What Brand New Dance Did Mets Came Up With For Fans This Season?

The New York Mets will field a “hip-hop hype team” in 2024, believe it or not. Officially, it’s going by The Queens Crew.  It has been verified by one of The Queens Crew dancers that she will be at Citi Field for the next season.

What Brand New Dance Did Mets Came Up With For Fans This Season?

Introducing the Queens Crew, a 19-person coed dancing hype team that will perform before games and during action breaks. Of them, roughly 10 will be on display on game days.

Vice president of brand marketing Trisha Donlin researched the formation of dance teams by the Braves, Astros, and Marlins and found that the Mets are not the first team in MLB to do so.

She posted on Instagram, saying, “BEYOND excited to announce I will be a part of the first ever NY Mets Dance Team.” “Looking forward to this new opportunity.”

The Mets forming a dance squad is an innovative move, but it’s clear that the fans don’t like the concept.

Fans of the Mets have spent the last several hours imagining scenarios in which the dance team supports the players as they lose handily.

Following approximately 250 male and female dancers competing in tryouts held at Citi Field in January, Donlin assisted in assembling what she hopes would be a distinctive squad that symbolizes Queens.

“I had to think about what makes Queens, Queens and what makes New York, New York,” Donlin said over the phone Sunday. “That’s where I thought about diversity, different performance styles, street dancing. Looking at subway performers, looking at the fact that we have the greatest talent pool in the United States with Broadway. All of that played into the identity of this team.”

The group will perform before games and in between innings, including during the T-shirt throw and seventh-inning stretch. Head coach Gina Mormando has over 20 years of experience as a choreographer and dance instructor on Long Island.

According to Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA forecasts, the Mets will finish the season with an 82.8-79.2 record. In the National League East, that places them behind the Philadelphia Phillies and the Atlanta Braves. There is just a 43.2% probability that New York will make it to the postseason.

However, as the season goes on, Stearns anticipates that they will be in the running for the playoffs. If not, the team will need to respond to more pointed inquiries over first baseman Pete Alonso’s near future.

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“Of course you’re going to have long-standing fans that don’t want change,” Donlin said. “But we’re really optimistic that people are going to embrace this because the talent is really undeniable. This team sucks you in in a big way.

“It’s going to rally the crowd in a big way. … I think fans will see what we see.”

When one fan complained on X, formerly Twitter, about the necessity of a dance team in a sport without halftimes, Mets owner Steve Cohen responded: “Excellent point. I forgot how serious baseball is relative to other sports.”Donlin said Cohen’s tweet was symbolic of how supportive he has been throughout the process, saying Cohen has challenged “us and the front office to think different, especially when it comes to the fan experience.”

 

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