"Hey, is this Pat Holohan? Jets suck, fuck you."
So because I am lazy and haven't washed any of my Mets clothes, I only had a Curtis Martin Jets jersey ready to go as New York paraphernalia for the game. This led to a few J-E-T-S chants and fist bumps (the two marks of true sports intellectuals like myself), but mostly Giants fans (I would imagine, Bills fans seem too sedate and suicidal for that sort of thing) telling me off.
"Curtis Martin sucks! Curtis Martin is gay!"
"Heyyyyyy Jets fuckin' suck faggot! Fuck you!"
"Curtis Martin is gay! Fuck you asshole!
"J-E-T-S Jets fuckin' suck!"
And so on. Very bizarre to be a villain wearing your team's jersey in your own city, but I thought about what Coach Rex would have done:
"I will facefuck you, boys! RIDE 'EM COWBOY!"
And felt awesome.
So a few nice additions to the ballpark:
A video screen in left field. They needed this last year because many fans sitting in left field couldn't see many of the plays happening in the left field corner. which was a problem considering the disaster that was Danny Murphy. Unfortunately, they only showed about half the plays in the left field corner, making me wonder what's the point of having it if they're only going to show Rod Barajas' face.
They shrunk the center field wall a bit (this is not the blog for specifics), making home runs, obviously, easier, and making the back wall in general look like more of a ballpark and less like something that is not a ballpark.
The Mets museum in the Jackie Robinson Rotunda (having the rotunda allows us to see the same eight clips of Jackie Robinson for the next fifty years. He never played for the Mets, by the way. I MUST BE RACIST FOR SAYING THAT.) is a nice touch.
There's still a lot of dopey stuff like the constant pop music, weird choices in organ music, and contests between innings.
Also, they put the Shea Stadium home run apple outside of the stadium, and it looks excellent.
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