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ESPN story about stadium statues

We Mets fans keep hearing about statue technology, which has not yet made it’s way to Flushing.  ESPN tackled the subject today:

Of the 30 franchises, only 20 feature statues depicting actual players. And the Orioles’ only statue is Babe Ruth, who didn’t actually play for the franchise (of course the Babe was born in Baltimore and did play for the minor-league Orioles in 1914). Four stadiums have generic sort of players, with the Rockies sporting the best of those.

So six teams — the Rays, Twins, A’s, Mets, Marlins, and Dodgers — don’t have statues, and six more are without statues for their own players.

Ugh, a generic player sounds worse than no player at all.  ESPN agrees with everyone except Dave Howard and the boys that there should be a Seaver statue at Citi Field.  Well, I don’t actually know G.T. Seaver’s opinion on the subject, but it sure is odd to me they don’t add one.  Some day they will and they will claim it was the plan all along.

6 Replies to “ESPN story about stadium statues”

  1. Didn’t they claim a Seaver tribute that’ll be there by Opening Day and they think “we’ll all be happy”?

    I hope they’re right, and I’m fine with no statue if it’s something cool. (Not a giant 41. Even if it’s orange and blue)

    1. Craig Marino did indicate to Dan that there would be Seaver Something. From what I can tell it’s not a statue. I agree, an orange 41 would be horrible.

  2. I’d actually rather skip the Seaver statue for a couple more decades. I wouldn’t mind a Gil Hodges statue, but it just seems funny to me to have a statue of someone who is still alive.

  3. I think I’d be against statues unless they can do something original with it. It just seems so obligatory to just throw a statue out there. They should maybe put those statues at the markers where they made a great play. Seaver on the Shea pitching mound marker. Swoboda diving in right center. Endy in mid air in left. For me, it’s not about the great Mets players (since there weren’t many), it’s about the Met MOMENTS. Those things should be captured and immortalized.

    Of course, that would mean sectioning off places in the parking lot which would take up a few parking spots, thus, affecting the Mets bottom line. So this would never happened.

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