Everyone Write In The Curly Shuffle!

[Centerfield]

I vote for 8th inning lapdances.

[metirish]

Public floggings on the mound administered by Pete Flynn in the eighth.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Nobody would see the floggings. Their view would be obscured by the lap dancers.

[HahnSolo]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I wonder if MLB issues directives saying what the between-innings features should be, in some misguided belief that uniformity is desirable. (It is, after all, the approach they took with the team websites.) "Thou Shalt Have a Kiss-Cam"

Ahh, the Kiss Cam. Two years ago they put a couple on the scoreboard and the crowd lustily booed as they did not kiss. If you read lips, the woman was frantically saying "it's my brother, it's my brother."

[metsmarathon]

either i was at that game, or it happens all the time...

[Guest themetfairy]

Centerfield wrote: I vote for 8th inning lapdances.

Damn you - I was on the phone while I read that, and I almost burst out laughing!

[Guest Grote15]

How bout "It's raining men"

[Valadius]

Hail!!!

[Guest themetfairy]

And Then There Were Three

[Gwreck]

Total insanity on those three choices. "Movin' Out" was met with mostly indifference; "Sweet Caroline" was booed as much as anything not performed by Rick Astley.

Sad thing is that even if they replace Sweet Caroline, I'm still gonna go nuts with either of those other 2 stupid songs all year.

[G-Fafif]

Last night the simple announcement that one of the finalists was "Sweet Caroline" brought out the boos. I think Neil Diamond is being blamed for The Collapse.

"I'm A Believer" seemed to have a bit of momentum going for it. Wasn't booed, was actually mildly sung along with. Any song played in the midst of a convincing home team victory will probably be helped by the surrounding circumstances.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I peed to it last night. The 8th inning normally is a good opportunity to do that, else you get caught in a big line on the way out.

[seawolf17]

Funny.

[HahnSolo]

Well, we're more than 10% through the home season. Let's get this 8th inning anthem thing settled, darnit.

[Willets Point]

You know what would be a good Mets tradition? Singing the entire song of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," verses and all. The song is 100-years old this year, it was written in New York, and ties in with the city's vaudeville/Broadway music traditions. Perhaps they can even hire a cute gal to dress up as Katie Casey to lead the sing-a-long. It would be unique but still rooted in baseball tradition, teach history, and be a lot of fun. Plus it would fill up all of the Seventh Inning Stretch and they could move "Lazy Mary" to the 8th-inning break.

[Guest Number 6]

I like that thought, Willets.

But we all know it's gonna be freakin' Sweet Caroline. Sure, some people booed it last night, but there were also a ton of rubes singing along.

Nothing against Neil Diamond (who also wrote "I'm a Believer"), but it'd be nice to have something original.

[Theoldmole]

What about "Lazy Mary"?