Festivus Poles, Close-Talker Mascot and Yada Yada Yada.

An "Elaine Benes Dance Contest" indeed.

How could anyone not like it !?

From today's NYT:

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

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.

Character-inspired games included an Elaine Benes dancing contest and a competition inspired by George’s whale-rescuing heroics. Winners received Bosco chocolate syrup in honor of George’s close-kept password, and Beefareeno canned meat, which Cosmo Kramer regrettably fed to a carriage horse.

The Cyclones’ director of communications, Billy Harner, came up with the promotion and fleshed it out with five other staffers. Even some ideas that seemed laughable at first made the cut. “That’s kind of the beauty of minor league baseball,” said Mr. Harner, 31, a native of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. “What we do as an industry is we major in the absurdity.”

The game giveaway, a “Magic Loogie” bobblehead of Keith Hernandez, was one example.

Mr. Hernandez, then the first baseman for the Mets, appeared in an episode in which Kramer and Newman accuse him of spitting on them. The scene is a parody of the Kennedy assassination, and Mr. Hernandez points to his teammate Roger McDowell as the possible “second spitter.”>>>> more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/nyregion/brooklyn-cyclones-seinfeld-night-asserts-shows-wide-appeal.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%5B%22RI%3A7%22%2C%22RI%3A12%22%5D