{"id":809,"date":"2010-08-24T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=809"},"modified":"2010-08-24T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T16:10:29","slug":"will-i-be-lonely-at-the-citi-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/08\/24\/will-i-be-lonely-at-the-citi-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Will I Be Lonely At The Citi Tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I\u2019m going to Citi Field, courtesy of a non baseball-watching friend who got two tickets for donating blood. (I actually haven\u2019t figured out whom to give the spare one to) The Mets are virtually out of it, merely at .500, and 8 full games away from even sniffing a playoff spot.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to say \u201cIt\u2019s over\u201d because stranger things have happened, but until they rattle off a streak better than 4-3, even I\u2019m not going to be hanging on every game like it\u2019s a pennant race.\u00a0 So will anyone be out at the game tonight? Someone suggested I should try the dunk tank and pretend it\u2019s Oliver Perez sitting on it.\u00a0 I\u2019ll explore the free giveaways at the Verizon Studio, and see if the seasonal beers have changed to fall yet.<\/p>\n

Will the lines at Shake Shack be short?\u00a0 Or will they be longer as more people are willing to walk away from watching the game for a great burger?<\/p>\n

Will the crowd get into the game if it\u2019s a good game?\u00a0 Or will they mostly be disinterested and focus on booing guys like Castillo?<\/p>\n

Will people leave early, even if it\u2019s a close game?\u00a0 If the score is 6-2 can I expect the stands to be virtually empty by the 9th<\/sup>?\u00a0 Will they be mostly empty even if it\u2019s 4-3?<\/p>\n

Personally I\u2019ll be looking forward to a good pitching matchup (Johnson vs. Dickey) and looking forward to Dickey reaching the minimum innings required to qualify for the ERA list, on which he\u2019d be in the top 10.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m watching the game from section 337, row 4.\u00a0 That\u2019s Left Field Landing, and somewhere I\u2019ve never sat before.\u00a0 Always enjoy the new vantage points, and row 4 probably isn\u2019t overly obscured like the back rows of that section are.\u00a0 I\u2019ll also probably roam at random taking pictures of everything.\u00a0 If you see a guy with a camera pointing at odd things wearing a Mets Hall of Fame cap and a Wright last season at Shea jersey\u2026probably me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going to Citi Field, courtesy of a non baseball-watching friend who got two tickets for donating blood. (I actually haven\u2019t figured out whom to give the spare one to) The Mets are virtually out of it, merely at .500, and 8 full games away from even sniffing a playoff spot.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to … <\/p>\n

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