Tuesday, April 18, 2006
April 18, 2006: Mets vs. Braves
When I started learning about baseball, TBF introduced me to the concept of “Triple Happiness”: Mets win, Braves lose, Yankees lose.
The Braves. Our nemesis. Our division rivals. I understand this well. I know all about John Rocker and Mr. Jones and who we are booing and why. (The booing. That is something that never happened in my baseball experiences out West. You would be ejected from the park if you booed. I know, because I did the first game I ever went to [along with a handful of other East Coasters] and we were chastised for un-sportsman-like behavior.)
So I understand, even more, the pain that ensues with a 7-1 loss.
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Sunday, April 16, 2006
April 16, 2006: Mets v. Brewers
Easter Sunday. No point in trying to work, so I headed to Shea. Upper deck was $2 but I couldn’t sit in row V, so I sprang for a upper deck box seat. Mr. Met played Easter Bunny. Home runs from Nady and Delgado. Beautiful sunny day. I drive out to Coney Island afterwards for hot dogs and sea air.
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Friday, April 14, 2006
April 14, 2006: Mets vs. Brewers
My first encounter with a rain delay. I headed for Shea a little late and when I transferred to the 7 at Court Square, my phone went off with a text from TBF, informing me that first pitch was delayed. At that point, unless I wanted to go back home and get the car, or ditch the game (fat chance), I pretty much had to head to Shea and wait it out. This time I was in our seats since my loge-friends were on vacation - but at least our seats are under the overhang, by quite a comfortable margin. Unless there’s serious wind blowing rain won’t impact us all season.
I [heart] our seats. In fact, I like them more than LA & M’s loge seats, because we are straight up from third base, even if we are one more level up. There was an elderly couple in the seats next to me, keeping score, and they had binoculars. I know I have a pair somewhere, which would seem to be welcome equipment on a weekly basis.
The highlight of the rain delay was watching Mets Weekly reruns on Diamondvision, so I could see Wright and Floyd on MTV’s Total Request Live (something which, had I known about in advance, would have had *somebody* TiVO). Highest of high comedy.
Tonight I finally got to meet my compatriots for the rest of the year. The row behind us is a lot of very smart, very fanatic, very funny people, who know a fucking LOT about baseball. There was the token Yankees fan in full regalia in the front row of the section, and a random single guy in between us who felt the need to yell, “YANKEES SUCK!” about every 7 minutes - which would of course cause the MFY fan to get up and posture, various insults be yelled back and forth, and then the whole cycle would begin again in another 10 minutes: “IN CASE YOU FORGOT: YANKEES SUCK!” Again, highest of high comedy.
Yeah, we took the Marlins, 9-3.
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Friday, April 07, 2006
April 7, 2006: Mets vs. Marlins
The first game of the season! Finally. This year, I am all about taking the 7 train and not driving, saving gas, conserving, plus it really is an easy commute from home… there is very little excuse (okay, at least there isn’t on the way out to Shea; coming home, waiting for the G train, I manage to come up with a long list).
You would think that after everything I went through to get my seats, that I would have been running upstairs to sit in them… but for some reason I chickened out and snuck into the Loge to sit with my friends who also have the Tuesday-Friday plan - let’s call them LA and M for short. I didn’t even go upstairs to watch some of the game from the seats. I think I was afraid to compare them to LA & M’s seats or that maybe I made the wrong decision (I had to do this on my own, since TBF was working out of town at the time).
But a chance to check out the new guys, and see the old favorites. It was big and overwhelming and reminding me how much I still have to learn about baseball.
Oh, and we won.
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Sunday, April 02, 2006
April 2, 2006: Mets Workout Day
I was just going to roll up some time around noon, until a friend who also has the Tuesday-Friday plan mentioned he was going to get there at 10:30, and by the time we finish talking and I mention that I’d like to take some photos… we are now meeting at 10.
I wake up excited. Unreasonably so. It’s not even a game. But still, to wake up and pull out my Mets jersey and drive out to Shea for the first time this year is undeniably exciting.
I park under the Grand Central scurry across the parking lot towards gate A. While it is bright and sunny and unseasonably warm (and I am dressed accordingly), on the far side of the stadium it is windy and FREEZING and we have an hour and a half to wait… before the gates open up and I scurry down onto field level to the first section where I can get front row.
After all of that, and the anticipation of waiting, it was a little bit anti-climactic; just like watching batting practice with the Pepsi Party Patrol thrown in, nothing organized, no introductions, and without a yearbook most of us can’t tell the brand new players by face (and most of them are wearing jackets over their batting practice jerseys so we don’t have numbers to help us out).
We were there until 3, and it was warm enough to get sunburned, and I got a ton of great photos. Most of all, it was just great to be in the park again, the vivid blue and green reminding me of last summer, watching baseball.
And taking photos of David Wright’s ass.
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