Mets fans came to eat pork and kick ass, and they are all out of pork
The Shea faithful have more reason to be giddy than they have had in a long, long time. So long in fact, that Shea faithful is the most appropriate moniker for the bleacher-dwelling denizens of Bailout Field. And Thursday night in Flushing, owing to a two-hour rain delay and an impending-sweep euphoria that even thunder claps and pouring rain could not dampen, fans proceeded to eat the complex out of house and home.
The Shake Shack-theme park behind center field filled with soggy fans, who stuck it out for the eventual 9:05 p.m. watching highlight reels from the 1969 and ‘73 seasons on the Diamond Vision (including one very surreal image of Tom Seaver shaking hands with Richard Nixon).
And up in steerage, the so-called “Promenade” deck where tickets can be had for the pittance of $25 bucks, the stadium throws the masses a bone, sort of literally in the form of a second Blue Smoke behind home plate (with another in the aforementioned theme park behind Center Field). This is also where Brooklyn Pilsner, easily the best beer to be had in the stadium, is available on tap. The specialty of the casa, though, is pulled pork. And by 7th inning the only smoked meat left in the park was the Phillies players. Blue Smoke reported that it was all out of pork, and Big Pelf dominated to such an extent that we predict that he will become the first Met to toss a no-hitter.
The sweep of the Phillies in which the Mets staff did not allow a run was the first such sweep by the Amazins in more than 40 years (the ‘69 world champs were the last to do it). Who can blame the Mets fans for celebrating their run? In the last week their team has made the Yankees and Phillies look as hapless as those rivals have a tendency to make the Mets look. So they left their stadium delirious, singing, chanting, jeering Philly fans, and quite full of pork.
