The Yoenis Seat

[G-Fafif]

A friend has a neat idea: paint the seat where Yoenis's Ka-BOOM landed in Promenade a shade of neon yellow. Read more about it here.

Hey, Mets fans! I think we all know by now what Yoenis Cespedes accomplished last night, but for the record: He became the first player in Citi Field history to hit a home run into the third (uppermost) deck during a regular game. To recognize this feat, I think it would be really cool if we could get the Mets to paint the seat he hit neon yellow, like his compression sleeve. Could you all spread this idea by signing this petition and tweeting the Mets using the hashtag #PaintItYellow? Let's give Citi Field an unforgettable, and colorful, landmark!

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Mets should paint a yellow parakeet on that seat: The Parakeet Seat.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, batmagadan! Welcome aboard, nu guy!

[Guest themetfairy]

[Frayed Knot]

If nothing else they should certainly acknowledge/mark the seat in some way. I'd actually prefer it NOT be in canary yellow which, in a few years (if not sooner) will seem like a silly fad that will have to be explained to anyone not here during what will quite possibly be a player's short-term NYM career.
But the Agee shot was not recognized in its time and the painted mark was basically a 'somewhere around here' kind of guesstimate done many years after the fact. I'm almost surprised they got the date right when they did get around to it.

[bmfc1]

I think that this was a new Supreme Court thing.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Silly fad?" The neon sleeve era was a thing that happened, during a SUPREMELY hot month for a memorable in-season acquisition, during a pennant race. Also, neon yellow is the kind of thing you could point to from the other side of the stadium, while showing your out-of-town guests or future kids (or future grandkids) around the park pre-game.

Paint it brightly, and proudly.

[Lefty Specialist]

Well, he'll probably hit one farther anyway, so they should probably wait.

[Zvon]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Well, he'll probably hit one farther anyway, so they should probably wait.

haha, this? ^ For its optimism.
Or paint every seat he ends up hitting up there yellow.

Hey Batmags! Happy 4th

[Edgy MD]

You can always just move the seat. But I like the "every seat" solution.

[Frayed Knot]

The old stadium in Washington had a bunch of seats painted an odd color in an upper deck where Frank Howard had knocked HRs during his era there.
I like the idea that the seat(s) be marked if/when they occur, I just don't think it should be a Cespedes-centric thing even if he remains the only one to reach up there for a while.

[Ceetar]

it's an interesting idea. (I thought it hit a walkway personally) I kinda like the idea of painting EVERY fair territory HR seat/spot with a dab of orange though.

It's only been 7 years or so, might end up that HR to that spot aren't as rare as all that, but it is the farthest so far(by a Met, Stanton has a 466 and a 465). But if if one goes farther but doesn't go as high? or is to dead center?

[Edgy MD]

Would you want to mark Ike Davis's bridge-rattlers also?

[MFS62]

I remember the seats in RFK Stadium that FK noted. I saw a lot of games there when I was stationed at Ft. Belvoir. (17 miles south of DC)
(I also remember the bare spot in left field where Frank Howard stood when he played the outfield, but that's a different issue).
I'm all in on this idea.

Later

Edited July 4, 2016 by Guest

[Guest d'Kong76]

I'm all for marking historical blasts at a seat, or near a seat or in the
general area with something but it should done tastefully.

A nice (thank you mbtn) with the name above and date below
in a similar font on a road-grey background would be cool!!

Canary yellow? Uh, no...

[Guest cooby]

I vote yellow. It has to show up, after all!

[Guest themetfairy]

I favor the yellow. As cooby says, it'll be more visible that way. And yellow captures a moment in Mets history (an admittedly quirky moment, but a moment nonetheless).

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: Would you want to mark Ike Davis's bridge-rattlers also?

The superlong ones? Sure, why the hell not?

d'Kong76 wrote: I'm all for marking historical blasts at a seat, or near a seat or in the general area with something but it should done tastefully. A nice (thank you mbtn) with the name above and date below in a similar font on a road-grey background would be cool!! Canary yellow? Uh, no...

Tasteful?

You are aware that this is a sport played by pajama-wearing dudes who spit in public, right?

Fuck tasteful. Gimme bright, shining, honest-- whether in regards to home run location or cheating or "we don't know quite WHAT happened here"-- history. Gimme canary yellow, and bright orange, and neon home run apples.

[batmagadanleadoff]

PAINT IT YELLOW!


They even do it for visiting players.

A Stargell star marking the longest HR in Veterans Stadium history.



There was also a yellow colored seat in Montreal's Olympic Stadium marking the longest HR ever hit there, also by Stargell.


Stargell also hit the longest HR in Dodger Stadium history, but there's no commemoratively painted seat there, mainly because Stargell hit the ball totally out of the stadium.

I'd bet anything that Jeff Wilpon doubles the price to sit in that Cespedes seat going forward before he decides to paint it yellow.

[Frayed Knot]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Gimme canary yellow, and bright orange, and neon home run apples.

Met orange or a HR Apple insignia of some sort would be fine.
Anything beats canary yellow.

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: There was also a yellow colored seat in Montreal's Olympic Stadium marking the longest HR ever hit there, also by Stargell.

Of course, Kingman and Strawberry hit it farther, but theirs bounced back in play after hitting the roof.

[Vic Sage]

neon yellow. I want them to be able to see it from space.

[G-Fafif]

Nice piece on this nice idea.

[Ceetar]

and suddenly it's not the longest HR in Citi Field history anymore.

[dinosaur jesus]

Ceetar wrote: and suddenly it's not the longest HR in Citi Field history anymore.

What, did Stargell hit another one?