Sunday, March 14, 2010

Mets Tradition?

I got a comment on the facebook version of this site saying that the Mets have "never established tradition". I know that's not true, but I am having a hard time thinking of what a "Mets Tradition" is. And I'm not thinking of Tradition Field in Port St. Lucie (at least not in this respect).

So help me out folks. Name or describe a Mets Tradition...


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The Coop · 785 weeks ago

Unfortunately, the traditions they had have fallen by the wayside. Banner Day, anyone? That was a great time, not sure if it would have the same charm as it did, with scheduled doubleheaders and what not, but anything construed as "fan friendly" would be tossed aside anyway. Hopefully the Mets HOF ceremonies will become a tradition. I just hope they don't do what smaller markets do for extra cheese and do something like a skyscraper race or whatever. That would be sad.
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DyHrdMET 55p · 785 weeks ago

Good thoughts by my choice for GM (ok, that's an inside joke with the readers of her blog). My two thoughts, which are on record on this site's facebook page, were banner day and playing Lazy Mary at the 7th inning stretch. that second one may be a bit of a stretch itself, but I couldn't think of any others off the top of my head (my memory doesn't include the first 25 years though). Sunday afternoon games on Channel 9 was a bit of a tradition, with the old This Week In Baseball before it at 12:30pm.

I agree with you that the HOF ceremonies should become a tradition, except that if they don't pick up winning ways, they'll plow through the list (which I posted my suggestions for the next 9 after this year) and run out of names, effectively ending the tradition.
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DyHrdMET 55p · 785 weeks ago

So what is a tradition? The 8th inning sing-along? Can anyone sing the words "I'm A Believer" after 2008, the last time we heard that one? Throwback jersey month? I could see that as a tradition. I used to have a few of my own for going to games - one being having me stand outside Gate C at Shea about 3 hours before first pitch (or whenever the train arrives and I can walk over) so I can get to the Mets dugout and touch the top of it, and try to get autographs. That's gone (in more ways than one). Maybe for me, walking by the remainder of the Shea scoreboard and the Shea homerun apple at Citi Field are a tradition.
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The Coop · 785 weeks ago

The Brooklyn Dodgers used to have "Knothole Gang" that allowed kids to get the autographs of their favorite players and talk to some of them. While it's been expanded, the LA Dodgers have kept that tradition alive by allowing EVERYONE to come down to talk with and take pics with, etc players. They do it on a modified basis at Dodger Stadium, but most recently they did that at Dodgertown in 2008 with players like Nomahhh Garciaparra. Anyway if Fred Wilpon wanted to embrace a tradition like that, ripped off from the old Brooklyn Dodgers, that would have my vote. That is tradition.

Our tradition, sadly, is fake and mostly borrowed. Even the sing-alongs, save "Meet the Mets," is very condescending not to mention contrived. I think honestly Cap Day is the closest thing we have to "tradition" with the Mets. It's something we can depend upon each year.
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DyHrdMET 55p · 785 weeks ago

from the comments on facebook was another vote for Banner Day and Old Timers' Day, as a baseball tradition that the Mets adopted and later dropped. Borrowing a tradition is not a bad thing if it's not ripping it off and it gets embraced by the fans. Dropping such a tradition is a bad thing.

I do like Coop's idea of taking the Knothole Gang from the Brooklyn Dodgers, since the Mets are the keepers of NL baseball tradition.
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Bear Man · 785 weeks ago

Recently, Merengue Night has become a tradition. I'd trade that for a third World Series championship.

Actually, I've been to a Merengue Night. I'd just trade it for a cannoli and call it even.

(I was kinda hoping that the "Ask Professor Reyes" segment would become a tradition but once Jose went down, so did the segment.)

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