How low have the Mets’ fortunes sunk this season? I was able to buy two tickets on StubHub for Wednesday’s Mets-Marlins matchup at CitiField for $1.94, or 97 cents apiece. And the kicker is that those weren’t even the cheapest tickets in the ballpark. At this rate, the Mets are going to have to start paying people for the privilege of attending one of their games!

I’m taking Met fan (and fantasy baseball writer for The Faster Times) Jon Lewin to the game. Since Jon is also my Subway Squawkers blogging partner - we argue online about the Yankees and Mets - and my Yanks have already won 90 games, I told him I would be magnanimous and pay for tickets to a Mets game.  My only condition: the ducats had to be less than a dollar each.

Fortunately, there were plenty to choose from, even at that low rate, as the blog Mets Police has highlighted. At one point, StubHub had upper deck tickets for Wednesday’s game for as low as 45 cents a ticket. Jon made me pass on that bargain because the ticket seller had “Mets suck” written in the description field of the listing.

Granted, I still had to pay $9.95 in service fees for the game, but the Mets are giving away a free hot dog - worth $5 - for each person who shows up for the game, so I’m still getting a deal on the tickets. And that 97 cent ticket is price is less than 10% of their $11 face value. Besides, maybe Jeff Wilpon will personally upgrade our promenade seats to field level, as he reportedly has been doing.

So why are there so many crazy-low tickets available for a brand-new stadium? There are a variety of factors involved, aside from the fact that the Mets have been so awful. While the Mets didn’t have quite as ridiculous ticket prices as the Yankees’ infamous $2600 seats, they still overpriced their tickets. They thought that the demand would stay strong for Mets tickets, with the new ballpark this season. But even the deliciousness of Shake Shack isn’t enough to put fannies in the seats, not in this economy.

Also, many Met fans snapped up full and partial season-ticket plans, thinking they could sell some of their tickets on the open market, only to find that virtually nobody was interested in buying their tickets. Thus, the deals on ticket-selling sites.

True, the Yankees have had a similar problem - a few fans were selling tickets for below $5 for Wednesday night’s Yankees-Rays game. But, more importantly, after a rough start,  Yankee fans are mostly filling the ballparks for Bombers’ games, while  the number of fans at Met games has been spotty, although their paid attendance is still listed as 39,113 a game.

Yankee fans can watch a chance at history, as Derek Jeter challenges Lou Gehrig’s all-time hits record, and the team gears up for the playoffs. Met fans can see Pat Misch and Ricky Nolasco face off. No wonder so many Met fans are stuck with unsellable tickets.

But at least I’m doing my part towards harmony among the crosstown rivals’ fans, even if I didn’t want to spend more than a dollar to increase the peace.

All snarkiness aside, I do feel terrible for my Met fan brethren and the Flushing faithful - what a cosmically awful season they’ve had to endure. At least now, if they choose to watch any more games, they can do so for cheaper than subway fare to Queens.

Photos by metsgrrl.com and David Berkowitz

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