Shea it isn’t so
Right about now, they’re probably focusing on saving their team from the Marlins and a long winter without a trip to the playoffs, but two Mets fans are working to save a Shea Stadium icon.
Andrew Perlgut and Lonnie Klein want to save the Mets’ Home Run Apple, the goofy, but loveable apple that pops out of a top hat when the Mets score home runs. The team is set to move into its new ballpark, Citi Field, in 2009 -- without the apple.
The pair launched savetheapple.com, which waxes about the wonders of the apple. After all, they say "The Big Apple Loves the Big Apple."
“Our mission and message is simple: the Apple must stay,” reads the mission on the Web site. “ When the Mets move into Citi Field in 2009, the Apple must move with them. We don't want to see a new Apple, an updated Apple, or a modernized Apple. We don't want to see a replica Apple. We don't even want to see a cleaned up and repaired Apple. We want to see the same lumpy, grimy, dented, beat up Apple that's been sitting behind the center field wall in Shea Stadium for 27 years. It may be an ugly 80's relic, but it's our ugly 80's relic, and we want it to stay.”
The Web site also sells savetheapple.com T-shirts and has a petition, which has more than 6,000 signatures.
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
