I am a Jet TJB20 Panelist

I was asked and I am honored to be amongst some great panelist talking about the state of the New York Jets on the blog:  thejetsblog.com.  Every day, two of the twenty questions asked to the twenty panelists will be featured on the blog.   

The Jets Blog Description of the feature:

With last week’s widely publicized G20 Meetings in London, we thought it would be fun to convene the TJB20. In this inaugural edition, we’ve culled the thoughts of NFL Columnists, Jets beat reporters, bloggers, founders of online fan communities and typical Jets fans.

Here is my introduction from the site:

Erik Manassy (@e_man) Crazy Season Ticket Holder: Erik (e_man) is a gadgetphile who enjoys messing with Kerry Rhodes on Twitter. Manassy is a dedicated Jets fan, and a season ticketholder for many years. Erik is also a diehard Mets fan, who bought seats from Shea.

Again, twenty panelists have been asked from organizations such as:

• SNY
  
• NBC Sports
  
• Newsday
  
• Jetnation.com
  
• TheJetsBlog
  
• Jets Insider Magazine
  
• Gang Green Nation
  
• and others, click HERE to see the full list.

Be sure to check in every day to see if my posts are featured for the days topic. Thanks to Bassett from the Jets Blog for asking me to participate.

Opening Day: Let's Go Mets!

I am SO glad the new season is here! The Mets open their year with the Reds away. (Hopefully they get the game in) I'm still working on getting opening day tickets but there is NO way I'm paying those prices.

By the way, if you are an iPhone owner and have the MLB lite application, UPGRADE NOW. For $9.99, the audio feature is well worth the cost. It has all the features that the lite has but adds both teams feeds. I started listening in my car, through the parking lot and into the office without missing a beat.

Let's Go Mets!

The Shea Seats have Arrived!

My seats arrived on New Years Eve and I was very surprised to see this enormous box on my porch.  After asking my wife what she bought, I decided to crack open the box and FORGOT that my seats were due any day.  After the butt kicking I got from her for accusing her of buying something, I decided to lug in the ninety-five pound box with still no clue of what was inside.

The combination of the holiday craziness with the loss of the Jets game put my mind in another world until I put my eyes on those freshly painted brackets holding up the nasty dirty grungy seats.  I was in heaven!

My wife could not understand my giddiness and I told her to imagine she was looking at a new diamond ring.  So now, the seats are sitting in my formal living room waiting to be mounted in my basement.  Did I forget to mention that I have not started work on the "sports den", so they probably will be going back into the box for storage.  Plan B is to convince my wife to have them mounted next to my bed but I'm not holding my breath.

I love my new original Shea Stadium, New York Mets seats!  I have a lot of memories at Shea Stadium and I know these seats will be a nice conversationalist piece.  Most importantly, it will be the way I watch Mets games in front of a big screen TV (I need to get this as well). 

 Let's go Mets!

To see the full set of pictures, visit my Flickr Account.

The Rest of the New York Mets Schedule

Mets Opening Day 2008

I'm looking forward to the start of the season for the Mets tomorrow against the Marlins.  The game is on TV:  SNY | Radio: WFAN 660, WADO 1280 starting at 4:10pm est.  I'll be able to Tivo the game and catch up live.  Let's Go Mets!  The Mets lineup is the following:

1.  SS Jose Reyes

2. 2B Luis Castillo

3. 3B David Wright

4. CF Carlos Beltran

5. 1B Carlos Delgado

6. LF Angel Pagan

7. RF Ryan Church

8. C  Brian Schneider

9. RHP Johan Santana