I am not one to tell people how to spend their money or to do something that I myself will not do. So I will try to tread carefully to do so as politely as possible.
The NY Mets will be celebrating Frank Cashen, Dwight Gooden, Davey Johnson and Darryl Strawberry’s induction into the Mets Hall Of Fame this Sunday August 1, 2010. Sadly according to an article in the NY Times tickets are still available for this game.
Now I understand if you simply can’t afford it as I just can’t afford it myself but like Shannon Stark of Mets Police said, “You mean to tell me that there aren’t 45,000 Mets fans in the tri-state area who care about our 1986 heroes?“ Can I add that can also actually afford to go and cheer those 1986 Met Greats Gooden, Strawberry, Johnson and Cashen.
The Times article says “Mets fans complained often last year that the team did not do enough to honor the franchise’s past at Citi Field, which opened in March 2009… Yet for all their grumbling last year, Mets fans seem ambivalent about celebrating the team’s history this season.“
If you complained on sports radio or on a Blog shouldn’t you now show up if you have the financial wherewithal to go and show you are thankful for the Met Hall Of Fame and that the Mets are recognizing their history?
I wish I could afford to go I have yet to even see 1 game at Citi Fields and if this Sunday was my 1st time how great would that be. If you are interested in purchasing tickets just go here.
14 comments
ceetar
7/27/2010-5:47pm at 5:47 pm (UTC -4)
I wasn’t as nice in my post tomorrow. It’s sad, more fans want to scream and yell and hate and think they know better.
Mr North Jersey
7/27/2010-5:50pm at 5:50 pm (UTC -4)
Yea neither was Shannon.
I had a hard time finding a quote that I could use that wasn’t that confrontational.
fongy2
7/27/2010-6:03pm at 6:03 pm (UTC -4)
Here’s an idea, how ’bout Shannon Stark and Ken Belson buy a whole bunch of tix and give them away
through their respective web-sites?
As noted in the comments section of both “The NY Times” and “Mets Police”
…It’s pretty friggin’ insulting to any real Mets fan that WE “must” do
ANYTHING to support the team and especially ownership, given their ineptness, seeming lack of desire
to do whatever is needed to Win a
Championship…AND pathological inability to simply be straight with
those same fans on almost anything
and everything.
Many, many of us supported this team
for years and years when there was
very little to cheer for!…
Plus, as someone who visited Shea regularly for 35 years, overpaying
most everything, I was really, really
turned of by the lack of accommodations planned and provided
during the last two years of Shea while Citifield was being built.
Lastly, NOW we’re supposed to celebrate the ’86 Mets??…As if most
of us don’t still daily….And NOW
that ownership was finally nudged into doing so AFTER being just after-
thoughts to Freddy’s beloved Brooklyn
Dodgers.
Unreal!!!
Mr North Jersey
7/27/2010-6:07pm at 6:07 pm (UTC -4)
Well if you feel that way about then just don’t go.
fongy2
7/27/2010-6:09pm at 6:09 pm (UTC -4)
Well….Too far away,
any how.
ceetar
7/27/2010-6:17pm at 6:17 pm (UTC -4)
if you’re not going to celebrate ’86, what are you going to celebrate? Why not just wait until the Mets clinch a playoff berth before paying any attention?
fongy2
7/27/2010-6:26pm at 6:26 pm (UTC -4)
What??..I SAID: “some
of us celebrate THAT
Mets team daily”.
But I don’t think any
other Met fan is in
the right to stand on
some high-horse and
preach to other Met
fans about how they
should celebrate and
support their team and/or how they should spend their
money…Let alone
state,”if you don’t
you don’t have a right to complain”.
Mr North Jersey
7/27/2010-7:02pm at 7:02 pm (UTC -4)
You use words like preach and high-horse and you are correct to say no one deserves to be preached to from a high-horse about how they spend their money.
Now try stepping back from that and look at the bigger picture for a second if you will.
For all the wrong things the Mets do isn’t the Mets doing what they are going to do Sunday a good thing?
Shouldn’t fans that can, go and show their appreciation for the only reason of just showing their appreciation?
Forget about the messenger keep the focus on the event and ask yourself if you could go would you? I would.
For all those that complained that the Mets don’t do enough to celebrate their past now have been rewarded if only for a day by what will transpire this Sunday. Isn’t it then hypocritical if they now choose to not go on the biggest day this season celebrating Mets history?
fongy2
7/27/2010-7:14pm at 7:14 pm (UTC -4)
Hypocrical?…
Because
one might choose
to keep
a couple hundred in their
pocket and watch from the comfort
of their home…
Or a bar?…
I don’t see that at all.
I hope more fans stay away and the
stadium is empty come September.
Maybe that will force The Wilpons to do something BOLD!
And bring in new Managers with some competence and
whos goal first,middle&end is to win another Championship.
This way we’re not patheticly celebrating the ’86team’s 30th as
our last title.
Mr North Jersey
7/27/2010-10:06pm at 10:06 pm (UTC -4)
I guess we differ then on what constitutes hypocrisy.
ceetar
7/27/2010-7:04pm at 7:04 pm (UTC -4)
It’s not so much that, it’s that you can’t balk at Citi Field, call it Ebbets, or joke about the Wilpons liking the Dodgers if you’re not going to go and celebrate and appreciate the very things that are Mets. There were probably 40k fans just that called Francesa to complain about such things, about the Mets not honoring their history. So here it is. Whether it’s begrudgingly, or reactionary, or genuine, these players are here to be celebrated for ever.
fongy2
7/27/2010-7:15pm at 7:15 pm (UTC -4)
And all those things you mentioned are
wrong??
metsfan4decades
7/27/2010-6:15pm at 6:15 pm (UTC -4)
I would absolutely love to be at those ceremonies and that game.
I’ve yet to see Citi Field myself. And would gladly pay for the tickets, if i could get there. It’s the logistics of the trip that’s stopping me.
I loved that ’86 team, I’m die hard Met fan and I’d love to see Citi Field. One of these days, I’m gonna get there….
rustyjr
7/27/2010-6:45pm at 6:45 pm (UTC -4)
all I know is i bought my tixx months ago – I would never pass up this opportunity