Can it core a apple?

[Guest Edgy DC]

This is a key question. Please elaborate on your answer below.

[nymr83]

i picked "indifferent" because as i explained in the other thread i like it at Shea but don't want to see it migrate to the new place.

[Guest cooby]

I voted yes...I would much rather see that than a giant coke bottle, ferris wheel, etc.

[metsmarathon]

i like it. its a rather uniquely-met thing, and fun. i like hte bouncing apple hat graphic they play on the big screen when mets hit homers.

i'd like to see the apple make the transition to citifield, but, um, not the current, ratty, beat up incarnation. a new apple and hat would be a good thing.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's differmints, and it's ours.

Yeah, it's a lowbrow attraction. Good. Class is an illusion. A boring illusion.

[seawolf17]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I guess I don't care if it's a new apple or the old apple, but there has to be an apple at CitiField. LOVE the apple.

[Batty31]

It's cheesy, but that Apple is ours! Plus I was always partial to the magic bit. I would like to see it back, but a bit more modernized version...the current one is looking a little over ripe.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I love the apple!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Whatever. I really don't care one way or the other. The current hat and apple looks pretty worn so I would hope that they at least modernize it and make it fresh if they elect to take it to Citifield.

[G-Fafif]

Ho, ho, ho
It's magic, you know
Never believe it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so

Never been awake
Never seen a day break
Leaning on my pillow in the morning
Lazy day in bed
Music in my head
Crazy music playing in the morning light

Ho, ho, ho
It's magic, you know
Never believe it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so

I love my sunny day
Dream of far away
Dreaming on my pillow in the morning
Never been awake
Never seen a day break
Leaning on my pillow in the morning light

Ho, ho, ho
It's magic, you know
Never believe it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so

Ho, ho, ho
It's magic, you know
Never believe it's not so
It's magic, you know
Never believe, it's not so

[MFS62]

My first reaction was to say that it (rising up for a home run) was hokey and cheesey - the kind of thing you would find in places not called New York.
But New York IS the apple and the apple IS New York. So, why not?

Later

[Guest Kid Carsey]

I don't feel indifferent to it, I am indifferent to it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I voted to keep it. It's silly, it's quirky, it's fun, and it's unique.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

SteveJRogers know youse all better than me, I guess.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

[seawolf17]

Why is it surprising that a gaggle of Mets fans like one of the iconic Mets symbols of our era? I honestly would have been stunned if the poll was any different than it is.

[metirish]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I voted to keep it. It's silly, it's quirky, it's fun, and it's unique.

That's how I feel,when I took my wife to her first game this year and Green hit a home run she loved the apple coming up,as do I.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good
82% [ 14 ]
Indifferent
17% [ 3 ]
Not good
0% [ 0 ]

Apparently, this is not a key question.

[nymr83]

apparently its barely a question at all.

[Elster88]

If you don't like the apple you're a communist

[Guest cooby]

Btw, Edgy, this is a truly marvelous thread title

[Guest Kid Carsey]

E88:>>> If you don't like the apple you're a communist<<<

Al Queda apologist would have been more timely, but a funny
line nonetheless.

[Frayed Knot]

Elster88 wrote: If you don't like the apple you're a communist

Nyet!

Actually, I'm in the indifferent category.
Doesn't bother me that it's there, wouldn't miss it if it disappeared.

I bet if it makes the move across the way it does so with a sponsor.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The thing is that the "Magic is Back" campaign that the apple grew out of, while largely ridiculed and probably a failure, can and maybe should be viewed now as the first sign of the seriousness with which the Doubleday-Wilpon regime was taking the rescue of the team.

That they were using it to sell Grant-era products like Taveras, Trevi�o, Flynn, Henderson, and Mazzilli pretty much doomed the effort from the start, but they want ahead anyway, and, if nothing else, they sure cancelled out the Mettle debacle.*

The hat's a nice memorial of the Mets getting back to zero, before launching themselves toward Johnson-era success.

*It's almost like cancelling karmic debt was part of the initial plan, with management taking pains to undo the hugely unpopular Staub and Kingman deals in 1980-1981, followed by the Seaver deal in 1982-1983. None of those deals seemed to work as well on the field so much as repairing the broken faith with the fanbase.

[soupcan]

Fine, I'm a pinko-commie scum. Whatever.

I hate it.

My hatred of it stems from 'The Magic Is Back' campaign. I found that whole era to be just painful. Bill Gallo's horrific 1981 Yearbook cover didn't help.

It's cheesy and it doesn't mean anything. It's a magician's hat with an apple coming out of it. How does a magician relate to the Mets exactly?

It doesn't. 86 the friggin' thing already.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I ate it up. I believed the Magic was Back.

[seawolf17]

Someone called?

[Guest sharpie]

I voted indifferent. The only thing that kept me from voting against the apple was the memory of the first game that Lenny and I went to together (other than a game when he was a baby). He was about 4, it was the first game I went to in '95, the post-strike season and was Hideo Nomo's Shea debut, Nomomania (just looked it up, August 25, 1995). In the third the Mets hit two homers (Butch Huskey and Luis Vizcaino). Lenny was very impressed with the apple. Later he would say "more apple" and I tried to explain that he was lucky to see it at all, never mind twice, when good ol' Carl Everett hit one out and the apple made its reappearance. Other than that one day, I don't really care and if they want to jettison it for the new park it would be okay with me.

[soupcan]

Also -

We don't need it anymore. The skyline on top of the scoreboard that has an epileptic seizure after each Met homerun is so much better than the Apple. I'm being serious. I like that.

Anybody else noticed that the giant-sized Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee on the top of the left field fence also spins around after a homerun?

Wow, let's keep that chintzy thing as part of our team's legacy as well when they move into the new place.

Lemmings, all of you!

[Benjamin Grimm]

soupcan wrote: ...it doesn't mean anything. It's a magician's hat with an apple coming out of it. How does a magician relate to the Mets exactly?

That's exactly what I like about it. An apple coming out of a hat makes no sense at all.