Anybody who was at last year’s GaryKeithandRon September 27 big event knows what an extraordinary experience it was. (Watch it here.) We saw Johan Santana almost save our season, we got to walk out onto the warning track of our doomed and beloved field, and although we didn’t know it at the time, we got to see the last Mets win ever at Shea. The most moving part of the event is that we all got to be in a crowd of over 1000 people, all wearing the same kinds of t-shirts, all doing honor to the best broadcasting team in baseball, and all affirming our unconditional love for our bizarre baseball team.
That event last year was such an enormous success, that Lynn Cohen, who organized it, had the idea of doing it again at the new place. Once again about 1000 people would sit together in the t-shirts, eat together, go out on the warning track, honor the broadcasters, and enjoy an orgy of Mets love in the new stadium, kicking off a magical October of baseball.
Well, as you know, the magical October got moved to another year. But the 800 tickets Lynn bought are non-returnable (are your Mets tickets returnable?). Still the stadium is there. The food will be arriving. And we are still here.
Lets all get together and celebrate the fact that we’re still here, that we’re still Mets fans, that we’re not going over to the other side. Come to what Lynn is calling the New Beginning party. I’ll be there, and so will a lot of the most diehard Mets fans and bloggers on the planet. You can get your tickets here.
And please note that readers of this and other Mets blogs are entitled to special discounts this week at Pitch In For A Good Cause. Get 15% off tickets and all GKR merchandise for blog readers only now through August 15th. Use coupon code “blogger”
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You can read about last year’s GKR big event in my new book, which will be out in the next couple of weeks and can be pre-ordered for $11.53 on Amazon. In the book, you can read about all the Last Days of Shea, and many of the earlier days of Shea as well.
