According to the Providence Journal, the New York Mets are set to play their first ever game at Citi Field...as an exhibition.
The Red Sox will open up Citi Field in a two-game exhibition series over the final weekend of exhibition play.
The Mets have done plenty of things that have just blown my mind, but this one, to me, is the worst decision of all time. As a big New York Mets fan, as well as a proud attendee of five-straight Mets opening days, this announcement totally gets my excitement down as far as ambition to go to opening day.
Opening day will mean an enormous amount less to me, and any other Mets fan, because it just simply isn't what it was meant to be: The first game ever played at Citi Field.
Thinking about the incredible amount of money they will charge to see this "first game" (rather, exhibition game) ever played at Citi field makes me sick to my stomach.
This is just another flaw in a less-than-perfect Mets organization.
Have a concert, have a party, but don't have a damn baseball game right before the stadium opens. It just makes no sense.
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Tommy 10 months ago
These are some great comments.
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L.J. Burgess 10 months ago
Are you commenting on your own work?
That's lonesome man...we'll have to get you some Phillies fans over here.
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L.J. Burgess 10 months ago
Good points...if I was a Metropolitans fan I'd be pissed too.
Can you afford those tix? What kind of job pays that kind of money?
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Tommy 10 months ago
Washing my mom's car.
Hah.
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L.J. Burgess 10 months ago
Cool, cool...I pictured you running the book at your Jr. High...maybe skimming the upperclassmen too.
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Tommy 10 months ago
Hah.
As I'm sure you prolly figured out, I don't pay for it lol. I go with my dad.
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Ryan Gerbosi 10 months ago
yea i am pretty pissed about this too but i expected it. the nats did the same this year when they opened up nationals park and when they first started playing at rfk. but there is an upside. have you ever seen oceans 13. they talk about a cold open, or opening the casino before opening night. this gets out any bugs and/or kinks in the system before the real opening night. baseball does the same thing. it makes sure that everything works from the food stands to bathrooms and even video boards. all and all it makes sense to have exhibitions
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Steven Zaretsky 8 months ago
This is common practice; the Phillies did it, the Orioles did it, so did the Cardinals and the Reds. I don't like it, but the precedent has already been set. I thought that having the Mets host the Yankees and the Yankees host the Mets for one game each would be a classy move for both teams
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Hugh Herbert 7 months ago
Mets beat the Redsox in the last world series that they won. Maybe that's why they picked this matchup.
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