The Blue Room at City Hall was an especially appropriate setting today for the announcement that the Mets will host the 2013 All-Star Game. Mayor Bloomberg was joined by MLB commissioner Bud Selig, Mets owner Fred Wilpon, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, MLB Executive Vice President Joe Torre, and Citi Field's most beloved resident Mr. Met to make the announcement. "Competition for All-Star Games over the last five years has been enormous," Selig said during the press conference. "The new ballpark, Citi Field, that was certainly a primary reason for it. It was their time in a new ballpark."
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Photos: Mr. Met Joins Mayor Bloomberg To Announce Citi Field Will Host 2013 All-Star Game
MLB Loves The Wilpons: Mets To Host 2013 All-Star Game At Citi Field
Citi Field, home of the best mascot in sports, financial woes, and a better-than-expected (so far!) team, will host the All-Star Game next year.
Duh: Mr. Met Is The Consensus Best Mascot In Sports
Here's some news to perk up fans suffering from Mets Seasonal Affective Disorder: Mr. Met has been named the most beloved mascot in all of sports. Take that, Philly Phanatic.
It's Mets' Opening Day And They Haven't Sold Out Citi Field Yet
Today is the Mets' opening day, with a home game at Citi Field against the Atlanta Braves. It's also the 50th anniversary of the team, but with facing various troubles such as their, uh, financial picture (starts with Mad-, ends with -off), plummeting ticket sales, and a Reyes-less team, the team seems desperate. And the Post says the prospect of empty seats today has the Mets freaked out: "The Mets are so terrified by the embarrassing prospect of playing to empty seats at today's opener, they've made an Amazin' 'buy one get one free' pitch. Some 15,000 of their fans have been offered one free seat for Saturday's or Sunday's Atlanta game in exchange for every ticket they buy for today’s opener." Is it no wonder that Mr. Met is looking for comfort from strangers?
Hundreds Line Up To Join Mr Met's Posse
Let us be realistic: this is probably not the Mets' year. Yes, they signed slugger Jason Bay, but every other piece of news to emerge during the off-season and in the early days of spring training has pointed toward another ill-fated season filled with bad luck, bad twists, and fluke injuries. But for 16 lucky fans, all that doesn't matter, since they'll get to hang out with Mr. Met!
Tabloids Deem Phillies "Frillies" From "Silly-delphia"
With the Yankees about to play in their 40th World Series tomorrow night, the city is excited. Especially the NY Post and NY Daily News, which are going to town with numerous stories... and Shane Victorino gets the "Frilly" treatment on the Post's cover.
One Post story is headlined: "Their fans are second rate & so is their city."
Video: Everyone Knows the Mets Are at a Breaking Point
The sorry state of the Mets isn't just a local issue at this point. Last night on The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien got in on the fun showing just how deep dysfunction runs within the organization right now.
Mets Sleeping Under The Same Roof As A Horde Of Furries
Mr. Met already has enough to worry about when his team is in town, what with fans disgracing his wholesome image, drunkenly attacking him to the point that he's ready to snap. Now the poor guy's going to pick up the papers today and be as green as the team's commemorative St. Paddy's jerseys when he finds out that his Amazins have been canoodling with a whole throng of other mascots while on their road trip down in Pittsburgh.
Video Of Mets Streaker From His Best Friend
Last night, a man took of his clothes and streaked across Citi Field during the Mets-Braves game's fifth inning. This morning, the Post suggests it was "maybe the best base running of the night" while the Daily News identifies the "nearly-naked doofus" with "only a stuffed animal wrapped like a thong around the middle of his strike zone for modesty" as Craig Coakley.
Citi Field First: Naked Man Runs On Field, Disgraces Mr. Met
Those of you at home watching tonight's Mets-Braves game missed out (fortunately?) from seeing an essentially naked man run onto the field. While the SNY cameras were trained on Omir Santos at bat during the fifth inning, this is what our own Tien Mao witnessed: "He was wearing a thong with a Mr. Met doll covering his penis. And he slid into 2nd and again in the outfield before being stopped by security. Mr Met was crying and shaking his head afterwards. "
Mr. Met Harasser Banned Indefinitely
The Mets' 2008 season may be over, but the law keeping working on cases with rowdy fans: The Daily News reports Brooklyn resident Christian Hansen "admitted to badgering the baseball-headed mascot - while swatting young fans out of his way" - back at a May 31 Mets win over the Dodgers. Hansen also apparently refused to leave Shea, "took a swing at a security guard and spit in his face," earning him a conditional discharge, $500 fine and an indefinite ban from Mets home games. And in spite of the Mets' and Queens DA's "zero tolerance" theft and vandalism policy (PDF) for Shea's last weekend, 17 fans were arrested for trying to steal seats, plaques and banners, a criminal bookend to the start of Shea's last stand.
Attention: Mr. Met Is Not a Giant Bobblehead
A baseball fan was arrested and charged with criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and harassment after making a regrettable scene at last Saturday's game against the Dodgers at Shea Stadium. 32-year-old Christian Hansen was reportedly inebriated and pushing children out of the way to get some face time with Mr. Met, the team's mascot whose costume head is an enormous smiling baseball.
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