Your 2010 Mets tickets have arrived

[batmagadanleadoff]

For 2010, the Mets finally got around to printing a set of season tickets where the face of each individual ticket isn't the same for every game. Teams have been printing season ticket sets comprised of unique photographs and images for each game for about 20 years now. The Mets are the last team in baseball* to embrace this technology. I'm supposing that cheapskate Freddy was waiting for the pricing on this kind of print run to fall below that of the old fashioned tickets.

*Okay, "probably". I'm almost sure of this. The Marlins are the only other team that I can't rule out.

[seawolf17]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: *Okay, "probably". I'm almost sure of this. The Marlins are the only other team that I can't rule out.

Rule them out; they don't have any season ticket holders.

[Ceetar]

Tickets look good this year.

I really don't like the non-season ticket ones though.

http://twitpic.com/18tlrn

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mets also issued a news release detailing how Metly the place will be this year.

Mets announce additional enhancements to Citi Field for 2010 season Shea Stadium Home Run Apple moves to Mets Plaza outside Jackie Robinson Rotunda; Mets Topps Baseball Cards on Field Level expands team presence in Rotunda; New Blue Smoke, Box Frites and Big Apple Brews locations in Promenade FLUSHING, N.Y., April 1, 2010 - The New York Mets today announced additional enhancements to Citi Field for the 2010 season that raises the profile of club history and elevates the fan experience at their new home. The Shea Stadium Home Run Apple has been relocated to Mets Plaza in front of the Jackie Robinson Rotunda, offering fans a central meeting point. The popular piece of Mets history will also be available anytime before or after games for photo opportunities. Topps baseball cards showing the Mets lineup of the day's game will sit atop the escalators and stairs in the Rotunda. Oversized vintage baseball cards of Cleon Jones, Dave Kingman and Robin Ventura will be among those featured on Topps displays on the first and third base sides of the Field Level. Following a successful inaugural season, Union Square Hospitality Group's Blue Smoke and Box Frites concepts will open additional locations in the Promenade Food Court along with a second Big Apple Brews, featuring 30 Anheuser-Busch products. The 1969 and 1986 World Champion Mets will be celebrated at the Champions Club, formerly known as the Ebbets Club, on the Field Level behind home plate. Photographs from those memorable seasons will decorate the space, with the first base side honoring the 1986 team and the third base side saluting the 1969 club. "These changes along with the opening of the Mets Hall of Fame & Museum, reflect our ongoing desire to enhance the fan experience and showcase Mets history," said Dave Howard, Executive Vice President, Business Operations, New York Mets. "Our fans told us what they wanted to see, and we will continue to respond to their feedback as we further refine the ballpark." The previously announced renaming of Citi Field's VIP entrances will be completed for Opening Day. Hodges VIP, on the first base side of the ballpark, is marked both inside and outside with imagery of the legendary Mets manager Gil Hodges. Seaver VIP, on the third base side, features photos of Mets Hall-of-Fame pitcher Tom Seaver. Stengel VIP, at the left field entrance, displays imagery of the first manager in team history, Casey Stengel. Banners of Mets players from all eras including Ed Kranepool and Edgardo Alfonzo have been added to Mets Plaza and in the parking lots. Inside the ballpark, the centerfield scoreboard "Lets Go Mets" sign facing the field and the "Home of the Mets" sign on the opposite side both now use the Mets script logo. The outfield bridge on the Field Level will be dedicated Shea Bridge during a pre-game ceremony on Opening Day. Naming the bridge after William A. Shea honors the man who brought National League baseball back to New York after the Dodgers and Giants left for California in 1957 leading to the creation of the Mets. A limited number of tickets to Opening Day, Monday, April 5 against the Florida Marlins at 1:10 p.m., are available through the purchase of Season Tickets and Plans by phone at (718) 507-TIXX and at Mets.com or LosMets.com.

Wow, 30 A-B products! Bud, Bud Light, Bud Light with Lime, Bud Light with Wheat, Bud Light Lite, Bud Select, Bud Select Ultra, Strawberry Bud, Tartar Control Bud...

[batmagadanleadoff]

Ceetar wrote: I really don't like the non-season ticket ones though. http://twitpic.com/18tlrn

You just criticized something having to do with the Mets. This is your idea of an April Fool's joke, isn't it?

[soupcan]

Courtesy of MetsBlog

[Ceetar]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ceetar wrote: I really don't like the non-season ticket ones though. http://twitpic.com/18tlrn src="http://twitpic.com/18tlrn"> You just criticized something having to do with the Mets. This is your idea of an April Fool's joke, isn't it?

Not criticizing. I don't like it, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Better?

Lunchbucket, no, the beers are actually very very good. (nless they're changing from last year, but..)

It's hard to say though. This is the list from last year (http://picasaweb.google.com/ceetar/041609_Padres#5333544484705180834)
[img src=http://picasaweb.google.com/ceetar/041609_Padres#5333544484705180834]>

I don't think Goose Island is anything but a local Chicago brewery, unless Busch owns them? If they replaced this awesome selection with merely crap i'll be pissed. But if you like beer, it's really an amazing selection factoring in the Brooklyn taps. (I belive Czechvar is the "real" budweiser as in beer from the city of budweis. but they may be owned by Busch now too..)

[batmagadanleadoff]

Ceetar wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ceetar wrote: I really don't like the non-season ticket ones though. http://twitpic.com/18tlrn src="http://twitpic.com/18tlrn"> You just criticized something having to do with the Mets. This is your idea of an April Fool's joke, isn't it? Not criticizing. I don't like it, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Better?

Oh, I wasn't criticizing your criticism. I was just surprised. Criticize away if that's what you wanna do. Fine by me.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The beer available in the food court plaza last year wasn't just A-B products. I am a little confused now as to whether this year they would reducing their variety (maybe not in number but in source) or if Big Apple Brews is a different beer stand. Or, perhaps, whether that bar was a cleverly disguised A-B stand all along. I know they are owned by Belgians now and have lots of imported sister and cousin brands today.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Apparently, Goose Island-- our president's reported favorite (Honker's Ale)-- has been partly owned by Busch since 2006, along with Portland's Widmer.

And yes, JCL-- cleverly hidden or not, all of the Beer Island beers are Anheiser-Busch owned/distributed(though Goose is independently produced still, methinks). (Just found this out a few weeks ago... and I do feel a little dirty for it.)

Brooklyn and Bluepoint, however, ain't part of the machine. So...

[Ceetar]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Apparently, Goose Island-- our president's reported favorite (Honker's Ale)-- has been partly owned by Busch since 2006, along with Portland's Widmer. And yes, JCL-- cleverly hidden or not, all of the Beer Island beers are Anheiser-Busch owned/distributed(though Goose is independently produced still, methinks). I feel a tiny bit dirty. Brooklyn and Bluepoint, however, ain't.

Bluepoint is in Suffolk county and Brooklyn obviously is just flat awesome. It sounds like it'll be roughly the same list as last year, just a second location so I don't have to walk down the stairs as much, unless i want the Brooklyn tap stuff. Wonder if the Frites and Blue Smoke taps will be upstairs as well, I'd imagine so.

[Ceetar]

Where did blue point come from anyway, they don't have that at Citi do they? (interested to see what crap McFadden's has though)

side note..how do I get the img tags to work? or do I just not?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

They've got Toasted Lager at Catch of the Day (as well as hot dogs boiled in it, which are decent).

[batmagadanleadoff]

Beer Here!



So now that I have your attention, did anybody notice that this year's Mets season tickets print run is not comprised of the same ticket face for every single game? The Mets never printed tickets like this before. They're the last team in baseball to print tickets with different images for different games.


(Last year's Braves tickets were printed by Topps Chewing Gum and featured a Topps Braves baseball card on each ticket face)

[Ceetar]

Couldn't they have altered the Apple picture to reflect how it'll look this year, not how it looked last year? (the 10'10" wall?)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I like how they blacked out the seat and row numbers on the new tickets.

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I like how they blacked out the seat and row numbers on the new tickets.

Those are MetsGrrrrl's tickets. I got that picture from her web site.

http://metsgrrl.com/index.php/site/comments/2010-tickets-have-arrived/

[Ceetar]

Guess she's afraid we'll know where she's sitting? Uh oh, should I have blacked out the seats In the picture I posted?

[Gwreck]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I'm supposing that cheapskate Freddy was waiting for the pricing on this kind of print run to fall below that of the old fashioned tickets.

Yeah, but ask yourself: how did they offset the cost?
The answer: They no longer give media guides out to the Season/Plan ticket holders.

In all seriousness, the Mets actually sent a letter to their season/plan holders saying that because of a "Going Green" initiative, they are no longer going to give the Media Guide out and instead give access to an "online" version, "when available."

(Unsaid in the letter is that no other team is doing this -- most teams are instead giving out a coupon to be redeemed for a Guide at the ballpark -- or that the guide is already available online, and the Mets just can't be bothered to figure out how to give the online access to their "valued" customers).

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gwreck wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I'm supposing that cheapskate Freddy was waiting for the pricing on this kind of print run to fall below that of the old fashioned tickets. Yeah, but ask yourself: how did they offset the cost? The answer: They no longer give media guides out to the Season/Plan ticket holders. In all seriousness, the Mets actually sent a letter to their season/plan holders saying that because of a "Going Green" initiative, they are no longer going to give the Media Guide out and instead give access to an "online" version, "when available." (Unsaid in the letter is that no other team is doing this -- most teams are instead giving out a coupon to be redeemed for a Guide at the ballpark -- or that the guide is already available online, and the Mets just can be bothered to figure out how to give the online access to their "valued" customers).

Like this organization needs to be motivated to cheese out on fan frills. I'm sure that the team cut out the media guide to "save green" rather than to "go green".

(This year, the Reds are doing the Topps baseball cards/season ticket thing)

[Gwreck]

Ceetar wrote: Guess she's afraid we'll know where she's sitting? Uh oh, should I have blacked out the seats In the picture I posted?

Only if you don't want someone to steal your tickets. No one should ever post a picture of any event ticket online without obscuring seat numbers and barcodes.

[Ceetar]

barcode yeah, not sure what knowing the seats will do.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Invite stalkers to track you down.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Invite stalkers to track you down.

"You take the hottest pictures of tickets... it's like you took them just for me. Do you mind if I smell your hot dog wrappers after you leave and write you fan letters on death certificates?

[Guest Kong76]

Gwreck wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: In all seriousness, the Mets actually sent a letter to their season/plan holders saying that because of a "Going Green" initiative, they are no longer going to give the Media Guide out and instead give access to an "online" version, "when available." (Unsaid in the letter is that no other team is doing this -- most teams are instead giving out a coupon to be redeemed for a Guide at the ballpark -- or that the guide is already available online, and the Mets just can't be bothered to figure out how to give the online access to their "valued" customers).

It bugs the shit out of me that I have to buy one to
settle my completionist soul. F' you Jeffie!

[batmagadanleadoff]

seawolf17 wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: *Okay, "probably". I'm almost sure of this. The Marlins are the only other team that I can't rule out. Rule them out; they don't have any season ticket holders.

Paul Lukas wrote an article for ESPN about tickets last week, in which he linked to a few websites about ticket collecting. I followed one of Lukas' links, and was able to confirm that prior to 2010, the Marlins had at least one run of season tickets that did not include the same image or design on every single game ticket, thus placing the Mets firmly and solely in last place in this category.



http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/100319

(Last season, the Padres also did the Topps Baseball Card/Season Ticket thingy)