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soupcan Nov 02 2007 08:21 AM

[url=http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/ballpark/citifield_fanwalk_form.jsp]For only a small fee you can prove you're a bigger (better?) fan than your friends..[/url] Me: "I'll be forever remembered as a true Mets fan. My garandchildren will be able to show their children how wonderful a fan I was! My Mets fan legacy will live on into eternity!" Mets: "This is a great way to suck even more money out of our fan base under the guise of making them think their great-grandchildren will give a shit." Temple Israel, Westport, CT: "Hey! The Mets stole our idea!"

Benjamin Grimm Nov 02 2007 08:26 AM

The problem is, they'll probably tear the place down in 40 or so years to build a new state-of-the-art (as of 2050) stadium. Then all of those bricks will end up in a Staten Island landfill.

Edgy DC Nov 02 2007 08:29 AM

Fuck King Mets

soupcan Nov 02 2007 08:34 AM

The fucked up thing is that part of me would love to have my name in a brick at the stadium. Bastards.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 02 2007 08:35 AM

There's always spraypaint.

Valadius Nov 02 2007 08:36 AM

Good Lord, what is wrong with the Wilpons? I'm still furious at them for opening the door to "Shitty Field" jokes.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 02 2007 08:51 AM

Why are we angry about this? If anyone is silly enough to spend $350 for a brick it's their own fault. If I could sell the bricks on my house for $350 each I'd sure do it. I've seen bricks like this all over the place, including at Disneyland. Why shouldn't the Mets do it as well?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 02 2007 08:57 AM

Yeah. Besides, every stupid building does that now.

Edgy DC Nov 02 2007 08:59 AM

Well, you're right. It'll just look cheap. No cheaper than the name CitiField, of course.

holychicken Nov 02 2007 09:17 AM

Look Up Not Down Moron

Nymr83 Nov 02 2007 09:33 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Then all of those bricks will end up in a Staten Island landfill. we're CLOSING the dump you bastards! keep your own bricks!

metsguyinmichigan Nov 02 2007 03:22 PM

If it were reasonable, say $50 max, I would have bought one. But those prices are just crazy. Lower prices = more people buying them = more people with a personal link to the stadium. Bad business move on their part.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 02 2007 03:26 PM

Not if they sell all the bricks. If they sell every brick, they'll have made $300 per brick more than your suggested price. And that would be a very good business move. I feel a personal link to Shea Stadium, and my name isn't anywhere near there. I'll never feel a personal link to Citi Field, since I'll only be an occasional visitor. A brick outside the stadium won't be enough to make me feel connected. If I were to have an extended period of attending 20 or more games a year, like I had with Shea, then I'd feel that connection. But unless I surprise myself and move to Queens, that's not likely to happen.

G-Fafif Nov 02 2007 03:54 PM

Bricks, like suburban synagogues, are probably not forever: http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/14/3291160.html

Nymr83 Nov 02 2007 03:59 PM

yeah, at 50 a brick they'd have to sell more than 7 times as many bricks just to break even i'm sure the Mets have economists who calculated the correct point at which they would maximize profits. faithandfearinflushing wrote: and a "convenience fee" of $5 to cover the replica brick you get for your very own home Fanwalk. What's convenient about that? Well, it certainly makes your wallet easier to tote around. Laughing my ass off.

Kid Carsey Nov 02 2007 04:34 PM

Unless I'm reading it wrong, and I was rolling my eyes as this thread evolved today and muttering much the same things as posted ... but ... I'm watching SNY Sportsnite and there's a commercial for this and it seems that this is a charity thing, not a way to, "bilk Johnny Lunchbucket out of his hard earned dough." I went to mets.com and there is a blurb about it below the brick page that says: Net proceeds from the sale of Citi Field Fanwalk bricks will be donated to the Mets Foundation, which will distribute the funds to area charities. The Mets Foundation funds and promotes a variety of charitable causes, including educational, social and athletic programs for young people in the community. A percentage of your donation to the Mets Foundation is tax deductible.

soupcan Nov 02 2007 06:27 PM

="Kid Carsey"]Net proceeds from the sale of Citi Field Fanwalk bricks will be donated to the Mets Foundation, which will distribute the funds to area charities. The Mets Foundation funds and promotes a variety of charitable causes, including educational, social and athletic programs for young people in the community. A percentage of your donation to the Mets Foundation is tax deductible. Well, that changes everything. You'd think they'd publicize that a bit more. See, now I might actually consider it. After I read Greg's essay of course OE: Just read it and I swear I didn't read it before starting this thread

G-Fafif Nov 03 2007 01:38 PM

The donation aspect is as admirable as Endy, but the consensus among those who saw it and those who ordered early is there was no such footnote listed when this offer first went up, meaning either the Mets had committed an oversight or they rushed into damage control mode when people began to notice the crazy prices.

Kid Carsey Nov 03 2007 01:51 PM

You took a consensus of those who saw it and those who ordered early? I don't have a horse in the race, I just pointed out that this thread perhaps went to quick judgement without knowing all the facts. I have no idea if the Mets added afterwards that it was for charity ... but I doubt it. Then again, I'm not big on Metspiracy theories generating from grassy knolls and such.

G-Fafif Nov 04 2007 12:19 AM

Kid Carsey wrote: You took a consensus of those who saw it and those who ordered early? Yes. Several people with whom I've been in contact have said they had no idea about the charity and/or didn't remember seeing it.

Iubitul Nov 04 2007 01:05 AM

Maybe we should all chip in a little, and order a Crane Pool brick...

Nymr83 Nov 04 2007 08:13 AM

Iubitul wrote: Maybe we should all chip in a little, and order a Crane Pool brick... "Like talking Mets Baseball? Come visit us at cranepoolforum.net!"

metsmarathon Nov 04 2007 09:00 AM

i believe that would be in violation of the rules. (if they reject your brick, i assume you get your money back, no?)

SteveJRogers Nov 04 2007 09:28 AM

Could do what PETA did at PETCO and buy bricks with a coded message in them.

seawolf17 Nov 04 2007 10:43 AM

Or it could just say Crane Pool Forum. It would etch our legacy in stone roughly until the end of time.

Rockin' Doc Nov 04 2007 11:18 AM

Sounds good to me. If we as a group opt to do this, count me in.

metsguyinmichigan Nov 04 2007 12:32 PM

We have a www.baseballtruth.com brick at Great American Ballpark and no one objected. In fact, the Reds sent people photos of Adam Dunn holding up a brick with your message Photoshopped on there so you'd know what it looked like. It was pretty cool.

Valadius Nov 04 2007 01:49 PM

I'd chip in as well.

Kid Carsey Nov 04 2007 02:01 PM

20 posters times $10/each would get us one of the small ones.

Valadius Nov 04 2007 03:40 PM

I'd go for that.

A Boy Named Seo Nov 04 2007 03:47 PM

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