Rich G.
On balance, I've got to admit you're right to reign in my scope of analysis re: the specifics of the NYM.
I don't really care about the Mets, my targetting was more of general ennui with the rapacious commercial pace of all NY area sports...the new Yankee stadium, the new Met Life stadium, they should wear a mask and hold a gun when they scan your stub... The experience of attending and experiencing an exhibition of sport is just so costly, so intrusive and so disposable that it absolutely has turned me off of anything except the televised events. the New Yankee stadium is a mall's Food Court with a baseball field to its north wall.
That's of course more than JUST what the teams are doing (the drunken, obnoxious tenor of fans in giants Stadium was so bad that from 06-08, I went to the tailgates and did not attend the games...I scalped my tickets at 8am or on Ebay before, ate and drank until Noon when my compadres started to pack up and enter the stadium, chilled out with coffee until kickoff and then starting driving 1.5 hours home, caught the 2nd half on TV.)
cheers
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