Going to the Game (the final '08 thread)

[Guest Kong76]

I've been meaning to start a thread about a last regular season game at
Shea tailgate party -- and I will post about that here next week.

BG: (from the weather thread) Good seats still available for tomorrow's makeup game. I got Upper Box seats behind home plate just over 24 hours prior to game time.

I got a great Loge Box seat to replace my Loge reserved seat I can't use for
the night game. Not the most economical thing I've done this week, but I want
to go to as many games as possible before *sniffle* they tear the joint down.

If anyone wants to meet up at the afternoon game for a half-hour or so and
have a beverage post here or email/PM me or whoever. Also, if anyone is
going to the afternoon game and would like a good single ticket in the Loge
Reserved for the 2nd game lmk ... free to a good CPFr.

[seawolf17]

E-mail sent.

[Guest Kong76]

Team wasn't the only thing sucking at Shea this afternoon.

They have Will Call windows at Shea and a Will Call drop off window and you
can leave tix for people to pick up. I went to the drop off window before game
one to leave a ticket for the night game and they wouldn't freakin' take it.

"Only tickets for this afternoon sir, come back after the game and you can
drop it off then."

Go back after the game and the drop off window is closed along with all the
will call windows except for one and she tells me she couldn't take it to come
back at 6:30 when the drop off window opens. It was like 5:05!?!

I asked her why they make everything so difficult and unleashed a good minute
or so at her with anger laden nonreciprocating love issues I have with my baseball
team and stormed off before she could hit the "send security please" button.

It's a fucking piece of cardboard for a game the same day just not the af-
ternoon game. Take the piece of cardboard and put it with all the other nice
pieces of cardboard and be done with it.

Why bust balls? I'm still fucking livid.

[seawolf17]

Huge thanks anyway to Kase for trying!

[metirish]

Why do they call it customer service when it sucks?

[metsmarathon]

damn... waited too long on tickets for the 14th, so no shea stadium tin for m.e.t.b.o.t. to play/live in.

but i am going to the game on the 25th! yay! anyone else going?

[Elster88]

Sorry I missed this thread. After the game got postponed I went on craigslist and got some great seats for face value.

[Guest Kong76]

Lather, rinse, repeat for tomorrow.

[soupcan]

Going tomorrow night.

[Guest themetfairy]

Tomorrow's game is a day game.

[soupcan]

Thanks - I just realized that!

My children would've ben a tad pissed off at me.

[Gwreck]

Going this afternoon, will be the one with a finger in the air searching for a ticket outside the stadium actually, the Mets had some decent single tickets available.

[Guest Mendoza Line]

I'm going to be in DC for a conference Thursday and Friday - will be arriving Wednesday afternoon and have tickets to the Wednesday night game (Sec. 132, Row JJ). May try to get day-of-game tickets for Thursday if I can get away from the conference early enough.

Any interesting things to know about Nats Park? Any weird restrictions on what can be brought into the stadium?

Any recommendations for dinner in the area?

[stevejrogers]

I should be there on Sunday, but be warned, my little voice recorder will be with me, and I may approach some at the tailgate for a few words to say for my blog. And for purposes of the blog I will use Cranepool Forum handles.

And don't worry, I won't be debating the merits of Rivera, Jeter, Paul O'Neill or anythingelse that will continue the use of my derisive nickname!

[bmfc1]

Mendoza Line wrote: I'm going to be in DC for a conference Thursday and Friday - will be arriving Wednesday afternoon and have tickets to the Wednesday night game (Sec. 132, Row JJ). May try to get day-of-game tickets for Thursday if I can get away from the conference early enough. Any interesting things to know about Nats Park? Any weird restrictions on what can be brought into the stadium? Any recommendations for dinner in the area?

ML: you can bring in only one closed bottle per person of a clear liquid. Other than that, anything goes. There aren't great food options in the area but the choices in Nats Park are excellent. I recommend Ben's Chili Bowl, 3B side, field level.

[Guest Kong76]

Psst, Steve, today's Sunday and it's almost over.

[stevejrogers]

KC wrote: Psst, Steve, today's Sunday and it's almost over.

Psst, Kase, I was referring to Sunday the 28th, sorry for the confusion bud. Don't worry, I'm not heading to an empty Shea Stadium parking lot right now!

[Guest themetfairy]

Steve - just make sure that people want to talk before turning on the recorder.

[stevejrogers]

themetfairy wrote: Steve - just make sure that people want to talk before turning on the recorder.

I fully intended to.

[soupcan]

Well that was an interesting day yesterday.

Sweltering. My three kids (11, 9 & 7) melting in the heat. Would've left in the 3rd inning if there wasn't the promise of running the bases for the kids afterward.

The kids were dying so about the 4th inning we got up and just walked around the stadium. Went all the way to the upper deck in right field and sat down in the last row for about an inning and a half. It was shady and there was actually a nice breeze blowing around up there. We saw Wright's second homerun from up there and it was a great angle.

Once the shade covered our regular seats, we moved back down. The kids however were so enamored of the view from up top they asked if we could see more games from up there. Arrrgh. My whole Met fan life I sat in the upper deck and the mezz. I finally position myself into great field level tix and the kids like the whole 'microscopic-players-look-like-ants' perspective. I have to say though, after years of not being able to get the whole field view, it was fun seeing it again.

So its a long game and although the sun was now not a factor the humidity was still a killer. The Mets of course did not cooperate and get us out of there quickly, turning the 9th inning into a marathon. Finally the disaster ends and we head out to Gate A for the Dyna-Mets Dash.

Oh, yay - the line for that is literally completely around the freaking stadium (thanks for the heads-up fairy)!

We blow that off and get in the air-conditioned mini-van for the long depressing ride home. Oh yes, they'll remenmber their last game at Shea forever.

[Guest themetfairy]

Hey - this was the first time in a couple of years that we've been around to do the dash. The line was, indeed, long, but it moved pretty quickly once it got started. You shoulda stayed.

[soupcan]

themetfairy wrote: ...but it moved pretty quickly once it got started. You shoulda stayed.

And my day is now complete.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

I'll probably get out to one of the games in Atlanta over the weekend.

[Guest Kong76]

Quick note on tailgate gathering for Sunday: if anyone wants to meet up be-
fore the game please contact me at the email address above (I prefer email
to PM's) and I'll send you the coordinates.

It's pretty much Bring Your Own Everything although there will be fire
available. Fire, fire's cool.

Recording devices for purposes of interviewing tailgaters is discouraged. Take
a quick shorthand course this week if you plan on interviewing tailgaters :-)

[stevejrogers]

Kase, you didn't leave your email address in the OP.

[Guest Kong76]

It's always the English majors ... ^up top^ ... cranepoolforum@gmail.com

[stevejrogers]

Oh THAT up top. Thought you meant in the thread.

[seawolf17]

FUCK yeah I'll be there tomorrow night to say goodbye to Shea one more time. What time do gates open? I'm going early so I can do the whole place.

[Gwreck]

Gate C opens at 4:40 PM for a 7:10 start.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hey I'll be there Wednesday too -- Silverman has sum picnic area tixx left last I heard, tell 'em I sent ya!