The Mets Police

To the right (if you are reading this on a reader or Facebook come to this page you’ll see a form to submit your email address for the Blue Cap Army opening day get together.  Simply, the idea is for Mets fans to gather before the Opening Day game.  The point of the sign-up is to see what kind of numbers we have, maybe we can convince McFadden’s to let us in early or someone to buy us balloons or something.  Don’t know unless I try.

I’m finding the sign-up form to be buggy from the main page, so click here and then try it from the individual page. Thanks!

Update 3/9: the blue cap army is now on twitter and has made a friend.  Spread the word and let our numbers grow!

This isn’t written with my usual level of anger/frustration, it’s more one of my “ideas for the Mets” type posts.

Why don’t the Mets offer tours of Citi Field?

We can start with the fact that the Yankees do – and Fake Yankee Stadium doesn’t have all that much more history than Citi does.  Here’s what the Yankees do:

The Classic Tour lasts 45 minutes to one hour and includes visits to the New York Yankees Museum presented by Bank of America, Monument Park, the dugout and clubhouse/batting cage area. The clubhouse/batting cage area is available ONLY when the team is on the road and during the off season. It is not available when the team is playing at home or has an off-day. Classic Tours for individuals (from 1-11 people) will commence every 20 minutes from 12 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.

The Mets have a museum now.  The clubhouse and dugouts might be interesting to see.  Maybe the demand isn’t what it would be in the Bronx, so then why not just offer one tour a week?

This came up today because Thomas who runs Checked Swing blog is coming in from Scotland (off-season) and just wants to see the place.  Maybe someone out there reading this (Craig Marino?) could throw the guy a bone.

Longer term, why not offer this feature and make some extra cash?

Below are some links but please note the links within the individual posts may not work because since these originally ran I have redone the sites.  So, click any link below and it will work, but the links within the pages that you visit may not – just come back to this page and start over.  That’s one of the aspects of the redesign I haven’t gotten to yet.

Stairwells, the noise patrol room and the World Series trophy

Trainers room and clubhouse

Inside the trainer’s room

Acela Club

Rotunda

47 Shop

Outside 3B side

LF Banners

Outside approaching from the expressway

McCartney Concert

Big Apple Brews in CF

Walking around between CF and LF

Walking around between CF and RF

Nona Delia’s

Uncensored Guide to Citi Field (july 2009 revision)

World’s Fare (Part 3)

World’s Fare (Part 2)

World’s Fare (Part 1)

Interesting take here that suggests the Mets should have built a smaller park. Chicks dig the long-ball, not 2-1 games, right?

As you may have picked up, I’m a traditionalist, and the Mets have won in the past with pitching.  I like the idea of a big park, and Omar keeps saying “pitching and defense” but went out and signed NO pitching and a power hitting low-range left fielder.  Makes sense to me.

Meanwhile, when I’m reading headlines like “Starting catcher: Omir Santos or Henry Blanco” I start to wonder if I have traveled back in time.  Might as well ask me “Starting catcher: Alex Trevino or Ron Hodges?”  At least Hodges had his number retired.