Wednesday, March 18, 2009
DAVID DO-WRIGHT.
Yes, I was still rooting for Puerto Rico last night, even up until the end, until TBF knocked on my door and said, “C’mon, David Wright’s gonna win it now.” And then how could you not cheer for D. Wright, that perfect hit, going the other way, one foot from the line, could not have been more perfect.
“DON’T HURT HIM! DON’T HURT HIM!” we yelled, again, as the dogpile spilled up out of the dugout and onto the field.
“GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY THIRD BASEMAN,” was directed at a certain D. F. Jeter.
We enjoyed the special teammate camaraderie between JJ and DW, as they high-fived and shook hands, after the rest of the line had gone through.
Of course, this means we awoke to the following in the New York Post this morning:
See what I think the Post really wanted to say, after the jump.
I guarantee you the only reason that a Met made the back page of the Post is because a Yankee (or two, but it’s probably better to not discuss Bernie Williams’ at-bat) was involved. But I admire the restraint of the headline writers on the Post. Because I am sure the original headlines were more like this:
Now, Carlos y Carlos, get back to PSL and take it easy.
TICKETS & TOURS & SHOPPING
Tickets are shipping!: Wonderful Reader Meg tells us that full season tickets are going out this week via UPS. (Not a choice of the Mets wanting to provide better service this year, but rather an upshot of DHL going international-only.) Partial plans will go out next week. But the biggest news is this:
The customer service guy I had was AWESOME and said that if any fans who don’t get their partial plan tix by 3/29 should give the Mets a call. This year, apparently, the Mets will allow fans who don’t get their tix to come to Citi Field and pick up reprinted ones around the time of the exhibition games.
Of course, TBF points out that “reprinted” probably means without the nice ticket stock that season and plan tickets are usually printed on, but not everyone is as anal particular as we are about these things and might appreciate the convenience of picking up the tickets instead of driving to whatever godforsaken UPS depot is available to you. (It would be so nice if whomever from mets.com is reading the blog multiple times a day could email me and let us know.)
CLUB METS TOURS OF CITI FIELD
If you are a member of Club Mets, you can get a free, no-deposit-required Season Ticket sales-pitch-tour of Citi Field this weekend. You can bring a friend, and for $20, it might be worth it since you also get free access to Gameday Audio (which was why TBF bought it for me as a stocking stuffer this year). Of course, I found this out because TBF reads everything everywhere obsessively, it’s not like they sent members an email about it or anything. We are going on Saturday morning and of course I will post a full report.
CLUBHOUSE STORE
Since I have written about my issues with the Clubhouse Store on 42nd Street in the past, I thought it was only fair to write about a *positive* experience with them. We went there on Monday to review their selection of jerseys, since jerseys with the Shea patch from last year are now 50% off, and TBF has a birthday coming up. The sales staff were polite, exceedingly helpful, and at least one was clearly a Mets fan. We weren’t sure about the second staff member, but he was still very knowledgeable, helpful and pleasant. This is a drastic change from the past, where everyone in the store had an attitude and in my opinion did not reflect well as the face of the Mets in Manhattan. These guys were great. Yes, we were there to buy a jersey that cost $$$, but they offered the same level of service to everyone who was in the store at that time - and we were there about 30 minutes before closing. Kudos to whomever is running the store right now. It was a great experience, for a refreshing change.
(For the record, TBF got an authentic jersey, pinstripes, WRIGHT 5, no Domino’s patch. And even the guys in the store hate the patch.)
WRIGHT HELPS ELDERLY LADY CROSS THE STREET