Monday, November 13, 2006
Respectfully Submitted from the Roger Zone
Roger was back at Shea Stadium for the 5,694th time this year to report on the fact that the Mets will be getting a new stadium, paid for in full by Citigroup. The name of the new ballpark? Citi Field. Which isn't bad when you consider the alternative. That Candlestick Park became 3Com Park is horrifying and could easily have paved the way for other companies with no business being involved in baseball naming stadiums after themselves. Imagine Roger reporting from the site of the new Tampax Field. No doubt, Clark would have been the guy on that beat.
Looking, dare I say, trim and healthy, Roger seemed mortified by the fact that he was back at Shea where he essentially set up residence for the better part of the summer. At one point, he leaned into the camera and said something like "I don't belong here" in reference to it being November and baseball season starts in April. It was like an episode of the Twilight Zone: a reporter who loves baseball emerges from a bomb shelter to discover that he is forced to spend every day of the year in his favorite team's stadium parking lot. On days like today, I feel like the producers blindfold the poor guy, drive him around in a van for awhile and surprise him with a location and a story idea on a Post-It note.
Roger went back to Joe's Deli for a man-on-the-street take on the new ballpark and interviewed an assortment of morning deli workers and customers, my favorite of whom was the dude with the black eye. Serling would have loved this one.
Looking, dare I say, trim and healthy, Roger seemed mortified by the fact that he was back at Shea where he essentially set up residence for the better part of the summer. At one point, he leaned into the camera and said something like "I don't belong here" in reference to it being November and baseball season starts in April. It was like an episode of the Twilight Zone: a reporter who loves baseball emerges from a bomb shelter to discover that he is forced to spend every day of the year in his favorite team's stadium parking lot. On days like today, I feel like the producers blindfold the poor guy, drive him around in a van for awhile and surprise him with a location and a story idea on a Post-It note.
Roger went back to Joe's Deli for a man-on-the-street take on the new ballpark and interviewed an assortment of morning deli workers and customers, my favorite of whom was the dude with the black eye. Serling would have loved this one.
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