I am a Mets Fan (and so can you)!

[soupcan]

For only a small fee you can prove you're a bigger (better?) fan than your friends..


Me: "I'll be forever remembered as a true Mets fan. My garandchildren will be able to show their children how wonderful a fan I was! My Mets fan legacy will live on into eternity!"

Mets: "This is a great way to suck even more money out of our fan base under the guise of making them think their great-grandchildren will give a shit."

Temple Israel, Westport, CT: "Hey! The Mets stole our idea!"

[Benjamin Grimm]

The problem is, they'll probably tear the place down in 40 or so years to build a new state-of-the-art (as of 2050) stadium.

Then all of those bricks will end up in a Staten Island landfill.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Fuck

King

Mets

[soupcan]

The fucked up thing is that part of me would love to have my name in a brick at the stadium.


Bastards.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

There's always spraypaint.

[Valadius]

Good Lord, what is wrong with the Wilpons?

I'm still furious at them for opening the door to "Shitty Field" jokes.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Why are we angry about this?

If anyone is silly enough to spend $350 for a brick it's their own fault.

If I could sell the bricks on my house for $350 each I'd sure do it.

I've seen bricks like this all over the place, including at Disneyland. Why shouldn't the Mets do it as well?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah. Besides, every stupid building does that now.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, you're right.

It'll just look cheap.

No cheaper than the name CitiField, of course.

[Guest holychicken]

Look Up
Not Down
Moron

[nymr83]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Then all of those bricks will end up in a Staten Island landfill.

we're CLOSING the dump you bastards! keep your own bricks!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

If it were reasonable, say $50 max, I would have bought one. But those prices are just crazy.

Lower prices = more people buying them = more people with a personal link to the stadium.

Bad business move on their part.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Not if they sell all the bricks.

If they sell every brick, they'll have made $300 per brick more than your suggested price. And that would be a very good business move.

I feel a personal link to Shea Stadium, and my name isn't anywhere near there. I'll never feel a personal link to Citi Field, since I'll only be an occasional visitor. A brick outside the stadium won't be enough to make me feel connected. If I were to have an extended period of attending 20 or more games a year, like I had with Shea, then I'd feel that connection. But unless I surprise myself and move to Queens, that's not likely to happen.

[G-Fafif]

Bricks, like suburban synagogues, are probably not forever:

http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/14/3291160.html

[nymr83]

yeah, at 50 a brick they'd have to sell more than 7 times as many bricks just to break even
i'm sure the Mets have economists who calculated the correct point at which they would maximize profits.

faithandfearinflushing wrote: and a "convenience fee" of $5 to cover the replica brick you get for your very own home Fanwalk. What's convenient about that? Well, it certainly makes your wallet easier to tote around.

Laughing my ass off.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Unless I'm reading it wrong, and I was rolling my eyes as this thread evolved
today and muttering much the same things as posted ... but ...

I'm watching SNY Sportsnite and there's a commercial for this and it seems
that this is a charity thing, not a way to, "bilk Johnny Lunchbucket out of his
hard earned dough."

I went to mets.com and there is a blurb about it below the brick page that
says:

Net proceeds from the sale of Citi Field Fanwalk bricks will be donated to the Mets Foundation, which will distribute the funds to area charities. The Mets Foundation funds and promotes a variety of charitable causes, including educational, social and athletic programs for young people in the community. A percentage of your donation to the Mets Foundation is tax deductible.

[soupcan]

="Kid Carsey"]Net proceeds from the sale of Citi Field Fanwalk bricks will be donated to the Mets Foundation, which will distribute the funds to area charities. The Mets Foundation funds and promotes a variety of charitable causes, including educational, social and athletic programs for young people in the community. A percentage of your donation to the Mets Foundation is tax deductible.

Well, that changes everything.

You'd think they'd publicize that a bit more.

See, now I might actually consider it. After I read Greg's essay of course


OE: Just read it and I swear I didn't read it before starting this thread

[G-Fafif]

The donation aspect is as admirable as Endy, but the consensus among those who saw it and those who ordered early is there was no such footnote listed when this offer first went up, meaning either the Mets had committed an oversight or they rushed into damage control mode when people began to notice the crazy prices.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

You took a consensus of those who saw it and those who ordered early?

I don't have a horse in the race, I just pointed out that this thread perhaps
went to quick judgement without knowing all the facts. I have no idea if the
Mets added afterwards that it was for charity ... but I doubt it. Then again,
I'm not big on Metspiracy theories generating from grassy knolls and such.

[G-Fafif]

Kid Carsey wrote: You took a consensus of those who saw it and those who ordered early?

Yes. Several people with whom I've been in contact have said they had no idea about the charity and/or didn't remember seeing it.

[Guest Iubitul]

Maybe we should all chip in a little, and order a Crane Pool brick...

[nymr83]

Iubitul wrote: Maybe we should all chip in a little, and order a Crane Pool brick...

"Like talking Mets Baseball? Come visit us at cranepoolforum.net!"

[metsmarathon]

i believe that would be in violation of the rules.

(if they reject your brick, i assume you get your money back, no?)

[stevejrogers]

Could do what PETA did at PETCO and buy bricks with a coded message in them.

[seawolf17]

Or it could just say Crane Pool Forum. It would etch our legacy in stone roughly until the end of time.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Sounds good to me. If we as a group opt to do this, count me in.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

We have a www.baseballtruth.com brick at Great American Ballpark and no one objected. In fact, the Reds sent people photos of Adam Dunn holding up a brick with your message Photoshopped on there so you'd know what it looked like. It was pretty cool.

[Valadius]

I'd chip in as well.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

20 posters times $10/each would get us one of the small ones.

[Valadius]

I'd go for that.