…i keep hearing the Mets might do, or are considering doing, some sort of New York-themed race in Citi Field, sort of like the Sausage Race in Milwaukee and the Presidents Race in DC… i am not sure how to feel about this… on one hand, it’d better than the digital, no-human element Subway and Airplane races they typically run on the scoreboards in Citi Field and Yankees Stadium… at the same time, it’s copying the Brewers and Nationals… but, it could also be pretty entertaining, depending on what type of characters they have running around out there…
no no no no no no no.
How about a race to the basement! Mr. Met vs. whoever is the Nats mascot, Problem is win or lose the joke is on us because we outspend them by about 90 million!
Agree completely: no, no, no, no….. minor league, bush-league stuff… Hate to say it, but the Yanks would never demean the game that way. Why do we need a distraction every time the action stops?!
Mets Legends:
Seaver
Kranepool
Doc
Straw
Mex
Piazza
etc.
I submitted the same thing.
My other idea was a race with fans dressed as 7 trains.
How about a pennant race?
hah great answer!
Omar and Jeff Wilpon and Jerry and Oliver Perez; running in circles
no one wins, no one is getting anywhere!
How about just Wilpon? He takes one slow lap around the stadium and fans can throw their beer bottles or hot dogs at him. Or even better: they could tie it into a promotional day and give away free baseballs to throw!
100 people dressed in identical yellow cab outfits. Someone wins but, like the Mets front office, no one knows what the hell is going on.
Dear god man, are you insane?! No cabs near Mets players!
Or they could all chase one guy dresses as Glavine or Sanchez!!
Omar, Jerry, and Jeff followed by an angry mob. Winner doesn’t get tarred and feathered.
Mo Vaughn, Kevin McReynolds, King Kong Bundy, and Mr. Met.
Since the Mets represent baseball in NY, and the stadium is designed with a NYC feel, the boroughs should race. Joe and Evan mentioned this once actually.
Mr. Met races to represent Queens.
Staten Island Ferry for SI.
Empire State Building, or maybe a yellow cab, for Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge for Brooklyn.
For the Bronx, either a Bronx Zoo animal, or a “New York Highlander” baseball player that never, ever, wins the race.
Have to get the Statue of Liberty in there somehow
I wish they could get the Phillie Phanatic involved,then Mr. Met can face plant him into the wall.
My idea was the Mr. Met family.
Mr. Met
Mrs. Met
Granpa or Grandma Met
Little kid Met
Builds off our existing mascott, emphasis on family which is what the Mets pride themselves on and how funny would it be to see a grandma and little kid Met? Fun for the whole family.
Matt-
How about we put Omar and Jeff Wilpon and the whole Front Office out on the field for the big race?
And then everyone runs in the wrong direction.
Only small market losing teams do this stupid stuff.
What would we race? Nathan’s hotdog, knish, Carvell Cookiepuss and the Statue of Liberty.?
I don’t think it would be half as bad as you guys are making it out to be. I mean really , Whatever keeps the kids entertained at the game. Even if it is only for a few minutes .
This sounds like something the Islanders would do!
Four doctors chasing a Mets player? or
Vince Coleman, Bobby Bonilla and Bret Saberhagen look-a-likes chasing a reporter with water pistol filled with bleach?
Loser gets firecrackers thrown at them!
Loser gets the #5 spot in the starting rotation.
As one who lives in Wisconsin, I enjoy the hokey quality of the sausage races quite a bit. For New Yorkers, I would think a race between a slice of pizza, a knish, and a pretzel could work. I never thought I’d ever type a sentence like that last one.
HORRIBLE IDEA! This is NY, we don’t do hokey midwestern gimmicks. We don’t need to generate extra excitement. If the Mets do this, they are just admitting that they have decided to act like a small town franchise.
If the Mets do this, they’re just admitting that there’s no reason to watch the game.
It is just a game. No biggie.
Guess you haven’t been to game at yankee stadium where they dance to YMCA… Yeah..
The thing that is annoying is the mets never do anything origional… Not since Mr. Met…. Why copy another team… Does it have to be a race…. Can’t it be something else… anything else?
Seen some pretty good ideas in minor league parks in Lakewood, NJ and Pensacola, FL but they work there because its THE MINOR LEAGUES!! In fact, how about every time Reyes gets a hit, it’s half price Coronas! or if Wright gets a double its 2 for 1 hot dogs!
Mr. Met, ESB, a bridge, an apple, Lady Liberty, and on Sundays and holidays Mrs. Met and Jr can join them.
My idea is simple The Apple race.
Red Apple
Yellow Apple
Green Apple
Red/Green Apple
Mr. Met is the judge.
Homerun apple can be modified to be the color of the winning apple.
Motts is the sponsor.
I like
The Statue of Liberty
King Kong
In keeping with Citifield Tradition:
People dressed as
Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Don Newcombe, Pee Wee,
Roy Campanella….
This will definitely be booed.
true New York Icons:
1. the Empire State Building
2. the Chrysler Building
3. the Statue of Liberty
4. the Brooklyn Bridge
I like the idea it good for the kids to watch and have fun..
Mr met
Phillie mascot
Super mario lol
Corona beer
Hot dog
sponsored by sny new york sports teams, a little mr met , a little jet, a little giant, a knickerboker, a little yankee (of course he never gets to win) and so on you can rotate the teams and promote like sny say ny sports all the time.
The only race I want to see from the Mets, is a race to the Playoffs in 2010!!
Lets Go Mets!!
Hey to all my Tampa Mets fans. Anyone going to the game April 2nd here in St. Petersburg. I am going with the family but if any of you guys and gals wanna meet up in the main lobby before the game starts, chat a lil bit, and drink to our team let me know. We can share emails. Can’t wait season starts soon.
I really want to try get tickets for a Mets Vs. Yankees game or a Mets Vs. Phillies game. I hope I can win titles in a raffle or just buy them off stubhub. I do want to meet a few fellow Met fan bloggers one day though.
*tickets not titles. lol
I agree with the sceptics. Unoriginal and silly. You would hope that such a big team would have creative people in the entertainment office. Then again, it’s in tune with the job the front office is doing in setting the team straight: no real ideas.
Forget the race. Make pre-game entertainment better. After BP, move the cage to the outfield and stage a death match. Have the Phanatic attacked by a hotdog, pretzel, stromboli. Mr Met can deliver the coup-de-grace!
I would be ecstatic if they would just bring back the Curly Shuffle!! Even though I was only between the ages 10-12 when shown, I loved that collection of video clips and the song was catchy…
If you’re going to copy a promotion, at least copy a good one. The “race” is so double A baseball. The race on the jumbotron is silly and so would a copy of the sausage race. The only time it is interesting is when a player hits a contestant with bat or one falls down like a bowling pin.
OK, I think that is a FUN idea, really.
They’ve got to be New York City Icons… so I’ve got two of the characters inthe race:
1. Statue of Liberty
2. Empire State building
and how about
3. The Unisphere, the globe left over from the ’64 Worlds Fair
so we need one last “icon” of NYC to dress up and race
Maybe a Coney Island Hotdog?
how bout a bunch of friggin knishes running to sweet caroline with the crowd going CLAP-CLAP… CLAP-CLAP-CLAP… ugh… the mets are becoming more and more like a cheap cover band these days.