(Audacy) The Mets-Cubs game wasn't much of a contest Thursday evening, thanks to New York taking control early en route to a lopsided 8-0 victory that didn't have much drama. Predictably, fans began to lose interest, discovering other avenues — some of them alcohol-related — for entertainment.
The tried and true beer snake made an appearance during the latter innings, taking up several rows in the outfield cheap seats. A fan named Jake, credited as the architect of this spiraling cup creation, gave a compelling interview with intrepid SNY reporter Steve Gelbs, walking through his process while discussing what constitutes a successful beer snake.
"Basically, a snake starts in the sixth, seventh inning," Jake explained to Gelbs. "Everyone's got a few beverages in. Someone stands up and goes, 'Give me your cups!' You see a snake form up in the beginning, everyone throws the cups. Now what is it, the eighth inning?"
"Seventh," Gelbs corrected.
"Basically the eighth, Steve," Jake responded with the confidence of a man who contributed many of the empty cups. "It goes all the way up and that's how it forms. Pretty simple."
In the midst of his beer snake tutorial, Jake gave a shoutout to his mom and a few friends, wherever they may have been watching.
Drink a few, collect a couple cups, rinse, repeat and voila, you've got a beer snake wrapping halfway around the stadium. Jake and his outfield disciples seem to have this down to a science, perfecting a recent ballpark trend that is only getting bigger with serpentine works of art popping up everywhere from Wrigley Field to the Oakland Coliseum. If nothing else, beer snakes have the unique ability to make an unwatchable game more tolerable, bringing together droves of likeminded strangers, some of whom have no idea what the score is.
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