It’s the Buffalo Hot Dog from Box Frites. I’ve been on a huge Buffalo-stuff kick lately so my opinions might be skewed by that, but many of the other people I spoke to at the event felt the same way.
It’s a great combination of classic sports flavors, for one thing: the hot dog from baseball, the Buffalo-wing flavor from football. And it allows you to enjoy that Buffalo flavor in a portable, ballpark-friendly form. It’s well executed, too. Really can’t say enough about the Buffalo hot dog.
I was a little disappointed in the Cholula Chipotle Chicken Sandwich, only because everything on there sounded really good — I forget all of it now, but I think it was chicken cutlet, Cholula chipotle sauce, guacamole, pepper jack cheese and bacon. It wasn’t nearly as spicy as I expected, plus it was hard to get a good taste of the combination of ingredients in its miniature form. But it wasn’t ideal circumstances. Obviously I will give it a proper review once the season starts and I pick back up on the quest to eat all the Citi Field sandwiches.
Joe, I believe that’d be what Marlo Stanfield would call “one of them good problems.” Last year was the first time since 2000 that the Mets had five starters make at least 25 starts, and it’s far from a guarantee the same guys enjoy the same amount of health in 2012. So if Familia and Harvey are pitching their way into mid-season call-ups in Triple-A and the team doesn’t have an obvious candidate to drop, it’s good news twice over.
If that does happen, though, and assuming all the pitchers are performing in keeping with preseason expectations, you have to figure Pelfrey’s the first to go. I’m not sure that Gee has more upside, but since Gee is under team control for so much longer, he’s got more value to the club. Ideally, some contending team gets desperate for a starter who can reliably eat up some innings and Sandy Alderson finds a way to spin Pelfrey into something of future value.
After that, it probably comes down to effectiveness. Guessing right now, I’d say Gee gets pushed out if those guys both pitch their way into promotions and everyone stays healthy, but I’d never really guess that those guys both pitcher their way into promotions and everyone stays healthy.
I feel like this is the question I as born to answer, yet now that I’m here I’m stumped.
The Mets are like a big, delicious, meaty sandwich that you take a couple of bites out of and fall in love with, and then out of nowhere some guy punches you in the stomach and takes your sandwich. And you keep getting the same sandwich every day even though you practically know that guy’s going to punch you and take it, because those first few bites are so awesome and you want to finish one so badly that you’re just going to keep trying and trying no matter how often you get punched.
