Category: wrigley field

I took tons of photos of Wrigley Field last week.

One of the things they do in Chicago, and we’ve talked about this before is that they have banners of old players hanging up inside.  (Iphone quality pics, sorry).

What I really liked is that they honored long time employees…I saw one for an equipment manager (I would enjoy showing Mets Police Junior the Charlie Saumels banner and saying that’s the idiot who dresses the Mets in black).

Ever hear of Pat Pieper?  Neither had I.  He was the Cubs PA Announcer from 1916 until 1974.  How do I know that? A banner.

It’s too bad the Mets have had no long-term announcers who are and were loved by the fans.  Otherwise, they could hang a banner like this one.    

Heck, if it turns out that we had a player in the late 1990s who was alleged to be on steroids, we could hang his banner too.

One more for you, and while this one doesn’t illustrate my point – I really appreciated that not every banner had to be “Ernie Banks” or say “Tom Seaver.”

There were plenty of “Edgardo Alfonzo” or “Lee Mazzilli” types too.

The Mets should order up some banners and have them up by the next homestand.   It’s so easy to do and would go a long way with the fans.

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Went to my first Cubs game on Wednesday and took tons of pics that I’ll share over the next few weeks.

This post tonight (this morning) is designed just to have some fun in the spirit of this blog and all the stuff we give the Mets a hard time about.

There were tons of Sox fans at the Crosstown Classic, and I can’t for the life of me wonder why you would be a White Sox fan.  Maybe people across America wonder why any New Yorker wouldn’t root for the team with all the championships and until recently with the historic ballpark.

The intensity of a Cubs-Sox game is about as intense as a Mets-Reds game.   Subway Series Central Division it ain’t.

As I stated below, Wrigley is really cool and just a better experience than either of NYC’s new ballparks.   You might want to wear diapers – narrow hallways and not many restrooms seem to be the biggest problems (and I hate troughs – no pics of that, sorry.)   As I said, I’ll have tons of random pics of nerd stadium stuff over the next few weeks.

On the left there is the view fro Wrigley Field section 425.   $60.   That’s the upper deck, notice that it is about “Shea Mezz” high, maybe even back of the loge.

I get thinking about how awfully far away seats at Citi Field are compared to this.   Also notice the plexiglass-free railing.  Nobody died today.  The marvels of 1914 engineering!

But seriously, look how close!!!  Would I pay $60 every day?  No, I am cheap.

What I don’t think you’ll be able to see at this resolution is the netting – it looks like a smudge to the left of the catchers box.   I guess that would be “obstructed” as would the wire that connects from that netting across to the right edge of the picture – again I doubt you can make it out, and at the game you barely see it.   Those 1914ers sure knew how to build ’em!

Now for some fun in the ol’ Mets Police way.   You wanna talk obstructed views?  Here’s the king of them all.

That’s the view from an actual seat.   It was empty (wonder why?) so I sat in it and took a picture.  I wasn’t being jerky or trying to bust the Cubs chops…this is a real view from a real seat.   Now I know why there are $5 single seats on Stubhub all the time.

This photo I lined up.  I’m standing behind the seats (as if they added one more row).   Yeah I went out of my way to put the pole blocking the batter (and for the record, I don’t pose the Citi Field shots to make the Mets look bad), I felt like having some fun with the shot.  However, realize that there are humans in the picture sitting in that section, and I didn’t CGI the pole – so somebody’s view sucks.

It’s the middle of the night.  I need to sleep and do some work.   Hope you enjoyed this one.  Wrigley is cool – I haven’t been to Fenway in over a decade but my memories of Fenway give it a slight edge over Wrigley.   Either one blow away the new stadiums in NYC.

Last thought – so nice to watch a game without the bombardment of sound and advertising and noise and noise and more noise.  Could somebody who works for Sterling Mets please attend a game in Chicago and take notes.  They drew 40,000 today in a 95 year old ballpark.  Sometimes it’s not about the Shake Shack and the giant video screens.

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Of all the views sent to [email protected] this is one of my favorites.

Let’s compare these two photos.

If you wanted to watch a baseball game, would you be better off in Promenade 533, or across the street from Wrigley on a roof?

Well, Wrigley does have that annoying foul pole, and you probably can’t see into the right field corner too well….

…and Mets VP David Howard says at Citi Field there is nothing like a beam or pillar blocking you.

I guess I would pick Promenade 533, assuming the guy would move his soda..

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