CitiField

[Farmer Ted]

The $275K is for the suite. Food and beverages much more. Doesn't look like there's a pisser in that suite. What, no privacy in the private suite?

[soupcan]

AG/DC wrote: I'm dropping that much money, it should be to buy, not to rent. I'd damn well sleep in the thing.

Now how cool would that be?

Having an apartment inside the stadium?

[Valadius]

Don't they have that in Toronto?

[Guest vtmet]

="soupcan"] ="metirish"]A few home runs have died out there because of the super structure , Easley for one is certain he hit a homer the other night , it does take getting used to , I like it. Why would that be? I'm no meteorologist but I would think it would help homeruns not hinder them. It seems that the structure would stop wind blowing into the stadium not out of it. What do you like about it?

I would agree with you when it is warm...but there could also be some sort of
Venturi Effect

or wind tunnel that creates an overpowering counter wind that repels the ball from traveling across it...

I've got a house that has a garage just a few feet from it...when it was built, the wind probably had a "normal" wind pattern...however, someone decide to put an addition on the house right in front of the garage so that there is a very small path between the 3 structures (the garage, the original shape of the house and the protruding extension)...The result is this intense tornado-like swirling wind in this little area whenever there is a northernly breeze, in which every leaf in the neighborhood seems to get trapped in this blackhole of space...

and yes, I probably totally misused the Venturi Effect, but IMO, there is a possibility that the very small walkway between the 2 stadiums could create a counter wind that might either repel the ball or act like a vacuum to suck the ball into it....Realistically I think that when it gets warm out, the ball is going to travel much nicer to left and left-center field in Shea than it ever has...

[Guest Kong76]

Well my picture is kinda dull compared to this new added content lol

[seawolf17]

$275,000 2009
$280,500.00 2010
$286,110.00 2011
$291,832.20 2012
$297,668.84 2013
$303,622.22 2014
$309,694.67 2015
$315,888.56 2016
$322,206.33 2017
$328,650.46 2018
$3,011,173

Ah, if only I had an extra three million dollars lying around.

[soupcan]

I'm enjoying the photos that peeps are posting all over the 'net of the construction progress of the stadia being erected in the City these days.

I think ShittyField is lookeen' good mang.





But I must say that the New Skankee Stadium is also pretty impressive. I think they did a good job wth the design up there in the Boogie Down.





Lots of photos here: http://www.stadiumpage.com/

[Willets Point]

I agree, they both look sharp, although Yankee Stadium III looks like a bank. In many ways that's apropos.

[Vic Sage]

The gray monolithic monument-type design of the new Yankee Stadium recalls the Nuremburg rallies. A sort of art deco-fascist motif. Its the sort of place you could imagine hosting a great big book burning.

Whatever one may think of the faux nostalgia of the new CitiField, at least it doesn't make one feel like goose stepping.

[Willets Point]

That's true, especially those carved eagles flanking "YANKEE STADIUM."

[stevejrogers]

Very true, all three versions of YS have had the feel of some grand monolithic buildings.

Looking at them this song tends to play in my head




I IIRC was the first actual modern "Stadium" so it made sense that it took a monolithic design.

II I believe was meant to "update" the feel of the old place with the style of the cookie cutters of the day.

Course this is the result:

[metirish]

Another view of the new yankee stadium.

[stevejrogers]

This though, does have the look of a ball park!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Kudos, Steve and Irish.


Of course, looking at the new Yankee Stadium, makes me wonder. If they liked the old place so much, why did they tear it down in the first place back in '73?

[Benjamin Grimm]

They didn't "tear it down!" They "refurbished" it.

Just a few splashes of paint and some new light bulbs.

That was about all they did.

[Guest holychicken]

Vic Sage wrote: CitiField, at least it doesn't make one feel like goose stepping.

LOL. I think we have found the Citifield's motto.

[soupcan]

Thought these were cool...

[metirish]

Nice pictures , the lat one is especially great.I wonder who those two guys are.

[Fman99]

="soupcan"]Thought these were cool...

I love this one. If I remember correctly, they still had the rectangles up when I attended my first game in '77 (age 4).

[soupcan]

When I see the rectangles I think of The Jets.

[Guest AG/DC]

The tiles were there until the very early eighties.

We had read that they were mislaid during renovation, though I couldn't paossibly tell you the source. It was probably just a traditional belief among my friends, hoping we'd one day peer into an abandoned construction site or broken warehouse window in northern Queens and see our beloved tiles.

Missus Edgy is house shopping as we speak and doesn't know this, but wherever we live, I'm adorning the front of the house with high-tension cables supporting suspended blue and orange tiles.

[G-Fafif]

soupcan wrote: Thought these were cool...

You thought right!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Heck yeah!

The infield shot looks like it's still missing some seats -- and the dugouts -- and that sod looks like it was installed five minutes ago.

I bet that was late March, early April 1964. One of the reasons I feel connected to Shea was that I was born April 3 of that year, about 10 days before the first game. So when people call Shea old and dumpy, I take offense!

Awesome, awesome photos.

[soupcan]

In case you thought they may change their minds about the name of the place.

Sign's up.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

It's my understanding the brass is already moving into their plush offices in the new bldg.

[soupcan]

Not Citifield but a pretty cool thing..Sports Illustrated photo technology