Nitpicking Yankees Ticketmaster Fees

I hate this crap. A convenience charge, an ordering processing fee AND a tickefast charge to print out the ticket – even though there was no other option, and I paid a convenience charge.   Insulting.

In better news I will be at Game 1.  It’s the World Series, don’t be a hater.

Type
ADULT

Ticket Price
US $###x 1

Convenience Charge
US $10.00 x 1

SUBTOTAL
US $##.00

Tickets/Items
US $##.00

Order Processing Fee
US $3.25

TicketFast Delivery What’s this?
US $2.50

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Winter Shopping At Mets.Com

If you get on an MLB.com mailing list they will absolutely bombard you with offers.  As a civilian it’s annoying, but as a blogger it’s gold.  I don’t know if anyone else enjoys my shopping trips, but I enjoy them.

This coat is unacceptable.  Why would you buy this?  It’s not even a good looking coat.  The NY is tiny.   Just buy a winter coat.  I don’t need to know you’re a Mets fan during a snowstorm.

I’m not even cherry picking ugly items.  These are the items that were on the cover sheet of the email.

If you are wearing this hat you better be a very very hot chick.


Finally, something acceptable.   A blue pinstriped toybox.  There are rumors that next year the toybox won’t have pinstripes, except on Sunday when it will be yellow.  

Ugh.  Why don’t you and Shinjo and Tom Glavine go hang out together and wear this crap.   The black is even uglier on civilian-wear than it is on an actual baseball player.   There’s just no need for this stuff.

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The Steve Phillips Story

I'm mentioning Steve Phillips because I don't want to be the one blog
that doesn't. It's a nice juicy story about a good Mets villain and
you can read about it in the Post. For whatever reason I just don't
want to dish personal dirt. The goal of this site has always been to
encourage the Mets to treat their fans with respect, dress nicely, and
maybe win a World Series. I wish the franchise nothing but success.

As for Steve, my biggest problem with him is that he can't be bothered
to get off speakerphone when calling 1050. It sounds like crap on
every interview he does. What he does in his spare time is for other
sites to discuss.

More importantly, can we start these playoff games at 7? I gave up
after 5 and a half. It was 10:30. A typical regular season game ends
around 9:45 so even accounting for the playoff starting 49 minutes
later We shouldn't have to stay up until midnight. Half the
population of the US lives in the eastern time zone.

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Late Starts And Yankees Announcers (Two Topics)

I feel bad that I just chased Mets Police Junior to bed in the middle of the second.  Baseball can spin these “before 8” starts all they want – Jon Miller clocked it at 7:59pm.  Then again, yesterday’s game started at 4 and I still would have chased him to bed.

I was talking to another one of my Yankee friends today, and he was raving about Miller and Morgan, and how they actually described the game.

Soak that in.  Think about it.   Here’s one of those big time obnoxious Yankees fans and he is telling me that he likes the ESPN guys because they describe the game.  That’s how horrible Sterling and Suzyn are.   Imagine (in the unlikely event the Mets were in a playoff, tickets available on Stubhub) bailing on Howie after 162 games.  Of course you wouldn’t.   The Yankee fan is excited to hear Morgan and Miller.  Think how much Mets fans dislike Morgan and Miller – our nightmare is a Yankee fan Christmas.

My least favorite thing of all things Yankee is the Suzyn Stall.  King Sterling will not say a peep until the first pitch is halfway to home plate.  So on nights when 7:57 games start at 7:59 you get to enjoy Suzyn pull any random fact she can think of to kill time.   So I got sick of that and headed over to 1050, but unfortunately 1050 uses batteries after dark and after I heard Miller tell me what time the first pitch was I headed back to 88.

Seeing Kazmir in a big game never gets old.  As I write this the game is a scoreless tie so I don’t know what wound up happening, but this guy could go 10 and 14 for the Nippon Ham Fighters and Mets fans would still complain.  Omar might want to consider acquiring him just to shut jerks like me up once and for all.

8:49 and it’s the 3rd.  I’m good for about six innings tonight.

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