The Mets Police

So the question is, is it cool to have a personalized team jersey with your last name on it or is it a pathetic and sad attempt to pretend you could be a major leaguer?

I recently received a 20% discount code towards any replica jersey on mets.com. While on the site I played around with the idea of getting a home snow white jersey with my name and the number 11 (my old CYO number). Part of me thought it would be really cool amd fun to have a Twohig jersey (for the record there has never been a Twohig on the majors) But them I started thinking was it really cool or does wearing a jersey with my name on it make me a wannabe? Seriously the last time I played on an organized team was when I was 15 on that CYO team.

Shannon is 100% on the it’s cool side. My brother is completely against. I’m somewhere on between. I haven’t yet purchased the jersey though I am leaning yes. If I do get it you will see me wearing it when the Blue Cap Army meets on Opening Day,

Thoughts?

Good morning.   I think I am going to go buy the Seaver jersey today.  It seems as if it’s relatively hard to find, and it is cool, and I have some extra bucks in my pocket because folks are clicking on the Stubhub links over on the side again.  It’s a little mini-Mets economy: the Mets sell tickets, someone re-sells tickets, I get a small commission on the re-sale, I buy a Mets jersey, Majestic makes some cash, which they give to MLB, which they give to the Mets.

As for the ticket invoice we’re discussing on the comments:  Yes it is a real invoice, I’ve seen the entire thing.   People send me things ([email protected]) and not everyone wants their name or their seats posted.  I’mbuying into Media Goon’s theory that perhaps there is a mistake on the invoice that doesn’t match the actual charges.   Regardless I think we’ve all decided that the answer to “are these fees excessive”  is yes.  It’s a nice warm Saturday – I’m going to give my white pinless and my new franchise cap an outing and throw some baseballs for Junior to hit.

Today: Dan has a nice piece about customized jerseys, and we’ll meet the Mets bloggers.   The Maple Street Annual is out, I loved it and not just because I’m mentioned in it.   I have some Acela Club news but I want to balance the “this guy loves the Mets” with the “complaining” so you’re gonna have to wait.

Marty Noble has posted his all decade team. It was a weird decade, any for any of us who have made a list some choices are obvious (Piazza, Reyes, Wright) and some positions are thin (outfield, second).

Meanwhile, MSG is working on this:

“The Lineup: New York’s All-Time Best Baseball Players” will premiere on Tuesday, March 23 at 10:30 p.m. ET on MSG Network with “Catchers,” the first of ten weekly episodes. Each 30-minute episode of “The Lineup” will present a number of nominees for consideration at each position, from the Yankees, Mets, New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, with one episode dedicated to the best New York manager of all-time. MSG’s Fran Healy will host a panel, consisting of Hall of Fame Mets catcher Gary Carter, former Yankee bullpen ace Sparky Lyle, New York Magazine contributing editor and baseball aficionado Will Leitch, and executive vice president of the Elias Sports Bureau Steve Hirdt. The panel will whittle down a larger list of players from each position and determine the top five from each spot on the diamond. By the end of each episode, they will crown the top player at each position and name him to the official “Lineup” card.

The first episode of The Lineup airs on Tuesday, March 23rd at 10:30 p.m. ET on MSG Network, but you can already head over to MSG.com/lineup and make your picks for the best catcher in NY baseball history. Piazza? Posada? Yogi Berra?

Wow that’s gonna be hard for the Mets.   Can you ignore Yogi’s 10 rings and pick Piazza?  Kinda hard to put Lee Mazzilli over Ruth/DiMaggio/Mays.  Kinda hard to put Keith over Gehrig.

Help us Tom Seaver, you’re our only hope.

Check out the MSG lineup here: http://msg.com/lineup/

Corey sent this over.   Despite what some of y’all may think, I like hearing positive stories:

Just got my tickets from the Mets for donating blood at the blood drive. (Also got my season ticket package today)

For the blood drive tix, they gave me a choice of several midweek games in April and you had to give give a 1st, 2nd, & 3rd choice. My top 2 choices were vs LA and the 3rd was vs the Cubs. I got tickets for the Dodgers (don’t remember if the game I got was choice #1 or #2) but they were Baseline Box ($48 each for this bronze game) down towards the LF corner.

You’ll probably turn this into a “Mets can’t sell tickets” post. But regardless if they could sell them or not, I think its a very nice gesture to give decent comp tickets (against a playoff team) when they could easily have given cheapo seats in the Promenade outfield.

In a follow-up email Corey added:

I just want to add that they probably can write off more $ by giving out higher priced tickets.

Over on Baseball Fever a few blood and/or coat donors all got Baseline Box, Field Box, or Caesars Club Bronze tickets.

I also have some very positive stories to share about my ticket rep and the process of changing my seats this year.

Corey thanks for sharing this.  I think it’s great that you were offered decent seats!  I’d actually love to get more positive news out there.   Guest posts welcome at [email protected]