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Mailbag: Acela Club, Mets Black Unis, Open Concourses

Catching up on the mailbag:

Re: “Howie Rose Rips Black Mets Uniforms Again“: 

Leave the fashion statements to the Marlins. Wear your blue pinstripes at home, greys away, and put on your blue hates.

We’re the New York Mets, blue and orange. Not the new Hugo Boss line.




Re: “Inside The Acela Club“:

My husband and I recently ate at the Acela Club when we attended a Mets game. Views were nice, service was very annoying. Our waiter, named Yuri, was over-bearing, annoying, and pushy!! We were unable to enjoy our meal and scenery due to the annoyance of the nagging staff. Food was horrible. You are very limited, and very over priced… I would rather eat a Nathans hot dog for $7 then spend 82 on a crappy hamburger with raw french fries. Very upset with Citi Field Acela Club. SAVE UR MONEY AND TIME!!!! DONT GO.

 

Or…
We ate at the Acela club yesterday. Contrary to the previous poster, our service was excellent. We had a party of 4. The buffet was great, and we all ordered the cheeseburger, which was made to order and excellent. Garlic fries were to die for. Highly recommend visiting, even at $41 per person… it was well worth it for the experience.



DyHrdMET has left a new comment on your post “Sing the Anthem At Citi Field“:

any verb with the words “at Shea” sounds better than the same verb followed by “at Citi Field“.

– they’re on their feet at Shea
– it’s Opening Day at Shea
– a sold out crowd at Shea Stadium

And I can just hear Howie Rose saying the first two, and I can actually hear Bob Murphy saying the third.

and also from DyHrdMet a new comment on your post “Are Open Concourses A Bad Idea?“: 

I was at the second game against Boston when it was blowing about 30-40 mph outside, and everything inside seemed like a wind tunnel. I don’t remember wind where I was at home last night.

And I figured out a while back that there’s no 8th inning sing-along unless we’re winning.

You may do well at the Shake Shack’s line at 5pm before the game before people start arriving.






Sad Yankee Fan has left a new comment on your post “Are There 16,000 Tickets To Every Yankees Game On …“:

What a disaster their whole ticket plan has been. All they had to do was to leave everyone where they were in the old stadium and raise prices by $25 on average. That’s about an extra 100 million at least in their pockets from last year. Great job by their outside consulting firm on ticket prices & relocation!!





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Your New York Yankees Home Run Forecast From AccuWeather

I love that Accu Weather is doing this
 
Weather conditions tonight will not help carry balls hit to right field. Winds are expected to increase to 10 to 20 mph tonight, but they will shift from southeast to more or a southerly direction. A wind from this direction will tend to push lofty fly balls more to the left. Showers will also wander into the region tonight. Any rain will slow fly balls down a bit as well.

A test will come Friday evening, barring any untimely rain showers. Winds for the game are expected to swing around from the southwest to the west averaging 10 to 20 mph with higher gusts. The winds should come more in line with the game on Saturday, April 18. Humidity levels may be somewhat higher than that of a couple of weeks ago.
 
 
 
rest here
 

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So Mets Fans, What Exactly Is It You Want To Do?

All the Mets fans I am talking to are really negative today (again, turn off the radio).
 
So let me ask you – here’s a magic wand, what is it exactly that you want to do?
 
 
 
1. The Jerry Manuel Argument
 
So you don’t like the Santana to Putz to K-Rod plan?  Fine.  What’s your plan?   Should Santana just throw 140 pitches in April?   If Santos gets a hit yesterday he wins the starting catching job.  He didn’t.  Suddenly Castro is Gary Carter.
 
Now that Jerry is gone, who would you like to manage the team?
 
 
2.  Omar must go!
 
Who would you like to be the general manager?  Who is this genius that is going to turn things around?  Tony Bernazard?  
 
 
3.  Let’s run David Wright out of town!
 
Let’s all turn on David Wright!   I guess you’d rather Tatis start at third all weekend?   Should we trade Wright and get his crappy all-around game out of here?  Which brings us to…
 
 
4.  This team will never win!
 
Call WFAN right now and declare that these guys will never win.   Fine.  How do you want to fix it now that you are the GM.   Beltran has a no-trade, Delgado is a pending free agent who is slightly injured.  I guess you want to trade Reyes or Wright…and what is it you hope to get back for them?
 
While you’re making this deal, and running Wright out of town, please look up the names Pat Zachry, Dan Norman, Steve Henderson and Doug Flynn.
 
 
I’ve yet to run into a Mets fan who has an idea about any of these questions.
 
Everyone needs to calm down and stop the negativity before you get what you want and see Reyes and Wright traded for prospects in a complete overhaul as part of the Midnight Massacre II. (which I don’t think could happen with a new stadium)
 
 
Seaver stormed back to his room and rang up Mets public relations director Arthur Richman. “Get me out of here, do you hear me?” he bellowed. “Get me out of here!” He then told Richman to call Mrs. deRoulet’s daughter, Whitney, and inform her that the contract deal was off. “And tell Joe McDonald everything I said last night is forgotten.”
 

For McDonald, it was a difficult time, as well. Two weeks earlier, with the Mets mired in sixth place at 15-30, Grant had ordered McDonald to fire his hand-picked manager, Joe Frazier, and replace him with Joe Torre, who was winding down his career as the Mets’ backup first baseman. McDonald didn’t particularly like Torre and definitely didn’t think he was ready to manage. Now he was being ordered to do something else he wanted no part of: Get Seaver traded.

 

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 the Reds’ offer was clearly the best: Zachry, a lanky, 6-5, 25-year-old righthander who had been 14-7 with Cincy in 1976, would be plugged into Seaver’s spot in the rotation; Flynn, a slick fielder who was blocked by Pete Rose with the Reds, would immediately become the Mets’ second baseman; and Henderson, batting .326 at Triple-A Indianapolis, would fill the Mets’ center field void. Norman, who had hit 17 homers in AA ball in ’76, was also regarded as a genuine prospect, but from the Mets’ standpoint, the righthanded-hitting Henderson, who combined speed and power, was the key to the deal.

 

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As for the Mets, the “Midnight Massacre” plunged them into their darkest era. They would finish last in 1977 and would lose 95 or more games in each of the next three seasons under Torre, who would be fired after a 41-62 record in the strike-shortened ’81 season.

Attendance at Shea plummeted and the Mets would not have another winning season until 1984.

 

 

There you have it Mets fans.  Let’s keep booing until they “break up the core!”

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If You Love The Mets Do Yourself A Favor And Turn The Radio Off Today

Mets fans, turn the radio off.

All that listening to sports talk in NYC today is going to do is fill your brain with crazy thoughts.
If you’re a radio host with four hours to kill, with no hockey, basketball or football you can do one of three things:

A) analyze the Yankee game, which comes down to “Joba pitched well.” That’s 5 minutes

B) talk about the Daily News A-Rod story which has nothing new

Or

C) Kill the Mets!

So ask yourself. Do you really want to curcify David Wright? Is that what we’ve become as a fanbase? David has one bad week and we’re going to kill him?

You want to kill Jerry? What was wrong with the Santana-Putz-Rodriguez plan? I thought we all agreed that was a good plan.

There’s so much negativity now that even I can’t take it, and I’m the guy that writes the anti-establishment non-rah-rah blog.

Relax and take a day off like the Mets are doing. There are 141 games left.

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