(the Cumbucket Media Board Of Directors present your editor with a cake, three weeks early)
September marks the anniversary of one of the most influential, often imitated and widely read sports blogs in existence. But enough about Deadspin, it also happens to be the 5th anniversary of Can’t Stop The Bleeding becoming part of the daily routine for several dozen of you. Accordingly, we’ll be marking this historic event on Monday, September 22, at 7:10pm. The New York Mets will host the Chicago Cubs that evening in the final Monday regular season game at Shea Stadium, and CSTB has secured a special stash of upper deck seats for the occasion. Tickets are $11.50 — probably the last time you’ll see a Mets home game for that cheap — and you’re encouaged to RSVP at [email protected] if you’d like to attend. There’s a limit of 2 tickets per applicant.
A postgame event is being planned for a somewhat more intimate venue late that evening. Same address to RSVP, however no paypal action is required if you’re going to skip the trip to Shea. But keep in mind, this could be your last chance to a) experience a night at NYC’s 2nd most beloved ballpark, b) apologize to Carlos Delgado or c) throw batteries at Scott Schoeneweis bask in the splendor of a CSTB field trip before Cumbucket Media sells the entire operation to Emmis Broadcasting.
you couldn’t have planned this any closer to gonerfest if you tried. POOR FORM.
Also, and not to raise expectations unnecessarily: I’m on the far left, and planning to wear that ensemble to the game.
it’s at least 72 hours prior to Goner Fest! Hey, you don’t see me moaning that Goner’s going head to head with the final weekend of the regular season / Fran Healey Day at Shea?
If you’re faced with a choice between Goner Fest and CSTB’s 5th birthday bash, I wholeheartedly encourage you to pick Memphis. But you’re gonna miss Rog throwing out the first pitch.
The only thing better than Rog being there would be a surprise appearance by Phil Mushnick.
Fran Healey Day
oh my heart
Hm, the combination of Rog, Andrew, and other CSTB Mets fans sitting through a Cub victory is something I’d like to see …
BenjamÃn, I am not an official Mets fan, I just follow a lot of different teams (because I’ve lived in four different states). I am, however, a Brooklyn Cyclones fan and unless Scott Shaw suits up for the Amazin’s before the post-season I wouldn’t care too much if the Cubs lost by 28 at Shea. The Cubs are only 3-7 in the past 10 games so don’t go dangling your manhood in front of the A.L. East leading team’s fans too much. And unless GC can promise that I’ll get close enough to punch hstencil in the nuts I probably won’t be making an appearance. Sorry to disappoint.
I don’t think HStencil (or his doppleganger, HStencil) is around these parts much anymore. But if you show up, I promise you can punch me in the nuts. Lightly. Or…I don’t know, maybe not me. Definitely somebody. That guy who hates my parenthetical-laden writing style, maybe him.
Anyway, presuming you live on this side of the country, you should show up at Shea, Rog. Bless your ultra-dyspeptic heart, you’re still a part of this here thing.
Yeah really, Rog, you should go. I most likely will not be there since there’s the small matter of the continental United States between us and then driving my son to preschool the next day. If televised, I will happily live blog itl.
As for dangling my manhood in front of the AL East … uh, it gets cold out there this time of year doesn’t it? I’ll settle for wearing my Cubs hat.
Ben