More ridiculous Yankee Stadium security: no iPads

Trying to get into Yankee Stadium is one of the most amazing experiences you’ll ever have.

Yankee Stadium security can be quite entertaining.  They make you remove your cap when you enter.  As you may have heard, baseball cap bombs are one of the major threats to our society.  I mean, why would anyone wear a cap to a ballgame unless they were up to something.    That knife you hid in your sock?  Don’t worry about that – please remove your cap sir.

There was the great suntan lotion ban from a few years ago.   How many stadiums needed to be destroyed by suntan lotion villains before the Yankees had the courage to put a stop to it?

Sometimes they kind of allow bags, and sometimes they don’t.   Big League Stew has let us all know about yet another item that is not allowed in Yankee Stadium. iPads.

Stew points out that the TSA doesn’t even make you take an ipad out of a bag if you want to bring it on an airplane.

By Yankee Stadium I mean the fake new one where all the true Yankees like A-Rod play.

For your convenience, the rules are below:

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Jose’s .211, Wright’s .255 and Dunkin’ Donuts

I’m back from Dunkin.  It was very Yankee’d out.  They are still selling Yankee caps and my cup has a Yankee logo on it.

As I have said in the past, 156 games a year I don’t care what the Yankees do (in fact it maximizes my potential fall televison enjoyment if they win) but today I am very anti-Yankees.  Boo Dunkin’…and I’m not enjoying Dark Roast as much as I thought.

I scanned the papers and saw the Mets are 7 games back.  That’s like a bad number isn’t it?  It could easily be 10 soon.   10 is death.

Jose Reyes is batting .211 Two eleven.  His OBP is .258.  Jose is getting a free pass because David Wright is hitting .255 and doesn’t even look that good.

The picthing rotation is about five minutes away from seeing if Tom Seaver can get Henry Blanco out in a simulated game.

Things are not good folks.  Not good.

I noticed the New York Smokers Hotline commercial on SNY says “You have to believe” or “You have got to believe” – one of those.   Doesn’t have the same ring.

Uni Watch (personal edition):  I thought I’d start boring everyone with my weekend uniform choices.   Today’s was decided by contractors waking me up and me grabbing “whatever” – today the Mets Police are in pinless with a dark blue Mets cap with a green NY.  Perhaps the actual Mets pick their uniforms the same way.

Mrs. Mets Police went out for an hour so I’m going to see how many posts I can load up before (a) she gets back and (b) the power runs out.   Working outlets are in short supply today.

Maybe if I mention Dunkin’ Donuts in enough posts they’ll buy an ad.

5 games left for Jerry

Good morning….the contractors showed up early to tear down Mets Police HQ (that’s one way to get me out of the basement) so I just quickly ripped every wire out of the wall.   While I figure out my life, I’m going to do my usual Saturday Dunkin’ run (it’s work to stay this fat) which is a convenient excuse to share that May 26th is Dunkin’ gift card night…at least that’s what Walt says.  I haven’t looked it up and Mrs. Mets Police will yell if she seems me doing this…

Got some jerseys stuff loaded for the morning…the loss stunk, but they all stink….5 games until Melvin.

David Howard on ticket sales

I jotted down some notes from David Howard’s interview with Francesa. I am on packed mass transit typing with my left thumb so don’t consider this a transcript.

Overall I thought David was very good. The majority of the interview was about ticket sales.

– there were challenges renewing all the full season (packages) and plans.

– a combination of the economy and the way season unfolded last year

– If you take the current averge crowd it projects to 2.4 million as the Mets get into prime selling season.

– Mike said he heard from MLB on March 31st that the Mets had sold 1.3 million for the season. Howard said that didn’t include packs and says the Mets will draw at least 2.5. They have already exceeded 1.9

– “we’ll be sold out tonight.”

– they gave 100-150 tickets to long term season ticket holders who did not renew.

– Mike asked if people have a fair point being annoyed about paying full price and then finding out the person next to him was discounted. “It’s a fair comment” and the Mets have not been discounting because of last year’s complaints.

– Do tickets go on sale nightly? “Yes. At face value.”

– re stubhub: it is competition. The information (the Mets get from transactions) is important market data.

– “Any suggestion the Mets are dumping tickets on Stubhub is ridiculous.”. Unfounded. Ridiculous. Absolutely not.

– the Mets did not give tickets to the Yankees to sell.

– the Phillies advance series is doing well. The advance there “we’re in the low 30’s”. “What will happen is this one homestand will increase our average substantially.”

– Mike asked if “you” were taken aback by decrease. “Unfortunately we thought that might happen. We were hoping for better.”

– Jeff’s trip to Atlanta was effective. If you wait until the team gets home….there are too many distractions.