Sunday, June 21, 2009

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Of Noise And Mets

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Food for thought for those of you working for the Mets who are in charge of "atmosphere."

Saturday, June 20th.

Cubs.   95 year old stadium.   No noise between innings.  Organ music.  No batter walk-up noise.  No between innings advertising disguised as distraction.  Hell, no video screens.  Haven't won the World Series in 100 years.  (This guy threw one of the first pitches, they do several.)

Attendance:  41,007

Mets.  3 month old stadium.  Endless noise.  A constant come on to buy products (seriously, there are 10 straight minutes of 10 second advertisements done by the PA announcer read about a half hour before the game).  Just a constant bombardment on the senses,

Attendance:  37,992



I'm sure if it were sunny that the Mets would have drawn the extra 3,000.   The Mets have drawn 40,000 at Citi Field how many times?

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3 Responses to "Of Noise And Mets"
Anonymous said :
June 21, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I was at today's Father's Day Game, and while there seems to be an organ, or a computer organ, and maybe in a way the noise today was toned down, it's still sooooooooooo nice when the visiting team is up.

If the Mets get a hint of a rally, get one guy on base, forget it, Vito and Make NOISE Department goes beserk.
When the Mets have a man on base, we are prodded between almost EVERY pitch to make noise or cheer. And as state previously, I find that the Make Noise Meter cheeers end up with a thud of dud or are just duds, they leave everyone flat.

On a separate note, today's game was great (except for the outcome), and I even got to taste Shake Shack at the end of the rain delay, very cool, of course my Shake-Cago hot dog was slightly warm, but that's what happens when the concessions put everything under the heat lamp, everything is already made waiting for a buyer, and Shake Shack is not the only place where this happens, I've had to ask for hot dogs made within the last hour several times, as they sit and sit, but what does that have to with noise? Uh, nothing.

Finally, today I realized that many fans focus on the following, free fleece blankets, launched t-shirts, and balls tossed by third base coaches, and waves...

Get off the phone, stop with the damned t-shirts from Pepsi (which will get sued eventually when someone goes overboard trying to catch the mediocre t-shirts which used to promote 718- mets -tixx) and finally...

I heard a new intonation of Let's Go Mets, was rather upsetting.

Used to be Let's Go Mets! Today I heard Let's go meh-ehts. Hard to recreate it here, but it was giving mets two syllables, a la Let's Go Yankees, two syllables...

BEWARE!

By the way, today was a great FAther's Day for me at the game with my daughter, priceless!
Anonymous said :
June 22, 2009 at 1:07 AM
Glad you fathers who went had a nice day.

They're trying to gimmick up the whole operation now. From PA ads to 'How Bout Some Noise?' to alternate uniforms for no reason other than to sell jerseys. The BASEBALL has taken a back seat. Makes you wonder if Fred and Paris even care about the Met fans. I think they care about the dollars in the fans' wallets and how many of them they can extract. Aside from that I think the Wilpons actually disdain the fans. I really do.
Anonymous said :
June 28, 2009 at 11:37 PM
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