So any reasonable human can understand that being stuck with a view such as this one in Section 504 is kind of lousy.
But what can be done about it? The staircase is there – and there have to be safety precautions right?
Well, as I toured Citi Field the other night, the solution was staring me right in the face.
As I walked around the Promenade, I noticed the seats behind home plate.
Look where the staircases are!
The people in the first few rows can probably actually see the game!
So I went down to the “underneath” of the Promenade…
And look at this, a good old fashioned traditional stadium staircase.
The solution has been at Citi Field the entire time, I just never paid attention when I was in the uppers behind home plate!
Here’s some shots of the stadium staircase design as seen from the seats side of things.
This is the view as you walk out of the tunnel. Standard stadium view.
So I sat down in 512. Yeah there’s still some plexiglass. I assume it’s a state law or something, and it is annoying that it’s by the hitter – but I think your brain could tune that out a lot easier than what some other folks are dealing with.
Someone sitting a few rows closer might deal with something like this. Still annoying, but much less so than what we often see.
So here’s my proposed solution. It’s not cheap and I’m not an engineer.
Switch all sections in the uppers to this design.
The Mets will need to widen the aisles, which will cost seats. Get rid of the “90 degree turn” staircases and go back to this Shea-esque design.
They will need more space underneath, and that space is going to come at the expense of the Sausage stands, the nacho stands and the kosher stands.
Make the upper deck (and can we just call it upper deck, stop with the “Promenade” nonsense – that word is tainted by plexiglass) – make the upper deck have this design all the way around. If it can be done in the 5-teens, I bet it can be done all the way around.
Cheap? No.
The alternative is 50+ years of fans paying for games they can’t see.
Do the right thing, because doing this to people just isn’t cool.
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First off, the reason the stairs are like this behind home plate is because of the suites/restaurant that occupies the prime upper deck section behind home plate — they had to put the stairs above this as opposed to the 90 degree steps. As for doing this around the rest of the upper deck, never can/will happen.
The Mets never recontacted me about making financial amends for the awful, fecal-like–stained seats I bought in Section 504, row 1, seat 1, published earlier this week on this blog. When they ask me to renew my two plans for 2010 in the fall(which are fairly decent seats in 512 and 504, despite the fact they are only a row or two from the top), I'm just ripping up the invoices. They've lost me as a consumer (and I use the word "consumer" because there's no indication they see the people who go to Wilpon's Folly as fans). Adois, Metsies.
I have a solution. I want the Mets to supply everyone with obstructed views with one of these:
http://thereifixedit.com/2009/08/07/epic-kludge-photo-best-seats-in-the-house/
Job done.
Why they had to put the stairs above this as opposed to the 90 degree steps…??
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