Braves 4, Mets 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mets were on a five game winning streak and looking great. Then I rolled into town and brough my bad sports luck with me, Goodbye 5 game win streak hellooo losing streak!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had went with some Mets fans to the game as they were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Mercury Mets. An ill-fated promotion in 1999 where the Mets pretended they were from the planet Mercury coming to earth to play baseball (https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/taking-a-look-back-at-the-mercury-mets<\/a>) – with some really awful uniforms and hilarious graphics on the big board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since I had no horse in the race I sat back and just enjoyed the nice summer day as Marcel Ozuna and Matt Olsen took it to the Mets back-to-back. Citi Field is really nice and I like that its walkable all around the stadium. Around the fourth inning we got up and went out to the center field patio which we discovered to our delight had a whiskey bar. We hung out there watching the game and enjoying our scotches for a while being entertained by the drunken Mets fans just doing their Mets thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an inning or two hanging out with the people we went back to our seats (picking up some 40’s on the way) an caught the rest of the game which was quiet until the bottom of the ninth when the Mets started to rally putting a few men on base for Pete Alonso. My friends started to get excited – were they going to be present for an epic Mets comeback? Sadly no, as Alonso struck out stranding the runners Mets lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overall the vibe at Citi Field was great I’d go to more games there but getting to Queens is a major hassle. After the game we popped over to the Queens night market and I highly recommend it. There was such a variety of different cuisines offered up at a reasonable cost. I sampled about 10 different cuisines while I was there taking furious notes for my ‘cooking around the world’ goals (although I doubt I could source Yak meat locally)<\/p>\n\n\n\n