This #BobbyBonillaDay, Bobby is heading to the plate to host an @Airbnb stay at @CitiField, in the ultimate Mets overnight experience. Starting on July 8 at noon, #Mets fans can request to book one night at Citi Field on July 28. #LGM
— New York Mets (@Mets) July 1, 2021
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The Mets this year are “actually embracing” Bobby Bonilla Day, the “mock holiday” that sees the former star collect nearly $1.2M in deferred pay every July 1, according to Bob Nightengale of USA TODAY. The team will hold the promo on July 28, working with Airbnb to allow four fans to “watch the Mets play the Atlanta Braves in a VIP suite.” The fans can “spend the night in the two double beds, have permission to use Mets’ weight room and showers the following morning, and even throw out the first pitch the following day game against Atlanta.” The winners also will get a “virtual greeting video” from Bonilla. Mets Owner Steve Cohen came up with the idea to “have a Bobby Bonilla Day every year at Citi Field, with Bonilla paraded in a car around the field, and presented an oversized check for all of the fans to see.” Bonilla said, “It’s a wonderful thing that Steve and the Mets are doing. … We may do the other things at some point in time, but they came up with this idea, which I think is a wonderful promotion” (USA TODAY, 7/1).
