Saturday, March 12, 2011
“MR. MET’S LANDING”.
This just in:
The Mets have also announced “Mr. Met’s Landing,” a new, specially priced area of the ballpark. Tickets in sections 338 and 339 in Citi Field’s Left Field Landing are $10 for kids 12 and under and $20 for adults ($20 and $30 respectively for four Marquee dates). Mr. Met will visit both sections during every home Mets game.
For a family of four - two adults and two children - the real price of this section will be $81, because of the $4 per ticket and $5 per order service charge. (Yes, I am going to be tiresome about this this year.) More after the jump.
That said, this is close to being the kind of an offer that will actually make people interested in coming to the ballpark, but let’s be honest: these are the seats being offered because these are the seats no one wants to sit in. No one wants to sit in these seats because you can’t see the scoreboard easily, you couldn’t see the video board until they put that one in underneath the Pepsi Porch bridge, and you’re cut off from the rest of the ballpark by the Acela Club and the Caesar’s Club. The only access to the Left Field Landing is through the escalators or stairs out in left field near the Taqueria.
Of course, if I was working for the Mets, I’d spin that as “easy access to premium concessions” (which is how they sold a friend of mine on season tickets in 138, right downstairs) or “easy access to Kiddie Field” (the wiffle ball field out near the food court in center field).
Also, fireworks night is back (sorry, “Pyrotechnics Night”) on Friday, July 15. I am not as devastated by the thinness of the promotional schedule as some people are, because I know it gets filled out as the year progresses, and because I have Friday night tickets and know I am going to get my Mr. Met bobblehead and my Ike Davis bobblehead, which will be the only things worth a damn this season (Collector’s Cup notwithstanding). However, it was a sorry list of promotions last year and it’s not going to suddenly be any less sorry this year given the current situation.
Bringing Fireworks Night (dammit) back is the least that they can do. I mean, we went to see the Newark Bears play last year over 4th of July weekend when the Mets were on the road. They had fireworks night, and it was pretty respectable for minor league fireworks. If they—a team who, at the time, had Scott Spezio on his roster—can find a sponsor, the Mets have no excuse.
