{"id":553,"date":"2010-02-12T19:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=553"},"modified":"2010-02-12T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:43:11","slug":"citi-field-borough-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/02\/12\/citi-field-borough-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Citi Field Borough Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metsblog.com\/2010\/02\/12\/question-race-in-citi-field\/\">Metsblog<\/a> made a post about the possibility of the Mets doing a Citi Field race, similar to the Presidents Race in Washington or the Sausage Race in Milwaukee.\u00a0 I think since Citi Field was built with New York City in mind and the name of the park implies New York City, that it should have the entire city in mind.\u00a0 After all the Mets represent New York baseball and all its history.<\/p>\n<p>My idea, which was inspired by a segment I heard Joe and Evan do on the midday WFAN show, is to have a 5-party race including something from each borough of New York.<\/p>\n<p>In this Borough Race:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Queens<\/strong> would be represented by Mr. Met.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staten Island<\/strong> would be represented by the Staten Island Ferry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manhattan<\/strong> would be represented by a yellow taxi cab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooklyn<\/strong> would be represented by Sandy the Seagull, the Brooklyn Cyclones mascot.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Bronx<\/strong> would be represented by a Zoo animal.\u00a0 An orange Cheetah would work well.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative would be to represent the Bronx with a pinstriped New York Highlander baseball player that would play the Teddy Roosevelt role and never, ever, win the race.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read this post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nleastchatter.com\/realdirtymets\/2010\/02\/12\/citi-field-borough-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Dirty Mets Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metsblog made a post about the possibility of the Mets doing a Citi Field race, similar to the Presidents Race in Washington or the Sausage Race in Milwaukee.\u00a0 I think since Citi Field was built with New York City in mind and the name of the park implies New York City, that it should have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/02\/12\/citi-field-borough-race\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Citi Field Borough Race&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,15,3],"tags":[896,2966,894,899,376,898,897,895,893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}