You may have caught this headline circulating around the Web the last few hours: “Home run apple will follow Mets to new Citi Field ballpark.”
Good news, right? Yes and no.
It’s a bad headline, prompted by a misleading quote by Jeff Wilpon during today’s CitiField presentation. He said, “The big home run apple is coming.” What he should have said is a “A big home run apple is coming.”
The Mets are still unsure whether it will be the same dented fiberglass apple that currently resides at Shea, because they fear the near-three-decade-old apple will not survive the trek into the new stadium. However, they’ve made room in center at Citi Field for an apple of some sort. That’s the good.
Not everyone is thrilled with this announcement however. The team at SaveTheApple.com is not satisfied and still wants the original apple at Citi Field. They’ve got an online petition that’s up to 6,734 signatures at current count. When I first wrote of the campaign in August, they were at 815. So that’s some good growth. But I do wonder if nearly 7,000 signatures will be enough to sway the Mets if moving the original apple is going to prove to be an ordeal.
In fact, I suspect it won’t. So if you feel strongly about this, I’d advise you to get over to SaveTheApple.com ASAP.
