Mascot Hall of Fame: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Mascot Hall of Fame is, and why it is not a magazine ballot

Most public-vote programs covered for New York are readers' choice contests published by local magazines, where businesses compete across dozens of service categories. The Mascot Hall of Fame is a different animal entirely. It is run by the New York Mets, a Major League Baseball club, on the team's own pages at mlb.com, and the thing being voted on is not a business but the club's mascot lineup, with Mrs. Met named on the 2025 ballot.

That difference changes almost everything about how the vote works. There is no nomination form for business owners to fill in, no paid upgrade a publisher sells, and no category roster to scan. A supporter arrives at the club's ballot page, sees the mascots up for induction, and votes. The host is the organizer itself, which means the rules you read on the page are the club's rules, not a platform's terms of service.

The contrast matters for anyone comparing this page with the magazine-run ballots in the same state, such as The City's Best, Best of New York City or Best of Brooklyn. Those programs cover whole markets with many categories; this one covers a single club's mascots and speaks to the Mets' fanbase. The table below gathers everything confirmed about the ballot in one place.

The dated timeline, 2022 and 2025, and what the club has not printed

Two editions of the Mascot Hall of Fame are confirmed: 2022 and 2025. Both years appear on the club's own ballot pages, and two confirmed years are what make the program recurring rather than a one-off promotion. The 2025 edition is the better documented of the two, because the Mets announced it directly: Mrs. Met was on the 2025 ballot, and the club published the voting window as May 11-24.

That May window is the only dated span the club's own pages carry. The Mets have not printed the exact hours the ballot opens and closes on either end of the span, and they have not announced when the next edition's voting or nomination round begins; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. What the 2025 page did publish is the per-supporter rule: all participants can vote once per day per device, and each daily ballot can carry picks for up to 11 mascots.

Between the two confirmed years, the club has not published a year-by-year list saying which editions ran in 2023 or 2024, so the honest position is that 2022 and 2025 are the editions the club's pages show. The gap between them is wide enough that supporters should not assume an unbroken annual run; the team's own fan-voting page each spring is the only reliable signal that a new edition is live.

How a supporter votes on the Mets mascot ballot today

The mechanic could hardly be simpler, and the club states it in its own words on the 2025 ballot page: all participants can vote once per day per device, and participants can vote for up to 11 mascots each day. There is no write-in step and no login gate described in the published rule; the action is visiting the ballot page during the window, picking mascots, and submitting.

The daily reset is the part most fans miss. Because the limit is per day per device, a supporter who votes once and leaves has used a single ballot out of the many the window allows. Over a span shaped like the 2025 window of May 11-24, a fan who returns every day on one device casts a vote on each day of the span, and a household with several devices multiplies that further, all inside the club's own stated rule.

The 11-mascot allowance also matters. A fan whose only interest is Mrs. Met can still fill the rest of the daily ballot with other names, which is how the club seems to intend the ballot to work: a broad daily expression of mascot support rather than a single-name poll. Nothing in the published rule requires a supporter to use all 11 picks, so a single-name daily vote is equally within the rules.

One practical note: the ballot lives at https://www.mlb.com/mets/fans/mascot-hall-of-fame, on the club's own domain. Typing that address directly, or reaching it through the Mets' fan section, keeps you on the official page rather than a lookalike.

How this ballot sits beside New York's best-of programs

Set the Mascot Hall of Fame next to its New York neighbours and the differences are sharper than the similarities. The magazine ballots linked from this page, Best of Queens, Best of the Bronx, Best of Westchester and Best of Hudson Valley, are all readers' choice contests run by publications, covering businesses across many categories in a defined geographic market.

This program answers to none of that structure. Its organizer is a baseball club, its host is the club's own site, its subject is mascots rather than businesses, and its audience is the Mets fanbase rather than a county's readers. A Flushing restaurant cannot enter it; a mascot appears on it because the club put it there, as Mrs. Met was put on the 2025 ballot.

The voting rules differ too. Magazine readers' choice contests typically publish their own per-voter limits on their ballot pages, and this club does the same, with its once-per-day-per-device rule printed alongside the May 11-24 window. What the club does not share with the magazines is a category structure: there are no service categories here, only the mascot lineup the club fields each edition.

For a supporter, the upshot is focus. A magazine ballot rewards a broad campaign across a business's customer base; this ballot rewards a fanbase that returns daily. The two kinds of program rarely overlap in tactics, which is why this page treats the Mets vote on its own terms rather than as another entry in the state's best-of field.

Strengthening support for Mrs. Met within the club's rules

Because the Mets' own rule allows one vote per day per device, the strongest legitimate push is a daily habit, not a single burst. Fans supporting Mrs. Met can vote on every device they control, every day of a window shaped like May 11-24, and use the remaining picks on the other mascots if they wish. A reminder set for the whole span is worth more than a last-day scramble, since missed days cannot be recovered once the window closes.

Organizing fellow fans works on the same logic. A group chat that pings each morning during the window turns the daily reset into a shared routine, and every participant stays squarely inside the club's published limit. The club has printed nothing about outside vote services for this promotion, so the safe reading is its own printed rule: one supporter, one device, one day, one ballot.

For readers weighing paid support, this overview of award votes explains the general mechanics, and the legality page linked in the questions below covers the rules question directly. Neither changes what the Mets' ballot page itself allows.