Some Provisional Citi Field Statues


“Why the eff not?” says Mets owner Fred Wilpon, all the time, before doing anything.

At Mets Police on Tuesday, Shannon Shark asked the readership which statue they thought might be most appropriate — and most representative of the team’s history — to greet fans outside Citi Field.

Just today, the NotGraphs Investigative Reporting Investigation Team has learned that the Met front office has not only considered such a project, but has actually devised a list of five “finalists,” as it were, for the hypothetical statue.

The five approved concepts are as follows:

1. William Shea, his hand raised — as if to say, “My bad, New York.”

2. Current Texas Ranger GM and field manager and starting pitcher and human talisman Nolan Ryan.

3. An elderly Casey Stengel driving on the wrong side of the road, maybe accidentally, maybe not so much.

4. Fred Wilpon and Bernie Madoff eating a delicious fish dinner at a Palm Beach-area restaurant.

5. The inner child of Queens both (a) anthropomorphized and (b) weeping.





Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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mattymatty2000
12 years ago

Mo Vaughn striking out?