The Mets Police

If you're into the kind of thing I write around here, please read this article on Faith & Fear which is along the same lines, from a better writer.  An excerpt:

Mets management, by most indications, is particularly concerned whether you view their product with that kind of commitment. They want to make your evening or afternoon a fine time, no doubt, but it's makes no nevermind to them if it's one that connects you to absolutely nothing about the Mets. They want you to drop in, buy some food, maybe a sweatshirt and leave. If you'd like to watch the game and cheer, they're not gonna stop you. But the idea that there are Mets fans who see each Mets game and Mets season as a precious thread in a rich and compelling tapestry of a lifetime of loving and caring...it doesn't penetrate their thought process.

Dave Howard's statements to the papers that Old Timers Day was "unpopular" when discontinued as an annual promotion in 1994 and therefore should never be revived reeks of anachronistic thinking. That it's not worth reinstituting because it's expensive...well, that's just galling. Your tickets are expensive. Your concessions are expensive. Almost everything about going to a Mets game is expensive. The only thing that isn't expensive is the lineup you're putting out there lately. (Please let us know when we can expect our Alex Cora Overuse rebate checks.) 

Rest here.  It's a nice piece, really well spoken.  Definitely check it out.

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