Mets Bloggers Leave Their Mom's Basements To Grill Meat / Watch Baseball

On April 8th 2011, several Mets bloggers left the safety of their mother's basements to watch their beloved team lose to the Nationals.  Among those in attendance were sandwich expert Ted Berg, Mets author extraordinaire Matt Silverman, optimistic Mets fan Mike "Ceetar" Donato, Mets t-shirt magnate Darren Meenan of The 7 Line, Twitter superstar Ramon "GrevensEpiphany" Martinez,  Apple fans Ron Mazzola and Richard Madison, and Kerel "too handsome to be photographed" Cooper of On The Black.

The day got off to a rough start as the Mets originally insisted on not letting us into the lot until 1PM.  Around 12:20PM, when the line of cars waiting to get in stretched to Long Island the Mets finally caved and let us in.

Ceetar showed off his inner foodie by concocting a burger so awesome it actually lured SNY's Ted Berg out of Citi Field.  Ted later confessed he had felt a disturbance in the sandwich universe and had to investigate.

Once we fed Ted, he entertained us with stories about Ralph Kiner & Ewell Blackwell.  He even showed us how to spruce up an ordinary Nathan's hot dog with nothing more than Doritos.  Grevens Epiphany upped the ante by cooking some amazing sausage and onions.

Personally, the tailgate gave me an excuse to find something useful to do with the giant box the Mets sent my tickets in this year.  Check it out:

Dessert came in the form of some awesome The Apple chocolate candies made by Mrs. The Apple. She surprised me with these this week.

Later we all went into the ballpark and watched our Amazins get beat. But despite the outcome I had a great time.  I want to thank Ted, Kerel, Ramon, Ron, Rich, Matt, Mike, Darren, & everyone else who showed up for taking a little time out of their Opening Day rituals and making The Apple's first tailgate a success. I'd also like to thank buildasign.com for providing the awesome banner, which despite taking a constant beating from the Flushing winds, was excellent.

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