The Mets Police

So I had to buy an extra ticket for yesterday’s Mets game…jumped on line to get one (in case of a sellout on a nice day I didn’t want to make the trip one ticket short).

Bought a $15 seat.   Some sort of fee made added $5.  Another fee added another $5.   Total…$25?

It costs $10 in fees to buy a $15 ticket?

Lest you think I’m crazy, Phil Mushnick wrote about the same thing today.

“At $24 each that’s $240, right? But the charge became $307.50. There was a $6 dollar ‘service fee’ for each ticket, then there was what I was told is a ‘one-time service fee,’ which was another $5.


It’s just wrong.

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Well, maybe they offered him a discount…but Newsday says

Ron Hunt – the man who recorded the first hit and home run by a Mets player at Shea Stadium – wanted a pair of Shea seats for keepsakes. The seats sold for $869 per pair.

“They wanted money,” Hunt told Newsday, “and I told them, ‘I played for 7,000 dollars [a year] and had to play for four years to get a pension. If you can’t get me two seats, then stick them up your — .”

They told me that everybody was buying them, and I said, ‘I’m not everybody,’ ” said Hunt, who refused to specify whom he spoke with from the Mets. “I’m the first All-Star. There is no second there.”

There’s plenty more (and some Yankees gripes too) so check out the article.

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Nothing new, but no less important.

From Queens Paper.

For a team less than 50 years old, the Mets have accumulated a remarkable history. The black cat, the Shoe Polish Incident, Tug McGraw’s “Ya Gotta Believe!”, the NLDS versus the Astros, the Buckner Ball, the stunning clinching home runs of Todd Pratt and Robin Ventura, Mike Piazza’s home run following the 9/11 attacks — these are among the game’s greatest and most famous moments, and not just by New York media standards.

Maybe it would be too much to expect the Mets to open an in-stadium team history museum, as the Yankees have done. But other teams have erected statues of lesser players than Tom Seaver and Mike Piazza, installed plaques commemorating lesser achievements than Dwight Gooden’s startling strikeout totals. Even the giant collection of blown-up great-moments photos that were sprinkled around the Shea Stadium concourse represented a poignant look down memory lane. Moments, after all, are what the Mets have always been about.

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Working over at examiner.com tonight.

The Mets have won two straight in blue uniforms.  

NY Sports Examiner: Pelfrey calms worried Mets fanbase. Mets beat error-prone Nationals 8-2

Thought’s from the Promenade.  It’s cool up there out of the sun (the sun goes behind the left field stands right at 1pm).   I was not hot at all, might be nice on a brutally hot and humid day.

The line was so long for the Mr. Met dash that my kid was the one who said “forget it.”

Sweet Caroline gets booed like it’s Doug Sisk.   Don’t the bosses notice this?  It’s almost becoming a quirky tradition (like the traditional booing of Luis Castillo who can hit .400 and I will still boo.)