Wednesday, November 19, 2008

CRANKY UPDATE.

Here’s what TBF dragged out of the MTO this morning:

1) Information on partial plans is being sent out end of this week/beginning of next week.
2) They DO have ticket prices, and if you are a full season holder they will gladly give you the numbers for Bronze/Gold/Silver/etc. over the phone. They’re just not going to release them for whatever reason. Maybe one of the beat writers could call and get this info?
3) As a commenter on an earlier post noted, one of the 15 game plans is allegedly going to be a Saturday plan with some weekday games thrown in. At least that was strongly hinted to TBF.
4) And finally:

“I don’t think my reference to the Yankees—and that they already have all their info out—went over well.  I asked why they were able to do things better than the Mets.  The manager suggested that they were aware of what the Yankees were doing but that they weren’t better, just different.  I suggested that in this case, they were indeed faster, which I thought was better.”

It’s coming, at least. It’s coming. I just wish I could be excited about it. 

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

CRANKY.

TBF called the Mets today.  He’s still waiting for a call back.

What’s infuriating isn’t just that the Mets don’t have anything to tell him, it’s that they can’t be bothered to get a coordinated statement together to give to fans when they call. Why doesn’t every ticket rep have a statement that they can read and a FAQ they can refer to? Why, instead, do they just put him on hold and then pretend to try to find someone who can give him an answer, when they know of course there isn’t anyone because there isn’t an answer because they don’t have to do a goddamn thing they don’t want to do because they have our money and they hold us hostage and if we don’t buy the tickets, someone else will. And the media will never report on it, and all the Mets will do is send out another press release about the Super Silver Golden Glittering Excelsior Suite being sold and how the economy is not impacting the Mets.

[So we were talking the other day about Wachovia Center in Philly. That name just changed not that long ago, and now it’s likely going to have to change again. And so what does it mean for Citi Field and the 20k people who just lost their jobs at Citicorp? Not that it matters what it’s going to be called, because only rubes that go there twice a year, or people who are blind sheep are going to call it Citi Field anyway. The rest of us are going to call it Shea or “going to see the Mets” or “see you out in Flushing” or anything other than the worst possible name for a facility since Enron Field.]

Monday, November 17, 2008

VERY INTERESTING.

What’s been coming up in a few comment threads here on MetsGrrl.com is that the Mets sold an awful lot of people (including, and especially, yours truly) on buying some kind of extended ticket plan in order to have precedence in CitiField. Of course, that changed very quickly, or it’s some kind of institutional insomnia.

It’s November 17th, and no one has heard anything. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

The reprehensible thing to me is that despite the fact that the Mets sold every single luxury box, times are tough. People are losing their jobs. And a lot of people might like that money back, or might choose to ask for it back once they know what the ticket plan choices are.

Today, MG reader Meg let us know about the following:

Has anyone heard about the class action lawsuit? Someone close to the Mets org told me one was brewing for the partial plan holders.

Can anyone help a sister out?? I’d sure like to know about this class action lawsuit.

Monday, November 10, 2008

*TAP TAP TAP*

It’s November 10.

Do you know where your partial season ticket plans are?

Thursday, October 30, 2008

TWO CONVERSATIONS.

Actual IM conversations to coworkers this morning.

#1: with Carlos the Mets fan in the uptown office:

[09:48] metsgrrl: and we say a fond farewell to the 2008 major league baseball season.
[09:49] carlos: fond? pssshhhhh
[09:50] carlos: I think in all my years as a Met fan, this is probably the worst as far as the thing I furthest wanted to see happened....another collapse followed by a World Series ring for Pat Burrell and Jimmy Rollins.
[09:55] metsgrrl: i don’t even want to think about it
[09:58] metsgrrl: i am so upset i could scream
[09:58] metsgrrl: i don’t even want to think about baseball next year
[09:58] metsgrrl: that and the wilpons hanging onto my playoff money because they are too lazy and greedy to announce what they are doing with partial ticket plans
[09:58] metsgrrl: i am ready to say ‘fuck that’ and take my money and just buy a handful of games
[10:00] carlos: and that is a shame that they can’t even get that right
[10:01] metsgrrl: they’re too busy knocking shea down

#2: My developer who lives/works in Philly:

[10:24] metsgrrl: were they shooting off guns in the street last night?
[10:24] phillydev: as soon as strike 3 hit, it was mayhem
[10:24] phillydev: more cops than new years

It’s just not a good day.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

PHONE CALL #2.

From: TBF
To: MG
called the Mets. We aren’t going to hear any meaningful details for the partial plans until “sometime next month.”

...but of course.

Monday, October 20, 2008

SAME TIME NEXT YEAR.

So by now most of you will have gotten The Letter from the Mets. In this letter, they tell us that we can have our playoff refund applied to next year, or if we want it back, we need to fax or mail them the letter back to them.

I know. It took three weeks for them to tell us this. Refunds - and by that I mean MONEY RETURNED TO OWNER, not money credited to your Mets ticket account - should have started on 9/29.

But, the letter is a glimmer of hope in that they tell us that there will be partial plans available. Gone, however, are the days of the Weekday or the Saturday or the Tuesday/Friday plan. Instead, there will be 40 game plans, and 15 game plans. Both of which are industry standards. I realize that there is a long tradition of the plans that the Mets had; that many of you have been plan holders for 10+ years. I personally never had an expectation that they would retain the old plans.

However, the letter is even more annoying because while they tell us that there will be partial plans, they don’t tell us what type, how they will be allocated, or when we will know. Hoping, of course, that everyone will keep their money in their Mets ticket account, where it earns interest for the Wilpons, until November, when we’ll find out what’s available to us.

TBF is reading message boards and doing research and trying to ascertain what we will be able to get and where it should be and should we buy one 40 game plan or 2 15-game plans, while I still cannot even think about it.  I just can’t be excited about 2009, or Citi Field, just yet. I am not ready to give them my enthusiasm back. I am not ready to drink the Kool-Aid yet. And I am angry and resentful that they have taken that energy away from me. Not because of the losses, or because of the end of Shea, but because of the apathetic, inattentive, and indifferent manner with which anyone buying less than an Excelsior Suite has been regarded by the Mets organization.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

CONGRATS, TAMPA.

DEAR TAMPA BAY RAYS:

CONGRATULATIONS!

NOW, PLEASE BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF THE PHILLIES.

THANK YOU.

xo,
MG

p.s. *NOW* can I get a freaking Cliff Floyd Rays shirt? Anyone?? Anyone?? Will pay $$$$

Friday, October 17, 2008

96 TEARS.

I cried last night when that final HR was hit. I cried as the Red Sox ran into the dogpile and “Dirty Water” blared out of the speakers. I had stayed up to watch the festivities, but I ended up making TBF hit the OFF button on the remote. I didn’t cry because I’m a Rays fan (although of course readers of this blog will already know that I am rooting hard for Cliff Floyd) or because I’m a Red Sox fan (there is some of that, by proxy). I cried because I said I wasn’t going to watch October baseball and then found myself watching baseball the last few nights and got sucked into the emotion of it again, the feeling of sitting and watching and praying and waiting and hoping.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

SIGH.

Should have been us..

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