Newsday has a few articles about stadium food today.
I’m sure they could have found some fans who would have said nice things about Citi Field but they chose this one:
Joyce Mandelkern, 56, of Sands Point, is a longtime Mets season-ticket holder who called herself a “very old school” fan. “They built an enormous food court and stuck a baseball diamond in the middle of it,” she said of Citi Field. “It’s an entertainment complex.”
Citi is nice but it’s not as nice as ownership thinks. Like so many things, if you live in the world of skyboxes and press levels with free food and seats behind home plate it’s easy to think any stadium is great. The test is when you sit upstairs or on the wings.
I think one of the challenges of Citi Field is that’s it’s still a house without memories. Quick, what’s the defining moment at Citi Field?
That being said, it’s nice. Let’s not over-nostalgia Shea. I was ready for it to go by 1985.
As for fans walking around during games, who doesn’t love a Dave Howard quote?
“As long as they are actually in the building, taking advantage of the ticket and the amenities, I don’t have an issue with it,” said Dave Howard, the Mets’ executive vice president of business operations. “They’re customers.”
I can’t disagree.
In case you’re wondering, the cost of taking a family of 4 to a Mets game is $241.74 according to the article (5th in the majors). I think that family needs to park in Corona and pack a lunch.
Wow! That seems to be alot to watch a team that can finish in the basement as easy as third place.
I think you will see a ghost town after the July trade deadline.
Maybe the prices should adjust to how good the team is!
I have a big problem just calling it the name it was given…the name of an organization that greatly contributed to our current debt crisis and was bailed out by the taxpayers or it wouldn’t be here right now. The organization that is benefitting by low interest rates now that punish savers so that their management can make million dollar salaries.
There is a famous stadium naming curse…it has hit Enron, several airlines, CMGI, PSINet, Adelphia, MCI, etc. This one even cursed the team and its owners it seems. That’s why I never call it by its sell-out name…to me it is “New Shea”, a name that has honor, not shame.
FWIW, I believe the press does have to pay for meals. At Yankee Stadium it’s $13; I don’t know what it is here.
As for the defining moment, no, there’s nothing truly memorable, but what we have so far, in no particular order:
1. Gary Sheffield’s 500th (damn black jerseys)
2. Wright hitting the first Mets HR at the ballpark (if only they’d won)
3. Ike’s game-ending foul catch-and-flip
4. (See above)
5. Ike’s walk-off over the Pepsi Porch
Hmm … is this going to be Ike’s house before he’s done? I’ve been saying since last week: He’s winning the 2013 HR Derby at Citi Field.
I have five memorable moments.
1) Sheffield’s 500th
2) Sheffield showing moxie, taking 2nd base in late inning to turn tide of game, which Mets wound up winning.
3) near-naked man running out and humping the grass when security came to fetch him
4) Derek and Arod putting the screws to the Mets in a close game
5) Mets fans marvelling one day at how classy the SF Giants unis look.
I’m lying.
By far, the most memorable is my daughter taking batting practice time after time in the kiddy field, and despite her 4 years of age, beating the ball nearly every time with the little whiffle ball bat.
And of course, my daughter interfacting w Mr Met, the king of baseball in her eyes.
Im my opinion the most memorable moment at Citi Field came when Paul McCartney came on stage two years ago.