Return of bullpen carts?

[Guest 41Forever]

Phil Rodgers tweets:

Phil Rogers‏Verified account @philgrogers Cool feature of speed-up-the-game negotiations between MLB and players: The return of bullpen carts! Union has asked MLB to consider them, and MLB is considering it, where possible, as early as 2018 season.

Heck yeah!

[Guest cooby]

Love!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Would it really save any significant amount of time? Bullpen carts are fun, but even when I was little, I thought it was silly that a professional athlete would need a ride from the outfield to the pitcher's mound. Shouldn't the outfielders also get an Uber at the end of each inning? Especially a left fielder who has to go to the first base dugout, or a right fielder going to third base.

[HahnSolo]

I'm sure Jeff would screw this up by plastering a sponsor's name all over the cart, but for nostalgia's sake I'd be happy to see the return of the bullpen ride.

[Ceetar]

HahnSolo wrote: I'm sure Jeff would screw this up by plastering a sponsor's name all over the cart, but for nostalgia's sake I'd be happy to see the return of the bullpen ride.

I'd be shocked if any team didn't sponsor the carts. Yankees will have two sponsors.

[Guest cooby]

Yeah you're right. They'd look like race cars with all the ads. Maybe not so great, after all.

[Centerfield]

If not for bullpen carts, Jake Taylor would never have tracked down Lynn.

[HahnSolo]

Ceetar wrote: I'd be shocked if any team didn't sponsor the carts. Yankees will have two sponsors.

Agreed. A Met cap golf cart with say, a Wise Chips logo somewhere on the back is much more appealing than a Wise Chips cart with a Met logo stuck on somewhere.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Would it really save any significant amount of time?

That was my thought. Is a player getting into the cart, then the cart riding around the warning track, then the pitcher getting out of the cart and walking to the mound any faster than a pitcher walking directly to the mound?
As the football coach said when asked if he had a good time on his honeymoon, I'd have to see the film.
Later

[Guest 41Forever]

I don't even care if it saves time! Bullpen carts are awesome!

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't know. If I were a reliever, I'd wave off the cart and jog in from the bullpen. I would think that a grown man would be embarrassed to need a ride in a silly buggy for a trip that's about 300 feet in distance.

[Guest d'Kong76]

While I agree that it's a nice memory from my youth, I'm afraid it's just another
gimmick in a present-day ballpark full of gimmicks. Who needs a billboard on wheels
when everywhere you look there's a giant ad for something. And the larger than life
ads just piss me off even more when they don't/can't spend all that advertising re-
venue. And on the tv side, 'this ride from the bullpen brought to you by Enterprise'
is gonna be in addition to the stupid call to it from AT&T. Ugggo.

(sorry between the wind chills and that stupid fraidy-cat groundhog I'm a tad grumpy for a sunny Friday)

[Edgy MD]

Retrobranding is what we're talking about.

Old timey shtick, but with modern-day marketing synergy!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Talk all ya want, I'm again'it.

[Edgy MD]

I thought I was agreeing with you.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I thought you were lauding it.

[Edgy MD]

The day you hear me gushing over baseball's "marketing synergy!" without irony, punch me in the face, would ya?

And maybe Nymr can kick me when I'm down.

[Zvon]

41Forever wrote: I don't even care if it saves time! Bullpen carts are awesome!

I'm with '41!



I called them "bullpen cars".
GAH! Back to the drawing board.

[Frayed Knot]

I want bullpen rickshaws!

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: I want bullpen rickshaws!

lol
Hmmm, very tempted to whip one of these up........

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: Retrobranding is what we're talking about. Old timey shtick, but with modern-day marketing synergy!

But it's "old-timey" to the era of concrete doughnuts and astroturf.

I think I'm a few years younger than most of you so I have no nostalgia for the bullpen cart and don't really see what good purpose they have for in-game use. Maybe one would be fun to have around for driving around VIPs who have trouble walking to pregame ceremonies though.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Zvon wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I want bullpen rickshaws! lol Hmmm, very tempted to whip one of these up........

The reliever with the most recent blown save has to provide the muscle.

[Guest cooby]

HahnSolo wrote: Ceetar wrote: I'd be shocked if any team didn't sponsor the carts. Yankees will have two sponsors. Agreed. A Met cap golf cart with say, a Wise Chips logo somewhere on the back is much more appealing than a Wise Chips cart with a Met logo stuck on somewhere.

Yeah they would HAVE to make it acceptable and not with a bunch of advertising all over it. I don't mind the signs on the walls, that is traditional, but those carts were just so cool.

Thinking of Tug McGraw riding cool-y in. For some reason I can even picture Seaver in one

[Guest cooby]

Mets Willets Point wrote: Zvon wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I want bullpen rickshaws! lol Hmmm, very tempted to whip one of these up........ The reliever with the most recent blown save has to provide the muscle.

OMG now THAT is a good idea! LOLOLOL

[Ceetar]

there's like a 4% chance the bullpen cart wouldn't look like a giant coke can.

or maybe Rolaids makes a deal with the league and they're all barely team branded Rolaid's rolls

[Guest cooby]

Do they even still have a Rolaid's Relief prize? Gosh those were the days...

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ceetar wrote: there's like a 4% chance the bullpen cart wouldn't look like a giant coke can.

The Jim Beam Desiganated Driver Cart

[Zvon]

I don't get anyone who wouldn't want one of these rolling thru Citi. I don't care what the reason is for bringing them back.
They better do it right though.
It was a cart,.... with a GIANT METS CAP on it!
If the Wilpons need money to do this the right way I suggest we give them cart blanche.

[Zvon]

lol. Man, I forgot all about this series of craziness:

[Zvon]

The Mets Cap Bullpen Cart has such a rich history.....





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