Can it core a apple?

[Willets Point]

"Mets Magic" is a team catch phrase that goes way back.

[soupcan]

Willets Point wrote: "Mets Magic" is a team catch phrase that goes way back.

Yeah, way back to Jerry Della Famina.

[Benjamin Grimm]

There was an article about this the other day in the Daily News.

Apparently the official word is that there will be an apple at Citi Field, but it won't be the current apple. According to a Mets spokesman, the Shea Stadium apple is too fragile and will need to be replaced. The apple will be preserved and displayed somewhere at Citi Field and its place in Mets history will be suitably honored.

Of course, it's pure nonsense that a 25-year-old mechanical apple can't be restored and refurbished. You occasionally see cars three times that old on the streets and highways. And they're restoring Leonardo's "Last Supper," which, if I have my dates right, is much older than the Shea Stadium apple.

The article said that there's a movement among Mets fans not just to have an apple at Citi Field, but to have the apple from Shea. I think it would be a nice tribute to Shea Stadium to have its apple survive, but I can't imagine being so worked up about this to start or get involved in a "movement."

[Guest Edgy DC]

Does the apple have a page in the UMDB?

[Guest holychicken]

The hat is so ghetto.

It looks like it was made by a bunch of highschoolers the night before the big homecoming game.

That being said, I always watch it go up after a homerun.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy DC wrote: Does the apple have a page in the UMDB?

No. So far only human beings (and Roger Clemens) have been eligible.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I love it, but I can also see why they'd bring it into a Mets Museum and get a new one for the new yard.

Usually, the only thing that comes over to a new stadium is home plate.

If they had the apple somewhere on display, everybody would love taking photos and posing with it.

It also goes to sow that you can't force a tradition. Sometimes fans fall in love with the goofy, quirky stuff that you don't expect. And there's a difference between cool bad -- the apple, Mr. Met -- and embarrassing bad -- Mettle the mule, Mel Rojas.

Let Yankee punks bow to their monument to Phil Rizzutto. Stuff like Bernie Brewer's chalet and a Sauasage race are so much more fun. We have the apple!

Now, as for the new stadium, I don't want the apple to become some lame corporate ad, like a CitiBank Home Run Apple. Then it becomes forced.

[Guest Edgy DC]

So, while not forcing stuff, let's not have a barbecue restaurant named after a fat old-timie sunburned player.

Even if we do have the fattest old-timiest sunburnedest player of them all who just happens to be a greasy food chef.

Oh, crap, it's inevitable, isn't it?

[DocTee]

When AT+T opened, there was a mechanical figure, called "Rusty the Robot" sponsored by Old Navy that appeared after every Giants win. He came out of the wall in front of the rightfield bleachers and was roundly booed for doing so. Fans were throwing everything they could get their hands on at this thing, and that's after a Giants win. Management wisely decided to abandon the idea.

Now if only they'll replace Lou Seal with the Crazy Crab, SF baseball would be much improved.

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/history/sf_history_timeline_article.jsp?article=31

[Benjamin Grimm]

Lou Seal???

That's a new one on me.

When I read that name, I made three inkblot connections. In order they were: A song by (I think) Little Richard, Mrs. Arnaz, a song by Kenny Rogers.