Section Six Blog Asks For An Obstructed Views Petition

From Section 6 Blog…

Let me be clear, I am a season ticket holder, but my seats are not affected by the LED obstruction.  My reasons for coming out and putting the petiton together and writing about it on my blog have been because I felt that luck was the only way I found out about the obstructions and luck that had my seats far enough down the line to not have an issue.  I feel very bad for the paying customers, whether season ticket holders or individual game buyers, who have obstructions and are unaware of them.  Nothing will be done unless we, the paying customers whether affected or not, create enough noise about it.  I just want to do my part.  I was sick to my stomach seeing some of the obstructions and early images online.  I was distressed to know that a father and son may not enjoy a game becasue they did not know about the obstructions.  I was pissed at the spin and rhetoric from Dave Howard, all of which is still happening.

Newsday, New York Times, Daily News, New York Post help out us Mets fans.  MetsBlog, Baseball ProspectusMets Police, Baseball Fever, Queens Crap and other blogs/forums, let’s continue to make noise and have people sign the petition.  Let’s get enough feedback so we can take this to the organization.  I am sure in this economy the Mets do not need another reason (possible obstructions) for people to not buy tickets.  Right now we have 39 people, at 1000 we will take this to the Mets organization.

So eveyone out there, keep up the talk.  Sign the petition.  Email me your frustrations. Talk to people about the issues.  

I’m torn on this one.  I feel like I’ve become one of the leaders of “the resistance” as it were (and honored as such), but I’m not looking to get into a battle with the Mets.  At the end of the day, all I want is Tom Seaver throwing out the first pitch at the World Series, and the Mets win the game while wearing pinstripes and blue.
Specific to obstructions, LED blocking is just one part of the problem.  I think the plexiglass is a bigger issue.

I’m happy to give Section Six all the blog-real estate they’d like, and I will offer them moral support…but I’m not sure what a petition will do.  It’s going to take the metro NYC newspapers and WFAN into shaming the Mets into doing something.

With that in mind, I haven’t seen any suggestions yet on how the Mets should fix the issues.  I guess removing the out of town scoreboard would help those folks- but maybe it makes more sense to just charge less for those seats, like how the Yankees are doing with the bleachers.

As for the plexiglass, railings and aisles…I don’t know what they could do.  Maybe removing the plexiglass and going back to a traditional metal bar would be less annoying.   I don’t know how much of the design was aesthetics and how much was federal or state safety laws.

I’d be curious how the rest of you feel.

Six, I hope I’m not letting you down.  I’m always happy to help a fellow blogger.

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What Mets Uniforms Would Look Like Without BLUE

No, that wasn’t a typo.  I hate the black uniforms.  However, as you will see, it’s the combination of the blue and black that makes them extremely ugly.
 
I try not to do major cut and pastes from other sites, but I don’t know how to economically do it for this one…so everyone head over to Uni Watch (http://www.uniwatchblog.com/) and give them lots of hits and bookmark them and visit them every day.
 
Knowing they hate black uniforms as much as we do (I think even more, if that’s possible) I beg their forgiveness for my paste:
 

Because You Nick asked for it: If you didn’t read the link, basically Nick asked for some mock-ups of Mets uniforms, sans all blue. This proved to be a tougher task than originally thought. And, originally, I didn’t know he had wanted to see said mock-up without a black jersey. So a black jersey is included. For my first attempt, I took a rear view of the uni, removed the blue, and kept the white outlining for the numbers. Here’s the result. Moving on, I took on a frontal view of the uniform, keeping the white outlines and removing the drop shadows. Not satisfied, I removed the white outline, just for shits and giggles, and this is the result. My verdict? The first one looks like a Giants ripoff (and not a good one at that), the second is just not a good look, and the third looks like an Orioles alternate. Not that the BFBS combo is any good anyway, but removing all blue from it is just wrong. And not an improvement.

 

I next moved to the snow white home uniform (also known as an alternate), but at least it’s white and a uniform, not a softball outfit. I won’t even attempt to do a mock-up on the pins, so you will just have to settle for the snow whites. Well, here is what I came up with. Again, I removed the drop shadow and replaced the blue with black. While this doesn’t look as bad as the BFBS jersey treatment, it’s still not the Mets. It’s not the Giants either, but it sure does look a lot like the G-men did when they played in New York. Again, removing the blue is not an improvement in any way. Their snow whites with blue caps and sleeves is not a bad look as it is. This is. Finally, I tacked the road grays and removed the blue (and drop shadows). The result is very interesting. I’m pretty sure I have seen that look somewhere before. I understand the Mets were trying to ‘recreate’ the old Brooklyn and New York teams who moved west when they entered the National League in 1962. It was a great look then and a great look (well, if they actually still looked like that) now. Removing the blue, in my opinion, is NOT a good way for this team to go. And that’s the end of this edition of “Phil’s Mets Uni Concepts.”

 

Or is it? In honor of today’s topic, I wondered how bad the Mets would have looked had they succumbed to the powder blue craze of yesteryear. Well I got my answer when I mocked that up. Thank god they stuck to the gray. Because here’s what they would have looked like in powder blue. They’d get an F.

Mets Security Confiscates K-Cards (Newsday)

I missed this one…
 
Santana was up to six by the middle of the third inning when Keith Heller, Ryan Krochak and Larry Ziegelbaum said they were told by security to remove the white signs with Ks made of duct tape because they were blocking an electronic ribbon board. When the trio asked if they could move the signs away from the scoreboard, they said their request was refused and the signs were confiscated by the security officers.

“People were yelling at them [security], telling them they were ruining a tradition,” Ziegelbaum said. “Everyone was supporting it.”

They really don’t understand their fanbase do they?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sports Illustrated Breaks Down Mets Citi Field and Yankee Stadium

Sports Illustrated has a long piece about both new stadiums…I find the Yankee Stadium part the more interesting.
 
 
Many Mets fans will tell you they are happy to have a new, updated park, even if some miss Shea, but I spoke to a lot of Yankee fans over the winter who are so repulsed by the idea of the new Stadium and its prices that they hate it even before they’ve even seen it. There’s no reason for a new Stadium, they say, upset on principle. And yet, there is no arguing that both facilities had become functionally outdated, even if, at least in the case of Yankee Stadium, the building remained aesthetically pleasing. It’s the execution of the new buildings, encompassing pricing as well as design, that has the power to engage and disgust.

 

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Only a few look back at the old building. Some have their pictures taken with it in the background. On the uptown 4 train, you can look inside the old place between the gap of the right field stands and the bleachers. The seats are still there but there is no grass on the field. The floor is a carpet of dirt. The hum of conversation in the subway car comes to a halt as people look inside the ghost town. They make quiet remarks like “whoa,” “weird” and “empty.”
 
 

Mets attendance down 23% (CNBC)

Interesting story:  http://www.cnbc.com/id/30437102
 

And how about the Mets, who at first glance are averaging an attendance decline of 23.4 percent. But they are actually drawing more of a capacity crowd (90.8 percent) through the games that they’ve played so far as compared to the percent capacity they drew in Shea (86.5 percent).

 

The author suggests that the attendance isn’t “really” down 23% because the capacity is less…but if the stadium isn’t full why does the capacity matter?  Have Tom Seaver unretire and start tomorrow night and you’d be able to draw 100,000.