The Mets front office are a bunch of these...

"Thank you for participating in the online random drawing for the opportunity to purchase tickets to Opening Day and the Subway Series games to be played at Shea Stadium. We are sorry to inform you that your entry was not selected in this drawing."

- New York Mets Form email sent to unlucky lottery losers on 2/22/07.

"Fuck you," - John Revis 2/22/07


I know it's sour grapes. I was one of the people not "selected" for eligibility to buy opening day tickets and Subway Series tickets. The way it used to be worked fine. It was always survival of the fittest. Sometimes I knew I would not get through (e.g. "Real" Subway Series in 2000) and other times I would hope like hell and get quite lucky (e.g. NLCS '00 Vs. the Cards). There was nothing like finding out whe tickets went on sale and then doing everything I can to be one of the first ones to be waiting on hold for a ticket representative. This year that rush was taken away form me and a whole bunch of Mets fans. There are some apologists for this malarkey.

"This way the Mets are keeping the tickets out of the scalpers' hands." - Member of the Mets Message Board

Yes...dummy...because everyone knows scalpers are too busy standing outside the venue trying to sell their tickets to have an email address, or twelve.

"It is the best way for the Mets to sell their seven packs" - Another Douche Bag

Well the best way to sell the seven packs is to have some attractive games in there besides the fuckin Brewers on May 11th. Another way to make sure they sell is to put a good product on the field, which they have covered pretty well.

Ok I'm good now. Hopefully one of my other email addresses or one of my buddy's fifteen email addresses pulled through for us. Thanks for letting me vent. Stay classy.