41 Amazin’ ideas for the Mets #7: radio in the smoking sections of Citi Field

Here’s what we’re doing. We are crowdsourcing 41 ideas for the Mets. The ideas can be big or small. Today’s idea is from @ouijum

There should be a radio in the smoking sections at Citi Field.

The smoking section in the upper deck at Citi has one of the best views in the entire stadium. At sunset, it’s a great place to watch the sky turn Mets orange over the skyline.

The only problem—one it shares with the less-appealing outfield smoking section by McFadden’s—is that you can’t see the game!

I quit smoking last year, but I think it would be nice to have a speaker there, like in the bathrooms, so smokers can follow the game while they enjoy the view.

(In case you’re curious, here’s a chart of how different teams handle smoking sections.) Even if they do nothing, the system works better than at Yankee Stadium, where a complete smoking ban leads to desperate fans sneaking cigarettes in the bathroom. Blech! —W.M. Akers, @ouijum

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Here’s what I need you to do: email me ([email protected]) your ideas. Make my life easy and actually write a few paragraphs about your idea and put your name/twitter handle to it so I can just cut and paste it. I’ll post one idea a day.

Here’s what I need you not to do: waste time with “Sell the Team” or ridiculous trades or general negativity.

The goal here is to crowdsource some cool ideas, publicly post them, and then the Mets can use them or not.

Send your ideas to [email protected] – put something like CROWDSOURCING in the title so I can pick them out easily (lest you get buried in a slew of You Own This Jersey emails.) and again write a little but about your idea. “They should have Kiner’s Korner” isn’t enough. What is Kiner’s Korner? How would it work? What is your vision for it?