Reporter claims Davey Johnson dissed Citi Field

[batmagadanleadoff]

Read for yourself:

NL All-Star Game Notebook: Davey Johnson slams Citi Field
By Denis Gorman Published: July 15, 2013

One of New York City�s favorite sons is not exactly enamored with the Citi. Davey Johnson, who is serving as one of manager Bruce Bochy�s coaches, used his time during the National League�s All-Star Game media availability to implore MLB to consider Nationals Park as a host venue for the Midsummer Classic while tweaking Citi Field. �The All-Star Game, I don�t know how they pick that thing, but I�ve been to a ton of ballparks and I think our ballpark is player-friendly, fan-friendly. Look around here,� Johnson said, alluding to the Willets Point neighborhood surrounding Citi Field before taking aim at the advertising throughout the park. �It�s awful. Awful. You have to pay for it [Citi Field] somehow.�

http://www.metro.us/newyork/sports/mlb/2013/07/15/nl-all-star-game-notebook-davey-johnson-slams-citi-field/

[metirish]

Ah fuck off Davey, Christ, commentators wax poetic about the advertizing in the Polo Grounds and old Shea..

[batmagadanleadoff]

You mean this? If MLB had any sense of style, they'd drape a gigantic bedsheet over the scoreboards for tonight's ASG.

[Edgy MD]

Surely he likes the scoreboard.

[G-Fafif]

Can't remember the exact line, but Davey was interviewed by Guys! when the Nats were in town and he rather backhandedly said, regarding Citi Field, that he liked the shower in his office and went on to criticize the dimensions from both a hitting and pitching standpoint.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: Can't remember the exact line, but Davey was interviewed by Guys! when the Nats were in town and he rather backhandedly said, regarding Citi Field, that he liked the shower in his office and went on to criticize the dimensions from both a hitting and pitching standpoint.

well screw him then. Who's he anyway? Nationals Park? Hah, you think they won't slap a name on that as soon as they get any sustained success that it'd sell for anything? You think they won't slap an advertisement into every crevice once the price points suggest it's worthwhile?

For every advertisement you see on a baseball field, that's a $1 your ticket prices didn't go up.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm going to be checking out Nats field when the Mets visit on 7/27.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Ceetar wrote: For every advertisement you see on a baseball field, that's a $1 your ticket prices didn't go up.

[G-Fafif]

Likely less of a morgue tonight than it was when Davey zeroed in on Citi Field's deadness last September.

[seawolf17]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm going to be checking out Nats field when the Mets visit on 7/27.

I liked it; caught the Valdespin HR game last summer, met bmfc1 too. Very cool environment, fans superfriendly even though I was flying the orange and blue.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Shouldn't he just grab a ticket and get in line? Everybody disses Citi Field.

[Ceetar]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Shouldn't he just grab a ticket and get in line? Everybody disses Citi Field.

everyone dissed Shea too. This isn't exactly news.

I keep meaning to get down to Washington myself, and hell, haven't been to Citizen's Bank Ballpark since 2007.

[soupcan]

I'm not a huge fan of all that advertising either but it is what is.

Personally I think the ads on the outside of the stadium are worse. 'What's that building over there? Wait, is it a building or a giant box wrapped in billboards...?'

And who cares what Davey Johnson thinks anyway? I love the guy and will always have great memories of him and the '86 Mets but who appointed him arbiter of good taste?

[Frayed Knot]

I first went to Nats Park like three or four years ago and noticed at that time that they had exactly four advertisers each of which had two small signs at different locales in the stadium (like one on the wall and one attached to the scoreboard or something similar). I know they've added more since and possibly even more this year based on last year's on-field success.
The larger point being here, it's not like all stadiums that have less advertising signage are that way because they make some sort of aesthetic decision to limit things. Sometimes it's because they have trouble attracting more and if they could cover more places they would. I'm sure the Nats would have loved to open their new park with more advertising than what could be placed on an average bedroom wall but probably found companies either unwilling to back a new venture or (knowing that town a bit) if they did want to attach themselves to sports were probably already in the huge line of folks trying to hitch their wagon to the Redskins.



And, yes, I've long gotten a kick out of the idea (noted somewhere up above) that modern advertisements are often considered to be crass commercialism but things like the Abe Stark: 'Hit Sign - Win Suit' sign, or 'Ballantine Blasts' and White Owl Wallops' are treated as warm nostalgia.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Couldn't a team charge whatever the market bears for advertising? So in a down year, the team would charge less per square footage or whatever the rate is based on, and increase prices if there's an anticipated increase in attendance. I'm sure that each side has worked out these rates to some supposed science. Do teams really forego advertising in down years, or do they just charge less?

[Vic Sage]

For every advertisement you see on a baseball field, that's a $1 your ticket prices didn't go up.

Are we just going to take this fat one down the middle? really? Just the Rock raising an eyebrow, and that's it?
I"m deeply disappointed in the lot of you.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Vic Sage wrote: For every advertisement you see on a baseball field, that's a $1 your ticket prices didn't go up. Are we just going to take this fat one down the middle? really? Just the Rock raising an eyebrow, and that's it? I"m deeply disappointed in the lot of you.

C'mon. The Mets are hosting the ASG. It's a once in a lifetime event (my lifetime, anyway) Be nice to your neighbors. Or nicer.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Vic Sage wrote: For every advertisement you see on a baseball field, that's a $1 your ticket prices didn't go up. Are we just going to take this fat one down the middle? really? Just the Rock raising an eyebrow, and that's it? I"m deeply disappointed in the lot of you. C'mon. The Mets are hosting the ASG. It's a once in a lifetime event (my lifetime, anyway) Be nice to your neighbors. Or nicer.

As a younger man, I couldn't resist such bait, especially when left by Ms Met. But I don;t have the energy to sustain whatever objecting here would have led to.

[Fman99]

Fuck Davey in his old dentured mouth.

[nymr83]

Washington blows.