Wednesday, May 20, 2009
THEATER OF THE ABSURD.
Go figure. We can get Shea’s home plate into outer space, but we can’t get the World Series trophies and the Mets Hall of Fame into Citi Field.
(Have you all been sending your letters? You haven’t, have you. I have another one going on Friday.)
I fell asleep after Daniel Murphy dropped what was probably the first ball in the outfield. It is probably better that way.
Can I just say that, right now, I am not looking forward to going to Boston? I am not looking forward to watching the Mets play like Little Leaguers at Fenway. We are there for two games, and it was *not* cheap. (At least for one game - for the Sunday game, a Red Sox fan of my acquaintance sold me his season tickets at face value. “I don’t markup tickets for baseball fans that I know personally,” he said.)
Who else is going to Boston?
Posted by Caryn at 11:58 AM
Mrs. Metsocrat and me live up here in Boston - we’ll be at Friday night’s game and possibly one of the weekend games as well.
We’ll be in section 10, row H, if any fellow Mets fans want to stop by and say hi on Friday. Our blue should be easy to spot in a sea of red.
But we share your trepidation about the series itself. At the least, maybe Johan will put the team on its back and help us escape with one win.
While I did stay up for the entire drama on Monday, I have to admit I dozed off almost immediately after seeing Murphy missing the Juan Pierre flyball. It’s pretty funny because who exactly is schooling him; Fernando Tatis? Gary Sheffield? Why wasn’t Reed in LF if both were in the lineup?
About Boston, you will have a blast in spite of the Mets. Go get yourself some real lagers and ale and take it all in!
I have been to every Mets/Red Sox game since interleague play started and I am NOT going this weekend. (And, I had access to great seats, had I wanted them.) First, I’m flying down to SC for my college roommate’s pre-marriage bash. But second and pretty big in my book, watching the Mets lose at Fenway stinks! I have gone to Fenway to watch the Mets play in my full Mets garb. The heckling doesn’t get bad until the 8th or so, most likely b/c I’m a woman. So it’s not that. (We are much worse in NY… beating down the Sox fans from moment one.) It’s more that when we lose in a stupid way – like we did at one game that comes to mind where we blew it rather than making the last out in the 9th – the heckling and bashing doesn’t even end when you get to the car. Getting out of Boston is hard after a game, and the stop and go traffic makes it impossible to ignore the yelling. I wish you the best of luck up here in Red Sox country.
how did i know you were writing another letter. i need to start my version of that second letter soon too.
I’ve heard such mixed reports of Fenway I don’t know what to think. I admire their skill in heckling the Yankees (or anyone else), but I imagine it’ll feel different when it’s my team that’s the target.
I guess I’ll find out.
I’m going to keep writing letters, but I don’t think it will matter. I don’t think anyone else is going to write a letter. People would just rather complain in blogs.
Hey, I’m writing. A couple other people said they were writing. The Mets put out the survey, so you know their ears are open. I’d also rather be creative at this point with solutions than complaining over and over again.
My buddies are taking the trip up to Boston this weekend. I passed. I had the luck of seeing the Mets beat Boston in Fenway 1-0 back in 1998. It was the Balk game. I sat in the RF bleachers.
It’s a very interesting place. It’s cramped, but when you look at the field, you put the cramp behind you, and just suck it in. I didn’t need to see Fenway again (not that I wouldn’t go if an opportunity arose, but I wasn’t going to make a holiday weekend out of it.)
Most important thing is to have fun and enjoy the game.
As the Mets go? You win some, you lose some. Now that everyone is predicting they’ll lose 3 more straight, and the season is almost over, they might surprise us.
I will be up in Boston. We have SRO Monster tickets for Saturday nights game. Some friends of ours have box seats so we will be switching seats during the 5th inning so we all get a shot to be on the wall. I will be wearing the Santana jersey. Lets hope we can win a game up there, a tall order right now.
Right now, I just want to not be completely embarrassed. am i the only one who remembers 2006?
Mrs. Metsocrat and me live up here in Boston - we’ll be at Friday night’s game and possibly one of the weekend games as well.
We’ll be in section 10, row H, if any fellow Mets fans want to stop by and say hi on Friday. Our blue should be easy to spot in a sea of red.
But we share your trepidation about the series itself. At the least, maybe Johan will put the team on its back and help us escape with one win.