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Mets Hope Every Flush Is Perfect For Opening Day
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 23, 2009
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The Mets' home opener in their new stadium, Citi Field, is just 21 days away, which is why the staff is working hard to make sure everything is perfect. Uni Watch's Paul Lukas helped out yesterday by being one of 300 volunteers who tested out the ballfield's plumbing by...flushing toilets. Lukas noted that the practice is not unique, as the Yankees tested their plumbing last month, but there is an "ironic resonance" of flushing in Flushing:
The main thing I learned as we waited for the flushing test to commence was that plumbers don’t use the word “toilet”; instead, they say, “bowl” (as in, “I hear they got over 300 bowls in this stadium” or “Holy shit, 20 bowls in one bathroom!”).
Eventually, a guy on the P.A. gave us instructions on precisely when to flush. Over the course of about 10 minutes, I flushed this toilet bowl about 20 times. There was some random chuckling along the way, because the sound of flushing is sort of inherently humorous, and then we were told that the test was over and that the plumbing system had passed with flying colors, prompting a lot of cheering and high fives. (Sorry, ladies, I didn’t test out the tampon machine, but I assume it was shipshape.)
Lukas says he and the other volunteers (plumbing contractors, their relatives, etc.) got t-shirts and that the sightlines at the new stadium are "very, very good."
You can see more Citi Field pictures from WCBS 880's Tom Kaminski who gets enviable views from Chopper 880. In other news, Johan Santana looked good in a pre-season game against Atlanta yesterday.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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