Sunday, February 14, 2010
NO. WE DON’T WANT CHARACTER RACES.
Matt Cerrone’s question over at MetsBlog (that he’s hearing that the Mets are “thinking” about having character races - so either they’re talking about and someone told him, or they told him so they could see what fan response would be) has me banging my head into the wall. This franchise keeps ignoring obvious ways to make the fans content and instead flails about seizing irrelevant, ridiculous ideas like character races. This is right up there with the “Sweet Caroline” debacle. You can argue it until you’re blue in the face, but that song has a strong association with Boston and continuing to play it at Citi Field, especially when it was met with constant loud booing that they could hear all the way in the press box, was just bullheaded. A source told me that the reason they doggedly insisted on playing it was because it was one of Jeff Wilpon’s favorite songs. (We also have him to blame for foisting Coldplay upon us).
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