These new pics of C-Field have been floating around the intertubes for a few days, but sometimes I have to actually work. Here’s some pics for a lazy Saturday from 880’s website.
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Aerial Photos of Citifield from WCBS 880
Mets Blogger’s Wishlist
This spring has been awfully quiet. If A-Rod weren’t naive, stupid, a steroid abuser, and kissing himself I don’t know what I would write about.
It’s time to put the excitement back in Flushing.
Here is my wishlist from a blogger’s perspective:
1. The Mets sign Pedro Martinez. Then I can (a) bitch, (b) re-post all my proof that he has been a waste of money since June 6, 2006 and (c) say I told you so every time he pitches four innings.
2. The New York Post uncovers construction flaws at C-Field. They are due for one of those articles. Maybe it turns out Left Field is 336 feet not 335, and someone can find some analysis that proves this will cost the team 50 homers.
3. The Wilpons announce that the VP of Citibank will throw out the first pitch. Some hard-rocking friends of Piazza are saying that we’ll see Mike & Tom at Opening Day as we should but I’d get much more milage out of booing some suit.
4. David Wright catches a cold at the WBC. Nothing too bad, I don’t want him to miss the team, but if he had to sit out for a few days and I could blame the WBC that would be fun.
5. The Mets pull out some really uglier-than-believed-possible uniforms. Oh wait, they did that on St. Patrick’s Day.
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New Stadium Insider: The Yankeee Stadium Version Of Fenway’s Green Monster Seats And More Interesting Ticket Options
Lee Mazzilli Makes Texas Rangers 10 Worst List!
Funny to read about the Lee Mazzilli trade from the other side:
Sporting News has an article about how horrible it is to be a Rangers fan, and includes this gem:
There was a general manager named Eddie Robinson, who once traded for an aging outfielder named Lee Mazzilli. To get Lee Mazzilli, he traded away the organization’s best two young pitchers — Walt Terrell and Ron Darling. Robinson wanted Mazzilli to play left field. Mazzilli called left field “an idiot’s position.” Mazzilli played 58 games for Texas before Robinson was forced to unload him. Meanwhile, Darling and Terrell combined to win 247 major league games, none of them for the Rangers.
And is this really Lee Mazzilli’s myspace page ? Looks like he hasn’t logged in in quite some time.
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LA Times Reviews O’Malley Book
Attention Wilpons…there’s a new Dodgers book you may want to read.
O’Malley next faced the issue that would define his career. The Dodgers played at Ebbets Field in Flatbush, but white flight to Long Island was decreasing attendance at the 1913 relic. O’Malley wanted to build a new stadium, with more parking spaces for his suburban-based fans. His good-faith efforts to keep the Dodgers in the borough included an offer to finance a domed ballpark.
He lacked one element: land. At every turn, D’Antonio writes, New York City power-broker Robert Moses stymied O’Malley by refusing to allow him to buy public property. Building on research from two excellent books, Neil Sullivan’s “The Dodgers Move West” and Michael Shapiro’s “The Last Good Season,” D’Antonio concludes that Moses “condemned the Brooklyn stadium idea” and was the true villain.
It’s also true that, as he dickered with Moses, O’Malley looked beyond Brooklyn. He saw how the fortunes of the Boston Braves and the Philadelphia A’s had improved when they moved to, respectively, Milwaukee (1953) and Kansas City (1955), and that advances in aeronautics and television technology made the western U.S. an accessible, attractive option. Meanwhile, local newspaper columnist Vincent X. Flaherty bombarded O’Malley with “insider advice” about the L.A. situation.
From the LA Times.
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