Let's Spend the Night Together

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

The full extremes of men's chest hair is on display there, from lion tamer to missing link.

[batmagadanleadoff]

"That's some head".

[dgwphotography]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: The full extremes of men's chest hair is on display there, from lion tamer to missing link.

There are men in this picture?

Can't. look. away. from. Natalie. Wood.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Thread title change to commemorate Mick's 70th birthday.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/26/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/mick-jagger-by-the-numbers/?iref=obinsite

Welcome to the breakfast show...

[youtube:kjn79gk5]LJ9D0UHP7x4&list[/youtube:kjn79gk5]

[metirish]

Didn't go for this, $412 for two tickets....too much.

[batmagadanleadoff]

metirish wrote: Didn't go for this, $412 for two tickets....too much.

Schmuck! Bring two more and you can knock the price all the way down to $700.00. Have you been reading this thread?

[metirish]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: metirish wrote: Didn't go for this, $412 for two tickets....too much. Schmuck! Bring two more and you can knock the price all the way down to $700.00. Have you been reading this thread?

"I tried to tell him batmags, fecking Irish"

[Zvon]

You guys are getting too feckin funny.

I suppose if I went alone to this thing I'd look kinda weird.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Depends on the sleeping bag you choose, and whether/how you shave your chest hair.

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Depends on the sleeping bag you choose, and whether/how you shave your chest hair.

"Sleeping bags"?

[Zvon]

Hey hey they're the Monkees

[batmagadanleadoff]

Let's see ... The Mets at $700.00 (sleeping bag not included) or a Breaking Bad all nighter for free?

Mets fans invited to sleepover in outfield tonight while team plays in Arizona

You know it�s been a tough season when a baseball team invites its fans to a 15-hour party at the ballpark � and the players are 2,400 miles away. But that�s what�s happening at Citi Field tonight, when the Mets host the first ever Citi Field Sleepover. For $200, each fan gets the chance to sleep in the outfield, enjoy dinner, a late night snack and breakfast, and watch the Mets-Diamondbacks game � being played at the D-backs� Chase Field in Phoenix � broadcast on the jumbo screen. The event, which also includes a ticket to the Mets-Brewers game Sept. 28 at Citi Field, is one of many special promotions the Mets organization is hosting this season. "It�s a different, unique experience for fans. A lot of them have never been on the field," Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said. The team is capping the event at 500, and have sold more than 350 tickets. "You�re not looking to make money, you�re hoping you build, get more next year, more the third year," he said. "You try different things and see how it plays out." The Chicago White Sox and Texas Rangers are among the Major League teams that have hosted similar overnight events, and many minor league teams have done them, too. They�re very popular in Camden, where the Riversharks usually sell out the 800 spots to each of the four overnights, group manager Kim Perno said. But the Riversharks host their sleepovers when the team is playing at home. And the tickets are $25. "We really try to incorporate the game," Perno said, adding that this season�s final sleepover is next Friday. The Riversharks package includes a 200-level ticket, dinner, post-game fireworks show, a movie, breakfast and a 90-minute baseball clinic on the field the next morning. That�s the big draw, Perno said. "A few Rivershark players assist in that, so the fans are getting one on one time with Rivershark players." The Mets have held many special events � from Star Wars night, when hundreds of Obi-Wan Kenobis and Darth Vaders paraded on the field to post-game concerts featuring Foreigner, Nas and O.A.R. "We get a four to five thousand bump when we do these concerts," Horwitz said. The final is Aug. 23 with Third Eye Blind. Going into last night�s game, the Mets are 52-60 and 16 1/2 games back in the National League East. Average attendance at the 45,000-seat Citi Field in Queens hovers around 27,000-28,000, Horwitz said. A boost of 20 percent for a post-game concert is a good return, said Laurence McCarthy, a business professor from Seton Hall University who teaches sports marketing. "There�s food and drink and parking at least, and if you have children along, look at Disney when they come to town and how much they make on concessions," he said. Some promotions � including tonight�s sleepover � are intended to deepen the team�s relationship with current fans. The concert promotions are meant to bring new faces to the park. "It�s not a baseball crowd that�s coming, they�re not there for the game," McCarthy said. "But the hope is having come, they�ll have a great time, they�ll consider coming back." The cross-town rival Yankees haven�t jumped on the bandwagon, even during this season, when many of the star players have been hurt and the team�s break-even record has them in fourth place. "If people are knocking down the walls to get in, you don�t have to do these promotions," McCarthy said.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/fans_outfield_sleepover_citi_field_mets.html

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Let's see ... The Mets at $700.00 (sleeping bag not included) or a Breaking Bad all nighter for free? Mets fans invited to sleepover in outfield tonight while team plays in Arizona You know it�s been a tough season when a baseball team invites its fans to a 15-hour party at the ballpark � and the players are 2,400 miles away. "If people are knocking down the walls to get in, you don�t have to do these promotions," McCarthy said. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/fans_outfield_sleepover_citi_field_mets.html

One could argue that if people are knocking down the walls to get it, you don't have to do ANY promotions. And the lead is a smack for no reason.

Sounds like a fun event. Good for the Mets.

[Zvon]

Jay Horwitz:"You�re not looking to make money, you�re hoping you build, get more next year, more the third year," he said.

Then why not make it more affordable? Sheesh.

[metirish]

It's not about making money eh?, I bet they would have sold all the tickets if they were $100 a pop and not $200, that would build up some goodwill maybe.I would have gone but it's too expensive.

[MFS62]

Zvon wrote: Jay Horwitz:"You�re not looking to make money, you�re hoping you build, get more next year, more the third year," he said. Then why not make it more affordable? Sheesh.

Want affordable?
A guy called in to WFAN this evening and said they are also having a sleep out tonight at the Brooklyn ballpark.
Admission is free.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Sounds like a fun event, sure.

But it's priced at It Better Fucking Be Fun At This Much levels, so.

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Sounds like a fun event, sure. But it's priced at It Better Fucking Be Fun At This Much levels, so.

Plus ya gotta spend the whole game staring at The Ugliest Scoreboards in Baseball. And they're so oddly close together, too.

[metirish]

It's priced at such a man might expect to pop around the chop shops for a little activity.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, I'm thinking that the people at this thing? Well, these are people's cars you'd DEFINITELY be interested in, if you took an interest in people's cars.

[Zvon]

[metirish]

I wonder is "Cowbell Man" is walking around annoying the hell out of the kids there.....

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I wonder if they could get Breaking Bad on there, should things get ugly in this 8th or 9th.

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I wonder if they could get Breaking Bad on there, should things get ugly in this 8th or 9th.

Oh they could alright. If they wanted to splurge for the licensing fee.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Lifetime 2's Going Generically Awful it is!

[G-Fafif]

What actually happened at the Citi Field Sleepover? FAFIF had a special correspondent on the ground (literally) and he filed a really wonderful report.

After the game, and after a trip to Mo�s Zone for midnight snacks, the second half of the double feature began. Although we were shown Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, there were neither clouds nor meatballs in the New York night sky. Only stars. That�s when it became surreal. Lying down in the Citi Field grass, under a starlit sky in the heart of Queens, I realized how ridiculous the whole night was. Four hundred people left the comfort of their homes and their beds for a night to sleep on cold, hard ground. But not just any cold, hard ground. The Mets� cold, hard ground. The same cold, hard ground where Johan Santana threw his no-hitter; where � to the possible dismay of Mr. Kranepool � David Wright set a new all-time Met hit record; where Matt Harvey continues to contend for the Cy Young; and where the Mets will, fingers crossed, someday win a World Series. And for the next 50 years � or however long Citi Field sticks around � I can point from my seats at the ballpark or at the screen at a friend�s house and say that I slept right there, right behind second base, close enough to touch the infield dirt (if the waiver had let me). When the movie was over, both scoreboards played a looping animation of a cartoon sheep jumping over a fence with an eerily superimposed Mr. Met head over where the sheep�s head should have been. Written above it was, �Get some sleep/Count some sheep.� This mildly unsettling animation, coupled with fathers and sons still playing catch in the outfield, made counting sheep a bit difficult � let alone getting sleep. But I didn�t want to get sleep anyway.