Great news!  The 2010 Mets will be correcting at least one mistake of the 2009 season – they’re reinstating the Six Pack!  For years, me and various pals had bought the Six (and later Seven) Packs as ways to get together a few times over the summer, see a handful of games each season (usually including a Braves game and a Yankees game), and as a way in to get postseason tickets as well, when applicable.

Then for 2009, the Mets abandoned the 6/7 Packs, and only sold 15 game plans.  I guess they wanted to get more money for their new stadium, but in the middle of a horrible recession, I could not understand why they would cut out a plan that was nice and affordable.  As a result, for the first time in years, I didn’t buy a Pack, and I actually only made it out to Citi Field for one game – and for one preview practice day, which was awesome!  (Also, the fact that we left Queens for the greener pastures of Suffolk County didn’t help matters…)

Well a nice fellow from the Mets ticketing office called me and asked if I would be interested in one of the 2010 Six Packs.  (The list of the various packs they’re offering can be found here.)  In all honesty, I don’t think any of them will work for me personally, now that there’s an infant and a longer commute involved.  All of the packs have a majority of games during the week, and that just isn’t as simple for me anymore.  Still, I’m happy in principle that the Mets office is bringing back the packs.

And there’s even better news – apparently there will be other packs forthcoming that will allow you to pick a handful of games yourself.  The guy I was talking to didn’t have all the details yet, but I’m excited by the possibility – if we can pick a few games on weekends throughout the season, that would be AMAZING.  Seriously, I cannot wait to bring Eli to some games!

But I haven’t even told you the BEST news yet – as evidenced by the “Pyrotechnics Pack,” the Mets will once again have a Fireworks night!  Everyone who knows me knows that I LOVE the Mets Fireworks nights, and have been going to those games for many years; I think this yearly custom became an annual tradition for me  somewhere in the mid 90’s.  The last one at Shea was, I believe, in 2005.  That year we didn’t go the game because we were moving into our new apartment in Queens, but Courtney, myself, and all our friends who had trekked out to help us move watched the game on TV in our empty living room as we ate pizza, and then drove over to the parking lot of the College Point Home Depot to watch the fireworks.  It wasn’t the same, but we still got to see the fireworks, and we were with friends, so it still counts.  After that year, with the construction of Citi Field underway, the fireworks nights were canceled.  I have no idea why they didn’t do one last year, but whatever.  I’m over it.  There will be one this year, after the July 5th game.

And the Noahs will be there.  Hopefully you will join us, too!