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Haven’t Been To A Game In Over A Decade

My father is a huge Met fan, and I am a Yankee fan! He works very hard for the NYC Sanitation and has not been to a game in over a decade. I was a child the last time we went, and I remember it being amazingly fun. We haven’t gone to a game because he can’t spend the ridiculous amount of money on tickets, because any extra money goes to the health care of my mother who is ill. It would be nice to surprise him with tickets!

Thank-you!

Tickets Are Expensive

Tickets are so expensive I’d love a few free ones.

Mets == 2010 World Champions

First of all,  Mets=2010 world champions this is the reason. I would love to go to one of their games, but sadly, being a tennager in this economic crisis, I can’t afford a ticket. I dont want to miss out on this Championship season and if you were to give ma a ticket I would be extremely greatful.

Keeping the Flame Alive for the Next Generation

I am an old Mets fan - OK, maybe that cuts two ways … I watched the team as a kid at the Polo Grounds, rooting for Choo Choo Coleman, Joe Christopher, and the whole ragamuffin gang. Fast-forward, and now I am a single dad with four daughters, ages 13 to 22. I used to take my girls to a few games every year, and it was a really nice part of our family dynamic. Well, two years ago I got hit by the Big D - divorce - which took two years to settle… and now I find that, in order to crawl out of the financials from that, I just can’t take the girls to the games anymore. Now, I’ve got a job, and there are plenty of people out there in worse shape, but we just have to be really spartan to get back out of debt and on our feet, and can’t afford the “luxury” of a day at the ballpark. We’re cutting back, selling the home, etc. - so I was scouring the web to see if the old Pepsi porch promotion was still in place (“Bring a can, get in free!”), but apparently not. Yet I stumbled on getmetstickets.com, and thought I would turn to the community and offer up our story. Two of my girls are still at home, ages 13 and 16, and a third lives in the city (the fourth is way out West), so 3 or 4 tickets to a game would be totally awesome. I would love to get them out to the park once this year (last year was the first year since they were toddlers that we didn’t make it out), and help keep the flame alive. And I hope this site will still be around five years hence, when hopefully I can be in a position to return the favor to another fan - old or young!

A Graduation Present

My son is graduating this year from high school. I have been hospitalized many times and have had some money issues . All my son has asked for was to get some tickets to a mets game. I really cant afford them but would love to have something for him for graduation. He has realized that i cant do much and is ok with that. please help me * *>

Rough Patches

My family has been going through some rough patches right now. We had a gas station that went out of business and now my parents are trying to lease the land. If that deal went through then my family would have a steady income. I love the Mets and just want me and my dad to go to a game this year. So please consider me for the tickets.

Blood for Tickets

For the past two years, I have donated blood twice each year at Shea so that I would receive 2 tix for myself and daughter. This year Citifield has decided not to do this until maybe August. So when I heard that there was to be a blood drive outside Franklin Nursing home last week and they were giving tix, I went there only to be told they no longer give them out, since earlier in the month “we ran out.” They were not very convincing, and we were disappointed.

For a Big Mets Fan

Hello My name is Jennifer and I’m writing because i want to win tickets for a Mets game not for me but for my boyfriend the reason i believe my Boyfriend who’s name is Rene deserves the ticket because hes a big Mets fan and has never been to a game not because he hasn’t had the time we really at the moment can’t afford it he’s a great father of two and this would be the perfect gift for him and i know it would make him so happy so hopefully we could get a pair for me and him but one for him would be enough for me he deserves it so please pick me!! =]

In Memory of My Fiance

Maria has received tickets to a game! All additional funds donated for this entry will be used to fund tickets for other families in honor of Anthony Paino.

My name is Maria DiMicelli. My fiance was Anthony Paino, the 27 year old man who died recently from a fall while working on a building as an ironworker. He was a member of local 46. Nothing excited my Anthony more than the Mets and no one in the world knew them better than he did. It pains me to no end the way his life was taken and to know that he did not get to see a game at Citifield, but I am trying my best to keep his spirit alive by doing the things that he loved to the most. We just bought a house, and were planning a wedding (july 3, 2009). Although I have his family and mine, it will be very hard financially for us to make a game. If it’s possible, I would love to celebrate his life by going to as many Mets games as I can for the rest of my life. My family are all die-hard Mets fans, so we would all share in the happiness.

Fan Since ‘69

I am a fan since 1969 used to go to about 8- 10 games a yr, with my kids. I work in the financial/mortgage field. I don’t have the extra money this yr. for tickets. I feel terrible for my children telling them we cant go. I usually went only weeknights not weekends. I also usually went early in the season, when it was cheaper and had value days. I used to get tickets from acct executives in my business, but they are all gone now.

Request For My Father

My father will turn 84 years old this fall….He has been a serious Met fan since the team started playing. He has regularly gone to games, sometimes getting “senior” tickets or simply hanging around the park hoping to get an “extra” ticket that someone can’t use.

> We have offered to buy him tickets but he hates accepting gifts from his > children and makes excuses when we try to ask him whether he’s interested in > a particular game. He used to walk most of the way from his home to Shea but > now usually takes two buses to get to the games. >

> > It would be terrific if you could give him tickets to a day game any > Sunday-Thursday (He observes the Sabbath) so he and my mother could see the > new stadium and not worry about the cost of the tickets. >

> > Thanks for your attention! > > >

I’ve Had A Rough Time

First of all, I’d like to say that I think what you are doing is a great idea! It is such an incredible thing that you are doing.

I would love some Mets tickets and I would like to tell you my story….

My father was the biggest Mets fan you could imagine. I got my passion for sports, especially baseball from him. He was one of those old-fashioned guys who used to tell me how he paid 5 cents when he was young to go see the Brooklyn Dodgers play. He used to bring his brother to games when they were kids. It broke his heart when the Dodgers left town. Then he became a die-hard Mets fan when they came to baseball in 1962.

My dad taught me and my brother all about baseball when we were young. He used to practice with us in the park and we both ended up playing little league. My dad was my coach for a few years. My dad was always watching sports on TV, listening to sports radio, and he would always turn to the sports pages first when he got the newspapers. My dad always tried to take us to games too, but eventually it got too expensive. Then he would take us to Brooklyn Cyclones games because it was more local and much cheaper. I felt bad that he couldn’t afford to take us to many Mets games anymore and he felt bad that he couldn’t take his family. But, to make a long story short, my dad got me passionate about baseball and the Mets and I became as die-hard a fan as he was.

Anyway, my father passed away 3 years ago. After that, my life has been a series of tragedies. A few months after my father passed away, my mother had a heart attack. She was in the hospital for almost a month, but she survived it. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been through some bad breakups, and although I am one of those fortunate people who has a job, I am not making much money where I work. I’ve been trying to find a new job for the last couple of years, but it’s difficult due to the economy and other factors. It’s hard for me to afford luxury such as Mets tickets or vacations, and I’m rarely able to afford a night out whether it’s just going to a show or out to a nice dinner. Whatever money I earn goes towards my bills and also helping my mother…..Just recently, my mother landed up in the hospital again. This time, we initially thought it was a stroke. But it turned out to be a bacterial infection. It’s still a serious matter, but it’s treatable and not as bad as having a stroke, obviously. My mother was in the hospital for 3 weeks. Then she went to a nursing home/rehab facility for almost 5 weeks to get physical therapy. She has been confined to a hospital bed for so long that her legs got weak and she couldn’t walk anymore. We just discharged her last week because she was getting depressed and worse mentally while she was there. We brought her home and we are now getting her outpatient physical therapy. After being away from home for about 2 months, she still can’t walk. She is having a hard enough time just standing up. Not only has it been hard on me and my family emotionally, but it has been difficult on me financially too. And she has to stay in my apartment because I live downstairs from her, and she can’t get up the stairs now. I am paying both our bills, doing the shopping for our whole family, buying dinner for all 3 of us every night (by the way, my brother is men tally disabled and doesn’t work.)

As you can see, I’ve had a rough time. Everybody compliments me on how well I’ve handled myself and what a good son I am to my mother. I want to be there for her because of all the times she has been there for me over the years.

So, as I’ve written before, it is difficult for me to pay for tickets to ballgames right now. But I would love to see the Mets in their first year at their new ballpark. I know that my dad would have loved to have been there. It would have been a dream to him. So, I would like to be there for me and my father.

Some May Be More Deserving

Young diehard fan here. My cousin and I grew up as teenagers buying $15 upper level tickets with whatever money we had and were satisfied with just that. I just graduated from an expensive film school in May of ‘08. Finding a job in that field is extremely tough as you can imagine. And the crazy amount of student loans I took out are now knocking at my door. I just filed for unemployment as I lost the fulltime job I held the last 3 years of college. I’m working sporadically at a local cafe as a dishwasher/part-time waiter (they call me when they need me). My cousin, only 24 years old, was just diagnosed with Diabetes a few years back. Struggling with our misfortunes in the past year and trying to get through school, we haven’t been to a Mets game in so long. Nor have we even spent some time hanging out just to catch up. A phone call/text here and there. Most of it is Mets gossip. We are still very close at heart but haven’t had time to hang out like the old days. Two great seats to a Mets game in new Citi Field would be awesome. I appreciate even the opportunity to receive these tickets. It’s a great thing you’re doing. Maybe there’s that working parent with kids or another die hard fanatic who has been a fan 20 years more than me (I was born in 86) who probably “deserves” these tickets more than my cousin and I. But at the same time my passion for this team I know can compete at any level with these fellow fans.

Thanks and god bless.

Our Eyes Will Be Wide Open

my father took me to my first game at ebbets field in 1948 when i was 8 years old. It is indelibly imprinted in my mind. Citi field is intended as an homage to ebbets field by fred wilpon. my grand daughter is 8 years old it would be wonderful if i can take her to her first game there. As Billy cox said in roger Kahns book The Boys of Summer when asked if he missed the then demolished Ebetts field he said not at all I can go there any time I want all i have to do is close my eyes. id like to take little Julia i assure you our eyes will be wide open’

thank you for your consideration