Mets' Game of Thrones Night 2019

April 27, 2019

Several emails went out prior to the game encouraging fans to take the train to the game because the Mets decided to allow Cirque du Soleil LUZIA to set up camp in the parking lot of Citi Field. Like assholes. What kind of business person allows a circus to set up a big top tent that takes up 50% of your parking lot during the season that your business flourishes in? It's like a florist allowing a circus to use his retail space on Valentine's Day or Mother's Day. It's asinine. The email said that gates open at 4:10. We arrived at 4:05 and the lots were already packed and the lines were long. How is that even possible? The only people that should've been in there were the train people! So, the Mets lied to us.

Once we reached the parking attendant to pay, we asked what was up with the full lot already and she spilled the tea. Apparently, because the Mets are stupid and allowed the circus to come to town and then told us all about it, cars were lined up on the parkway to get into the parking lot so the Mets were forced to open the lot gates early. What. A. Shit show.

 

After parking, we circled the stadium in search for the shortest line possible. We speed walked like the Golden Girls. We assumed that we were on the bullpen line, but it turns out we were on the super secret free giveaway line! We will use this line going forward,but not share it with you until one of us dies or you pay us one million dollars. If one of us dies, the surviving TBB member will not have need of this line because standing alone on a free giveaway line is just depressing. While standing on the line, we made great friends. A father/daughter duo that found us hilarious. The daughter was dating a Citi Field employee and he assured her that we were on the quickest line and 90% sure that we'd all get bobbleheads. If we didn't, we threatened that we'd put his name in the blog. Of course, we never wrote down his name and we have the memory of a bird, so....there you have it.

There was a Babe Ruth look alike who made cricket noises with his mouth and a man who liked to photograph mannequins that he pulled from the dumpster and then dressed up. He showed us these photos. They had wigs on. It's noteworthy to inform you that he's some kind of engineer for a very important company. He builds things. He also tried to control the airplanes flying above with his imaginary remote control. It had a joystick and everything.

As we waited on line, we found that there were plenty of picture opportunities awaiting us (as per Mr. Met's Instagram account). Mr. Met dressed as Jon Snow and the ACTUAL IRON THRONE! We were going to have to knock over a lot of individuals and probably a few children to get these photos taken.

At 5:20 the line started to move. We followed the herd passed the actual bullpen line that we thought we were standing on, waved to those people, circled a corner and appeared to get merged into another line. We almost had a hissy fit. These random mo fo's got ahead of us on line on GAME OF THRONES NIGHT! Not today, Satan!

Our temper tantrums were unwarranted because we got in rather painlessly and received our bobbleheads without issue.

We immediately raced to the bullpen plaza where we suspected the Iron Throne was waiting for us. Waiting indeed it was. But not for us. It was barricaded off and a surly man informed us that we needed a special ticket in order to access to the Throne. Lisa later found that email and it was a ticket that cost $100. The Mets sure like to rob us blind while taking away all of our parking spots and humanity.

Dejected, we gazed longingly at the throne as we headed back upstairs to the Mets Fan Fest area behind centerfield. Perhaps we'd at least get Mr. Met?

 

We arrived just in time to watch Mr. Met leave and head for his photo opps with the Iron Throne and all of the assholes who spent $100 on a special ticket. We almost started crying, but the woman in front of us spilled the tea. He'd be returning and she was pretty sure he'd be returning with Mrs. Met possibly dressed as Daenerys Targaryen. This was golden. We couldn't get off the line now! That tea is too good to leave spilled! So we waited.

And were rewarded with this:

After this amazing photo, we headed upstairs to where our seats were located to get food. This is how crowded the Fan Fest area actually was:

We ended up at Sliders and Sinkers and ordered the souvenir helmet with the Plain Jane sliders and french fries for $15.50. Nearby was a bar that served souvenir Mets wine glasses similar to the ones we got at Yankee Stadium, so we obviously needed to get these to match our Yankees' set. Two rieslings in the souvenir glasses were $36. The hamburgers were really tasty and the french fries were awesome. One of the better items we've had at Citi Field to date.

 

After polishing off our food, we carried our wine up to our seats.

 

 

There was a video of the players picking which GOT characters they most identified with, but you can't hear it that over the sound of Lisa booing Jason Vargas.

We tried to take our best snarky Cersei Lannister photo with our wine.

The temperature fell and it rapidly went from a really nice day to freezing. We were not very prepared.

 

We decided to get something hot to eat to help warm us up. Probably would have been skinnier if we got something hot to drink instead, but whatever. We landed on Emmy Squared and ordered a full Colony to split for $18. It had sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni, pickled jalapenos, and honey.

The pizza was really good even though we were initially skeptical about the honey. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up.

The game itself was garbage. The Mets ended up losing 8-6 to the Brewers. Trash.