Cyclones 2014

[Guest d'Kong76]

Cyclones to host 2014 NYPL All-Stars

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140128&content_id=67206886&vkey=pr_&fext=.jsp&sid=milb

[Zvon]

Kong76 wrote: Cyclones to host 2014 NYPL All-Stars http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140128&content_id=67206886&vkey=pr_&fext=.jsp&sid=milb

What kind of ticket prices for Cyclones games? I have a feeling if I still lived up in NYC I'd be going to more Cyclone games than Met games. I enjoyed the A.C.Surf when they played here.

[Ceetar]

Zvon wrote: Cyclones to host 2014 NYPL All-Stars http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140128&content_id=67206886&vkey=pr_&fext=.jsp&sid=milb What kind of ticket prices for Cyclones games? I have a feeling if I still lived up in NYC I'd be going to more Cyclone games than Met games. I enjoyed the A.C.Surf when they played here.

They're like $10-25ish I think. So just a smidge cheaper than the Mets cheapest on cheap days, but generally half price for the average weekend game. Depends on the ease in which you can get to Coney Island I guess. I always mean to go but it's not really a convenient location for me. Plus the quality of play is much lower and 90% of the guys will never sniff the majors.

[Zvon]

Ceetar wrote: Cyclones to host 2014 NYPL All-Stars http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140128&content_id=67206886&vkey=pr_&fext=.jsp&sid=milb What kind of ticket prices for Cyclones games? I have a feeling if I still lived up in NYC I'd be going to more Cyclone games than Met games. I enjoyed the A.C.Surf when they played here. They're like $10-25ish I think. So just a smidge cheaper than the Mets cheapest on cheap days, but generally half price for the average weekend game. Depends on the ease in which you can get to Coney Island I guess. I always mean to go but it's not really a convenient location for me. Plus the quality of play is much lower and 90% of the guys will never sniff the majors.

Thanks Ceetar.
It's true the quality of play is lower, but it's still the wonderful game of baseball.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: It's true the quality of play is lower, ...

Well, sometimes.

[Guest d'Kong76]

It's a fun league, sometimes you get clunker games. I've
been to a bunch of Renegades and Spinners games. Been
saying I'd get out to Coney Island for years and still haven't.
Maybe the All-Star game is how I'll stick my toe in the sand.

[ashie62]

Lets hope Brandon Nimmo sniffs the majors...

[nymr83]

Cyclones games are a ton of fun for anyone who hasnt been. Much more so than the Staten Island Yankees in the same league. This is mostly because the Yankees play in a stadium next to the Staten Island Ferry, making them more convenient by public transit but there is NOTHING to do in the area. By contrast, going to an evening game in Brooklyn can be a heck of a lot of fun spending the day on the boardwalk as well.

[Vic Sage]

i've gone to at least 1 Cyclones game every season; in their first few years, i went to multiple games because an old friend had season tickets. I even had some of you guys join me there on my 40th birthday all those long years ago. Shinjo was playing!

It's a great place to see a game. The quality of the play is irrelevant, because they are playing equally low-level teams, so games are competitive. Tickets are ridiculously cheap, and the park has no bad seats (its too small for bad seats), and has a nice range of ballpark food and Brooklyn Lager on tap. They also do a nice job of small-town/between-innings entertainment and activities, to keep the kiddies engaged. The boardwalk and the ocean are past the outfield, with the parachute jump towering in the RF corner, and in leftfield, a faux rollercoaster on the scoreboard barely obscures the actual Cyclone in the distance. The stadium sits in the midst of an amusement park, with miles of beaches edging the Atlantic Ocean right next door. There is an outdoor patio bar adjoining the park for pre-game potables, and Nathans 1 block further, with L&B Spumoni gardens a short drive away (for great pizza before or after the game), not to mention the arcades and food stands all up and down the boardwalk. There is parking everywhere in the area, with a major highway exit and lots of mass transit. Is the area a little dicey? yeah, but so is the iron triangle in which CitiField sits, and anyway I've never had a problem (...well, at least not since i was a kid, when i was regularly beaten up in the schoolyards of Coney Island, and that one time i was chased home by a pack of wild feral dogs). There's not too many ballparks i know of where you can go and spend the day on the beach, swim, go on rides, play skeeball, go to the aquarium, eat some of the best cheap fun food in Brooklyn, and THEN go see a ballgame.

I'm just sad sometimes that my dad didn't see it all happen. My mom got to see it and it made her real happy her last few years.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I agree completely, but for your somehow writing "L & B" when you obviously meant "Totonno's."

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I agree completely, but for your somehow writing "L & B" when you obviously meant "Totonno's."

Took the words right outta my mouf. I enjoyed Vic's post, right up until his befuddled Spumoni Gardens pizza plug.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Vic for Coney Island Commissioner of Tourism!
We should have a forum game this year. I'll look into group
sales next week and see what is available.

[Vic Sage]

i was GOING to say "totonno's" but my fingers slipped.

Actually, i've always preferred the more egalitarian L&B, where you could order a slice (Sicilian, natch) , to the more condescending "we don't need a sign, we don't need to be open very often, and we don't need to sell by the slice, and we don't need to have tables, so go fuck yourself" attitude of Totonno's. It's great pizza, granted, much better than L&B sure, but who needs their "soup nazi" bullshit? Plus they don't have spumoni.

[Vic Sage]

Kong76 wrote: Vic for Coney Island Commissioner of Tourism! We should have a forum game this year. I'll look into group sales next week and see what is available.

i'm definitely in; i'll bring my family.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Vic Sage wrote: i was GOING to say "totonno's" but my fingers slipped. Actually, i've always preferred the more egalitarian L&B, where you could order a slice (Sicilian, natch) , to the more condescending "we don't need a sign, we don't need to be open very often, and we don't need to sell by the slice, and we don't need to have tables, so go fuck yourself" attitude of Totonno's. It's great pizza, granted, much better than L&B sure, but who needs their "soup nazi" bullshit? Plus they don't have spumoni.

There's a real nasty c**t over at Totonno's running things. She was never ever nasty to me or my group but I've seen that stone cold gaze with attitude many times in my day. You know what I think is the best thing over at L&B? The parking lot.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeah, she's pretty awful. But-- and this isn't to excuse things-- she's never been awful to any customers in my presence that weren't being a little terrible themselves. YMMV.