The Mets will hold their annual Kids Holiday Party in Citi Field next Tuesday, during which Jeff Francoeur will portray Santa Claus, while Jose Reyes, Bobby Parnell, Angel Pagan and Jon Niese will dress as elves.
The players will hand out presents to children from the five boroughs of New York City and sing holiday carols along with the students.
I don’t know, I thought Santa had more patience at the plate.
Bye Jeff. Don’t most of these Santas usually get shipped out? Willie, Kris Benson, etc.
I think Wright did it in his first or second year. Maine and Pelfrey I think are the last two.
OK – yeah, I thought that Maine might have done it once. I just checked –
2005 – Kris Benson
2006 – Paul Lo Duca
2007 – John Maine
2008 – Mike Pelfrey
and now:
2009 – Jeff Francoeur
No diversity when it comes to Santa:)
Try not to get injured guys.
That’s cute and of course it would be francoeur
How funny would it be for one of these little guys to hand back the toy Santa Frenchy gives him/her and says, ‘what I really want is the NL Pennant!’
That would be awesome.