Bethlehem Native Going to MLB Fan Cave

Gordon Mack has made it into the cave.

The Bethlehem native and video editor currently living in New York was one of nine people chosen to be in the “starting lineup” for the Major League Baseball Fan Cave 2012.

Mack, 24, will now live with and compete with eight other fans during the course of the baseball season, with one winner being crowned before the end of the World Series in what sounds like a reality-game-show type competition, a la Survivor or Big Brother.

Each of the nine competitors will begin the baseball season living in a 15,000-square-foot location at Fourth Street and Broadway in the heart of New York’s Greenwich Village. According to MLB.com, “they will watch every game each day, chronicle their experiences via social media, try to watch all 2,430 regular-season games and compete with each other for the right to stay.”

“They will compete with one another over the course of the season in a series of challenges, with fans online helping decide who gets to stay in the MLB Fan Cave and who gets eliminated,” the Website says.

They will also have an opportunity to meet and mingle with celebrities and baseball players, 50 of who have agreed to appear this season in the Fan Cave. One of those slated to appear is no doubt one of Mack’s favorites: Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino.

Mack was one of 50 contestants chosen out of 22,000 initial applicants for the Fan Cave experience, catching a lot of attention by producing during which he rapped and rhymed about why he should be chosen, while balancing a chair on his chin. That video earned him enough fan votes when the field was narrowed down to 30.

His profile on the MLB Website says: “Mack graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2010 with a degree in mechanical engineering. His original dream job was to design roller coasters until he learned the MLB Fan Cave existed and he could watch baseball as a profession.”

You can read about the eight people he will be competing against here.