Take that, Mets!

[solarbird]

"Furries Convention keeps Mets awake." Apparently the New York Mets were in Pittsburgh just in time for Anthrocon - and shared the hotel. Says WABC:

Playing an afternoon game, the Mets might be a little tired because of The Furries. The Mets, who played in Pittsburgh for a weather make-up game on Thursday, stayed at the same hotel as the Furries Convention.

Lots of Mets players were Tweeting that they could not get any sleep due to people dressed as furry animals running around the hotel.

In related news, here's a blog consisting entirely of pictures of foxes.

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

If only it were the Yankees :D

That blog looks like it has some good blanks for FireFox LOLs. No Yiffy vixens, though :(

[denelian.livejournal.com]

con attendance is 500-600? that's kinda teeny, how is that "disturbing"?

i mean, MarCon, here in Columbus, is consiered a small con and the lowest (official) attendance i have seen in the past decade was something like 3,500 badges sold...

[epawtows.livejournal.com]

While I've never been to one, I wouldn't have thought of Marcon as a "small" SF con, it's a full-sized regional convention. It's small compared to many WorldCons or DragonCon, I suppose.

Furry cons tend to be much smaller than SF cons. Six hundred people would easily qualify as a regional furry con, although an SF con of that size would be considered a small local affair.

Also, a few hundred furs in the big suits might disturb mundanes more than a few thousand SF fen mostly in t-shirts and jeans (depending on how costume-heavy the SF con is, of course).

[denelian.livejournal.com]

i had commented, i swear, in reply to you... but it is not here.

so, to attempt to sum up my original reply, i said something along the lines of i thought that there were more furries - that i had always thought there were approx. as many furries as there were LARPers, but also that i wasn't sure where the line was between a girl who likes to dress up w/ cat ears and a full-furry - i know it's somewhere, but not exactly. i know a *lot* of people who cosplay and wear things like ears and tails, and while they may not be full-furry, i figured that there would *also* be a lot of, i don't know, semi-furries? mtext, below, posted that the 5-600 people was probably just those in full furry costume, and that the total attendence is generally somewhat more than 3,000 - which makes more sense to me, the players (and writers) were only counting those in *FULL* costume, probably.

sorry for being confused there... and being confusing, in turn

(i think i also wrote about how until two years ago, MarCon shared hotel space with a Prom and a semi-pro volley ball tournament and "half-court basketball" tournament of teams made up of corporate persons, ie the teams were of people who worked together in white-collar jobs at places like The Limited and such. it's much better now that all these things are not competing for space, because they would harrass us and vice-versa. you know how embarrasing it is to have a chapereon for a high school prom start hitting on you because he thinks you're a prostitute because you are wearing a costume for LARP? this happened to one of my friends, and i had to intervene because this guy just would *not* go away, and some of the boys from the Prom had followed him and *they* started harrassing several of the LARPers. of course, things went both ways, i know that we con-goers probably harrassed people who were there for other things, too. so, over-all, i think that if there is a con or a tournament or a prom or a whatever, there should be some *other* event also taking place, because it's just easier all around...)

anyway, i've babbled enough at you :) thanks for helping clear up my confusion!

[denelian.livejournal.com]

should *not* be some other event also taking place. sigh. losing lots of words in the ether this week. sorry!

[mtext.livejournal.com]

Ahh, no, I think he meant they were expecting 500-600 people in fursuits. I think Anthrocon's usual attendance is somewhere north of 3,000.

[denelian.livejournal.com]

ah! that also explains, and makes more sense to me... thanx!

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

YIFF IN HELL!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

bwahahaha.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

My opinion of furries just improved measurably.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

As if they need another excuse for losing games.

[mtext.livejournal.com]

Why does this keep happening? It seems like EVERY SINGLE YEAR, at least one story bubbles up about some baseball team or other (and it does always seem to be baseball, too) sharing the Furries' hotel and not getting any sleep. It's not like convention dates are secret or anything, maybe they should just start checking ahead already.

[ypawtows.livejournal.com]

Conifur kept having to share hotel with hockey teams. At least one year the hockey team got kicked out for being too loud. (I think they were a Mormon hockey team....)

[mikec1157.livejournal.com]

...and how does one play "Mormon Hockey"?

[mikec1157.livejournal.com]

As a general rule, in my opinion, sales staff at hotels do not pay attention that different clients may not mix well. I sometimes think they just do not care. And this is not just an issue with fandom. I had a coworker who attended chess tournaments a couple of times a years, and once they had half the hotel function space, the rest had a Baptist choir group...the chess players couldn't hear themselves think.

If functions that I volunteer for don't have the whole hotel (or most of it) we ask what the other group(s) will be so we can head off any issues. Most of the time at my home convention it's airline flight crews. We work hard to keep noise away from them. It doesn't always work, but we try. I know other convention runners (professional and volunteers) do this investigation...but most do not.

A friend just graduated from UNLV's Hotel Management school, I think I'll ask her about this mix issue. I would love to get this mix issue addressed proactively by the college.

[sheistheweather]

Woo, foxes! :D