The Mets Police

I'm still recovering from last night - left the Stadium at 2 am and got home at 3:30. But a quick snapshot of the last several days.

From Saturday through Tuesday, the tally for me is:

• 2 stadiums (Yankee & Shea)
• 4 games
• 40.875 innings (two 8 1/2 inning games, one 9 inning, and one 14 5/6)
• I don't know how many players, pitches, etc.
• 6 hours waiting in lines for autographs at FanFest
• 4 HOF autographs (Earl Weaver, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, & Gary Carter)
• 3 children of HOFers met (Mantle's sons and Jackie Robinson's daughter)
• Several Team USA autographs
• I think a dozen hot dogs and eight beers
• Almost 1,000 pictures taken (which will be reduced to probably 150 once I go through them)
• One new David Wright jersey (home, blue pinstripe, with Shea patch, size 44)
• An undisclosed amount spent on souveneirs
• About 28 hours total of baseball activities

(And last night's 15 inning adventure was my SECOND 15 inning game this month. I saw one at SafeCo a few weeks ago too.)

I think I need a few days for everything to sink in but man, did I enjoy this weekend.

This guy went:  http://yesimayankeefan.blogspot.com/2008/07/2008-dhl-all-star-game-fan-fest.html

And here's a video that won't embed correctly so click: Fan Fest Video

Summary: fun, long lines.
http://theropolitans.com/2008/07/live-from-fan-fest-if-youre-going-read.html






The 'Roplitans

I hope I'm wrong about this one and it's awesome, but right now I don't get it.

A friend has been after me to bring the kids, and I was interested to learn more. The website is very vague and speaks of 'events.'.

Bon Jovi will play music - that I understand. 'Events' - what's that?

In the Post I see the advertising section about fanfest.   Advertising means that the fanfest likely wrote the editorial - so let's take a look together.

Giveaways from sponsors. Mmm ok.

All star shower and shave.

Replica clubhouse. Cool I Guess.

Replica dugout. Eh.

Equipment room. Eh.

Home Run Derby. Cool. I fear the line but cool.

Stare at some New Era minor league caps.

Make catches against a wall. Again I fear the line.

See the wristbands of the pros! Really. NY Post p. 55

Hall of Fame exhibits. Cool

Some batting cages and bullpens and 'fielding practice.'

Well that's more than I knew. I'm not going to 'hate on it' but $30 for me and $25 for each kid - I think I'll wait til the Saturday papers and blogs to see if others enjoy it.
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