Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (a children’s novel by Wendy Mass), starring young stars Maxwell Beer and Ryan Simpkins with Mira Sorvino, has been filming around the famous Coney Island boradwalk, Mermaid Ave and the amusement park. August 25 is Air Force Night with the Brooklyn Cyclones at MCU Park, so fans look up tonight to see the Air Force’s HUGE Globemaster.
The 8th inning defensive collapse is home to the best defensive play we’ll probably see all year. True story.
The Brooklyn Cyclones have opened up the season with two straight wins over the Staten Island Yankees – including Saturday night’s 9-6 home opening victory – before losing the third game Sunday night in St. George, 2-1.
The Baby Mets in action. Playing home games in the sea breeze of Coney Island has to beat playing home games in Jamestown.
Post-game fireworks!
Brooklyn baseball originally began in 1883. Teams were known as the Brooklyn Atlantics, Bridegrooms, Grooms, Superbas, Robins, and Trolley Dodgers before officially becoming the Dodgers in the 1930s. In Brooklyn, the Dodgers played at Ebbets Field located in the Flatbush section on Bedford Avenue. Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play Major League Baseball. He played his first game on April 15, 1947, for the Brooklyn Dodgers… the team won only one World Series which came in 1955. Walter O’Malley had acquired majority ownership of the Dodgers in 1950 and wanted to build a new stadium in Brooklyn. New York politicians refused to let him build the Brooklyn stadium he wanted. The “REAL” Dodgers played their final game in Brooklyn on September 24, 1957…soon after and maybe to this day people in Brooklyn believe the 3 most evil men on earth were Stalin, Hitler and Walter O’Malley. So who do people in Brooklyn root for….Yankees or Mets? Mets “fans” say it’s one or the other…not both!! So I journeyed out to see each team’s new ball park over the last 14 months… May 2009 Yankee Stadium- AJ Burnett walks a batter in the first inning…the Yankee fans panic “Oh how could he walk him (as if the season was over).. too much passion? May 2009 Citi (bankrupt) Field.. Mets fans are constantly watching the scoreboard..hoping the Yankees are losing .. hello you paid money to watch a scoreboard not the game?..Yankee Stadium late season vs. Boston … ah again every pitch is life or death…Citi Field late season vs. hated Atlanta…one Mets fan yells “Yankees won’t win the World Series…will be swept by Angels in the first round !!” Well, i didnt pee’d or puked on..unlike Philly! Are there any Mets fans or Anti-Yankees fans in Queens? Subway Series 2010, I hung out with some Mets “fans”…ahhh the season is complete we beat the Yankees 2 out of 3 !!! Ya sure beats winning only 1 World Series since Watergate!
A float in the 2004 Mermaid Parade. Hard to believe I haven’t been to the parade since 2005! Photo credit: Brian Hedden.
Super-Saturday in Coney Island is upon us. If you don’t have any plans this Saturday, you should really think about coming down to Coney Island.
Mermaid Parade: Kicks off at 2pm. Starts at Surf Avenue and W. 21st Street this year, rolls 11 blocks down to the Cyclone, then backtracks on the Boardwalk to Stillwell Avenue. The Mermaid Parade goes down Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk, starting at 2pm. Official afterparty starts at 6pm at the Aquarium, unofficial parties will be all over the Boardwalk.
Post-parade: I love being in Coney Island after the Mermaid Parade. The beach is crowded and the Boardwalk is teaming with energy. And there are yet more events in the evening. There’s no wrong thing to do:
Mermaid Parade Ball: At the Aquarium this year on the Oceanic Deck. Burlesque and all that stuff. $25 at the door, starts at 6pm.
Brooklyn Cyclones Home Opener: The Cyclones begin the season on Friday night in Staten Island, but get the home show started on Saturday against the same Yankees of St. George. Game starts at 6pm in MCU Park.
Post-game: In addition to the post-game fireworks, top-tier cover band Holla Back will be playing in front of Peggy O’Neill’s at MCU Park at 10pm.
I’m giving away two Brooklyn Cyclones tickets! Home opener on June 19, after the Mermaid Parade! The details are on this post. You enter by commenting on that same post. It’s really simple, folks. They’re field box seats on the third base side of the field. You’ll be chillaxin’ with me and some Meetup.com folks.
I realize doing this first thing after a week-long vacation out-of-town wasn’t the smartest thing – readership always nosedives when I stop writing for a week, who could have known? But after kicking the tires (i.e. spamming some of my closest friends, or at least people I’ve met before, or if I’ve never met them, at least I’ve e-mailed them recently about their blog or my blog or something), we got a few more people to comment.
It’s still wide open, though. The tickets are there for the taking. Do it… do it…
Non-disclaimer: The Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team has no connection with this giveaway, and this is not a sponsored or compensated giveaway.
The Brooklyn Cyclones open up their season next week. Their home opener is next Saturday, June 19 against the Staten Island Yankees, and I’ve got two extra tickets that I’m giving away!
The giveaway is really simple:
I’ll go first – I love the great seats, the seaside breeze, and the race of the condiments down the third base line. Good thing the seats are on the third base side! Woo hoo! Whadabout you?
Non-disclaimer: The Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team has no connection with this giveaway, and this is not a sponsored or compensated giveaway.
The Brooklyn Cyclones officially put individual game tickets up for sale this Sunday, May 2, at 9pm. Cyclones manager and former Met Wally Backman will be at MCU Park for autographs and photo ops. However, if the tickets are your thing, you can take advantage of the pre-sale that takes place today and Friday. Easiest way to qualify is to be one of the Cyclones awesome Facebook Friends™.
I’ve already got my plans to go to the home opener on Saturday, June 19 (which will be played a few hours after the Mermaid Parade – what a freakin’ awesome Saturday that’s going to be!!!). I’m eyeing a few other games though. Anyone else in for Medieval Times Night?
That didn’t take long – the ink was barely dry on my story about the naming rights on the Cyclones stadium, and the team totally ignored my suggestions and sold the naming rights to a credit union. Not a bank, a credit union. The Chases and the Future Chases of the world are reported to be “disappointed.”
The Municipal Credit Union – the City’s largest credit union – will be picking up the tab that Keyspan Energy/National Grid is leaving behind, and the stadium will become MCU Park. The Brooklyn Paper reports:
“MCU and the Cyclones are a great fit,” said Cyclones General Manager Steve Cohen. “All of their members are workers like firefighters and cops — and that really matches our fan base.”
Later, he added, “Hey, at least we’re not selling out to TARPBank like the parent club, right?” (No, I’m kidding, he didn’t really say that.)
Brooklyn Union Gas Stadium is no more: last week, the Brooklyn Cyclones and Brooklyn Union Gas Keyspan Energy National Grid announced last week that the two parties would bring their stadium naming rights partnership to an end. The Keyspan name has stayed up on the stadium, even after UK-based National Grid bought out the Brooklyn HQ’d gas utility.
I don’t know about you, but I’m a little weary of all of these stadiums changing their names every time the economy twitches a little. Like this year’s Super Bowl being played in Joe Robbie Stadium Pro Player Stadium I don’t even remember what they’re calling it now.
So to help the Cyclones come up with a new stadium name that will stand the test of time, I have submitted these five suggestions.
5. Chase Bank Field – Since any bank that buys the naming rights will eventually be bought up by Chase anyway, lets just save ourselves the merger baby steps and skip right to the endgame. Chase Bank Field will also be the name of the baseball stadium built across the street.
4. The House That Rudy Built – Technically, this could also be the name of the Staten Island Yankees stadium. But Richmond County Bank currently holds the naming rights there – see #5.
3. Ebbets Field – Because I’m a 32-year-old Brooklyn baseball fan and I’m still living 53 years in the past. I’m looking forward to explaining to my son the purpose of Burn Walter O’Malley In Effigy Night.
2. The Tidy Bowl – As opposed to the other bowls on the Rabbit’s Isle, which are most decidedly NOT tidy.
1. Brooklyn Shore – Where Mets orange body paint is a good tan and “The Situation” is code for cleaning up after Sandy The Seagull.
I can’t imagine how much it would cost to see Carlos Beltran in a Mets uniform at Citi Field from the ninth row behind third base. More bailout bucks than I’m willing to part with, I’m sure. To see him in his rehab appearance with the Cyclones? Fifteen U.S. dollars.
As the Cyclones designated hitter, Beltran drove in a run in his first at-bat and drew a walk later in the game.
Too bad his temporary team is doing their best impression of its big league parent – the 4-2 loss to the Hudson Valley Renegades (whose stadium is at a commuter parking lot a mile away from the commuter train station, true story) puts them half a game behind the Staten Island Yankees, who won their game last night in St. George. If nothing else, at least the Cyclones have already clinched a wild-card playoff spot.
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