NYTimes: Brooklyn Cyclones’ ‘Seinfeld’ Night Pays Tribute to a Show About Nothing

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Festivus Poles. Close-Talker Mascot. Yada, Yada, Yada.
Brooklyn Cyclones’ ‘Seinfeld’ Night Pays Tribute to a Show About Nothing

By HUNTER ATKINS
JULY 6, 2014

Players took batting practice in puffy pirate shirts. A fan reeled in a slice of marble rye bread with a fishing rod from the suite level. George Costanza announced the third inning. And the first 3,000 attendees at the temporarily renamed Vandelay Industries Park received a Keith Hernandez “Magic Loogie” bobblehead.

All that and more celebrated “25 years of nothing” on Saturday, when, in honor of the debut of “Seinfeld” a quarter century ago, the Brooklyn Cyclones transformed MCU Park in Coney Island into a one-night shrine to one of New York City’s enduring contributions to television comedy.

The communal effort by fans and the Cyclones to send up a show built on the minutia of observational humor kept most of the 8,241-person sellout crowd around through the end of the game, even if it meant watching the Cyclones play their worst game of the season, an 18-2 loss to the Aberdeen IronBirds of Maryland.

The foul poles were renamed the Festivus poles and the information kiosk was repurposed for an “airing of grievances.” There was a low-talker announcer and a close-talker mascot. The Cyclones awarded an actual latex salesman tickets and let a man actually named George Costanza, who drove down from Rhode Island, do radio commentary.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/nyregion/brooklyn-cyclones-seinfeld-night-asserts-shows-wide-appeal.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

[KamaAina]

1. And the game was against an O's affiliate?

I certainly hope no one wore an IronBirds cap in the Cyclones owner's box!

[Auggie]

2. No soup, huh? Figures ...