The Mets Police

Uni Watch did a great walkthru of C-Field where you can see lots of pictures of the new place…a good set, a little different than what we’ve been seeing.

One that caught my eye is this one .  Whereas Shea was surrounded by parking, C-Field is flush up against 126th street (a name we might start using now, you never heard anyone ever refer to 126th street).

The problem is, the Mets don’t own the east side of 126th, and that’s where the junkyard auto parts stores are, and they are quite ugly.  I imagine that fans in the uppers (excuse me, Promenade) will have some ugliness to look at if they avert their gaze from the green field.

This won’t play well with the public and the politicians.  If I were a junkyard owner I’d be working on my next line of work.  They’ll be redeveloping this soon.  How about an ESPN Zone or somewhere to hang out before a game?

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The final sad resting home of the Shea Stadium scoreboard is..

…above a concession stand.

I guess it’s better than a junkyard or being auctioned….but I dunno, seems like it deserves better.

Thanks to Uni Watch  for the link.  See a bigger picture here.

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Why oh why is Opening Night not a day game?  I need your help.

I know the official reason is that the Padres don’t want to fly cross-country to play a day game.   Why do the Padres have to play the Mets the second week of the season?  I never remember the schedule being like that.

Why couldn’t Bud Selig use his powers of baseball to make the Padres play a day game?  Why couldn’t the Mets play Tuesday and risk the rain out?  It’s not like they won’t  make us sit there for hours anyway (see Yankees, Opening Day 2008?)

It’s a new stadium, a new beginning and it’s already annoying.   If you’re interested enough to read my dopey blog then I’m sure you had been to Shea in April for a night game.  It’s miserable.  Even if it’s 81 degrees at noon, it will be in the 40s at 8:30.

The Mets are selling “Opening Day” packages.    Sunset for Monday April 13, 2009 is scheduled for 7:32pm.  Unless the Mets have a deal with God worked out, or they plan to get the game in in under 22 minutes, I think they lie.


Maybe if enough people bitch we can pressure Selig into stepping in.  


Mets Blog, Amazin’ Avenue…anyone from ESPN read my silly site?  Mushnick? Neil Best? Carton?  Help!  Pass along, steal the idea…retweet this.   Let’s play at 1:05!

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Roger Goodell wants to take the NFL to 17 or 18 games.  Yes!

The NFL is the best.  It’s (for the most part) once a week, and it’s great for fantasy football.  I’ll take as much as I can get.  I like that the season starts when beach season is over…and I’d love to have it stretch into February’s dead zone.

This will allow them to tinker more with Europe games, and we’ll probably get more Thursday games (boo) out of it.  

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