Citi Field Borough Race
Posted by ceetar on 7:15pm, Friday February 12th 2010
Metsblog made a post about the possibility of the Mets doing a Citi Field race, similar to the Presidents Race in Washington or the Sausage Race in Milwaukee. I think since Citi Field was built with New York City in mind and the name of the park implies New York City, that it should have the entire city in mind. After all the Mets represent New York baseball and all its history.
My idea, which was inspired by a segment I heard Joe and Evan do on the midday WFAN show, is to have a 5-party race including something from each borough of New York.
In this Borough Race:
Queens would be represented by Mr. Met.
Staten Island would be represented by the Staten Island Ferry.
Manhattan would be represented by a yellow taxi cab.
Brooklyn would be represented by the Brooklyn Cyclone’s mascot, Sandy the Seagull.
The Bronx would be represented by a Zoo animal. An orange Cheetah would work well.
The alternative would be to represent the Bronx with a pinstriped New York Highlander baseball player that would play the Teddy Roosevelt role and never, ever, win the race.
This article can also be found at Optimistic Mets Fan.
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LoL, Ceetar you are on point. If they are going to do something like that your idea definitely sounds great. A suggestion as far as the Bronx goes how about a Zebra to play into the Yankee pinstripes? Oh and of course the Zebra can’t ever win.
I like that. Could even cross ‘em and give the Zebra a baseball cap or something. Obviously it’d make sense to name the thing. Zoe the Zebra? Or maybe name each racer after the first borough president or something. Or famous Mets. Mike the Ferry. Rusty the Cab, Tom the Bridge
Ceetar that sounds like a plan I think the names based on famous Mets adds a nice touch.
I can see it now life size Monopoly pieces running amok.
For the Zebra how about Zimmer the Zebra? Taken of course from Don Zimmer.
I missed an obvious one. Brooklyn should be Sandy the Seagull.
I just put my idea in over there, and cited it in a different section here it was:
Get 4 oversized inflattable Mr. Mets Heads that are people sized, select 4 fans, put them in them and have them race them like gerbil balls from the rightfield line to the leftfield line. They can then have the winners from the April - August have a showdown through the September games and declare a Mets Rollerball winner of the year at the end of the season.
I like your idea but I would like to add that the winner becomes the team’s new GM.
What a bunch of bullcrap:
MC says that he and Tim Dierkes provide an important service to fans by adding context to hot stove rumblings.
What context is that MC? Pander to the masses for clicks?
lol maybe when he says context he is referring to one of the definitions dictionanry.com gives it “the fleshy fibrous body of the pileus in mushrooms”.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/context
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy most of Tim Dierkes work and he does a great job. I obviously am not referring to MLBTR.
I will say this, it has been a long time since I went to MB for “context”. I usually go there quite honestly for the opposite.
MC’s site is a news feed that’s all he gets exclusives due to the Mets sponsoring him but other than that there is no community. His opinions are shaded in appealing to the masses while also being careful in not stepping on any toes.
His site is a good news source one would be lying if they said otherwise. Like a tool added with sites like MLBTR and provide news.
But does his blog capture and show what most Mets fans are thinking? My thought is no. Funny because what 1st drew me in years ago was the news but what made me a fan was the community when people can express their thoughts openly without fear of banishment.
Of course those days are gone for good when now you must audition and show yourself to be entertaining or off you go.
Agreed, I was there from the first few months when “he had 500 page views per month”. I actually used to enjoy some of his opinions because it was coming as just a fan. But mostly I came to MB just like you for the news first and then for the comment section where I would daily be educated on the Mets and baseball in general. I think for sure we have he best of both worlds here. It’s a shame that we don’t have the access that he has.
The Cult of Contextality
Cue up a little Living Colour
Can I be Jim Carrey?
Uh, Tim Dierkes - definitely. I’m a regular reader over there.
MC….not so much.
Two more different styles on a baseball blog you’ll likely never find. Last time I checked, you didn’t need to pass the almighty audition to post on MLBTR and when he changed that format, he gave a heads up, asked for input, scrapped the first try, updated it a second time and it was deemed a success immediately afterward.
As opposed to formats changing mid posts, a dozen different tries, constant hangups when trying to post, no updates, ignoring please to straighten it out and the ultimate shutdown for over a week while he figured it out.
Yeah….they’re the same important service all right.
This has nothing to do with the Yankees but to me the Bronx shouldn’t be represented by a zoo animal.
My lasting memory of the Bronx is going to visit a friend of mine who was going to Fordham in the mid-80’s. I was sitting at a traffic light on Fordham Road and I looked to my right to see a mother holding the hand of a small girl who was squatting and pooping on the sidewalk.
So how we make a mascot out of that I’m not exactly sure.
You have seen a lot haven’t you Grave?
Oh yes, but only when I’m looking.
I’ve found dead bodies before, had film confiscated by soldiers in Israel, been threatened by the father of my prom date with a shotgun, been mugged separately at knife and gun point in 1 calendar year in Dorchester MA, bought lottery scratch tickets and had the guy behind me in line buy the same type of ticket and win $10,000, been mistaken for a Bosnian national at the US/Canadian border, visited the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the Great Pyramids in Egypt, the Parthenon in Greece, met Steven Wright, Lenny Clarke, the Kids in the Hall, Burning Spear, knocked down Blythe Danner on the street in NYC, and to wrap it up Mets related I was at a spring training game in which Garth Brooks played LF for the Mets and made a nice running catch at Kissimmee, and shook Keith Hernandez’ hand as he was getting into an elevator at Tradition Field.
That’s gonna be hard to fit on your tombstone.
You’re right, It’ll probably just say:
“Saw a little girl poop on Fordham Road”
one thing it definitely won’t say:
“I’d rather be in Philadelphia”
That’s quite a colorful list of ‘accomplishments’. Love ‘em and the humor.
LOL Besides all that what the hell have you done in your life? (j/k)
The Bronx has special meaning to me but it is not baseball related.
But on the topic of the post, I think the general idea of a Citi Race is a good one, I hope it might replace the construction equipment race on the video board (assuming they even still do that) but it probably won’t for economic reasons, and I can’t think of anything better that is likely to be used to represent the boroughs than what Ceet has in the post except maybe an Empire State Building for Manhattan.
I was thinking Empire State Building, but then figured two structures (Bridge) was too many. Feel like the Ferry might be a stretch as well, but I don’t think having a dump run the race is the right idea
I don’t think ‘girl pooping’ would be a good runner either. You could have a pot hole to represent the Cross Bronx maybe, but otherwise it’s really Yankees and Zoo as the two more iconic things in that borough.
You could do a Nathans (and sponsorable) hot dog for Brooklyn/coney Island. Statue of Liberty could be stretched into being Manhattan or SI. If you didn’t want Mr. Met, could do Worlds Fair globe or something for Queens.
Clever idea for the cast of characters, Ceet.
I’m not sure an orange Cheetah for the Bronx would work though as aren’t they pretty fast animals? - LOL.
Love the idea of the Highlander uniform and that character never, ever winning the race.
Either that or a really fat dollar bill that can’t run….
how about a fictional Blue cheetah from Pandora?
but I like the Zebra idea to match pinstripes.
lol - blue cheetah….
You know if it was a zebra and it never won, Yankee fans would constantly comment something dumb like their Zebra is naturally fast and Mr. Met must be winning all the time b/c he’s on steroids…..
Speaking of MLBTR, they’ve got this tidbit:
Disgruntled over still being without a team, Felipe Lopez has fired agent Scott Boras and signed on with the Beverly Hills Sports Council, according to Jayson Stark of ESPN.com. Stark writes that the Cardinals are the only team known to still have interest in the 29-year-old.
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Firing Scott Boras - That’s something you don’t read everyday.
I wanted Lopez back in Sep. after I realized he was going to be a FA end of ‘09. I still don’t know why the Mets didn’t knock on that door.
A rod did it, right?
And I still think he would have been a great fit for the mets bench. Heck, if he is going cheap, get him anyway and sort it out in ST.
Really no reason not to. He’s a switch hitter so let him take the LH bench role.
A race whose participants would be players from the lingerie bowl would be a welcome addition to the citi field experience. lol