NY Mets celebration - includes Cigar content :-)

[jac2598]

The Stogie Guys posted about what cigars were being smoked during the Mets NL East championship celebration from Monday night.

Pretty good stuff... at least in the eyes of a Mets fan!

http://www.stogieguys.com/2006/09/st...rate-with.html

[luckybandit]

My wife is a huge mets fan a Reyes addict. We both share a DREW ESTATES Java makes her taste like a chocolate brownie mmmmmmmmmmmm

[RPB67]

Found this --


Los Angeles, September 20 – You know it’s a good day when champagne, smiles and cigars grace the front page of the New York Post.

The subject was the New York Mets, now champions of the National League’s Eastern Division for the first time in 18 years. And in addition to the traditional champagne, there were plenty of cigars to go around:

• An Associated Press photo captured Mets slugger Carlos Beltran mugging for the camera while enjoying what appeared to be a La Gloria Cubana Serie R.

• Another AP photo captured third baseman David Wright with a nice-sized cigar that was identified in some reports as a La Flor Dominicana.

• Mets second-year manager Willie Randolph told reporters last week that his celebration cigar would be a very special Fuente Fuente Opus X Forbidden X: a gift from assistant team trainer Mike Herbst. Or maybe it was a Cohiba, as Steve Popper of the Bergen Record reported last week after interviewing Randolph before last Saturday’s game in Pittsburgh, noting that the manager “had splurged to upgrade his choice of victory cigars, packing a humidor on his desk, filling the top with water to keep it ready, and jamming a Cohiba in.”

How long before Major League Baseball names an official cigar? Probably a long time, but the tie between cigars and celebration was underlined again last night in New York’s Shea Stadium.

So far as we know, anti-smoking New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has not yet issued instructions to any city department to issue citations for smoking to any of the Mets players or coaches. Yet.

The Cigar Game?
In the run-up to Auburn’s tense 7-3 home win over LSU last Saturday in a battle of top-ten teams, great games in the series were widely discussed. There was “The Earthquake Game” in 1988 when the LSU crowd was so loud it registered on a campus seismograph, “The Night the Barn Burned” in 1996 when the game was played while the Auburn Sports Arena burned 200 yards away and “The Comeback” in 1997 when Auburn marched 80 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter to upset LSU.

But they didn’t list “The Cigar Game.”

Writing last Thursday, Decatur (Al.) Daily sportswriter Bradley Handwerger asked a variety of ex-Auburn and LSU players about their favorite memory in the series. LSU grad Keith Jenkins remembered 1999:

“The Cigar Game, when [Auburn coach Tommy] Tuberville was lighting a cigar when they beat us. He was rubbing it in our face. They beat us pretty bad.”

The 41-7 win by Auburn was the most lopsided in the series and the last three games have been decided by one, three and four points. Despite repeated requests, Auburn’s sports information staff was unable to get a comment from Tuberville on what cigar he smoked on the sidelines seven years ago . . . or why he did it!
%%pagebreak%% Smokin’ Design:
Cigars are also front and center this week in the advertising and design world as the front cover of Advertising Age was graced by celebrated architect Frank Gehry (now 77) and design guru Peter Arnell enjoying fat-ring gauge, robusto-sized cigars.

In a special section on “Redefining Creativity,” reporter Matthew Creamer recalled a recent Gehry interview in which the architect noted “Building facades are becoming billboards. There’s an electronic component to the facade of the building that’s inevitable now.” Although difficult to square with the fundamental economics of building management, Gehry and Arnell, reports Creamer, are “trying to build brands . . . and that means creating experiences that are themselves destinations.”

For Gehry and Arnell, anyway, cigars appear to be very much a part of their experience.