If you watched the game last night you heard lots and lots of fence talk from Keith and Gary. Like a lot. Like enough to make me thing someone is talking about it in Queens.
So that sets up this letter from Jeff.
Shannon,
The talk of adjusting the Citi Field fences has been constant enough since the ballpark’s opening that I have accepted it as inevitable. If the Mets must (and I don’t think they must) adjust the fences, please give us something aesthetically acceptable. By adding a row of seats to the left field stands, the entire left field fence would move in about 3 to 4 feet and the outfield wall would need to be lowered by about 1 foot.
I think this would produce a few more honest home runs, while still maintaining the feel of a pitchers park. It would also create one more row of promenade seats that can now see the fence. Knowing the cost of such an addition, I’d suspect it’s more likely we’ll just see a tacky orange stripe across the middle of the fence. Besides reviving a look not seen since the implosion of all the football/baseball cookie cutters, it would render fans on the entire left field side of the stadium incapable of determining a home run.
Thoughts?
-Jeff
I like the park the way it is. You know how I get. It might be a dumb design but it’s our dumb design so let’s leave it that way for 65 years until I invent the holodeck, buy the team from David Einhorn Junior and open the Mazzillidome back where Shea was. Don’t worry it will have squares on the outside.
Until that day, I suspect we’re going to see a dopey orange line halfway across the Great Wall of Flushing.
Unless you want a silly “inner fence” like Yankee Stadium II had. Yuck.