I originally wrote this in 2008. Since then the blog has gotten much bigger. I’m on the road today so I thought it would be a good day to share with the increased readership).
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What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
I originally wrote this in 2008. Since then the blog has gotten much bigger. I’m on the road today so I thought it would be a good day to share with the increased readership).
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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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Some late night writing over at examiner.com:
One year after Willie Mets can’t get rolling
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Looking at purchasing some tickets for customers Will they experience any obstructed views in the Caesar’s Club seats or Section 300’s I belive. Any feedback on these seats? Is the Caesars’ club worth it??
I haven’t sat there myself yet.
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My first time at Wrigley.
I'm having a blast. Wrigley is 10,000 times better than Citi (or Yankee). Amazing that a 95 year old park can be so much better than one that is three months old.
I just asked a nice usher why they check my ticket to head to the uppers from the lowers and she explained the uppers are a preferred view and that the people behind poles and standing roomers would love to head upstairs (something to think about if the nyers ever add standing – will there be escalator police?)
Obviously so much smaller. No bombardment of audio nor advertising. Organ music.
Interesting that the stores sell tons of variant merch, but almost all just blue and red. Funny how teams can survive without black jerseys and a sponsored noisefest between every inning.
Taking tons of pics for future posts. Having fun taking nitpicky obstructed views and full blown "there's a pole in my face" views.
Crosstown Classic and we got seats on cubs.com no problem.
Off to take more pics of random ramps and signs.
To the NY Yankees: you guys are on crack giving up what you had. If they can make this place work you could've made Yankee Stadium work without a Hard Rock Cafe. "Nice head" as we say in Queens.
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