Greg from Faith and Fear sent me a note:
In spite of the team we love doing what it’s doing to us,
we’re having a Mets shindig of sorts this week: the first of three
Amazin’ Tuesdays, July 21, 7:00 PM, at Two Boots Tavern on the Lower
East Side. It’s co-hosted by yours truly of Faith and Fear in Flushing
and Jon Springer of Mets By The Numbers, and includes appearances by
ESPN Uni Watch’s Paul Lukas and Mets historian Matt Silverman
(co-author of Keith Hernandez’s current book). We’ll be reading from
various works, watching the game, eating and drinking, and being Mets
fans. The owner of Two Boots, Phil Hartman, is a huge Mets fan and his
restaurant is practically a Met shrine.
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Admission is free for all, as is the first drink if you bring a Mets
baseball card (no kidding). It doesn’t even have to be a Mazzilli.
Sounds like fun. I can’t make it as Tuesday is my weekly beach volleyball day (and that’s what I’m off doing today) but sounds like a cool thing for Mets fans to do. Thanks for the invite guys….and believe me I would talk Paul Lukas’ ear off. If you hate black uniforms and dig my act, you’ll love Paul.
Here’s the official release:
AMAZIN’ TUESDAYS
Away From Home for Road Games
NEW YORK — Mets fans might occasionally find themselves aggravated this summer but they won’t find themselves alone. Two Boots Tavern has seen to that with the inauguration of AMAZIN’ TUESDAYS, a monthly gathering of Mets fans featuring literary readings, game watching, consciousness raising, pizza eating, Rheingold drinking, cocktail shaking, Yankee baiting, memorabilia gawking, and seven steps support as needed.
Two Boots’ three AMAZIN’ TUESDAYS will unfold July 21 when the Mets are in Washington; August 25 when the Mets go to Miami; and September 15 as the Mets visit Atlanta. Each evening gets underway around first pitch, 7:00 PM.
Two of Metsdom’s most passionate chroniclers, Greg Prince, author and co-blogger of Faith and Fear in Flushing, and Jon Springer, blogger and co-author of Mets By The Numbers, will lead the assembled Met multitudes. Prince and Springer will be sharing some of their best Mets work and have invited other leading lights of the Mets genre to make AMAZIN’ TUESDAYS that much more…well, amazing. In addition, Two Boots will be offering Mets-themed drinks and pizzas named for everyone from the sublime Bob Murphy to the ridiculous Choo Choo Coleman.
The first of the three AMAZIN’ TUESDAYS, July 21, will offer insights from ESPN Uni Watch columnist and Mets fan extraordinaire Paul Lukas and Mets historian and author Matthew Silverman who will discuss his new book written with Keith Hernandez. All on hand will no doubt be Metsmerized by what they hear from the Mets scholars in residence, but applause (and the occasional groan) directed at Two Boots’ Hi-Def television screens as the live Met action on SNY dictates will be cheerfully tolerated.
The Two Boots restaurants and pizzerias have been a bastion for Mets fans for 22 years. Each of the ten locations features not only unique Cajun-Italian pizza and a convivial atmosphere but the Two Boots talisman — a framed photo of Mookie Wilson, Keith Hernandez and The Count (from Sesame Street). At the new Two Boots Tavern, highlights include a Hubie Brooks subway poster from the early 1980s, and a shrine to Bill Buckner. For Amazin’ Tuesdays, the first beer is free, in exchange for any Mets baseball card (even Bobby Pfeil’s).
AMAZIN TUESDAYS
Date: Tuesday, July 21
Location: Two Boots Tavern, 384 Grand Street (@ Suffolk St.), 212-228-8685
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: Free; also first drink free in exchange for any Mets baseball card.
Hosts: Greg Prince, Faith and Fear in Flushing; Jon Springer, Mets By The Numbers
Drinks: Rheingold beer and special cocktails (“The Hammer,†“Murph’s Lawâ€)
Pizzas: Special pizzas (“The Stork,†“The Choo-Chooâ€)
Featuring: Paul Lukas, ESPN Columnist; and Matthew Silverman, co-author of Shea Goodbye with Keith Hernandez
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