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Mr. Met originates from his own dressing room at Citi Field
Photo credit: Urbanite
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Walking through the field-level tunnels of Citi Field on Sunday — the new ballpark's sixth regular-season date — I chanced upon an amusingly labeled room a few hundred feet down the hall from the visiting dugout along the third-base line.
The placard, complete with a Braille translation, read:
1.35.07"
(Photo by Max J. Dickstein)
I asked a nearby attendant why the dressing room's door wasn't higher and wider to fit the Mr. Met's head. Amused, he told me that the team mascot had no room of his own in the Shea Stadium green room. Now a Mascot Hall of Famer, the jolly baseball-headed trickster who was born in the early 1960s has his own digs at Citi Field.
And then, as I returned my attention to the dressing room, Mr. Met and his crew rolled out of the dressing room a few moments later. The game's first pitch was just 45 minutes away, after all.
(Photo by Max J. Dickstein)
From the looks of the Mets mascot's cushy situation (though I did not peek inside the room) it seems this Onion article is further from the truth than you'd think.
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