Posted on 10/12/2024 4:30:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Move over Mr. Met, there’s a new king of Queens.
The Amazin’ run of success for this year’s New York Mets — in which the team went from summer cellar dwellers to a berth in next week’s NCLS — has fans of the blue and orange crediting one unlikely purple figure.
Grimace.
The famous McDonald’s advertising mascot has won the hearts of Mets fans since he threw out the first pitch at a June game and the team’s early season bad fortune quickly turned around.
“With every win from the team, we started to see more and more people connecting the [hot streak] to Grimace,” Trisha Donlin, one of the masterminds behind the team’s brand marketing, told The Post Friday.
“This is who we are. We are fun. We are fan-driven.”
The so-called Grimace Effect started on June 12 when the mascot threw out a first pitch to celebrate his 53rd birthday as part of a marketing campaign with Mickey D’s, the Mets’ long-time sponsor.
Though Grimace’s pitch itself was terrible — the subsequent Mets performance wasn’t, as they slaughtered the Florida Marlins 10-4 and began a five-game win streak.
And as the team made the playoffs, fans embraced Grimace as a good luck charm.
Some edited the Happy Meal maven into videos, while others dressed up like him at games. The notorious The 7 Line Army started serving a purple vodka elixir called the Grimace Punch at their watch parties.
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LETS GO METS!!!
Season ticket holder here who attended the game on Wednesday and i still don’t understand this whole grimace thing- but its working!!!
I've also attended minor league games in four cities--three of the clubs no longer exist.
Maybe teams should pay me not to attend their games.
We have the San Diego experience in common. Other NL parks. The old Jarry Park and Olympic Stadium in Montreal and Wrigley Field. AL parks for me also include Oakland, Anaheim, old Tiger Stadium and Comerica, Cleveland when it was called Jacobs Field and both Exhibition Stadium and the Skydome here in Toronto. I no longer attend or follow MLB beyond postings here on FR but that’s my history.
DEI?
While I love marketing that is organic and benefits a brand from a long term tie in I have to wonder if this is helping offset $20 Big Mac meals.
However it did make me think I haven’t had a McDonald’s strawberry milkshake in years and I used to love them 40 pounds ago.
Ironically Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, once owned the Padres.
Many years ago I was in Montreal for a conference and didn’t have anything to do one evening—could have gone to the Expos game but didn’t think of it until later.
Well I didn’t include that Ive been outside the old Yankee stadium and Fenway but there were no games going on the day I was there and while not a ball park I’ve also been to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown a few times. The Hall is a trip I’d still highly recommend today for any baseball fan. Induction weekend may the town at it’s peak.
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