{"id":585,"date":"2010-03-21T13:26:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=585"},"modified":"2010-03-21T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T18:26:16","slug":"heading-out-to-citi-field-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/03\/21\/heading-out-to-citi-field-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading Out to Citi Field This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Blue Cap\" src=\"http:\/\/images.footballfanatics.com\/productImages\/_278000\/FF_278266_xl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>As usual, I&#8217;ll be heading out to Citi Field more than a couple of times this season.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve currently committed to four games, as you can see in the &#8216;upcoming games&#8217; box on the sidebar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I try to get to Opening Day any chance I can.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t able to secure or afford second hand tickets to the Opener last year, but this year with demand a little down and it not being a new stadium, I was able to get tickets.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be in the Promenade Box, and Opening Day can&#8217;t come soon enough.\u00a0\u00a0 I always remember the early April games, and walking into Shea Stadium, and remembering how much I missed being there, and how much I felt I belonged.\u00a0 I suspect this season will be no different, and I already have a bunch of things planned.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re also\u00a0going to be there, you should check out Mets Police&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/metspolice.com\/2010\/02\/10\/blue-cap-army-opening-day-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cap Army<\/a>.\u00a0 All you have to do is show up wearing a blue Mets cap.\u00a0 Easy!<\/p>\n<p>Opening Day has a lot of hoopla to get out of the way, and it&#8217;s more about the return of baseball games that count, so I like to get to another game early on to devote solely to the Mets.\u00a0 Friday April 9th will be that game. I&#8217;m going alone, will probably spend most of the game on my feet wandering around to different parts of the stadium and enjoying the different vantage points.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll probably buy a scorecard and keep score, and have my camera and take a billion pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Pyrotechnics night is July 5th.\u00a0 I was frequently at Shea for Fireworks night, and I was lamenting it&#8217;s disappearance once Citi Field&#8217;s construction starting taking up the parking lot, so I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s back in some fashion.\u00a0 I have no idea how they&#8217;re going to do it, and what the difference between pyrotechnics and fireworks is, but I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be fun.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Fame ceremony game is August 1st.\u00a0 Something that has\u00a0 been somewhat lacking in the last couple of years is a true celebration of long time Mets greats, and properly honoring them.\u00a0 This day will rectify that, and it should\u00a0be a game that sells out.\u00a0 After all, there has been tons of screaming and yelling about Citi Field not having enough Mets history in it.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re one of those people, you pretty much have to be there.\u00a0 It would look really bad if Mets fans were clamoring for Mets history but don&#8217;t sell out a game celebrating it.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t about the team this year, this is about being a Mets fan.\u00a0 As of right now, not even the cheapest section is sold out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, I&#8217;ll be heading out to Citi Field more than a couple of times this season.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve currently committed to four games, as you can see in the &#8216;upcoming games&#8217; box on the sidebar.\u00a0 I try to get to Opening Day any chance I can.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t able to secure or afford second hand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/03\/21\/heading-out-to-citi-field-this-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heading Out to Citi Field This Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[809,19,15,3,20],"tags":[2986,918,2968,916,2966,270,2964,919,917,922,331,920,921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}