sunday, March 29th. (This according to the St. John’s schedule).

And, if this wasn’t bad enough, Met fans and season ticketholders won’t even get first crack at tickets for the game. According to the post on New Stadium Insider tickets will be offered to St. John’s students (and I presume alumni) for $5.

Meanwhile people are paying $200 for Opening Day tickets on StubHub, in what really will be the 4th game played at Corporate Field.

Seriously, who is advising the Wilpons? Is anyone?

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