Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Dec 11, 2009, 7:55 pm
Greetings on the Festival of Lights to my readers of the Hebraic faith. I am out of town for a few days, so have disabled comments until my return. See you next week.
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Dec 11, 2009, 6:17 am
Given the amount of people who have written in to little ol’ me, and the amount of those people who have said that they have written letters to the Mets or spoken to their ticket reps, it continues ...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Dec 10, 2009, 6:48 am
I was dismayed earlier today to read a tweet from Bart Hubbuch of the NY Post that the Mets admitted that ticket plan renewals were “slow” and that they attributed the slowness to people waiting t...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Dec 10, 2009, 6:48 am
I was dismayed earlier today to read a tweet from Bart Hubbuch of the NY Post that the Mets admitted that ticket plan renewals were “slow” and that they attributed the slowness to people waiting t...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Dec 8, 2009, 3:11 pm
Twitter has started to make its mark on the Winter Meetings. If you’re on Twitter, and follow beat writers, your head is spinning. I follow beat writers for a handful of teams so I am starting to fe...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Dec 4, 2009, 11:58 am
We finally sat down and had the discussion to consider taking the step of NOT renewing either ticket plan for 2010. Reasons for NOT renewing the ticket plan: 1. No post-season rights. The Mets clai...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Dec 1, 2009, 9:15 am
Here’s the email that came in from the Mets yesterday for partial plan holders. I am comforted and, nay, INSPIRED by the confidence and enthusiasm conveyed here. (If there was a sarcasm font, I woul...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Nov 30, 2009, 11:13 am
Kind Commenter Ken chimed in on the Thanksgiving post to note that his invoice discount amounted to much smaller than the Wilpons had indicated. Some people on Twitter were talking about anything from...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Nov 30, 2009, 11:13 am
Kind Commenter Ken chimed in on the Thanksgiving post to note that his invoice discount amounted to much smaller than the Wilpons had indicated. Some people on Twitter were talking about anything from...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Nov 25, 2009, 9:06 am
The invoices were waiting for me in the mailbox when I came home last night. There’s a price drop but it’s miniscule, the difference being a week of lunches or something trivial, not enough to mak...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Nov 11, 2009, 8:44 pm
Someone wrote in earlier demanding that I update the site, talk about the Hot Stove, and who I think we should get. While I appreciate the enthusiasm, I’m not quite sure when this site was ever a ne...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 26, 2009, 10:52 am
And we’re done. I have been watching, despite saying I wouldn’t; many nights I would just hop on Twitter and get caught up, or check progress on At Bat or Gameday. I am going to advocate the str...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 26, 2009, 10:52 am
And we’re done. I have been watching, despite saying I wouldn’t; many nights I would just hop on Twitter and get caught up, or check progress on At Bat or Gameday. I am going to advocate the str...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 26, 2009, 10:52 am
And we’re done. I have been watching, despite saying I wouldn’t; many nights I would just hop on Twitter and get caught up, or check progress on At Bat or Gameday. I am going to advocate the str...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 13, 2009, 12:06 pm
The Minnesota Twins took out this ad in the local papers (and made it available on their web site). Sure, they’re promoting Target Field. But there’s no “call to get your tickets now” or “...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 13, 2009, 12:06 pm
The Minnesota Twins took out this ad in the local papers (and made it available on their web site). Sure, they’re promoting Target Field. But there’s no “call to get your tickets now” or “...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 10, 2009, 1:14 am
I could never do it, but I couldn’t not take a picture.
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 10, 2009, 1:14 am
I could never do it, but I couldn’t not take a picture.
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 9, 2009, 8:18 am
Thanks to Jesse Spector, I’m the latest blogger interviewed in his Nine Innings series in today’s Daily News.
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 8, 2009, 2:57 pm
My friend Deanna, who’s forgotten more about Japanese baseball than most of us will ever know, was at Bobby V’s last game in Japan, and has a writeup and photos, which is where that photo above wa...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 6, 2009, 9:07 pm
(Before you get all bent out of shape, I traded it for a Johan Santana Mets shirt last year.) For a few hours tonight, I was excited and happy about baseball again. I turned on the game as soon as I ...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 6, 2009, 9:07 pm
(Before you get all bent out of shape, I traded it for a Johan Santana Mets shirt last year.) For a few hours tonight, I was excited and happy about baseball again. I turned on the game as soon as I ...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 6, 2009, 9:07 pm
(Before you get all bent out of shape, I traded it for a Johan Santana Mets shirt last year.) For a few hours tonight, I was excited and happy about baseball again. I turned on the game as soon as I ...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 5, 2009, 8:52 pm
I thought I was done, and was moving towards arguing over AL Central loyalties and thinking about recapping the year in baseball, when I read on Twitter that Jeff Wilpon was going to be on WFAN at 5pm...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 5, 2009, 8:52 pm
I thought I was done, and was moving towards arguing over AL Central loyalties and thinking about recapping the year in baseball, when I read on Twitter that Jeff Wilpon was going to be on WFAN at 5pm...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 5, 2009, 2:20 pm
Dear Mets Organization: This isn’t going to cut it. Not by a long shot. But you know that, right? You really don’t think that we’re so stupid that we’re going to view these as real, actionab...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 4, 2009, 12:23 pm
It’s a stunning Sunday. There is part of me that wants to be at Citi Field today, there is part of me that is wistful that the year is ending, there is part of me that wants to be sitting in the bal...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Oct 2, 2009, 9:55 am
I don’t usually do this, but I had planned to write something similar over the weekend, now that the information about the purported ticket price decreases has made the rounds. However, Greg Prince ...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 30, 2009, 7:22 pm
Our last Mets game of the season was for Friday night. The Astros. We were going. It was already a very busy weekend, we had people in town, but we were going. Suck or not, it was the last game of the...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 18, 2009, 10:10 pm
Believe it or not, it wasn’t so bad after all. For one, the park wasn’t deserted. It was Friday, and people were still showing up for their first time at Citi Field, judging by the endless photos...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 17, 2009, 10:46 pm
I started to write something, about how when I realized I had a game to go to tomorrow my immediate reaction wasn’t enthusiasm, it was dread. It was dragging-my-feet, oh GOD it’s cold and it might...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 14, 2009, 9:23 pm
I wanted to write, and then I didn’t want to write, and then this all came out as a comment over at Faith & Fear, and remembered that the reason I do not comment is because then my best stuff gets l...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 9, 2009, 10:17 pm
Mets v Marlins 9-9-09 You will ask me why I went to the last four Mets games, you will ask me why I bother, you will ask me why I care. People saw me mentioning the desperate need for a coffee stop o...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 8, 2009, 10:19 pm
Mets v Marlins 9-8-09 It was only the second inning, and already, TBF was grumbling in the general direction of Tim Redding. “Paging Dan Warthen. DAN WARTHEN.” “Please come to the white courte...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 8, 2009, 10:19 pm
Mets v Marlins 9-8-09 It was only the second inning, and already, TBF was grumbling in the general direction of Tim Redding. “Paging Dan Warthen. DAN WARTHEN.” “Please come to the white courte...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 6, 2009, 4:09 pm
Today was everything that yesterday wasn’t: yesterday I got a sunburn, today we never saw a sunbeam anywhere near our section. Yesterday I sweltered in jeans, today I wore a skirt and had to wrap a ...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 6, 2009, 4:09 pm
Today was everything that yesterday wasn’t: yesterday I got a sunburn, today we never saw a sunbeam anywhere near our section. Yesterday I sweltered in jeans, today I wore a skirt and had to wrap a ...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 5, 2009, 6:35 pm
Today was my first regular season day game, my first regular season weekend game, and my first regular season game where I was not in Section 514. I was out in Section 531, where I exclaimed with deli...
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Caryn R. posted an article on Mets Grrl - Sep 3, 2009, 7:42 pm
I can’t pretend I know what it’s like to be a Major League ballplayer in a Major League clubhouse, to understand the nuances of the culture and the workings of the social mores. I don’t know wha...
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