Friday, September 12, 2008

SHEA FOR SALE.

Today is proving to be an odd day. I will post more about this later, but for now, let me talk about this list I just got.

Someone forwarded me a copy of the listing - including prices - of every single bit of Shea Stadium the Mets plan to put on sale. I am not sure about the ethics of posting the entire list (not to mention it’s ridiculously long, and I’d like to not be on the blacklist forever), but I wanted to post some of my favorites.

Note: I do not know where you can buy this stuff. So please do not ask.

Ticket Window Sign, E-3 $50.00
Topps Starting Lineup Cards - Damion Easley $200.00
Shea Stadium is a Smoke Free Facility Sign $300.00
Gate A Entry Sign (3 pieces) $2,500.00
Low Clearance - No Forklifts $50.00
No Autographs in Tunnel Sign $200.00
No Visitors Sign (Outside Umpires Room) - 3rd Base Side $75.00
Video Surveillance Beyond this point Sign Tunnel, Hall to Offices $75.00

GOT ‘EM.

To: MG
From: TBF
Subject: We have tickets to the last game

In the end, about $15 more than I wanted to pay but I think it will be worth it for the Upper Box and not having idiots in front of us all game.

I know, you’re all saying ‘WTF?’, and my own Magic Number over there on the left was predicated on us going to this game. We never really worried about it; we can get into anything; we kept saying ‘worst case scenario we wait half an inning outside and the prices will drop,’ TBF didn’t want to pay $100 a ticket a few months ago. But the prices aren’t dropping, people are paying $270 for UR section 42 row V, and we were getting a little nervous.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

9/11.

My mother turns 70 today. Ever since 2001, she’s said she doesn’t have a birthday any more. But, I think when you turn 70, you get a birthday.

So I made her a web page over at charity:water, which is a pretty incredible organization, and so far, we’ve raised over $300 for the charity, from friends and associates. If you felt like doing something nice today, maybe you have a spare $5 lying around. If not, at least check out the page and learn about the charity. If nothing else the story will make you feel good. And, Mom’s sure getting a kick out of it.

Apologies for the non-Mets content.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

TOO MUCH?

My friend Texy told me she has a Fenway one and uses it as a beer cooler at parties. That’ll be my excuse once TBF sees it.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

NO CUPCAKE ZONE.

TBF walked around last weekend referring to this week as “the cupcake series.”

Um, no. In a word, no.  And good for the Nationals. They’re not going down without a fight. That’s something for their fans to be proud of.

I am on the DL tonight so TBF went to Shea without me, while I watched the game on the couch with the Rally Cat. I hated missing it, but I also can’t drag myself through the week half-dead for one game… okay, it really, really bothers me that I missed this one - it’s going to bother me to miss ANY this month - but I felt like crap and even if we would have driven to Shea I would be paying for it for the rest of the week.

(I’m just not going to feel good about this, am I?)

And THANK YOU to the Marlins!

BURGOS.

For those who haven’t read the news story yet, I’m talking about this. I’ve used up my Sanity Watcher’s points for the day in reading the comments on some of these stories, so I’ll just stop now and post the following:

• I keep reading that Burgos should be released because “stuff like this” makes the Wilpons angry. Um, okay. Shouldn’t an asshole beating the shit out of his girlfriend make EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE angry? 

Sunday, September 07, 2008

K CARDS FOR JOHAN.

It was a grand night out at Shea tonight, one of those classic late-season games that starts to feel like something else, ripe with potential and taut with anticipation. The weather was warm but not hot, cool but not cold. The crowd wasn’t the sellout a Sunday afternoon game would have been, but it was plenty full and wonderfully vocal, chanting “Let’s Go Mets” before we even sang the anthem.

GETTING READY.

For tomorrow night. We’re taking the refund for tomorrow afternoon (I need to work and TBF is doing the New York Century). See you at 8. Let’s Go Mets!

Friday, September 05, 2008

YOU CAN’T SIT DOWN.

This was a frustrating evening to say the least. Pelf was just fine; but there were “some really crappy at-bats,” to quote TBF, and as you know, zero offensive production from the Mets. Zero. Nada. Zilch. It irks me beyond all comprehension that we got shut out by The Spouse Abuser (sorry, I can’t type his name here). Our only salvation was that, for a change, the fans of the visiting team seemed to be at the top of section 16 (although we did get two in the front of Section 12, very much on the down low - so much so that someone who shall remain nameless was trying to take photos of “the hot guys” in the section, only to be sharply reprimanded. “He’s wearing a red shirt, and he did an obscene fist-pumping motion during that two-run HR,” I hissed).

Thursday, September 04, 2008

SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER?

This is NOT promising:

I am excited about this weekend. We are in Section 12 on Friday and Section 8 on Saturday and the front row of an Upper Box on Sunday (just won an eBay auction - we’re *so* bringing K cards!) I am on a deadline at work, which explains the dearth in posting around here these days, although I am managing to watch most of the games. But even with the deadline, no one would think of suggesting that I miss a game, even although 99.999% of them are Yankees fans (which makes some of them even more understanding when I say something like, “I can’t do that on Tuesday, we have a game, I know it’s the Nationals but I am not missing any games I have tickets for in September.” Hey, there are nice Republicans too. [Or so I’ve heard.]) But it makes content generation a little difficult.

Tomorrow’s pregame festivities feature the Official Section 12 Regulars Final Season Tailgate, sponsored by the D. family in row F.

Last weekend we headed out to Flushing for Korean food and so I could shoot the neon while Shea was empty. I’m excited to see what they look like, but I shot them in the largest format possible so it will be some time before I can have time to work with them and present them for your perusal. But I have to do it soon, because if I don’t like what I got, I don’t have much more time to get it. I don’t trust the Mets to shut it off or take it down with any warning whatsoever. I feel like I’ve gotten Shea, you know, as much as I could get it, and at least we have 10 more games to make sure.

And we’re still looking for something affordable for The Last Game. Um, faith will be rewarded and all that.