Meet The Mitts: Mets Set To Host The 197th Republican Presidential Debate At Citi Field

Ticket sales to see the 2012 budget-friendly version of the NY Mets have been, let's say, tepid.  In order to remain financially solvent it is crucial that every possible step is taken to put the proverbial fannies in the seats.  To that end the team's promotional department has been working overtime.

What was originally planned for the Wednesday May 16th night game vs Cincinnati,  Ronnie Cedeno Bobblehead Night, has been changed.

Instead the promotion will be GOP Debate Night.

GOP Candidates Present Ideas To Fix The Mets At CNN Debate

You've probably heard that there are a whole bunch of Republicans vying for their party's nomination for President of the United States.  If you haven't watched any of their debates just wait about 20 minutes and I'm sure another one will be starting within that time frame.

They have seemingly already been asked (and have answered or dodged) every question under the sun by this point.

The Apple submitted to each of the declared candidates a question we think they have not been subjected to during their debates:  "What do you think of the New York Mets?  And what should they do in the next year or two to fix what is broken?"

Actually we submitted the question to all of them except Gary Johnson, the former Governor of New Mexico.  Since they don't let him in for every debate we thought we could save some postage by not sending him our question.

Unfortunately the debate ran long and the candidates did not get around to our question until after CNN had already cut the feed.  Fortunately, we have the following transcript of their responses.