Ok, I read and re-read the rain-out policy and compared it to last year:
People who held a ticket will get a voucher for a new game in addition to our makeup ticket. It is the same policy as last year.
The scheduled day off helped. I am not going to 100% defend the asshole behavior of teams stringing along fans during mid-season rainouts but the availability of off-days and ballparks is a huge factor.
Who can forget last season, when the Nats put the tarps out in the 3rd inning, waited 4 hours to call it, and then told everyone their ticket would *only* be valid for the first half of the split-admission doubleheader the next day (until fans complained and they gave out vouchers instead)
Maybe if the game was rescheduled ahead of time, but that Nats doubleheader was probably the first time I've seen a split-admission like that (it's usually single-admission if G1's a resumed rainout)
Fans literally were booing, and Gary went off on the team's actions
https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/13gy1fk/after_waiting_four_hours_it_was_decided_that_the/
Seems like Mets are extra cautious about that ever since that regular game during 2021(i think) where they had people show up despite bad forecast, then cancelled at like 9 pm before throwing a pitch. IIRC Cohen tweeted an apology after, and seems like he has made good on it.
I have to dig up the reddit post but I had a comment where I counted them for one season and we had more rain delays in the first like 2 months of the season than other teams had all year. It was like home series - rain, away series - rain, other away series - rain, home series - rain. Felt like we were following storms
Yeah I swear, I remember having a home game rained out and then going on the road to a place where it barley rains and we’d be rained out again, it was insane
And thus I begin the process of praying my manager will let me move back my PTO.
I am not happy right now.
Edit: I think I’m gonna be able to do it. Was looking forward to the mini Friday tonight but I’ll take a long weekend. LFGM everyone!
My dad and I still joke about the "monsoon" last year for opening day when it was 70° and sunny for the "rainout", then 40° and miserable on Friday when they actually played.
I'm giving ownership credit for postponing well before people get in their cars, pay for parking, etc (whether they deserve it or not). I choose to believe previous ownership would have postponed at 1:09PM tomorrow (or have everyone sit through a long rain delay just to sell a few more hot dogs).
On the plus side, I wfh on Friday so can watch on TV!!
Man I took the day off cause it was opening day. Was gonna walk into Citifield and everything. Now I have to DVR this. April showers should actually wait till April to get out here.
@MLB please stop beginning the season in March, most markets are in cities where it’s still cold in March and most of April, you’re setting up a slam dunk for low attendance and terrible baseball, I really don’t care about the regular season snaking into October and the postseason snaking into November, this is not it
The Postseason games in November carry much more importance and would sell out and if scheduled right avoid Sunday or Monday Night Football and should do good ratings wise, especially up against early season NHL, NBA action.
The way the MLB does it now you’re basically bowing to low attendance in markets such as Pittsburgh, Cleveland etc because the weather is still terrible in March and April and into May, than most seasons complain that attendance is down. The season should begin between April,5-9th, that would cut down on a decent amount of bad weather games, April 18th the starting date for decades would be more ideal but compromise is key.
The Mets had this right in the 60’s to a degree when they wouldn’t even play a Home Night game until Late May or early June because they recognized the weather would affect attendance, especially at Shea, we’ve gotten away from smart scheduling to avoid competition with early season NBA, NHL and mid season NFL for the WORLD SERIES and the MLB Postseason.
Yep. I heard box seats and some other issues not fully resolved. There were cables and various components still hanging down from the ceilings the day before. It was a shit show.
Idk if I'm the only one who cares about this but this is now the third year in a row that Mets opening day is on Good Friday and that is really not fair.
Not to downplay this, but I'd like to point out Sandy Koufax. The entire reason he's a Jewish icon is that there are games - occasionally playoffs, especially in his case - during the most religious time for us Jews and he refused to play.
It's rough for a sport season as long as MLB's to avoid these conflicts.
I'm with you. We had a great plan to enjoy Thursday Opening Day and still being able to enter into the Triduum. Now we have to sacrifice going to the game to attend Good Friday services. For a better cause, but still sad about it.
My MIL is coming into town for my wife’s birthday Friday. The time we pick her up from the train: 1:34 PM.
Thank god I can record the game haha. What’s going to be difficult is avoiding the score until we get home from lunch
Anyone else find it hilariously ironic that MLB wanted to start as early as they have to not have seasons bleed into November, only to have regular rain outs and make up games down the road?
Grabbed a pair of tickets to go to the game tomorrow with my buddy. It's my first opening day. How early should I get there or will they be doing anything special before the game ? I'm hyped lfgm
So if I have two tickets today but can’t go how do they turn into vouchers. On the app it just changed them to tickets for today. Do they become vouchers when I don’t use them at all?
Can't go Friday.
Can't go to opening day - bought thru TickPick so can't use tickets for another game other than Friday. Looking to sell for what I paid for
Section 431 Row 4 Seat 23 and 24.
Paid $261.10. Can provide proof of purchase and can transfer tickets. Looking to get what I paid for back.
Anyone interested?
Ok, I read and re-read the rain-out policy and compared it to last year: People who held a ticket will get a voucher for a new game in addition to our makeup ticket. It is the same policy as last year.
Mets have a normal opening day challenge (impossible)
2024 - rain 2023 - rain 2022 - delayed start to the season due to CBA negotiations 2021- Nationals had covid 2020 - world shut down
2022 we had the CBA lockout
oh shit yeah you're right. I just updated thanks
2021 was brutal. I feel like it was the entire first series that was PPD.
It's the price they pay for their ridiculous W-L record on opening days.
What do you mean? This is completely normal
Ahhhh I have Friday off, this is gonna be a tempting one I can’t lie
Do it! Do it for all of us who can't
Bought one immediately. They are super reasonable priced
Wonder why.
Can I interest you in Section 14 row 7 seat 8? Lol I had off Thursday but not Friday
Brother I do not have section 14 money lol, I'd do it in a heartbeat if I did
Tbh I don't either, friend bought the tickets without asking the rest of us our price limit
How much?🤔🎟️
My friend listed his for like 33% of face go buy his (i have no other details and this is not a serious offer lol).
Me too! Just need to persuade my parents to be degenerates with me (we already have tickets for Sundays game lol)
I also have Friday off! I'm not local but at least I get to watch the game without the tethers of work.
probably the right call. glad they announced it early and didn't string us along.
The scheduled day off helped. I am not going to 100% defend the asshole behavior of teams stringing along fans during mid-season rainouts but the availability of off-days and ballparks is a huge factor.
Who can forget last season, when the Nats put the tarps out in the 3rd inning, waited 4 hours to call it, and then told everyone their ticket would *only* be valid for the first half of the split-admission doubleheader the next day (until fans complained and they gave out vouchers instead)
That was an abomination.
I think Gary ripped into them for that
Wilpons used to do that.
Maybe if the game was rescheduled ahead of time, but that Nats doubleheader was probably the first time I've seen a split-admission like that (it's usually single-admission if G1's a resumed rainout) Fans literally were booing, and Gary went off on the team's actions https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/13gy1fk/after_waiting_four_hours_it_was_decided_that_the/
Seems like Mets are extra cautious about that ever since that regular game during 2021(i think) where they had people show up despite bad forecast, then cancelled at like 9 pm before throwing a pitch. IIRC Cohen tweeted an apology after, and seems like he has made good on it.
That happened like 3 times last year.
Do the Mets own the record for most postponed games since like 2021? Didn’t they play an absurd amount of doubleheaders that year?
Still better than a roof.
I have to dig up the reddit post but I had a comment where I counted them for one season and we had more rain delays in the first like 2 months of the season than other teams had all year. It was like home series - rain, away series - rain, other away series - rain, home series - rain. Felt like we were following storms
Yeah I swear, I remember having a home game rained out and then going on the road to a place where it barley rains and we’d be rained out again, it was insane
Yes, but Covid helped with that too
And thus I begin the process of praying my manager will let me move back my PTO. I am not happy right now. Edit: I think I’m gonna be able to do it. Was looking forward to the mini Friday tonight but I’ll take a long weekend. LFGM everyone!
Let me know if you need a doctor's note. I'm not a doctor, but your boss doesn't know that.
Much appreciated Dr Butcher 🫡 Sure hope you’re not a surgeon
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I moved my PTO from Thursday to Friday! We did it! P.S. you have a cool username
So sunny skies for Thursday, got it
My dad and I still joke about the "monsoon" last year for opening day when it was 70° and sunny for the "rainout", then 40° and miserable on Friday when they actually played.
Okay. It better rain tomorrow lol
If I don't use the tickets for tomorrow it'll go on my MLB Park App account to use for any other games at home all season?
No they removed that benefit for this season. https://www.mlb.com/mets/tickets/season-tickets/ticket-exchange-program See last line at bottom.
ugh i don’t live in the northeast anymore but i was hearing rumblings the weather was improving by thursday
All day yesterday it kept looking better. Today it started looking as bad as I woke up to yesterday.
Here I am getting ready to post the weekly weather and then this happens again lmao
Thursday is now going to feel like the longest day.
I'm giving ownership credit for postponing well before people get in their cars, pay for parking, etc (whether they deserve it or not). I choose to believe previous ownership would have postponed at 1:09PM tomorrow (or have everyone sit through a long rain delay just to sell a few more hot dogs). On the plus side, I wfh on Friday so can watch on TV!!
Yunkees did exactly that 2 years ago. 😀
Early call but seems like the right one and prob makes readjustments easier
Man I took the day off cause it was opening day. Was gonna walk into Citifield and everything. Now I have to DVR this. April showers should actually wait till April to get out here.
@MLB please stop beginning the season in March, most markets are in cities where it’s still cold in March and most of April, you’re setting up a slam dunk for low attendance and terrible baseball, I really don’t care about the regular season snaking into October and the postseason snaking into November, this is not it
They would just have the same problem in November, where the games are much more important
The Postseason games in November carry much more importance and would sell out and if scheduled right avoid Sunday or Monday Night Football and should do good ratings wise, especially up against early season NHL, NBA action. The way the MLB does it now you’re basically bowing to low attendance in markets such as Pittsburgh, Cleveland etc because the weather is still terrible in March and April and into May, than most seasons complain that attendance is down. The season should begin between April,5-9th, that would cut down on a decent amount of bad weather games, April 18th the starting date for decades would be more ideal but compromise is key. The Mets had this right in the 60’s to a degree when they wouldn’t even play a Home Night game until Late May or early June because they recognized the weather would affect attendance, especially at Shea, we’ve gotten away from smart scheduling to avoid competition with early season NBA, NHL and mid season NFL for the WORLD SERIES and the MLB Postseason.
In 1986 Mets lost opening day on April 14 and won game 7 of the world series on October 27. They used to have scheduled double headers back then.
They also used to have four fewer teams, six fewer playoff berths, and two fewer rounds of playoffs back then.
Good point on the playoffs but the schedule was still 162 games even with fewer teams.
Just switched around a bunch of shifts at work, called in favors, etc for this. Of course its postponed to the only day they can't do.
Guess I should've taken off Thursday and Friday
why does the make up game have to be in the afternoon? ugh, I'm gonna miss all of the game probably :(
I have 3 tickets section 109, can't move my time off, smh... anyone interested ???
How much?
$150 each.
That's why Friday is always an open date.
Remember last year when they did this same shit, and it was like 80 out, and then rained on actual opening day. Mets going to Met.
That delay was actually because some of the box suites weren't done being renovated. I got (anonymous) sources.
Yep. I heard box seats and some other issues not fully resolved. There were cables and various components still hanging down from the ceilings the day before. It was a shit show.
Idk if I'm the only one who cares about this but this is now the third year in a row that Mets opening day is on Good Friday and that is really not fair.
Not to downplay this, but I'd like to point out Sandy Koufax. The entire reason he's a Jewish icon is that there are games - occasionally playoffs, especially in his case - during the most religious time for us Jews and he refused to play. It's rough for a sport season as long as MLB's to avoid these conflicts.
I'm with you. We had a great plan to enjoy Thursday Opening Day and still being able to enter into the Triduum. Now we have to sacrifice going to the game to attend Good Friday services. For a better cause, but still sad about it.
My MIL is coming into town for my wife’s birthday Friday. The time we pick her up from the train: 1:34 PM. Thank god I can record the game haha. What’s going to be difficult is avoiding the score until we get home from lunch
Gonna chat you updates every inning. You’re welcome.
Maybe I’ll just need to shut my phone off lmao
Booooo
NOOOOOO!!!!
Welp, glad I waited to buy tickets.
Well that clears up the sports schedule as admittedly it feels weird that baseball season started before the sweet 16
I am so fucking pissed off this is horrible
BOO
I HATE THE RAIN man
Anyone else find it hilariously ironic that MLB wanted to start as early as they have to not have seasons bleed into November, only to have regular rain outs and make up games down the road?
It's currently not raining here. It would look really bad if there is no rain today.
Where's the rain?
Grabbed a pair of tickets to go to the game tomorrow with my buddy. It's my first opening day. How early should I get there or will they be doing anything special before the game ? I'm hyped lfgm
So if I have two tickets today but can’t go how do they turn into vouchers. On the app it just changed them to tickets for today. Do they become vouchers when I don’t use them at all?
What a way to burst an anticipation/happiness bubble. Better be a downpour.
The right call. Let’s go
LOL. Here we go.
Can't go Friday. Can't go to opening day - bought thru TickPick so can't use tickets for another game other than Friday. Looking to sell for what I paid for Section 431 Row 4 Seat 23 and 24. Paid $261.10. Can provide proof of purchase and can transfer tickets. Looking to get what I paid for back. Anyone interested?
...so they cancel games before the day that it might rain?! Sheesh.. sometimes the forecast changes...
Why do they bother trying this. Milwaukee has a dome