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I’m hearing: Subway Series not part of Mets single game ticket sale on March 7th

First the info, then some comments below. From Mets Police reader Tom:

Shannon:
I emailed the Mets asking about a lottery for Opening Day, and got this:

Thank you for your e-mail. Opening Day tickets will be sold once single game tickets go on sale. As of right now the Subway Series tickets will not be sold. More information concerning the Subway Series will come out in the following weeks. There will be limited availability due to the Pre-sales we will have before the tickets go on sale. You can guarantee your Opening Day or Subway Series tickets by purchasing a Full Season, 40 Game Plan, 15 Game Plan that includes the selective game, one of our 6 game packs that include the selective game or our new 4 game Pick-a-Pack which includes Opening Day or a Yankee Game and three games of your choice. 1 game in April, 1 game in May, and 1 game in June. If you are interested in guaranteeing your Opening Day and Subway Series tickets now, call one of our operators at 718-507-TIXX.

I know you reported that there may be no lottery, but here’s some confirmation. Also, looks like there will be a lottery for Yankee games.

Faithful Mets Police reader,

Tom

There you have it.  No Subway Series games are being sold on March 7th.

Coupla thoughts:

1.  My usual reminder that Mets Police is not news.  I don’t claim to be accurate.  I’m only as good as my sources and I don’t have a team of investigative journalists to follow these stories.  I’ll leave it to you to decide on my track record of accuracy, and since I know the Mets check out the site I imagine that if I posted something wildly inaccurate that I’d get a note.

2.  Thanks to Tom for sending this over – as clearly demonstrated this week, it’s readers like you that fuel the site, which brings us to point #3

3.  As I mentioned yesterday, why the cat and mouse with the bloggers?  We aren’t going away (even if I quit today that would leave roughly three million Mets blogs, and probably 8-10 “major” ones).  Clearly the information is getting out to us.  Why not just have correct information out there?  The Mets aren’t keeping a secret or the email above wouldn’t exist.  Why not just share it with all potential customers?  Wouldn’t it help their business to alert fans that if they want to guarantee Subway Series tickets that fans should consider buying a 4 pack now?  The presumably feared WFAN backlash is going to happen anyway, whether today or on the Monday after the sale.  Just be honest with your fans.

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Gamers

Was talking with a friend today, and as we usually do we drifted back to 1986. From my perspective in the uppers I felt like they actually cared when they lost a game, whether it was in ’86 or ’85 or even ’87.

I felt there were guys like Keith Hernandez who would actually get mad when they lost.

I don’t get that vibe from this team. I want to. I like the comments that came out from Wright, Reyes and Santana…but who is the guy that will be mad when the Mets drop two of three to the Nationals?

To me, the person has to have some combination of tenure and resume. It can’t be a rookie, and it can’t be someone who never plays.

I’m not in the clubhouse so I may have no idea what I’m talking about. Does this team have such a guy? Is one of the core one of that type of guy?

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Links: Gooden in HOF? Shea cufflinks?

Some links of interest:

Eli from Brooklyn tells us about some Shea Cufflinks for sale on Mets Underground.

NY Baseball digest shares with us some stuff from Bill James which suggests Gooden and Cone should be in the HOF. You kids really will never grasp how awesome Gooden was at the start of his career.  He was another level of pitcher I have never seen since.

Wezen Ball has a cool timeline of MLB stadiums although it’s possible it is incorrect.  It doesn’t mention the 50 years the Mets spent at Ebbetts field and it claims that the Mets played at something called “Polo Grounds” and also claims something called “New York Giants” played there.   Has anyone heard of these things?

Oh no, admitted terrorist Zazi is a Mets fan.