{"id":2919,"date":"2007-11-15T08:25:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/11\/stoops_to_conquer_its_literally_beneath_you.html"},"modified":"2007-11-15T08:25:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:25:37","slug":"stoops_to_conqu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/stoops_to_conqu.html","title":{"rendered":"Stoops To Conquer (It&#8217;s Literally Beneath You!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teams of the Mets&#8217; supposed stature (not to mention payroll &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/teams\/salaries?team=nym\">$116 million in 2007<\/a>!) shouldn&#8217;t be selling bricks like they&#8217;re raising cash for a church rec room, but then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesledger.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=19027338&#038;BRD=2676&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=551069&#038;rfi=6\">there are the Mets, selling bricks like they&#8217;re the Minnesota Twins or something<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Diehard fans of the New York Mets will get the chance to get in on the ground floor of the billion-dollar Citi Field stadium &#8212; literally. Last week the baseball club unveiled plans for the Citi Field Fanwalk, a plaza outside the planned Jackie Robinson Rotunda paved entirely with custom-engraved bricks purchased by baseball fans.<\/p>\n<p>Three brick types are available: a $395 8-by-8-inch brick engraved with the Mets&#8217; interlocking &#8220;NY&#8221; and four lines of text; a $340 8-by-8-inch brick with six lines of text; and a $195 4-by-8-inch brick with three lines of text. Each line of text can hold up to 15 characters, including spaces and punctuation.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams of the Mets&#8217; supposed stature (not to mention payroll &#8212; $116 million in 2007!) shouldn&#8217;t be selling bricks like they&#8217;re raising cash for a church rec room, but then there are the Mets, selling bricks like they&#8217;re the Minnesota Twins or something: Diehard fans of the New York Mets will get the chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens","category-sports","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}