@elifrombrooklyn (on twitter, and I’m @metspolice by the way) sent this over.
Seems someone at a Canadian newspaper is visiting all 30 parks. Â On Monday he went to Citi Field. Â Shall we…
The sightlines all over the park are great, and $40 will get you a chair 12 rows behind Jason Bay in left field, but without a full view of the massive scoreboard in centre field. In what I found to be a nice touch, Citi Field’s foul poles are painted orange, instead of baseball’s customary yellow.
One more thing: the ushers in New York, at both Citi Field and Yankee Stadium, are serious about their jobs. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve already shown your usher your ticket stub, you’ve got to flash it again. Every time. Mr. or Ms. Usher will even kindly hold your food and drinks while you fish the blasted stub out of your pocket. Ridiculous.
I guess Mr. Vaswani was able to avoid the plexiglass. Â As for the usher comment, I agree. Â It gets annoying.
To read the rest of the review from an outsider’s perspective, and Citi did well, read here.
Unfortunately the ticket checking is a necessary evil (and worse at Yankee Stadium.) sorta related, I’ve been wanted to have a look at a e-ticket for a Ceasers or better type seat to verify/confirm something that I was curious about.
It’s hard to evaluate all the sight lines on one visit. Who knows if these people climbed up to the Promenade OF and took a look around. I do agree that there are a lot of nice views and sightlines around the park, and those LFR and RFR seats are pretty nice, scoreboard obstruction aside. I definitely suggest trying them out if you haven’t.