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Some curiosities from my trip to New Yankee Stadium.

Let me say I didn’t go looking for things to complain about, I just toured the stadium but knowing I have a blog I snapped a few photos I might not otherwise have snapped.

#1.  The column with the notes.  This is over by the ugly staircase to Monument Park somewhere.

#2.   This sign made us laugh.   I know what it means, but when you look at it, it’s directing you straight into a wall.   This is a good example of how ugly the ramps and staircases are.  It’s NYC public school.  What time ie class?  If only there were some photographic history of the Yankees they could tap into.

#3.  Next we have a puddle.  It seems awfully early in the New Stadium’s lifespan to have standing water.  This was on Saturday.  It didn’t rain on Saturday.  This wasn’t the only puddle.

#4.  The Pipes.  Everywhere you look there are exposed pipes and sprinkler systems.   Maybe the same is true at Citi, but I didn’t notice it.  I wasn’t looking, but I didn’t show up at New Yankee saying “man if I can get some pictures of some exposed pipes I can rock out the blog.”   Others noticed them too.   It’s ugly.

I kept thinking that these teams must hate bloggers.  You’d rarely get one the newspapers to write things like this, or about obstructed views, but they are all over the internet….and as we see with the Times, the mainstream papers read blogs and make stories out of them (and of course we bloggers use papers for inspiration).    Sorry teams, there’s obstructed views and we’re taking pictures.

There’s plenty of stuff like this out there.  We will be posting throughout the day, keep checking back or click Mets Police if this is your first time visiting to get back to the main page.

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So maybe the Mets are wrong and the bloggers are right?    Citi Field is great and it’s way better than the New Yankee Stadium…but when even the Times is piling on, we may be onto something.

The Times offered up this photo (where you can’t see the left fielder) and several others.  

It’s going to be along 50 years in some of these seats.

We’ve been writing about it all week – read this or check out my obstructed seats in Section 529 Row 3  or the Mets denial or when it first came up in February.

From The Times article:

One deck up, in Section 431, Will and Marlena Chang of Woodbridge, N.J., were happy to sit close to the field. But when long fly balls were hit to left field, he said, “you had to stand up, lean over and listen” to the crowd to determine if the ball was caught.

Basil Saunders Jr. of Queens and his son, Basil Saunders Luciano, could not see the left fielder from their seats at the top of Section 535. They could, however, see a flat-panel television mounted above them, but it was showing the game on a two-second delay.

Maybe the Mets Police aren’t just a bunch of cranks?

That being said – I loved the place.  Review here.

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One more before bed…

Whew.  My quick spin…thank goodness.   Like I said before, too tired to think so click here.  It’s hard to be a blogger sometimes with a real job and other interests….but I love it.   Must sleep….

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Been out all day, sleepy….you’ll have to click the link to read about Fox and stupid TV rules.

6pm game in Florida, Fox won’t let SNY show it until 7.

Everyone grow up.

Details here.   Newsday

Lots tomorrow about Yankee Stadium.  Too tired to type.

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I feel really sorry for whoever has these seats.

Last night I went looking for my Sunday plan seats. I knew they were Section 529 and I thought they were Row 3. When we got there man was I livid. Almost the entire row has an obstructed view of 3rd Base and the right-hander’s batters box.

(I realized later that I had the wrong row – we are several rows further up).

I like to think I am a realist – I know not every seat in a ballpark will be perfect. But this is pretty bad.

Citi Field Section 529 Row 3 Apr 3, 2009 by Mets View Album Play slideshow

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