Mets vs. Your-Name-Here Stadium

[Farmer Ted]

SI.com has a pretty cool photo gallery with some shots of the Polo Grounds.

http://cnnsi.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1203/mlb-polo-grounds/content.1.html

[Gwreck]

Here it is! In action!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJqm8ybv4Uw

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

With the help of a little magic-oregano cigarillo, I could watch that for a good hour.

[metsmarathon]

epic. gloriously epic.

[Edgy MD]

I feel like I turned over the pinball machine.

[Vic Sage]

I Like IT!

[Guest attgig]

not enough flashing lights. I thought it would be more gaudy than it really was.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Gwreck wrote: Here it is! In action! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJqm8ybv4Uw

It LIVES! IT LIIIIIIVVVVVEEESSSSS.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'd imagine there will be MANY more flashing lights once the Half-Our-Crowd-is-Close-to-Death Star is fully-operational.

[metirish]

attgig wrote: not enough flashing lights. I thought it would be more gaudy than it really was.

me too, but like LWFS says I'm sure when it's fully dicked out it will be spectacular in it's awfulness.

[metirish]

"@KeithOlbermann: Uh oh. Even with the Yankees & Miami's own ARod, they sold only 25,000 seats for the exhibition opener today at Marlins Park"

[metirish]

whatever

Corrected. That's what I get for listening to YES RT @cotuck THEY ONLY PUT UP 25,000 FOR TODAY. TOMORROW THEY HAVE 30,000 FOR SALE. IT'S NOT LIKE PEOPLE AREN'T BUYING THEM.

[Edgy MD]

Shouldn't he be job-hunting instead of trolling Twitter with mis-information?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Now that's a scoreboard! (Not an adboard).

[Ceetar]

uhh, what do you think that blank space around it is for? I'm assuming ads. Also, why is it a trapezoid?

[batmagadanleadoff]

To each his own. You don't have to hate the CF scoreboard just because I do.

But I think that the white space surrounding the new Marlins scoreboard is a design element, in fact, reminiscent to me of the white curvilinear shell that surrounded the original version of Shea Stadium's scoreboard. But even if the Marlins intend to use that space for advertising, the ratio of ad to scoreboard appears to be reasonable. Citi Field's main scoreboard is overwhelmed by ads. The CF scoreboard is surrounded by ads that are, in turn, flanked by other ads. In my opinion, it's the most hideous scoreboard in all of baseball, and looks as if it were designed by a child in less than 15 minutes. And you have to take it in in person to really appreciate how ugly it is because, like a fashion model, it looks better in photos than in person. Don't even get me started on the CF auxiliary right field scoreboard thing.

[Ceetar]

Citi Field scoreboard aside, I mean the Marlins one. It's too premature to say it's not going to be overly advertised. Personally I think that arc shape behind a trapezoid looks silly, but it does also look like the blank boards that Citi Field had before they put the ads on. I don't really know how exactly they'd shape the ads to that though. Guess we'll see.

[metsmarathon]

the main scoreboard at citi is about 33% scoreboard, 67% ads. the right field scoreboard is worse, seemingly around 25% scoreboard, 75% ads. at least the out of town scoreboard fares better, at about equal size relative to the larger ads above them (which may not be considered part of htat scoreboard anyways).

the arrangement of the citi scoreboards is that of disunity, and also serves to detract from the structural design elements of hte stadium, such as the latticeowrk supporting the lights and hte scoreboard itself. and in day time, it's pretty hard to tell what part of hte two main scoreboards you need to be looking at to discren useful information.

the marlins board is frakkin' huge, and dead center. it is designed to focus your socoreborard viewing attention on the information which it contains, not to cause your eye to wander over innumerable advertisements in the hopes of finding game information.

nd while the images might be preliminary or misleading, it appears from teh marlins website that the white spaces next to the marlins scoreboard may be illuminated or backlit, as the website shows it in a graded teal fade. and even if they were to give over to ad space, they would still represent a fraction (1/4 perhaps) of the overall available scoreboard space, as they are significantly smaller than the scoreboard display. furthermore, by adhering to the trapezoidal format, the ads there would become part of the design, instead of some stuipid square or rectangle that could be made to fit, and made to be put, anywhere, with no sense of aesthetics or unity.

[Edgy MD]

metsmarathon wrote: the main scoreboard at citi is about 33% scoreboard, 67% ads. the right field scoreboard is worse, seemingly around 25% scoreboard, 75% ads.

As sadly true as this is, it was true in the latter years at Shea too.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I've had about enough of Budweiser and Jeff Sessions.

[metirish]

Scoreboard id dead center?, what about the batters eye?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Well over the batters eye and a bit toward right center

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I've had about enough of Budweiser and Jeff Sessions.

Name that lineup, number boy.

[metirish]

The giveaway here apart form the obvious numbers is #61........

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I remember this game because it was Jeff Sessions' birthday.

Let's see here...

Cedeno RF
uh... Velandia? 2B
Piazza C
Clark 1B
Timo LF
Wigginton 3B
Alfonzo SS?
Duncan CF
Leiter P

[metsmarathon]

Edgy DC wrote: metsmarathon wrote: the main scoreboard at citi is about 33% scoreboard, 67% ads. the right field scoreboard is worse, seemingly around 25% scoreboard, 75% ads. As sadly true as this is, it was true in the latter years at Shea too.

i estimate that to be about 5/8 ads, 3/8 scoreboard.

i consider hte three scoreboard panels to be roughly the same size. if each one is A, the total scoreboard area is 3*A.

the bud sign is twice as big as one of those, so 2*A. the HIP/chase/mohegan ribbon on the bottom is another equivalent area, A. the wendy's sign is about 2/5 A, plus its match on the other side, is 4/5 A. and the pepsi banners, which we'll count as well, are about 2/3 A each. after some math, we get 5 2/15 A for ads, and 3 A for scoreboards. 37% scoreboard is somewhat better than the main scoreboard at citi, and far better than the right field board.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I remember this game because it was Jeff Sessions' birthday. Let's see here... Cedeno RF uh... Velandia? 2B Piazza C Clark 1B Timo LF Wigginton 3B Alfonzo SS? Duncan CF Leiter P

I'm wrong here. It's Velandia wearing 13 playing short, and Joe McEwing wearing 11 playing 2B.
We won.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I remember this game because it was Jeff Sessions' birthday. Let's see here... Cedeno RF uh... Velandia? 2B Piazza C Clark 1B Timo LF Wigginton 3B Alfonzo SS? Duncan CF Leiter P I'm wrong here. It's Velandia wearing 13 playing short, and Joe McEwing wearing 11 playing 2B. We won.

Jason Bay was 2/4 with a double.

[Edgy MD]

US Sentator Jeff Sessions?

[Edgy MD]

Marlins in Negativeland.