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Meanwhile Davey Johnson says

“I’ve known Fred for many years. He’s a friend of mine,” said Davey Johnson, the manager of that 1986 Mets team who attended the party. “I’m distressed to see there’s a problem. The Wilpons are very good people. I hope they come out of this all right.”

and

“As a manager you can’t worry about what’s going on in the front office or with management,” Johnson said. “You worry about the starting pitching, the bullpen. You have to get everybody ready to play, manage the system and the talent and help everybody have a great year.”

via Mets now a far cry from Davey Johnson’s 1986 World Series team, with Wilpons’ woes and recent losing.

Amen Davey – let’s play ball and let me know who owns the team during the tickertape parade.

That’s 4 or 5 posts for me before 9am.  Busy morning and we’re just getting started.

The intertubes tell me that I’m supposed to be all giddy over this Times article which I read and either didn’t understand or I knew all this already or can see into the future and didn’t actually know all this already.

Anyway, Craig Calcaterra has a nice paragraph here which explains it.

I just don’t care.  Talk to me about uniforms or Old Timer’s Day or Lee Mazzilli or something.  Sorry, I’m just done with this story and the daily Mark Cuban non-story and even the non-story about MLK and Ed Kranepool is back.

Jose Reyes hit the Islanders game (really?) and he said…

“I feel sorry for them, but I’m not concerned at all about that,” Reyes said. “People have told me about that, but I don’t know too much about that situation. That is not for me to worry about, or about my contract right now.

via Mets shortstop Jose Reyes takes in Islanders game, says he feels healthy, expects big things.

Sandy headed over to Lincoln Center where…

“I wouldn’t say it’s irrelevant, but it hasn’t affected me in the three months I’ve been here, and I don’t think its going to impact me going forward if they are successful in bringing in the investors they’re seeking,” the general manager  said.

via Mets’ General Manager Visits Lincoln Center Campus – The Ram – Sports.

Hi gang – plenty of new content below this throughout the day. Right now I want this post up top because it’s “What i want to say” for the day.

I must be mellowing or just really tired (and I am) because unlike Media Goon I am not upset by the plans.

If you wanted a 15 game plan you either bought one or not. I like going with Junior on weekends so I did. Logically I know I should have played the secondary market (hey how about that new Mets Police tickets icon on the main page?). Emotionally, and that’s what ALL of this is about, I like sitting in “my” seats.

That gets back to the tribe mentality that I mention from time to time. We like to be around those of similar interest, we wear our traditional garb, we sing the traditional songs, we tell stories of the past, we meet at the traditional hunting ground.

Was it silly economics to give the Mets $600 or whatever it was* for a 15 gamer? Probably. Yet, in 20 years Junior and I will have 2011’s worth of stories to talk about or he can blog about after I am hit by the asteroid. Look what sitting in field box tickets watching Doug Flynn did to me.

So I have “my” seats and I’m ok.

If it interests you to have 5, 11 or 17 games, do it.

If you are chasing the opener or a Yankee game do some math and determine if it’s worth having extra games you may or may not want, or maybe it’s just cheaper to click the TiqIq icon.

As for the extra game being thrown in: so now we are mad that the Mets are giving away tickets? Goon, I will bet you a dollar that if you call over there today and state your case they will throw you an extra game.

If I am the Mets and “5,000” people make such a call I would throw every one of them a game. Most people won’t notice or care or be upset enough to make the call. Try it. In fact, all of you with plans should try it. I’d be curious to see what happens. I think they will say yes. Maybe not to a sold out Yamkee game, but I bet you can have the 16th game.

What did interest me is that they are waiving the order fee. Long time readers know that the fees are a major pet peeve of mine. I’d love to know which economics changed that allow the Mets not to ding someone for the extra $25 or so. That’s a post for another day.

As for my asterisk above: I’m no millionaire but here in middle age I have some disposable income. I use it on things I don’t need like a 9th Mets jersey or a 22nd cap. I bought tickets. Two months later I don’t even remember the exact price.

If the value proposition makes you happy, do it. If not, don’t. I once went two seasons without Sportschannel because I thought Cablevision was screwing me by putting it on a $10 tier in the days where cable bills were $50. Now I pay $15 for the MLB app so I can listen to Howie when I travel.

I can’t tell you if you want one of these plans or not. They exist. The rest is up to you.

Call the Mets and ask for a 16th game.