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Draw Your Own Citi Field Blueprints – NYTimes.com

So it’s time once again for Mets fans to put on their rethinking caps and help team management right the ship. Tell us what you would change at Citi Field that would make the home team a winner again. Adding a Mets Hall of Fame certainly did not help the team in the won-lost columns. Maybe it’s as simple as moving home plate out a few feet. Maybe an army of ironworkers needs to tear down those walls and move them in 20 feet. Maybe the Pepsi Porch needs rocking chairs or the Shea Bridge needs tollbooths.

Tell us your ideas, and if you’re feeling ambitious, use this form to send us your renderings.

via Draw Your Own Citi Field Blueprints – NYTimes.com.

13 Replies to “Draw Your Own Citi Field Blueprints – NYTimes.com”

  3. make the foul poles 341 feet
    left center and right center 371 feet
    straight away left and right 358 feet
    the alleys 396 feet
    center field 410 feet
    and change the name back to shea @$%##$@ stadium !!!

    1. You can always call it New Shea or Shea II…they can’t do anything to you. I personally don’t use its taxpayer bailout, sellout name. This name won’t last much longer anyway, IMO.

      1. The name won’t last much longer in your opinion? Give us some facts why it won’t last. The money they pay for the naming rights isn’t helpful to the team? The contract the mets and citi have signed for the next 17 yrs is invalid?

        1. Yeah, that’s $340M the Mets would be giving up. NO WAY that’s happening! Very uneducated opinion to think they’d rename it Shea for any reason other than if the Shea Family bought Citigroup…

          1. I agree…the Mets would not want to get out of the deal…you are putting words in my mouth to make me look bad, when my opinion is actually very educated based on my knowledge of global finance. I never said the Mets would rename it Shea…I said any fan can call it whatever they want…I call in New Shea.

            I guess I should not mix finance on a baseball blog.

        2. Well you have two parties…the Mets and the bank in question that seem to be having financial difficulty. In fact the whole global banking industry is in a perilous state. Furthermore, while I don’t believe in curses (I do think they are fun to talk about) at least 10 major naming deals have gone bust

          http://www.cnbc.com/id/34960125/The_Stadium_Curse_Naming_Deals_Gone_Bust

          Again, I said it is my opinion…give it as much weight as you give any opinion on a team fan blog. If the bank were to be bailed out again or taken over, the name would likely change.

  4. @Steve, no one is putting words in your mouth to make you look bad. Why don’t you start up a financial blog that deals with baseball? I am not being a wise guy about this either. Since you are educated with world finance that could be a good take on baseball that no one has done before. But just remember you aren’t the only one who is well versed in the world of banking and finance either.

    1. Might be a good idea…certainly would be a niche blog…I would wait for this current global crisis to quiet down a bit. Ther is talk of the NBA not even having a season…maybe it could be a sports/financial blog.

  5. According to the AP, during the financial crisis in 2009, WSJ wrote that Citi was looking to back out of the deal and Congressmen were thinking of stopping it. This current crisis is more global and may become even worse. This article is sure to make your blood boil for this line:

    “Speaking at a news conference announcing a $36 million, three-year contract with pitcher Oliver Perez, Wilpon said Citi should not be highlighted when other corporations also are receiving billions of dollars in federal funds, as well.”

    http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3881057

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