So on days like these the Mets Police can’t help but wonder how Metro NYC built not one, not two, but three new stadiums (stadia?) without a retractable roof.
The Times wrote about that today…but what catches my eye is Jeff Wilpon, as he often does.
Jeff Wilpon, the Mets’ chief operating officer, said his team studied retractable roof ideas for Citi Field that might have cost $150 million. Moreover, he said, “the look and feel of the place would have changed dramatically.â€
Wilpon also said that the support system for a retractable roof would have eliminated too many parking spaces and that the high-water table in Flushing would have been a complicating factor.
But what if the Yankees and the Mets had shared a new stadium at a location between the Yankees’ base in the Bronx and the Mets’ base in Queens?
Wilpon recalled discussions during the Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani administration about building such a stadium in Manhattan.
That sort of stadium might have included a retractable roof for less than the combined cost of the two new stadiums, and it could have been used for other purposes during the off-season.
The “AppleDome” would have made tons of sense, especially now that Yankee Stadium is yankee stadium in name only.
As for Jeff’s comment about changing the look…I really don’t see anyone at all excited about Ebbetts Field. That would have been a better idea for the Cyclones. I’d rather be comfortable.
I bet some Yankee fans wouldn’t have minded the AppleDome last night.
Good stuff here.
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