From our friends in the Media Relations Department
FLUSHING, N.Y., July 19, 2012 – The New York Mets today announced they are teaming up with Lucasfilm Ltd. to host the second annual Star Wars Night at Citi Field this Monday, July 23 when the Mets host the Washington Nationals at 7:10 p.m.
Tickets are available online at Mets.com/starwars and include an exclusive Mets/Darth Vader t-shirt (see attached) and a $5 donation to Stand Up To Cancer, a movement created to accelerate groundbreaking cancer research that will get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives.
Darth Vader, Jedi and Stormtroopers will be on hand for the night, and fans are encouraged to dress up as their favorite Star Wars characters for a costume contest with a grand prize of a Four-Day Pass to Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, Florida, August 23-26.
The costume contest and character appearances begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Bullpen Plaza where there will be a table set up to pick up the exclusive t-shirts for those fans who bought tickets through Mets.com/starwars.
There will also be trivia during the game with Star Wars prizes compliments of Lucasfilm and other sponsors.
Star Wars fans throughout the ballpark will be invited to stand for the bottom of the second inning to raise awareness for Stand Up To Cancer and recognize that in the U.S., cancer claims the life of one person every minute of every day. Major League Baseball is a lead donor of the organization.
About Star Wars Celebration
Star Wars fans! You’re invited to join the party this summer as Star Wars Celebration returns to the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando this August 23rd through the 26th. Join fans from around the world and across the galaxy for four days of Star Wars fun for the whole family. Don’t miss STAR WARS CELEBRATION VI. Aug 23rd though the 26th!! Tickets available now at www.starwarscelebration.com/Mets. Mets fans receive a 20% discount!
About Stand Up to Cancer
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) — a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a 501(c) (3) charitable organization — raises funds to accelerate the pace of groundbreaking translational research that can get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives. SU2C facilitates collaboration among the best and the brightest in the cancer research community. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and a Scientific Advisory Committee led by Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., conduct rigorous, competitive review processes through which SU2C’s grantees are selected. By galvanizing the entertainment industry, SU2C generates awareness and builds grassroots support for this new approach to ending cancer. For general information, please visit www.su2c.org.
If you don’t go – you’re Bantha POODOO !!!
12 comments
Stick
7/19/2012-4:38pm at 4:38 pm (UTC -4)
at least the force was with Wright today.
and good thing, because they really, really really had to have this win.
NJstuckinTX
7/19/2012-4:55pm at 4:55 pm (UTC -4)
Rauch as the wookie. RA as Obi-wan… Wright as Skywalker. Bay as CP3O (circa the busted up CP3O in Empire Strikes back), Sandy as Yoda, Alderson as the Emperor, I guess FFF as Joba the Hut?…
trs86
7/19/2012-8:42pm at 8:42 pm (UTC -4)
Well, Sandy is going to have a hard time playing both parts but it certainly would give the movie an awful twist.
NJStuckinTX
7/19/2012-9:59pm at 9:59 pm (UTC -4)
duh. silly me. meant Terry as Yoda.
srt
7/19/2012-5:41pm at 5:41 pm (UTC -4)
Second annual? I must have missed the first one.
On that game this afternoon….good thing our offense came out to play early and often.
Once again defense spotty and holding-my-breath-in-the-ninth-save for the BP/Parnell.
Ronnie said the bench was calling each and every pitch there in the bottom of the 9th.
Stick
7/19/2012-8:26pm at 8:26 pm (UTC -4)
during desperate times, every win is a good one.
Hazmet
7/19/2012-7:51pm at 7:51 pm (UTC -4)
What character are you? Take the quiz:
http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/atAh_hW/What-Star-Wars-Character-Are-You?view_quiz=1
I unfortuately am Luke Skywalker. Always found him a bit whiny. Maybe it was that Corvette Summer interlude that made me so. One place I worked I was referred to as “Darth…..fill in my last name”. So I took to humming the Star Wars theme as I walked down the hall.
trs86
7/19/2012-8:58pm at 8:58 pm (UTC -4)
Yoda, I am.
Hazmet
7/19/2012-9:18pm at 9:18 pm (UTC -4)
lol, how come I find that incredibly appropriate some how.
darknova306
7/19/2012-9:24pm at 9:24 pm (UTC -4)
So you think TRS is a short green know-it-all?
Hazmet
7/19/2012-11:05pm at 11:05 pm (UTC -4)
Good one. Think he is a Jedi Master I must for I Luke Skywalker am his pupiil.
darknova306
7/19/2012-9:16pm at 9:16 pm (UTC -4)
Man, even in a win that finally snaps a losing streak, the Mets still look really bad at most aspects of the game. A genuinely mediocre team. Also, David Wright is pretty good at baseball…