Mailbag: Obstructed Views At Yankee Stadium and Citi Field

Some good comments have been coming in…

I got an actual email…not a posted comment,…thought it was a great point:

We know that the old stadiums had some obstructed views. But there’s something about the obstructed views at the new stadiums, particularly at yankee stadium, that just feels wrong. In the case of the yankees its 35 years later. For the mets 45 years. The overall amount of obsctructed view seats have decreased not increased. Also the obstructions in the old stadiums seemed like they were limitations of the architectutal design. The ones in the new stadiums seem diliberate.

Another thing that deosnt seem right is having the mohegan sun name, which is a casino, at yankee stadium. Should they invite pete rose and give him an honorary membership?

Comments About What To Do If Your Seats Are Obstructed

They can move people around all the want, but SOMEBODY is going to eventually wind up sitting in these obstructed view seats. And for a fairly high ticket price too.

and…

As a season ticket holder for many years who had great mezzanine box seats on the 3rd base line at Shea I called the Mets and was told that anything better than our seats in Promenade Section 425 (where we can’t see the left hand corner of the field) were going to cost us more money. I also found out that we are not entitled to eat in that 350 seat restaurant Drew Nierpont is running. It’s only for the ticket holders of the “better” seats. As far as I’m concerned, this whole situation stinks. Citifield is a stadium built by the rich for the rich!